The areas for battlefields, but his real passion. Is telling the story of the united states colored troops, he s really made this a passion project has helped cofound a group of reenactors that tell the story of the 23rd united states color troops the unit that first encountered robert e. Lee s army here in the eastern theater in the summer of 1864, and he s also done some work with this in massachusetts guys, that folks maybe have heard of who have done a little work in the movie glory who are those folks right stuart is is tireless in telling the story of the united states color troops men who found the inspiration to fight for their own freedom and in very literal sense gave a new birth of freedom and new meaning to the civil war. So it s my delight and pleasure to introduce my friend steward henderson. Thank you, chris. Good morning. Chris makes everything seem like it was such a long time, but i would tell you if you saw a picture of me then i looked 30 years younger. But i m a li
Military park as well as a living historian with two different colored troops regiments. This talk was hosted by the emerging civil war blog. Welcome back to the emerging civil war virtual symposium. I m chris mackowiski. Thanks so much for joining us. It s my pleasure to introduce my good friend stuart henderson whom i have known forever and forever. We started working together 16 years ago and since that time, stuart has joined the staff as a historian. You can find him in summers giving guided tours on all of the areas for battlefields. But his real passion is telling the story of the united states colored troops. He s really made this a passion project. He helped cofound a group of reenactors that tell the story of the 23rd united states colored troops. The group that first encounted robert e. Lee s army here in the summer of 1864 and done some work with massachusetts guys that folks who have heard of, who have done a little work in the movie glory. Stuart is tireless in telling th
Since forever we. Started out as volunteers in the national park service 16 years ago. They give guided tours on all of the battlefields, but his real passion is telling the story of the united states colored troops. He has made this a passion project, helped to cofounder group of reenactor is that tell the story of the 23rd united states colored troops, the unit that first encountered leads army here in the eastern theater in the summer of 1864, and has also done work well with massachusetts guys who have done some work in the movie glory. Who are those folks? he is tireless and telling the story of the united states colored troops, men who founded the inspiration to fight for their own freedom, and in a very literal sense, and gave new birth of reading and meaning to the civil war. It s my delight and pleasure to introduce my friend, steward henderson. Thank you, chris. Good morning. Chris makes everything seem like it was such a long time, but i will tell you if you saw a picture of
Henderson who i have known it seems like forever and ever we started out as volunteers with the national park service 16 years ago and since that time stuart has joined the staff at fredericksburg and spotsylvania national military park as a historian. You can find him in summers giving guided tours on all of the areas for battlefields, but his real passion. Is telling the story of the united states colored troops, he s really made this a passion project has helped cofound a group of reenactors that tell the story of the 23rd united states color troops the unit that first encountered robert e. Lee s army here in the eastern theater in the summer of 1864, and he s also done some work with this in massachusetts guys, that folks maybe have heard of who have done a little work in the movie glory who are those folks right stuart is is tireless in telling the story of the united states color troops men who found the inspiration to fight for their own freedom and in very literal sense gave a
Civil war virtual symposium. I m chris mackowski editor in chief. Thanks so much for joining us. It s my pleasure now to introduce my good friend steward henderson who i have known it seems like forever and ever we started out as volunteers with the national park service 16 years ago and since that time stuart has joined the staff at fredericksburg and spotsylvania national military park as a historian. You can find him in summers giving guided tours on all of the areas for battlefields, but his real passion. Is telling the story of the united states colored troops, he s really made this a passion project has helped cofound a group of reenactors that tell the story of the 23rd united states color troops the unit that first encountered robert e. Lee s army here in the eastern theater in the summer of 1864, and he s also done some work with this in massachusetts guys, that folks maybe have heard of who have done a little work in the movie glory who are those folks right stuart is is tire