My name is Chris Mackowski, editor in chief of emerging civil war. Delighted to have you with us. Our first speaker today is derrick maxfield. Hes an associate professor and batavia new york, hometown of emory upton for those of you who are from spots of india. Derek has recently earned fame for his brand new book as part of the emerging civil war series. It is called hellmira, the unions most notorious prison of war camp in elmira, new york. Thank you very much, im very pleased to be here to talk about my latest project. Prisoner of war camps in general have been quite a surprise to me. Ive studied the civil war since i was quite young and i knew the length of the tragedy during the civil war. But it was eyeopening to me the extent of the humanitarian crisis that unfolded over the course of those four bloody years. Over 56,000 died in prisoner of war camps over that time. Just over 500,000 incarcerated in total. Although we understand that this is just a small number of casualties con
American maritime history in newport, rhode island, it is one of the deepest natural in closed ports in the world. For that reason the United States navy chose it as one of its key anchorages during the prime of American Naval seapower in the early 20th century. Arguably the origins of the Naval War College began. The germans were ahead of the game, literally, in techniques of wargaming. During the wars of german unification, they came up with an idea called the general staff. The general staff was an organization that enabled all the different principalities to fall in line with their regiments under this centralized Organization Called the general staff. There was a guy named emory upton, a greater general. He said look at what the germans did with that general staff. He went over to germany and studied the german methods. He brought them back. Upton basically made the argument what we needed to do was create a federally regulated army. That idea ran against some of the traditional t
Vietnam war and beyond when military service eventually became voluntary. The National World war i museum and memorial hosted this event. Its about an hour 10 minutes. Good evening and welcome to the National World war i museum and memorial. My name is laura vote. Im the curator of education. And it is my absolute pleasure to be welcoming you here this evening for a riveting conversation on the anniversary, the 100th anniversary, of a piece of legislation that completely changes the United States. Now, your National World war i museum and memorial opened here in kansas city in 1926 because the wonderful folks of kansas city wanted to create a memorial for those who lived through and those who died in the world war. The war itself began in 1914, and yet the United States remained neutral until 1917. With a volunteer army of about 120,000, on april 6th, Congress Declared war against germany in 1917 and they decided to move on on may 18th of 1917 to exponentially increase that army. Now,
Vietnam war and beyond when military service eventually became voluntary. The National World war i museum and memorial hosted this event. Its about an hour 10 minutes. Good evening and welcome to the National World war i museum and memorial. My name is laura vote. Im the curator of education. And it is my absolute pleasure to be welcoming you here this evening for a riveting conversation on the anniversary, the 100th anniversary, of a piece of legislation that completely changes the United States. Now, your National World war i museum and memorial opened here in kansas city in 1926 because the wonderful folks of kansas city wanted to create a memorial for those who lived through and those who died in the world war. The war itself began in 1914, and yet the United States remained neutral until 1917. With a volunteer army of about 120,000, on april 6th, Congress Declared war against germany in 1917 and they decided to move on on may 18th of 1917 to exponentially increase that army. Now,
Chris is the historian here. Bed andworking breakfast, conference center, a great place to hold the symposium. He has just written a book, which will be available. He has coauthored two magazine articles on the battle of the spotsylvania courthouse. Those are available through the emerging civil war website. Chris and i have known each other for 11 years. , fightlike john and paul a little bit, get along, but we are best friends. He met his life right where our projector is set up. Chris, one of our friends described him as the Rupert Murdoch of civil war publishing. He is now becoming a very prolific author. Atwas a former historian fredericksburg and Spotsylvania National parks. Chris will talk about the battle of the spotsylvania courthouse. Pleasure toor and bring you this prolific speaker, author, and my best friend. [applause] that the firsty symposium i spoke at here, jennifer was where matt is. No offense. He is here all weekend, folks. Tom delighted to be able share with you t