War blog. Its an hour. Our next speaker will be speaking on the battle of Wilsons Creek. Shes a native of missouri and specializes in the trans mississippi west. Kristen received her master of arts from Webster University in Nonprofit Leadership in may of 2018. Previously she has worked for the Missouri Civil War Museum in st. Louis and the Gettysburg College special collections. Kristen is working on her first book as part of the emerging civil war series. Please join me in welcoming kristen pollack. [ applause ] all right. First of all, thank you to everyone here. Thank you to emerging civil war for having me out this evening. This is an honor to be able to speak to you all about the battle of Wilsons Creek which was fought on august the 10 sou of missouri, which is my native state. Tonights presentation is actually entitled this means war, the forgotten battle of Wilsons Creek. I want to start off kind of setting the stage and also talking a little bit about what we mean by this mea
Directors for the marine scholarship foundation. She is working on her first book in the emerging civil war series on the battle of wills and creek. Please join me wilson creek. Please join me in welcoming kristen pawlak. All right. Thank you to all of you. Thank you to emerging civil war. It is such an honor to speak to you all about the battle of Wilsons Creek which was fought in 1861 in a corner of southeastern southwestern missouri, my home state. The subtitle of this presentation is called this means war the battle of Wilsons Creek. I want to take us back to june 11 of 1861 in st. Louis, missouri to the hotel which is just downtown at one of the Nicest Hotels in the 20th century. Six of the most important early world early World Leaders met there. You have Nathaniel Lyon, his aid e, francis p. Blair, and for the secessionist leaders, you have major Clayborn Jackson, governor jacksons aide. They come to keep the peace if possible. They are there to prevent the outbreak of war in mi
Please join me in welcoming kristen pawlak. [applause] kristen all right. First of all thank you to all of , you. Thank you to emerging civil war. It is such an honor to speak to you all about the battle of Wilsons Creek which was fought in 1861 in a southwestern corner of missouri, my home state. The subtitle of this presentation is called this means war the battle of Wilsons Creek. I want to take us back to june 11 of 1861 in st. Louis, missouri to the hotel which is just downtown at one of the Nicest Hotels in the 20th 19th century. Important early war leaders met there. You have Nathaniel Lyon, his aide, francis p. Blair, and for the secessionist leaders, you have major clayborn jackson, governor jacksons aide. They come to keep the peace if possible. They are there to negotiate they , are there to prevent the outbreak of war in missouri. This meeting will last several hours and Brigadier General lion lyon becomes frustrated, to the point he looks at the secessionist leaders and ha
Received the pulitzer for. This afternoon hes going to speak on another misunderstood character, jesse james. Its really at the point of a new wave scholarship focused on civil war warfare. Theyve all been doing work on what many have considered to be the periphery of the civil war. And now we have a more kpansive view of civil war military history. Jesse james unfortunately sometimes is perceived as a robin hood figure. And we also see him being a political, that hes part of those bandits. I think whats so impressive is he has taken this man and enabled us to see a man who, we should note, has left very few written records. But a man who was during the civil war, who was deeply political. And so it is my pleasure to bring back to the stage t. J. Styles. [ applause ] thank you very much. My grandfather did some public speaking and once he was going to talk, someone came up to him in the lobby and said i really want to go to the ball game, is this guy any good . He said sometimes i find
Received the pulitzer for. This afternoon hes going to speak on another misunderstood character, jesse james. Its really at the point of a new wave scholarship focused on civil war warfare. Theyve all been doing work on what many have considered to be the periphery of the civil war. And now we have a more kpansive view of civil war military history. Jesse james unfortunately sometimes is perceived as a robin hood figure. And we also see him being a political, that hes part of those bandits. I think whats so impressive is he has taken this man and enabled us to see a man who, we should note, has left very few written records. But a man who was during the civil war, who was deeply political. And so it is my pleasure to bring back to the stage t. J. Styles. [ applause ] thank you very much. My grandfather did some public speaking and once he was going to talk, someone came up to him in the lobby and said i really want to go to the ball game, is this guy any good . He said sometimes i find