Longtime fans know. Im a Stonewall Jackson Fanboy. Chris is like the anti Stonewall Jackson Fanboy and as a result, his description of Jacksons 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 chancellorsville known as lees greatest victory also said some important light on why its lees 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. Hes the and coauthor of more than a dozen books about the civil war. Ive been privileged to write with him for a 16 years now, weve got lots of great stuff in the works coming up. Its a real treat to have them with us today. Ladies and gentlemen, chris white thanks, chris. Thanks everybody for being here today, even though its a virtual conference. We do have a few people out i
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. Im a Stonewall Jackson Fanboy. Chris is like the anti Stonewall Jackson Fanboy and as a result, his description of Jacksons 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 Chancellors Bill known as lees greatest victory also said some important light on why its lees 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. Hes the Author And Coauthor of more than a dozen books about the civil war. Ive been privileged to write with him for a 16 years now. Weve got lots of great stuff in the works coming up. Its a real treat to have them with us today. Ladies and gentle
Longtime fans know. Im a Stonewall Jackson Fanboy. Chris is like the anti Stonewall Jackson Fanboy and as a result, his description of Jacksons 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 Chancellors Bill known as lees greatest victory also said some important light on why its lees 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. Hes the Author And Coauthor of more than a dozen books about the civil war. Ive been privileged to write with him for a 16 years now. Weve got lots of great stuff in the works coming up. Its a real treat to have them with us today. Ladies and gentlemen, chris white. Thanks, chris. Thanks everybody for being here today, even though its a virtual conference. We do have a few peop
Chris is like the anti Stonewall Jackson Fanboy and as a result, his description of Jacksons 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 Chancellors Bill known as lees greatest victory also said some important light on why its lees 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. Hes the Author And Coauthor of more than a dozen books about the civil war. Ive been privileged to write with him for a 16 years now. Weve got lots of great stuff in the works coming up. Its a real treat to have them with us today. Ladies and gentlemen, chris white. Thanks, chris. Thanks everybody for being here today, even though its a virtual conference. We do have a few people out in the out in the crowd that have sat with u
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 the conf