Mississippi state university. The executive director in managing editor at the Ulysses S Grant association, he has written or edited numerous books including the purple personal memoirs of ulysses s. Grant, released earlier this year. You will find it in our museum store. Craig l simons is the earnest jake king error of history at the Naval War College in newport , rhode island and at the u. S. Naval academy. He is the author or editor of several books on military history, including the civil war at the. Herald, our moderator for this evening is the jonathan director at the roosevelt house policy institute at hunter college. In 2008, he was awarded the National Humanities medal by president george w bush. He is the author or editor of over 50 books on lincoln and the civil war era, including lincoln and the power of the press, winner of the guild guild lincoln prize. Before we begin, i would ask if you have a cell phone or a beeper, you please turn off your cell phone and any of the ot
Our next speaker is james he is ler. Hes a licensed back field tab battlefield nextttlefield tab battlefield next battle of gettysburg. And he was featured in july 2013 issue of civil war monitor magazine. I would now like to present to you james hessler, who is going to be presenting his program neutral ground, sickles, immediate and the gettysburg Peach Orchard. Thank you tammie for the introduction. Goings to tell you to not go too far because i did not have the remote clicker but i think i do now. So were in good shape. Wow. What a crowd. This is really humbling to see people literally standing in back. Ive got kind of these bright studio lights in my face but i still recognize lot of familiar faces and boy, i hope this is good. Otherwise im in a little bit of troubling. So as tammy said. Im going to do neutral ground. That is the theme here tonight. Both a military assess of the meads sickles controversy. And make sugar that when were evaluating this so called controversy associat
History. Hope everyone is enjoying their day so far. My name is tammy myers. Im director of visitor and Member Relations here at the gettysburg heritage center. If you are not already aware. We are owned and operated by the gettysburg nature alliance, which is a 150 c 3 not Profit Charitable organization that educates about and preserves gettysburgs combination of heritage and habitat. Licensed guide here at the park and done so since 2003. Coauthored. And it was the first battlefield to the legendary attacks here at gettysburg. Also a cohost of the popular the battle of gettysburg pod cast. Which is free on all platforms. Hes written numerous articles for publications. One of the primary content designers for and appeared in American Battlefield trust mobile app here at gettysburg. Hes a speaker for civil war run tables. And npr, travel channel, monumental mystery, pcn, bright bart, civil war and talk radio and featured. I would now like to present to you James Hessler who is going to
intangible resources. so this is i i feel where the speakers got really creative and we re gonna hear talks on information love and memory so three things that you might not immediately think of as wartime resources, but when you think a little harder, i think it s obvious that these are the kinds of things that americans whether they re soldiers or civilians in the union or the confederacy black and white americans alike needed in order to cope with the tremendous crisis of the civil war. so we ll have three talks each of them will last about 15 minutes and then after that we ll move into a period of discussion and the discussion by the way is going to be moderated jointly by me and dr. caroline newhall, my colleague. she s the postdoctoral fellow here at the center and you can type your questions into the q&a box at any time now if you already have a question, but any certainly anytime during the lectures are at the end during the discussion session and i really want to let
the way is going to be moderated jointly by me and dr. caroline newhall, my colleague. she s the postdoctoral fellow here at the center and you can type your questions into the q&a box at any time now if you already have a question, but any certainly anytime during the lectures are at the end during the discussion session and i really want to let you know how much we appreciate your responses and questions that come in through the q&a box, you know, sometimes people just type a little note saying i really enjoyed this talk and that s great. of course for the speakers to hear and whatever your response or question. we re really glad to have it and of course especially over zoom if we don t get any questions or responses, it really makes us question whether there s anyone out there at all. so please do keep those. some responses coming. we really look forward to the conversation after the lectures. so our first speaker is going to be extremely familiar to anyone who s attended