American civil war at the university of virginia and a great friend to the Virginia Historical society. He has spoken here on several occasions and has done research here in the Rich Holdings of our civil war manuscripts. He was a member of the class in 1988. I wont tell you how old i was at that point. We were glad to have him then as today. He has also mined the collection of the Confederate Memorial Society at the museum of the confederacy for his essays. That question, that collection, as you may know, will be housed at the Virginia Historical society where it will be preserved, catalog, and digitized as part of a new Civil War Research center. This will be, through this partnership, the largest private repository of civil war archives in the world. [applause] as you might imagine, that comes with a great cost and lots of work. This is a 3 million effort to provide storage, process and catalog the collection, and in doubt this so it can be available to the largest possible audience
Cold warold more submarine commander and was the american president of the american polar society. A firsthandthor of account of historic under ice survey of the siberian Continental Shelf by the u. S. Queen fish. He joins us from his home in need of an colorado neither land, colorado. Alfred i will take you through a variety of things. The very first part i will take you through some of the highlights from my first book. The first survey of the siberian Continental Shelf. When i finish talking about the book, if there is time, i have 1999, i, starting in started documenting the titanic 16,000 feet almost to see the german battleship bismarck. Up to last november i was chief pilot of a highspeed submersible that could fly like an airplane. You will pick up very quickly that my main model in life is anything to avoid yardwork. You stay around the house, you get put to work. You see the five attack votes i served on. The book covers the first three. To this day, we cannot tell you how fa
U. S. Naval Academy Class of 1955. And a veteran of more than 20 Cold War Missions and three arctic expeditions. He was awarded to legions of merit as a cold war submarine commander and was the president of the american polar society. He is the author of a firsthand account of historic under ice survey of the siberian Continental Shelf by the u. S. Queenfish. He joins us from his home in nederland, colorado. Alfred i will take you through a variety of things. The very first part i will take you through, some of the highlights from my first book. The first survey of the siberian Continental Shelf. When i finish talking about the book, if there is time, i have included, starting in 1999, i started documenting the titanic and total to almost 16,000 feet to see the german battleship bismarck. Up to last november, i was chief pilot of a highspeed submersible that could fly like an airplane. You will pick up very quickly that my main model in life is anything to avoid yardwork. You stay arou
To wage war. And watchrtifacts more American History tv next week while congress is in recess. Be an primetime monday through friday at 8 00 p. M. Featuring watergate, 40 years. War,xt on the civil Emmanuel Dabney of Petersburg National battlefield discusses u. S. Colored troops. Ing, unions of tunnel forces blew up a mine to create a gap in the defenses. He discusses while the attack ended in a failure and why the colored troops were unjustly blamed. This part of the Gettysburg College Civil War Institute annual conference. It is about one hour. [applause] a good morning. You, we willrn hear language that we think its repulsive. I will not cut it out and stop we will get started. In june 1860 four, after failing to defeat Robert E Lees army, ulysses as grant ulysses s. Grant and a portion of the army of. Petersburg in 1850 was the second largest city with a population of 18,266 folks. Thead been referred to as rockies city. Forur railroads radiated. The Petersburg Railroad which ran s