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Our last speaker is well known to all of you, Gary Gallagher is the third professor in the history of the American Civil War americas at the university of virginia and the founding director of our core sponsor, center for civil war studies at the university of virginia. Knowing that gary was about to retire a number of years ago and move west, i have been writing just about every introduction for him the last few years as if tomorrow the last time we would see him in richmond. I want to apologiz...

Retirement would mean farewell. I am very pleased that, in his retirement, he remains a fixture in the commonwealth. As i think everybody knows, and appreciates, garys contributions to civil war studies are varied beyond his own scholarship which is writing and editing nearly 30 books and hundreds of articles and reviews. He has been a frequent contributor and columnist for popular civil war magazines, preservationists and battlefield guides. He is the Founding Editor of the most Popular Series ...

The civil war photography. He is the Vice President of the center for civil war photography, hes been a licensed battlefield guide for 25 years, hes appeared on numerous productions shown on the bbc, cspan, Pennsylvania Cable Network and on history. He works full time as the chief historian of the American Battlefield trust. Without any further interruptions or excuse me introduction, i now present to you my friend, garry adelman. Thanks, tammy. Hello, everybody. All right, this isnt easy, doing...

Him as an upandcoming young historian in 2004, when he was on our History Panel when we study the 1864 Valley Campaign early that year. He returned to us in 2007, when we studied the second manassas campaign, and again in 2009, when we studied the 1862 Valley Campaign. In 2012, he was with us for a look at the 1863 battle of chancellorsville, and in 2013, when we studied the prelude to gettysburg, the armies moved north. Scott has written numerous articles and books. The forgotten fury, the batt...

In 2007. Ed and again in 2009. Us for ahe was with look at the 1863 battle. In 2013. Scott has written numerous articles and books. The forgotten fury, the battle of piedmont. Shenandoah summer 1864 valley campaign. Manassas long streets attack and the struggle for the rich published in 2011. Also that year, the battle of piedmont. 2013, the last battle of winchester. In addition to his articles and onks, he served for 10 years the board of the battlefield association. On thetwice served preside...

Next speaker who so grateful for him coming in and joining us last minute and he is going to continue with our theme of bridges over troubled waters. Weve got ryan quint, whos going to present defending the bridges monocacy, another maine native like our first speaker, ryan quint is a park guide at the fredericksburg and Spotsylvania National military park. He formerly worked at the Richmond National battlefield park, Colonial Williamsburg and George Washington foundation. Ryan has a history deg...

Next speaker who so grateful for him coming in and joining us last minute and he is going to continue with our theme of bridges over troubled waters. Weve got ryan quint, whos going to present defending the bridges monocacy, another maine native like our first speaker, ryan quint is a park guide at the fredericksburg and Spotsylvania National military park. He formerly worked at the Richmond National battlefield park, Colonial Williamsburg and George Washington foundation. Ryan has a history deg...

Defended the reputation. As well as the inability of soldiers to defend themselves against germs and infection. This hour and 15 minute talk was art of a symposium hosted by the emerging civil war blog. I am pleased to introduce our esteemed panel tonight. I have asked a variety of voices, some of those who are a emerging from a variety of perspectives some of whom we will hear from this weekend and some of those who are here exclusively tonight. The idea is to talk about great defense. For thos...

The theme of this years event is ordinary people, extraordinary times. Historians explore how the war affected a Diverse Group of american people. The event is cohosted by the library of virginia, university of Virginia Center for Civil War History, and the American Civil War museum. In the first session, james robertson, Virginia Tech history professor emeritus, and the author or editor of more than 20 books will give a talk titled civil war echoes from the common folk. But first, the director ...

I have asked a variety of voices, some of those who are a emerging from a variety of perspectives some of whom we will hear from this weekend and some of those who are here exclusively tonight. Greatea is to talk about defense. Whof you who cant have come in previous years this conversation is apt to wobble in all sorts of interesting and fun ways. I am going to pitch a couple of softballs, lets talk a little bit and then we will open things up to the floor because we want this to be a conversat...