Government from washington d. C. Had personally insulted don pedro ii at some social that occasion. And so that was the main apparently the main reasonoma that there wasnt a closer to do association betweenwi the brazilian government and washington. It had less t to do with politicsgton and more with the whim of the differen emperor. So again thats where governmental and culture differences come into play. The ambassador was the u. S. Ambassador was kind of a pushy person and that didntkwujn go over well5m emperor. Yes, sir. In connection with thean settlement of some exconfederates in other latin american countries was there in the case of the brazilian exconfederates, any people in the United States, anyifn] asians either working either agents ght ha fromve brazil who may have organized any of these people to migrate to brazil . Oh, certainly. I think if i understand your question correctly were there i p guess for lack of a better term, Confederate Point people that were sent to bra
Seminar together for the first time in 1999, the e 20 0. And then when ron retired patrick took over with working with longwood on this seminar. Patrick has history degrees from Shepherd College and from virginia tech. Hes worked as a Seasonal Employee and probably, as many of you know patrick has written numerous books related to that campaign and other aspects of the war. Several pamphlets. The 30 millionths about lees surrender, cemetery at aplamatics. Probably his most important work is we came to fight, a history of the fifth new york volunteer infantry. He helped finish the vortex of hell. Thats a great book to have. Both of those. Patricks book and the one he helped brian finish. Hes very heavily involved in battlefield preservation, set up the fund with the preservation trust. His talk today is the battle fury and the last to die patrick schroeder. Thavngs, david. I know youre already probably tired of seeing me. We made a high school trip i think it was 10th or 11th grade and
The reality is they opened up but it was to be an outreach to our kind of people there. Thank you. I just had a quick question. Do you think the majority of the people, do you have any information on this, left for political reasons, not wanting to live under yankee rule or was it more economics hoping to reestablish a Slave Institution in brazil or elsewhere . And also, do you have any information perhaps about the states that they were more likely to have left were deep south states like alabama, mississippi or upper south states, which i would think it would be deep south states but im just guessing on that . Well, let me start with your last question, yes, it was predominantly deep south states where it was where the brazilian government advertised and also the ports lended themselves to transportation to brazil as well. Although, there were some virginians. They would have left from norfolk and there was a man in lynchburg whose last name was noonen who was sort of the point perso
I brought some of our brochures. I had no idea how many people would be here. If you are planning to go to the park this afternoon, if you hold off taking one of these, they are in the back. We will get you some. Its on park row. My talk is referred to as black thursday, the battle for Sailors Creek. One of the Union Generals who was involved in the battle, he wrote in his book about the fighting 5 of the intelligent people of the united states, north or south ever heard of the battle of Sailors Creek. They dont know anything of its magnitude or importance. This is not strange. It was fought in virginia. This was three days before the surrender under general robert e lee. Events were happening so rapidly that no note was made of the battle. In the next few minutes, you will be part of that part of our nation. Just some point before we talk about the battle, there are three separate engagements referred to as the battles of Sailors Creek. As you enter the museum, it refers to it as batt
Im here to introduce Sarah Kay Bierle. All of us here at emerging civil war, we wear many hats. And we wanted to do a series on the blog, to introduce you to some of the faces around. That way, when you come to a symposium and you want to ring our neck or something or tell us what you didnt like on the blog, you know who you are talking to. You know the background. Sara does so much with emerging civil war, her fingers are in every aspect of it. But i didnt even realize how much she does until i read her contributions, my ecw story. But if you look up my ecw story, you will find it. But she has a daily schedule, every day of the week. Where she is working on some aspect of the civil war. Its just incredible. So if you like what we are doing, if you like this, make sure you give Sarah Kay Bierle a pat on the back, if you have any complaints, make sure you take them to dr. , its probably his fault anyway. Sarah kay bierle is managing editor of emerging civil war and work that central bat