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Our speaker today is james mo morgan, an longtime civil war enthusiast and host of the civil war roundtable in charleston and recently joined the board of the ft. Sumter ft. Mulldray Historical Trust and his tactical stuff balls bluff a little short of bluffs, is widely considered to be the definitive work on that subject. So, lets welcome james morgan. [ applause ] good morning, everyone. Everybody hear me okay . Im going to be moving around, so ill be using this microphone. So, were good on sound back there . Okay. First of all, our topic, our theme really is small battles and large results, and balls bluff certainly meets those criteria. Small battle, 1,700 men on each side. Numbers were almost dead even, 1,709 confederates, 1,720 federals. It makes it amusing to read the officers afteraction reports because on both sides, they insists they were terribly outnumbered by the other side. Numbers were dead even, okay . Not only t ....
Purpose. I went to a friend of mine and asked if he would consider running for mayor because i personally didnt think a black person had any prayer of being elected mayor of chapel hill. He didnt want to do that and couldnt persuade me to do it and he went to the local newspaper and told them that he had a scoop which is that i planned to run for mayor and the newspaper without checking printed that story as a front page headline and that of course split the chapel hill community. Following that i had pressure on both sides. From one group thinking it was the most exciting thing since winning the ncaa championship and the others thinking it is the dumbest thing anybody could think of doing and the black community was concerned it would do nothing but exacerbate the race problem in chapel hill which had been ugly through the years. I only with ran finally because one person who said to me you shouldnt run for mayor because the time is not right. I had been hearing that all my life as a ....
we are gathered today for a meaningful and important event. the great composer and prophet hannibal lokumbe has been moved in tribute to a crucial event in our national history. dr. kim fuchs, who is here today , was the young girl in vietnam in 1972 who was pictured running down the street after a napalm attack. that photograph so transfixed the world that it helped lead to an end to the vietnam war. dr. phuc has gone on to a distinguished career, advocating for children who are the victims of war and in recognition of her extraordinary achievements, she was honored earlier this year with the dresden peace prize, one of the most important in the world. [applause] when hannibal wrote to me and said that he wanted to present a preview of his performance at the constitution center, my immediate answer was yes. because hannibal, a year ago, wrote and said he had been moved to introduce a similar piece that he had written in honor of victims of the alabama church bombings, ....
book that year and confederate goliath earned the prestigious award for civil war history given out yearly from the new york city civil war roundtable. let s give rod gragg a warm welcome. [applause] rod: thank you. rod: thank you. it is a pleasure for me to be in a room full of historians and i say that seriously because i have learned that i may write a lot but the folks who really know the civil war are those of you who read a lot. and i appreciate that. before i begin, if you don t mind, i d like to tell you the story about the young history major who decided after he got a bachelor s degree in history, he probably ought to get a masters degree in business so he could earn a living. [laughter] rod: so he was accepted, enrolled in a distant prestigious school of business and wondered soon after he got there if he made the right decision because he failed his first exam and so did everyone in the class. now, the professor was notoriously irascible, he came in after ....
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