i will give an abbreviated version of the bios we have in the programs. tracy is a native of mathematics appomattox. he has worked for the national park service. he has been at petersburg national battlefield since 1997. he is the author of one of the volumes and the howard, virginia regimental history series. he is also passed president of the lynchburg civil war roundtable. and the appomattox county historical society. his talk today will be on the fall of petersburg. please welcome tracy chernault. [applause] john lehman:tracy chernault: good evening. i m a big baseball guy. when he asked me to speak as the leadoff man, that was a first for me. most of you can tell by my size, i never hit leadoff because i require somebody speeding. being the leadoff man is something new for me. i was surprised when pat pointed out that the magazine contains his article, because you get to this article, you have to read through my article. which i think should have been the end of the ma
i will give an abbreviated version of the bios we have in the programs. tracy is a native of appomattox. he has worked for the national park service. he has been at petersburg national battlefield since 1997. he is the author of one of the volumes and the howard, virginia regimental history series. he is also passed president of the lynchburg civil war roundtable. and the appomattox county historical society. his talk today will be on the fall of petersburg. please welcome tracy chernault. [applause] tracy chernault: good evening. i m a big baseball guy. when he asked me to speak as the leadoff man, that was a first for me. most of you can tell by my size, i never hit leadoff because i require somebody speeding. being the leadoff man is something new for me. i was surprised when pat pointed out that the magazine contains his article, because you get to this article, you have to read through my article. which i think should have been the end of the magazine. [laughter] please
when he asked me to speak as the leadoff man, that was a first for me. most of you can tell by my size, i have always been rather large i never hit leadoff because i that requires somebody speedy. being the leadoff man is something new for me. i was surprised when pat pointed out that the magazine contains his article, because you get to this article, you have to read through my article. which i think should have been the end of the magazine. [laughter] we could have avoided a lot of history that would have droned on. please pick up one of those and read my article. mike gorman has an article as well. it is always a pleasure to speak about petersburg, because most of you in this room having heard stories of petersburg, probably never delved into it. when i was at appomattox courthouse a number of years ago my boss at the time, who , promises to heckle me later, asked me, when i said i was going to petersburg, are you crazy? he said that it was the most unimportant story in
we will hear about the company hated set of circumstances that ended in garfield s death. this event from the smithsonian associates is about two hours. professor nurnberger: of the four u.s. president assassinations, the one i find fascinating and interesting is the one we will discuss tonight james garfield. for quite a number of reasons. first of all, garfield is one of the most intelligent presidents we ve ever had. by the end of it or the middle of it, you will start laughing because you will just say, that cannot be. he cannot be that good in that field, it is just not possible. you will find something else and say, no. he did he is just incredibly bright. the hope for his presidency was in or miss. we going to discuss an absolutely brilliant human being. i was chatting with a friend before and he asked me if i thought garfield was the most intelligent. i do not know how you test something like that. it is not as if you give presidents iq test. it is a lot easier with