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On memberships and donations to bring you programs. Also, consider being a member. Structure you are 1844ng in was built around. That is when the fry house was built. Farmers lived and worked here prior to the battle of antietam. Union army took over their property. The structure was a Field Hospital where hundreds of Wounded Soldiers were treated by surgeons in the days and weeks following the battle. Us, Daniel Vermilya to discuss his new book. I will have to read from this because i could not memorize all this. Dan is a civil war historian and the author of several books including the battle of james a. Mountainand garfield and the civil war. He previously worked as a park field,at the antietam and he currently works at the historicr National Site in gettysburg ....
Welcome you all to the Battlefields Foundation roundtable, guide you are all able to make it. Its going to be a very interesting, top were going to hear this evening. Remember, we do not have dues, but we do ask that everyone who comes to the roundtable become a member of the Shadow ValleyBattlefields Foundation. Just to know a little bit about the foundation, we have close to 5000 acres, of civil battlefield that weve been able to preserve, please go to our website, and if you could, we would surely appreciate you becoming a member of the foundation. Im going to introduce our speaker tonight, steve and i both move to the area about the same time. Steve came from a career in music, he is a graduate of Berkeley College of music. For many many year ....
Soldiers how men thought, fought, and survived in civil war armies, this is an hour. It is my honor and pleasure to introduce somebody who at this point probably needs very little introduction to most of you. Peter carmichael is the director of the Civil War Institute and the robert c. Flurer professor of civil war college. He is the writer of essays as well as several books, and the last generation Young Virginians in peace, war and reunion published in 2005. His most recent book the war for the common soldier how men thought, fought and survival in civil war armies was published just last year in 2018 and he is the recent recipient of the 2018 nymas civil war book award from the new York Military affairs symposi symposium. Please welcome peter carmichael. Im not dehydrated, i just have, as you can tell, a little ....
He is an author of many articles and essays, as well as civil war works. The last generations published by unc press. His most recent book was published by unc last year in 2018 and is the recent recipient of the 2018 nymas civil war book award. Please welcome peter carmichael. [ applause ] thank you. Im not dehydrated. I just have a little scratchy throat. I think it will be fine. Can everyone hear me okay . Yes . Okay. Fantastic. Ashley, thank you so much for that introduction. David beam stood on cemetery hill. He surveyed the woods and the fields surrounding gettysburg. He was at that time 26 years old, been a lawyer before the war and a veteran. He was a veteran of fredericksburg. After his battles he wrote his wife. In this letter on july 5th, the first sentence he wrote, declared gettysburg as a great victory that the army had achieved. He then proceeded to describe what his regimen had done that night on july 2nd. Indiana was part of a counter attack that retook cemetery hill, ....