our next speaker will be speaking on the battle of wilson s creek. that is kristen pawlak. in 2014 she graduated from gettysburg college with a bachelor of arts degrees in civil war studies. she has worked for the misery civil war museum in st. louis, the american battlefield trust, and the gettysburg college special collections. she currently serves on the board of directors for the marine scholarship foundation. she is working on her first book in the emerging civil war series on the battle of wills and creek. please join me wilson creek. please join me in welcoming kristen pawlak. all right. thank you to all of you. thank you to emerging civil war. it is such an honor to speak to you all about the battle of wilson s creek which was fought in 1861 in a corner of southeastern southwestern missouri, my home state. the subtitle of this presentation is called this means war: i want to start off, kind of setting the stage and also talking a little bit about what we mean by th
please join me in welcoming kristen pawlak. [applause] kristen: all right. first of all thank you to all of , you. thank you to emerging civil war. it is such an honor to speak to you all about the battle of wilson s creek which was fought in 1861 in a southwestern corner of missouri, my home state. the subtitle of this presentation is called this means war: the battle of wilson s creek. i want to take us back to june 11 of 1861 in st. louis, missouri to the hotel which is just downtown at one of the nicest hotels in the 20th 19th century. important early war leaders met there. you have nathaniel lyon, his aide, francis p. blair, and for the secessionist leaders, you have major clayborn jackson, governor jackson s aide. they come to keep the peace if possible. they are there to negotiate they , are there to prevent the outbreak of war in missouri. this meeting will last several hours and brigadier general lion lyon becomes frustrated, to the point he looks at the secess
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after he raised his gun at them. 3 it happened around 11 last night at the windwood oaks apartments. thats just off of florida avenue in north tampa. 3 deputies got a call that a man was waving a gun around outside the apartments. they arrived, with a negotiator. but they say the man. jeffrey casal. refused to drop the gun. deputies then fired. when they say the man raised the gun at them. no word on how casal is doing. fox 13 s shayla reaves will bring us a live update, in our next half hour. now, lets get our first check on the forecast this morning. from 3 3 3 3 also new this morning: hillsborough county firefighters battled a two alarm business fire. it happened just after midnight. this is in the 17 hundred block of u-s 41. hillsborough county fire sent us this picture from the scene. there are several businesses in this complex. including the one you see here. kitchen ality a cabinet store. it s still not clear if the fire was in that business, or just nearby. fi
i have not seen this before. good news, we are beginning to see some thinning of the cloudwe will take any sunshine we can get today. there will likely not be a lot of it, but things are improving across the area. it is just going to take a while for anything to melt. today is your day to really on the left, it is going to state quite cold, and enjoy what fell in your area. greenwood, a heavy dose over abbeville. county at this time. chickens county, you are getting it you have been getting it for the past several hours. several areas picking up another inch over the past couple of hours. snow will continue to come down. here is a pretty decent line through brevard county to transylvania county. the widespread snow still across the upstate. these shots this morning just showing how wintry it is across the areain greenville, we are in the upper 20 s. we will get above freezing at around 11:00. we will see the snow begin to wrap up. the cold air has been perfect for the snow,