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It is one hour and 10 minutes. This,m with weather like it almost seems a shame we are spending time indoors. What a beautiful afternoon. But thanks for coming back. We have an Excellent Program for you for the rest of the afternoon. I mentioned this morning that our first or second speaker are so prolific that that seems to be a theme of our faculty this year. With our next speaker being an incredibly prolific writer, many of you know his work. He has written on a variety of topics. His for volume history of the civil war is something you need to do so. An outstanding series of books. He has written about appomattox. Andersonville. The alabama. And he is in the process and is almost finished with his next book, already. One book comes out when year and the other is in the pipeline. I think it will be a very interesting book. Is the subjectay of his most recent published book about the secretary of war. , edwin stanton. William is a native of stanton. They live near conway, new hampshi