[applause] ryan: well, thank you. how is everyone doing? everyone excited to be here? not a great answer if you said no five minutes into the program. awesome to have you. i was excited when the program was announced and the idea of the theme, forgotten battles of the civil war. the question became what to do next, and at the time that i worked at the fredericksburg military park, the thing about fredericksburg, they were massive battles. huge. i like to study the smaller engagements. the problem with that, the smaller they are, the harder they are to study. so, dranesville. i was hoping to create a book out of it. i was especially excited to talk about it tonight. poll the audience, has anyone heard of dranesville before? whoo! ryan: ok. do you know where it is? less hands, but still a good number. it helps if you turn it on. first things first, dranesville is 15 miles east of leesburg and 20 miles west of washington, d.c. engagement we will be talking about happens in d
washington foundation he now inks as an interpreter military programs at the colonial williamsburg foundation. welcoming ryanin quint. [applause] thank you. how is everyone doing? everyone happy to be here? not a great answer if you said five minutes into the program. i was excited when the program of announced and the idea the theme, forgotten battles of the civil war. question became what to do next, and at the time that i worked at the fredericksburg military park, the thing about frederick spur, there were massive battles. huge. i like to study the smaller engagements. the problem with that, the smaller they are, the harder they are to study. so, dranesville. i was hoping to create a book out of it. to talkpecially excited about it tonight. has anyone heard of dranesville before? whoo! ok.: does anyone know where it is? less hands, but still a good number. it helps if you turn it on. it is 20 miles west of washington, d.c. the battle the encasement we will be talking
brian: thank you for taking your seats and we will continue with our leadership seminar. the coach has been so generous to let us use his name, i know he wants to find ways to contribute to the learning and education as part of kennesaw state university. we are very grateful not only to have one of the mentors of kennesaw s tom scotto over here, but david parker is a good representative from my department. thank you for coming. and thank you to all of you for being here, and thank you to our speaker for making it here. we had planned for him to come to a different event some time ago and the weather got in the way. this time, the weather did not prevent him from arriving and we are so excited to have steve woodworth. he taught for eight years at toccoa, so he has some good georgia roots in that area, and he went on to texas christian university, where he is the powerhouse. the people who say, who should i study with? he is one of the first names to come up for them and for me
we will carry on with our leadership seminar. the coach has been so generous to let us use his name. i know he wants to find ways to contribute to the learning and education as part of kennesaw state university. and we are very grateful to have not only one of the mentors of kennesaw s tom scotto over here, salo again to him, but david parker is a good representative from my department. thank you, david, for coming. and thank you to all of you for being here, and thank you to our speaker for making it here. we had planned for him to come to a different event some time ago and the weather got in the way. so this time, the weather did not prevent him from arriving and we are so excited to have steve woodworth. steve and i do go a long way back. he taught for eight years at toccoa, so he has some good georgia roots in that area, and then went on to texas christian university, where he is the powerhouse. different people that say, i want to go study, who should i study with? he i
earl s. i can honestly say one of his books i read at graduate school is one of the very finest and, in fact, one of the very first books to explore soldier motivation and ideology. it is an outstanding book. he has done many others that include pickens charge, rightful musket in the civil war. his book on braxton brag as well. i m not sure you ll love him after you read earl s book. it is a fair and very well researched and deeply analytical look at that controversial general. earl has won a number of awards, including the tom watson prize for his work on civil war tactics, something he will be speaking about today. and, i should note, that this book, fighting for atlanta published by the university of north carolina press that it, in fact, will be his topic. let me welcome earl hess. thank you, peter, very much for that nice, generous introduction. fighting for atlanta, tactics, terrain and trenches in the civil war. that s the topic. the purpose is to understand one of t