for them, they give us perspective on what happened there that conflicts with each other. we don t have a detailed account by robert lincoln or by others. they differ in their interpretation of what happens. some of the officers feel that lee at this moment of surrender was capable of cordiality, others felt that lee was so tense and distraught that he was not capable of cordiality. on the confederate side we have only one man with lee, charles marshall. [applause] there are not as many confederates who bear witness and he will be prolific and writing about the surrender scene after the war. one of the challenges of re-creating this moment down to the challenge of figuring out who was in the room and what they were thinking was partially the fact that grant wrote that famous memoir of 1885 and he tells us in the memoir how he felt at that moment. leave it not need such a story. he lived for only another five years after the surrender. lee s views have to be reconstructed from
civil war institute. it s my pleasure to introduce professor joan wall of ucla. joan wall is a specialist in civil war and reconstruction. she is the author and editor of a number of books. the book, her most recent publication is a biographer of ulysses grant, called grant, american hero, american myth. it won multiple prizes including the jefferson-davis award from the museum of the confederacy. dr. wall has come to gettysburg college back in 2011. she is also a teacher instructor at ucla. she s received numerous teaching awards and i have learned that in her gilded age class, when she does a lecture on baseball that at the end of the class, she breaks out bags of peanuts. and she tosses them out to her students. i heard that she has a mean right arm. we have, joan, ordered boxes of hard tack. [laughter] she will be tossing out hard tack this afternoon. joan will be presenting the rebels are our countrymen, countrymen, [applause] thank you peter, for that hilariou
gettysburg. he describes the action on east cavalry field and argues against the theory that confederate general jb stewart had orders to get around the union flank. instead, he suggests he was supposed to protect the confederate flank. this is an hour-long event. have six lectures today, or six talks. eric wittenberg s out-of-the-box with the 8:30 slot. he is such know him, a good friend of the heritage area. he is an attorney working in the business development and litigation arenas. born in the philadelphia suburbs, he was raised in southeastern pennsylvania. as many of us did, he made his first trip to gettysburg in the third grade and has been hooked on the history of the american civil war ever since. he went to college in carlisle pennsylvania and has two degrees from the university of pittsburgh. and a a masters degree doctorate from the university of pittsburgh school of law. he is also an award-winning civil war historian. his specialty is calvary operations with an
a good friend of the heritage area. he is an attorney working in the business development and litigation arenas. born in the philadelphia suburbs, he was raised in southeastern pennsylvania. as many of us did, he made his first trip to gettysburg in the third grade and has been hooked on the history of the american civil war ever since. he is an alumnus of dickinson college in pennsylvania and has two degrees from the university of pittsburgh. he has a masters degree and a doctorate from the university of pittsburgh school of law. he is also an award-winning civil war historian. his specialty is calvary operations with an emphasis on the army of potomac s calvary court. he is the author of 19 published books. i can t imagine what he does as a lawyer. 19 published books. he is the author of a book about john buford at gettysburg, which won the round tables 2014 book 5 book award. he is also the author of a book about protecting the flank at gettysburg. his first book, gettysb
this was somehow, this was leaked. it first appeared in a vulgar french issue. it was then translated into english. the letter was used to suggest that jefferson was against washington and was really turning his back on the revolutionary legacy. they also brought up his behavior as governor of virginia, that he had run away from the british. it is always a bizarre charge because the legislature, who were most critical of him ran far ahead of him in escaping richmond and then escaping charlottesville. what always impressed me about jefferson is he stayed long enough to monticello to actually watch this british lesions and loyalists start to come up the slope, which is not a very high mountain and then finally, he left having sent his family off and to advance. this story was the one about which she was most sensitive for his entire political career. he was subsisting about it in the last week of his life, so another words, it hit a point. there were stories about jefferson hav