is my pleasure to introduce it is my pleasure to introduce our friend lee white. he has been with the park service since 2000. lee hasiterally say spent his whole life on the battlefield because he was born in a hospital that sits on the battlefield grounds. this is a man who is deeply rooted in that part. he also has a passion for parks that reach that reach beyond the boundaries of his daily work life. he is finishing up work on a book for the emerging civil war series. earlier this afternoon, davis talked about the rise of john bell hood and we will talk about the beginning of the fall of that very same army. what is and gentlemen, mr. lee white ladies and gentlemen, mr. lee white. [applause] white: i have a special connection there and it is one ie reasons why i did tell that story. familiar with general patrick labor. my first really big civil war biography was on patrick labor and. claybourne. his story inset franklin. i have been interested in it one of the t
this talk is hosted by the emerging civil war blog. it is my privilege to welcome back emmanuel dabney. he comes to us from south of the james. this i-95 traffic many of you enjoyed experiencing, he also has had a joy to experience it today. i think he is eager to go back. petersburg was home to him. closely connected to his own personal story through his ancestry. he began volunteering, where he became seasonal work for a number of years and became a permanent historian. years been there 14 sharing a story that is largely over forgotten, that if armies that will armies are in one spot there longer than anyone else, and the stories by the people affected by the presence of those armies has gone untold. emmanuel has brought that story to the forefront. he is to talk about one of the enduring legacies of the war, that is the freedmen s bureau. was what isestion going to happen with all these emancipated slaves? the freedmen s bureau was an attempt to answer that. it was a v
operated in hospitals and temporary camps, helped locate lost family members and provide education and legal services. this talk is hosted by the emerging civil war blog. to wrap up our sequence of mourning speakers, it is my privilege to welcome back emmanuel dabney. he comes to us from south of the james. this i-95 traffic many of you enjoyed experiencing, he also has had a joy to experience it today. i think he is eager to go back. petersburg was home to him. the story very closely connected to his own personal story through his ancestry. he began volunteering, where he became seasonal work for a number of years and became a permanent historian. he has been there 14 years sharing a story that is largely over forgotten, that if armies are in one spot there longer than anyone else, and the stories by the people affected by the presence of those armies has gone untold. emmanuel has brought that story to the forefront. he is here today to talk about one of the enduring legac
story very closely connected to his own personal story about this child. he began volunteering eventually where he became a seasonal, worked there for a number of years and then became a permanent historian. he has been there now 16 years, 14 years excuse me. sharing this story. the story of the people affected by the presence of those armies has gone untold. fortunately emmanuel has brought that story to the forefront. he is here today to talk to us about one of the other enduring legacy of war, that is, the freedmen s bureau. the very question during the war is what is going to happen with all of these emancipated slaves. the freedmen s bureau was an attempt to answer that, and the manual will discuss that very complicated answer. [applause] i am not sure how people deal with this traffic on the north side of richmond. it seems like just now whenever you leave richmond you better plan on a year to get where it normally takes 10 minutes to get to. i am certainly happy that
washington journal is live at 7:00 a.m. eastern on c-span. next on american history tv, brian craig miller of emporia state university discusses confederate general john bell hood s campaign into tennessee in the fall of 1864, resulting in the almost total destruction of his army. this event is from the gettysburg college civil war institute s annual summer conference that took place in june. it s about an hour and 15 minutes. good afternoon. i m peter carmichael, the director of the civil war institute. also professor of history here at gettysburg college. it s my pleasure to introduce brian craig miller. brian is associate professor and associate chair of history at emporia state university in eastern kansas. he teaches a variety of courses in 19th century u.s., including the civil war, of course. he is the author of several books. john bell hood and the fight for civil war memory published by the university of tennessee. and he has recently edited a punishment on th