Gettysburg won the james j. Roberts award for best civil war book that year and his book on confederate goliath earned the prestigious award on Civil War History given out yearly from the new york city civil war roundtable. Lets give rod gragg a warm welcome. [applause] thank you. Pleasure for me to be in a room full of historians and i say that seriously because i have learned that i may write a lot but the folks who really know the civil war are those of you who read a lot. And i appreciate that. Before i begin, if you dont mind, id like to tell you the story about the young history major what decided after he got a bachelors degree in history, he probably ought to get a masters degree in business so he could earn a living. So he was accepted, enrolled in a distant Prestigious School of business and wondered soon after he got there if he made the right decision because he failed his first exam and so did everyone in the class. Now, the professor was notoriously irrascable, he came in
hills. not a lot of cloud cover to be talking. a few lingering flurries in the sierra. if you want to get up that direction this weekend. go ahead. whether up there s great for it for the bay weather is much better for getting outside specially during your afternoon hours. these frost advisories in light blue that are dripping all of our inland areas will remain until 09:00am this morning. after that, temperatures will rise under these clearing skies. current temperatures are down in the low 40 s for fremont and dublin. that s 41 degrees livermore right ot 40 degrees. some 30 s up in the north bay for fairfield petaluma as well as fairfax, calistoga in cloverdale. kelsey bill, you re at freezing right now. 32. and then you ve got the winds on top of that for half moon bay, 34 miles per hour wind gusts currently san francisco, breezy at 27 miles per hour gives it that even colder field. so layer up this morning and look for to some sunshine later on. right now, all eyes on.