Next Speaker Today is one of the newest faces at emerging civil war one of our emerging voices if you will John Tracy has worked both at Fredericksburg And Spotsylvania national Military Park as well as gettysburg national Military Park. Hes done some fantastic work on the Website Forest this year particularly focusing on gettysburg, but spreading his wings hes going to talk today. You can find a Rabbit Hole and really fall in and thats what todays topic is today. Hes coming to us from the university of West Virginia where he is just finishing up his Masters Degree in public history. Ladies and gentlemen, John Tracy. All right. Hi so today were going to be spending just a little bit of time on the experiences and in the head of John Rankin who you see up on the screen there. Weve got a picture of him straight out of the regimental history taken when hes a sergeant because hes going to hold a couple different positions that well get to alongside a really nice period image again from the
If you will John Tracy has worked both at Fredericksburg And Spotsylvania national Military Park as well as gettysburg national Military Park. Hes done some fantastic work on the Website Forest this year particularly focusing on gettysburg, but spreading his wings hes going to talk today. You can find a Rabbit Hole and really fall in and thats what todays topic is today. Hes coming to us from the university of West Virginia where he is just finishing up his Masters Degree in public history. Ladies and gentlemen, John Tracy. All right. Hi so today were going to be spending just a little bit of time on the experiences and in the head of John Rankin who you see up on the screen there. Weve got a picture of him straight out of the regimental history taken when hes a sergeant because hes going to hold a couple different positions that well get to alongside a really nice period image again from the regimental history of their monument on the gettysburg battlefield, which again is going to be
The head of John Rankin who you see up on the screen there. Weve got a picture of him straight out of the regimental history taken when hes a sergeant because hes going to hold a couple different positions that well get to alongside a really nice period image again from the regimental history of their monument on the gettysburg battlefield, which again is going to become pretty important as we move along. So John Rankin is serving with the 27th, indiana during the american civil war. Hes one of the few of his regiment to get through the bloody fighting in antietams cornfield without being wounded though. He will be badly wounded in the thigh at the battle of gettysburg during that disastrous charge near Spangler Spring on the morning of July 3rd 1863, but what were really focusing on here. That after the war he later writes a couple short accounts of his service and these recolate recollections of combat often very much brutally honest about his experiences offer a lot of insight into
Revolutionary war period our next speaker today is one of the newest faces at emerging civil war one of our emerging voices if you will john tracy has worked both at fredericksburg and Spotsylvania National Military Park as well as gettysburg National Military park. Hes done some fantastic work on the website forest this year particularly focusing on gettysburg, but spreading his wings hes going to talk today. You can find a rabbit hole and really fall in and thats what todays topic is today. Hes coming to us from the university of West Virginia where he is just finishing up his masters degree in public history. Ladies and gentlemen, john tracy. All right. Hi so today were going to be spending just a little bit of time on the experiences and in the head of john rankin who you see up on the screen there. Weve got a picture of him straight out of the regimental history taken when hes a sergeant because hes going to hold a couple different positions that well get to alongside a really nic
All right. Hi so today were going to be spending just a little bit of time on the experiences and in the head of john rankin who you see up on the screen there. Weve got a picture of him straight out of the regimental history taken when hes a sergeant because hes going to hold a couple different positions that well get to alongside a really nice period image again from the regimental history of their monument on the gettysburg battlefield, which again is going to become pretty important as we move along. So john rankin is serving with the 27th, indiana during the American Civil War. Hes one of the few of his regiment to get through the bloody fighting in antietams cornfield without being wounded though. He will be badly wounded in the thigh at the battle of gettysburg during that disastrous charge near spangler spring on the morning of july 3rd 1863, but what were really focusing on here. That after the war he later writes a couple short accounts of his service and these recolate recol