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have him tell you about chancellorsville is going to give you a view of chancellorsville at perhaps some of you may not expect our longtime fans know. i m a stonewall jackson fanboy. chris is like the anti stonewall jackson fanboy and as a result, his description of jackson s 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 chancellor s bill known as lee s greatest victory also said some important light on why it s lee s 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. he s the author and co-author of more than a dozen books about the civil war. i ve been privileged to write with him for a 16 years now. we ve got lots of great stuff in the works coming up. it s a real treat to have them with ....
longtime fans know. i m a stonewall jackson fanboy. chris is like the anti stonewall jackson fanboy and as a result, his description of jackson s 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 chancellor s bill known as lee s greatest victory also said some important light on why it s lee s 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. he s the author and co-author of more than a dozen books about the civil war. i ve been privileged to write with him for a 16 years now. we ve got lots of great stuff in the works coming up. it s a real treat to have them with us today. ladies and gentlemen, chris white. thanks, chris. thanks everybody for being here today, even though it s a virtual confe ....
chris is like the anti stonewall jackson fanboy and as a result, his description of jackson s 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 chancellor s bill known as lee s greatest victory also said some important light on why it s lee s 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. he s the author and co-author of more than a dozen books about the civil war. i ve been privileged to write with him for a 16 years now. we ve got lots of great stuff in the works coming up. it s a real treat to have them with us today. ladies and gentlemen, chris white. thanks, chris. thanks everybody for being here today, even though it s a virtual conference. we do have a few people out in the out in the ....
it was hosted by the historical society in richmond. confederate general edward porter alexander competed in all the great battles as well as tennessee in late 1863. alexander wrote two books still regarded by many scholars as the most influential of the personal accounts to come out of the civil war. in today s lecture our renowned speaker will assess alexander. books and how they continue to influence historians and other writers. dr. gary w. gallagher is the john now professor in history of the american civil war at the university of virginia and, of course, a very great friend to the virginia historical society. he s spoken here on several occasions and, of course, conducted research here in our rich holdings of civil war manuscripts. in fact, he was a member of the inaugural class of our melon fellowship program back in 1988 and i won t tell you how old i was at that point. but we were very glad to have him then as we are today. gary is also the collections of th ....
our next speaker is craig simons. craig was the retired professor and chairman of the history department at the united states naval academy. but he told me that his retirement failed. [laughs] [laughs] he was no good at it at all. so he is now the earnest jay king distinguished professor of maritime history at the united states naval war college in newport, rhode island. he has listen civil war. his book lincoln and his admiral s received the lincoln prize in 2009 and the abraham lincoln book award. he also has just done a biography of joe johnston and that s with the talk is about today. let s welcome craig simon. [applause] [applause] thank you everyone. good morning. i will start by putting our subject up on the screen here. here is old joe. i will happily acknowledge to this audience and the speakers who come before me that controversy and dispute hovered about the civil war careers of both ambrose burn side and don t carlos. i will also argue that few general o ....