Guide here at the gettysburg national Military Park and has done. So since 2003. Two of his previously published books gettysburgs Peach Orchard which was coauthored with Brett Eisenberg and also sickles at gettysburg have been awarded the prestigious Back Elder Coddington award as the most outstanding work on the Battle Gettysburg Battle campaign. He is also coauthored with Gettysburg Foundation President and Ceo Wayne Motz and Mapmaker Stephen stanley the book pick his charge at gettysburg and it was the first Battlefield Guide to legendary the two. The legendary attack here at gettysburg jim is also currently a cohost of the popular the battle of gettysburg podcast, which is free on all platforms. He has written numerous articles for publications. He was one of the primary content designers for and appeared in the american Battlefield Trust mobile app here at gettysburg. He is a speaker for civil war roundtables. He has a Parallel And Npr travel channels monumental mysteries. Pc on
Their day so far. Weve got another great program here in store for you. Those of you who do not know me. My name is tammy myers. I am the director of Visitor And Member relations here at the gettysburg heritage center. If youre not already aware, we are a we are owned and operated by the gettysburg nature alliance, which is a 501c3 nonprofit charitable organization that educates about and preserves gettysburgs compelling combination of heritage and habitat. Our next Speaker Today is James Hessler many of you are very familiar with him. He is a licensed Battlefield Guide here at the gettysburg national Military Park and has done. So since 2003. Two of his previously published books gettysburgs Peach Orchard which was coauthored with Brett Eisenberg and also sickles at gettysburg have been awarded the prestigious Back Elder Coddington award as the most outstanding work on the Battle Gettysburg Battle campaign. He is also coauthored with Gettysburg Foundation President and Ceo Wayne Motz
American History Tv is on social media follow us at cspan history. I hope everybody is enjoying their day so far. Weve got another great program here in store for you. Those of you who do not know me. My name is tammy myers. I am the director of Visitor And Member relations here at the gettysburg heritage center. If youre not already aware, we are a we are owned and operated by the gettysburg nature alliance, which is a 501c3 nonprofit charitable organization that educates about and preserves gettysburgs compelling combination of heritage and habitat. Our next Speaker Today is James Hessler many of you are very familiar with him. He is a licensed Battlefield Guide here at the gettysburg national Military Park and has done. So since 2003. Two of his previously published books gettysburgs Peach Orchard which was coauthored with Brett Eisenberg and also sickles at gettysburg have been awarded the prestigious Back Elder Coddington award as the most outstanding work on the Battle Gettysburg
Longtime fans know. Im a Stonewall Jackson Fanboy. Chris is like the anti Stonewall Jackson Fanboy and as a result, his description of Jacksons Death is far more entertaining than mine is but chancellorsville is a battlefield where both of us are really cut our teeth as younger historians and so his insights on the battle of chancellorsville known as lees greatest victory also said some important light on why its lees greatest Defeat Chris is the senior Education Manager at the american Battlefield Trust doing some great work preserving our battlefields including a lot of preservation at chancellorsville itself. Hes the and coauthor of more than a dozen books about the civil war. Ive been privileged to write with him for a 16 years now, weve got lots of great stuff in the works coming up. Its a real treat to have them with us today. Ladies and gentlemen, chris white thanks, chris. Thanks everybody for being here today, even though its a virtual conference. We do have a few people out i
gets old, my co-host, the man with the best hair and gettysburg, director of the civil war institute. pete carmichael. pete, good to see you after three minutes. absolutely. you know me well enough that i would like to believe i m a fairly easy going guy and i can take insults coming from any direction, but there s one thing that i appreciate the fact that you played up to my insecurity and that s my hair. you can insult my family, insult my scholarship, but you cannot insult the hair. i agree. i agree. law my friend is down in richmond. he said you spend way too much money to get your haircut and then you never comment. he made a good point. it works. it s out of laziness, i guess. so we are back and as you all know, this would have been the civil war institute here in gettysburg and i just want again to say how much i and others, including my daughters this morning said that they missed a rally together with all the attendees. these are people from all walks o