Im jamie colby, and today im driving along the Southern California coastline in san diego. Im here to meet a woman who says her strange inheritance took her on a journey to meet someone she never really got to know when he was alive her own father. My name is nancy cregopowers, and my father, arthur v. Crego, left a collection that took him a lifetime to accumulate. For starters, nancy asks me to check out the oldest item in her fathers collection. I want to show you where i keep the gun. In the bedroom . In the bedroom. Uh, yeah, that could be dangerous. Oh, look at that its so beautiful with the inlay. Its called a pennsylvania long rifle. Handmade in philadelphia. Its probably circa 1776 or a little later. This was still being used in the battle of 1812. It meant so much to him, and it means a lot to me. Nancys family has a history of military Service Going back to the revolutionary war. This is one of dozens of firearms in a huge cache of war relics left by nancys father when he di
Im jamie colby, and today im driving along the Southern California coastline in san diego. Im here to meet a woman who says her strange inheritance took her on a journey to meet someone she never really got to know when he was alive her own father. My name is nancy cregopowers, and my father, arthur v. Crego, left a collection that took him a lifetime to accumulate. For starters, nancy asks me to check out the oldest item in her fathers collection. I want to show you where i keep the gun. In the bedroom . In the bedroom. Uh, yeah, that could be dangerous. Oh, look at that its so beautiful with the inlay. Its called a pennsylvania long rifle. Handmade in philadelphia. Its probably circa 1776 or a little later. This was still being used in the battle of 1812. It meant so much to him, and it means a lot to me. Nancys family has a history of military Service Going back to the revolutionary war. This is one of dozens of firearms in a huge cache of war relics left by nancys father when he di
You some flavor of this rather unusual bunch of american veterans. Then i will ask a few of these veterans to join me on the stage, and i will introduce them at that time. I will ask them a few questions to jumpstart the conversation, but at some point, i will just turn it over to you all and let you have a conversation with these pretty incredible guys. , is aok, project 9 result of a lot of research from around the country, and i will not go into that. But i was lucky enough to be able to interview several of the remaining veterans from that campaign of so long ago in burma. Pretty remarkable bunch. They were started by a guy named arnold. Ld happ some of you may have heard of him. A guy namedsted by churchill. Winston, i think, was his first name. Let me take you through some of these photos, and we will see what happens. I think i remember how to operate this. By the way, there were some of these flyers out there. I do not know if you all got any. If you did not, i do not know what
Two leaders. This event was part of the Gettysburg College Civil War Institute annual summer conference. It runs about an hour. Ok, good evening. I and peter carmichael, professor of history at Gettysburg College and also director of the Civil War Institute. My guest is noted historian gordon ray. He 20 years ago published the battle of the wilderness with lsu press. This would be the first of 4 volumes to cover the 1864 Overland Campaign. Gordon was the first historian to ever attempt to write a comprehensive history of those operations. Those operations, as you know, covered Central Virginia and 1 at cold harbor. It really is hard to imagine that anyone will ever again attempt to write such a comprehensive history because what gordon did is truly phenomenal. ,t is model tactical history well researched, beautifully written, and above all else, contextualized. As a microstudy of who did what and where. What is really remarkable is that gordon dived into the , and so much of tactical h
Mr. White is the coauthor of a season of slaughter the battle of Spotsylvania Court house, may 821, 1864. This talk was part of a symposium hosted by the emerging civil war blog. Our first speaker today is a man for whom i hold the utmost respect. Three years ago this again, in fact, we sat on the back porch of a little building next to the stone lodge action shrine and we were thinking, you know, what can we do to help people become more invested in these stories of the civil war . That is were the emerging civil war blog first came to be. Since then, over the past three to a, we have expanded publishing series that we will talk about this afternoon. Of course, the symposium and a number of speaking engagements, as well. We are continuing our outreach to help people become invested in these very important and engaging stories. Historian ander former licensed battlefield guide at gettysburg here he is one of those men who you could drop him on any battlefield, take off the blindfold, a