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Longsuffering panelists for bearing with me as i arrived at a workable concept and title. I did have a very clear idea of what i wanted this symposium to be, a blend of wellknown speakers who would discuss what theyve learned about the study of the civil war over decadeslong careers, blended with excellent lesserknown speakers whom you should want well, know well and will want to know well and had them speak about their Exciting New Research and their contributions to civil war scholarship. And ...

In West Virginia you could, probably. [laughter] coupleto mention a people who are here. My beloved cousin, barbra markns and her husband park here. They are from huntington and moved down to atlanta about 10 years ago. And general hoods greatgranddaughter and her husband skip from asheville, North Carolina are here. I am going to embarrass her and make her raise her hand. So [applause] marys grandfather was oswald grbel, one of the 11 hood children we will talk about later. Wrote any mentioned,...