College. Im also member the history department, and its my pleasure this afternoon to introduce to you trevor plaque. Trevor is the director of the Textual Records Division at the national in washington d. C. I will translate that for you will. Trevor has a very important job in the field of history. Trevor is the friend of every historians. Trevor is a really likable guy, but if you didnt like him and your historian, youve still got to be really nice to him. Because archivists of all the power. Now, ive got a double whammy there. My wife is an archivist so i have got archivists at home as well as in the field, as well. Archivists are indispensable to what we do. In the field of history, in particular, youd be hardpressed to find above it doesnt have an impact on trevor. He knows the collections exceedingly well. He can do more than just pull the records off the gst shelves, youve got to have somebody that understands that material, and knows something about what you are working on. Yo
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arlington has so much history tied up in the civil war, this section of the cemetery was begun in may of 1864 before there was a cemetery. how did that happen? it happened that 1864 the civil war had bee going on for several years and washington was a hospital city at that time. there were 50,000 soldiers and sailors in the hospitals of washington, temporary hospitals set up all over town and those people started dying. they had to be buried. so earlier in the war the national cemeteries were established at alexandria, virginia and the old soldier s home in northwest washington. they were planned to accommodate all of those who died in washington area hospitals. what happened was the war went on much longer and was much bloodier than anyone expected so that pretty soon we filled up the graveyards at alexandria and at the old soldier s home in washington. they needed new burial space. the quartermaster s office of the union army looked across the river and found this place and