Going to be a beautification out here, which i guess never hit me, but i guess it might in a way. Because i am a big fan of robert e. Lee. What im hoping to do among others, besides give you a time line as to what robert e. Lee did in the postwar years which i think is one of obviously the most often overlooked portion of his life because, i mean, the civil war is always going to be first and foremost. The other main theme of this lecture im going to try to get across to you, if Park Services is big on themes, is that the amount of i wouldnt say that he did a lot of work in theory, but through his own personal example is probably the best way, through his own personal example, robert e. Lee tries to reconcile the nation. And what i think a lot of us as mers tod americans today have forgotten is how far apart this country was in 1865. I think it is the view of a lot of people that lee surrenders and bam, oh, well just forget about it, you know, okay, well just hold hands and reunite, an
What were going to do today, ladies and gentlemen, is were going to do robert e. Lee in the postwar years. And my coworker, when they were upstairs before we came down, asked me if this was going to be a beatification, which never hit me, but it might, because i am a big fan of robert e. Lee. What im hoping to do, among others, besides give you a timeline as to what robert e. Lee did in the postwar years, which i think is obviously the most often overlooked portion of his life, because the civil war is always going to be first and foremost. The other main theme of this lecture, im going to try to get across to you, the park service is big on themes, is that the amount of i wouldnt say that he did a lot of work in theory, but through his own personal example is probably the best way, through his own personal example, robert e. Lee tries to reconcile the nation. And what i think a lot of us as americans today have forgotten is that how far apart this country was in 1865. I think it is th
Rock stars, like guys, historians, women, weve all heard of, weve seen them on tv, weve read their books. Everybody knows who they are. We talked about them in hush tones and it has been my privilege to be friends with one of those rock stars because truly eric wit bigger is a name that is known by eric wittenberg. Hes known not only for his expertise in the union calvary, many o his knowledge on controversial topics where he is constantly challenging people to reconsider what they think they know. Hes never one to take a position because its popular but he takes because it is well considered, well researched and it is well thought out. And so hes sometimes not so afraid to challenge conventional thinking on things. And its that sense of going for the truth that has always made me admire his work. Tarting out when i first got into the civil war as someone reading books and just thought this guy is fantastic. Hes got 17 books you can read. But as our friendship has grown over the years,
Im here to introduce mary k. Byerly. All of us here at emerging civil war we wear many hats and several months ago we started serious called my ecw stories and this introduce you to some of the faces around. A way you when you come to a symposium and you want to wring her neck or tell us what you didnt like on a blog you know her background. Theres so much with emerging civil war. Her fingers are in every aspect of the but i didnt realize how much she did and how much she does until i read her contribution and i would encourage you if you look up you will find it. She has the daily schedule every day of the week where shes working on some aspect of emerging civil war. Its just incredible so if you like what you see make sure you give sara a pat on the back and if you have any complaints take them to dr. Dr. Dr. Mckee housekeeper its probably his fault anyway. [laughter] sara byerly graduated from Thomas Edison university with a b. A. In History Service managing editor at emerging civil
Byerly. All of us here at emerging civil war we wear many hats and several months ago we started serious called my ecw stories and this introduce you to some of the faces around. A way you when you come to a symposium and you want to wring her neck or tell us what you didnt like on a blog you know her background. Theres so much with emerging civil war. Her fingers are in every aspect of the but i didnt realize how much she did and how much she does until i read her contribution and i would encourage you if you look up you will find it. She has the daily schedule every day of the week where shes working on some aspect of emerging civil war. Its just incredible so if you like what you see make sure you give sara a pat on the back and if you have any complaints take them to dr. Dr. Dr. Mckee housekeeper its probably his fault anyway. [laughter] sara byerly graduated from Thomas Edison university with a b. A. In History Service managing editor at emerging civil war works on staff at the tr