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That working together should not be assigned as weakness, but a sign of strength. These students are fully dedicated to the work and to reviving these principles not only back into our government, but also into everyday society. These students have learned to the example of senator ford that those ideals and principles or what it takes to best serve your constituents and community as a public servant. The less than principles our students learn our ones they will use throughout their lives. They may be High School Students today, but they are also our nations in the states, and communities future leaders. On behalf of the ford center, i would like to welcome and recognize several of our dignitaries we have in attendance today. We have the honorable joseph mckinley, the honorable jeff taylor, the honorable david payne come and the honorable j wethington, mr. Joe boland and susan mile, jim gooch. Honorable mayor tom watson and ....
Partnership, the largest private repository of civil war archives in the world. [applause] imagine, that comes with a great cost and lots of work. This is a 3 million effort to andide storage, process catalog the collection, and in doubt this so it can be available to the largest possible audience. Were halfway there, and we welcome your help. Professor gallagher has received many awards, including the prize for the best book on the civil award for contributions to civil war studies, the lincoln prize, and the award for the best Nonfiction Book on the civil war. He was the founder and first president for the fou ndation of preserving civil war sites. Please join me in welcoming professor gallagher. Prof. Gallagher i am going to switch microphones. I am delighted to be here. It is always fun to speak in this room. Jamie wouldnt tell you how old he was when i was a mellon fellow here. I will reveal i had brown hair. It was a long t ....
Before we begin, i would like to share our mission and the relevance it serves in our world today. As you all know, senator ford believed that students need a better understanding of how our government operates and that the principles by which he conducted his work, civil discourse, cooperation, and the willingness to compromise are vital to our nations future. In keeping with this mission, the center of established the Statesmanship Academy in 2012. The academy currently serves over 100 local Area High School students who have a passion for public service, enhancing their leadership skills, and for study the issues that face our communities, states, and nation. At the academy, we strive to teach these students to examine both sides of every issue, to learn how to respect another persons opinion, even when it may differ from their own, and that working together shoul ....
American civil war at the university of virginia and a great friend to the Virginia Historical society. He has spoken here on several occasions and has done research here in the Rich Holdings of our civil war manuscripts. He was a member of the class in 1988. I wont tell you how old i was at that point. We were glad to have him then as today. He has also mined the collection of the Confederate Memorial Society at the museum of the confederacy for his essays. That question, that collection, as you may know, will be housed at the Virginia Historical society where it will be preserved, catalog, and digitized as part of a new Civil War Research center. This will be, through this partnersh ....
And his overall inking about the art of command on a 19thcentury command on a 19thcentury battlefield. The historical moments ofs personal lees personal Battlefield Leadership provide an opportunity to evaluate him through his physical actions at the tactical level, as opposed to an interpretation of his Strategic Thinking where historians have spilled much ink investigating his thoughts on generalship during the civil war. Pute moments where lee himself a great personal risk also wrote a moment to review discerned his army was an exceptional danger. Robert edward lee was no stranger to the perils of combat put himself a great personalposts. His service during the war with mexico, is harrowing personal reconnaissance prior to the battle of cerro gordo in 1847 the provided Winfield Scott with critical intellig ....