gettysburg national park. he s here to talk to us about one of the world s lesser known but vital actions of the battle on culp s hill. ladies and gentlemen, dan walsh. i want to begin by thanking all my friends and colleagues in the emerging civil war, chris monkowski, kevin pollock, chris white at the american battlefield trust for having me today to present you this often forgotten story of the battle of gettysburg. over the last 157 years, so many of us are familiar with the stories of joshua chamberlain and little round top, pickets charge, cemetary ridge, seminary ridge, but often what gets lost is some of the stories that would occur on the union army s right flank on july 2nd and july 3rd known as culp s hill. at the dedication for the monument to honor george greene after the battle of gettysburg, illuminary dan sickles would give a dedication speech to this monument that had been dedicated in honor of greene and his performance at gettysburg on july 2, 1863. sickl
nevertheless a delight to us here. dan welch is the secretary of our organization. he s the author of the book the last roads north and he works as a historian at the gettysburg national military park. he is here to talk about one of the lesser-known, but vital actions of the battle on coal culp s hill. ladies and gentlemen, dan welch. dan: i want to begin by thanking all of my friends and colleagues at emerging civil war, chris, our symposium co-chair, chris weitz at the american battlefield trust for having me to present this often forgotten story of the battle of gettysburg. over the last 157 years, so many of us are familiar with the stories of joshua chamberlain, little round top, picket s charge, seminary ridge, but what will often get lost of the stories on the union army s right and left flank on july 2 and third, a location known as culp s hill. luminary major general would give a dedication speech to this monument that had been dedicated in the honor of greene.
because of the covid pandemic we had to postpone this year s in prison symposium and all the work kevin and dan did to get ready for that. we postponed until next year. tickets are available at this time, but they also stepped up to make today s virtual symposium possible. thank you, dan and kevin for your work. i would like to introduce our next speaker sarah kay bierle. is the managing editor of emerging who was working behind civil war who was working behind the scenes to keep the blog up and going and to make sure that all of that free content is coming to you every day. her work is invaluable to our organization. she is the author of call out the cadet. she is also at work on the biography of the gallant pelham. she will present some of her research associated with that book today. sarah kay bierle. ms. bierle: good morning, good afternoon, good evening. i m not exactly sure when you will be viewing this, but i hope you are safe and well and we going to go ahead and di
the scene of a ceremony marking the surrender of japan. in the bay of tokyo itself, destroyer buchanan comes alongside, bring you representatives of the allied powers. general of the army douglas macarthur boards the missouri. the fleet commander and admiral halsey welcome the chief of staff, general sutherland, aboard. the escort general macarthur to the grand deck with a 20 minute ceremony is to take place. 2, 1945.day, september [indistinct chatter] level or on the 01 veranda deck. we now call this deck the surrender deck. this is for the japanese assigned the unconditional surrender ending world war ii. this part behind me here is where the table sat. the ship looked different. the shady canopy was not installed and the tourette was turret was terret was rotated 30 degrees to make more room. you would find the crew of the crews hangingther on trying to get a glance of what was happening. members of the japanese delegation were making their way on board. there were 11 of
shoot our show people don t realize we shoot the show at 8:00 in the morning. we try to get a jump on [ laughter ] kelly and ryan. but we do know that someone won and we also know we have an american treasure from oakland with us tonight. the great tom hanks is here on our show. you may have heard it s toy story 4. i saw it s other night, and it s great, which is no surprise. i like every tom hanks movie. i like every tom hanks movie except the one where he saves matt damon at the end. [ laughter ] but other than that. tomorrow as you may know is flag day, and it s also our president s birthday. donald trump turns 73 years old tomorrow. he s the oldest president ever. i ll send him your best. [ laughter ] how is donald trump only 73? it feels like he s been president since 73. [ laughter ] anyway, they re having a fun shindig for him at the white house. melania s planning to hide inside a cake. she s not going to jump out, though. she s going to stay in there a couple ye