Museum of the Civil War Soldier located near petersburg, virginia. He previously served as the first president of the association for the preservation of civil war sites from 1990 to 1994, an early version of what today we know as the American Battlefield trust. Hes also spent time as a historian including local fredericksburg in spotsylvania. Hes also served in other capacities. Dedicated researcher, a prolific writer, he has published more than 20 works on the civil war, on stonewall jackson, st. Petersburg, virginia, 1861 to 1865, and my favorite, the final battles of the petersburg campaign. His latest book, a campaign of giant is certainly a mustread a campaign of giants is certainly a must read for all civil war enthusiasts. I was fortunate enough to have an opportunity to do the maps for buck. I said, you know what . Youre doing good work and he gave me an opportunity to showcase that so that im most grateful. Will is certainly a historian that we all look up to but hes not just
Ye linear deposit of hardware and nails and buttons and coins and actu actually the deposits of artifacts out there were so dense and we found glass ware and ceramics and based on the date range of them, i was fairly certain at that time that we had identified the site of the slave quarters associated with it. We did not have any funding for archeo logical research. What we are looking at is what we call structure b or the six of the structure laid out in a row. The way it manifests itself is a foundation of the stone chimney. It is i am lamsimilar of what yn the secondary house there. It is a cshaped that formed the foundation for the chimney. You can see two smaller stone pee pe pierce which would have form the corner of the building. So actually some intermediate pier as well. So they probably were one story or a story and a half buildings, they measured about 20 by 34 feet in dimensions of external chimney in the south elevation. Very simple and expediant structure that was constru
Maneuvers of the union and confederate armies that brought them to appomattox. Thank you, patrick. Our final speaker tonight is christopher calkins. He a proud graduate of longwood university. Longwood college when he went here. You were one of the first male graduates of longwood. Chris has had a long career with the National Park service. He worked at appomattox, spotsylvania, and was chief of interpretation at petersburg for many years. In 2008 he took over the position of park manager for battlefield state park. It is only 15 minutes from here. He has done an amazing job in revising Sailors Creek. Revitalizing Sailors Creek. As a mentioned in the beginning he will be available tomorrow for some tors of their cash for some tors out there for some tours out there. He is responsible for the retreat route. He is actively involved in battlefield preservation, the association of preservation for civil war sites, particularly building up petersburg in the past getting a large amount of la
Mr. Johnson then projected americas policy in vietnam, saying the United States was ready to begin without conditions diplomatic discussions to end the war in vietnam. He calls it the only path for reasonable men. Johnson demands and independent south vietnam, secure guarantees, and able to shape its own relationships to all others, free from outside interference, tied to no alliance, a military base, or no country. He called on Southeast Asian nations for Economic Development and he asked the United Nations to join in the plan. Johnson on our part, i will ask the congress to join in a billiondollar American Investment in this effort as soon as it is under way. [applause] president johnson and i would hope that all other industrialized countries including the soviet union will join in this effort to replace despair with hope and terror with progress. The president said the task is to enrich the hopes and existence of more than 100 million people. He pointed out that education in trades
Our final speaker tonight is christopher calkins. He a proud graduate of longwood university. You were one of the first male graduates of longwood. Chris has had a long career with the National Park service. He worked at appomattox, spotsylvania, and was chief of interpretation at petersburg for many years. In 2008 he took over the position of park manager for battlefield state park. It is only 15 minutes from here. He has done an amazing job in revising Sailors Creek. As a mentioned in the beginning he will be available tomorrow for some tors of their cash for some tors out there for some tours out there. He is responsible for the retreat route. He is actively involved in battlefield preservation, the association of preservation for civil war sites, particularly building up petersburg in the past getting a large amount of land for petersburg battlefield. Received an award for marriage in 2015. For merit in 2015. Numerous books on sailor creek and appomattox. Also a study of the 29th d