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He has also had the joy to experience today. I think he is eager to go back south of the james. Emmanuel grew up in did what he county. Dinwiddie county, so petersburg was home for him. Volunteering at the Petersburg National battlefield where he became a seasonal, worked there for a number of years and became a permanent historian. He has beenm there 14 years sharing this story which has largely been forgotten. The stories of the people affected by the presence of those armies has gone untold. Fortunately, emmanuel has brought that story to the forefront and is here to talk about one of the other enduring legacies of the war, the Freedmens Bureau. The question, what is going to happen with all these emancipated slaves . The Freedmens Bureau was an attempt to deal with that. It was a very complicated answer. Emmanuel dabney, ladies and gentlemen. [applause] emmanuel i am not sure how people deal with this traffic on the north side of richmond. It seems like whenever you leave richmond,
I am very happy to be here today to endorse the candidacy of pat buchanan. [applause] as you know, i had to get on the plane even before i knew the spectacular results in New Hampshire. I am happy to be here, and i think that pat is the authentic prolife candidate now. He is the one candidate who can win who we know respect the fundamental right to life of the unborn baby. [applause] what the Prolife Movement wants today is a president that will be to prolife what bill clinton has been to proabortion, and we know that pat will be that man because we are sure he will rescind clintons five proabortion executive orders. He will sign prolife legislation passed by the congress. He will appoint judges who understand why roe versus wade was wrongly decided. We are tired of those who equivocate about this issue, talk about prolife, but wont do anything about it. Go, pat, go go, pat, go ms. Schlafly we know when pat buchanan goes up in debate against bill clinton [applause] ms. Schlafly he will
Generations and minority groups. The emerging civil war blog hosted this event. It is about an hour and a half. We have a number of speakers tomorrow to speak about those specific legacies. Tonight its a night for you to ask your questions. What did the war mean . How do we still remember it . How is it still with us . Im going to toss out a couple of questions to our panel, let them answer, and then we will start taking questions from you in the audience to feed off some of the comments. Let me introduce our panelists tonight. Starting on the left of the table, chris white, a former historian with the national battlefield, a licensed battlefield guide at gettysburg. You can probably drop him on any field and he will tell you this regiment was right here and the shoe size of the colonel. [laughter] chris is also the emeritus editor of the emerging civil war book series. Please welcome chris white. To the right of him is a man that needs no introduction because ive introduced him once a