Host good afternoon. I get the privilege of introducing a good friend. Drew and i have been arguing over the past two days, what i should do in this introduction. I will just read what you sent me. It is best [laughter] it is kind of funny, actually. Gruber as the executive director of civil war trails, lives in williamsburg with his wife kate, their two cats, he enjoys reading, oysters, brown liquor and peace and quiet. Drew gruber. [applause] going tor i am introduce my coauthor, doug crenshaw, who is going to lecture about williamsburg today. [laughter] i sat down last night to review notes, and i couldnt think couldnt help but think about how ryan ended his presentation yesterday. It caused me to rewrite the whole thing. Thanks, ryan. Forgotten battles is a cool thing and i was going to open with a quote and then i thought about it, we have a morbid fascination with body count, only big, bloody battles are important. Then Richard Lewis said last from, the guy who falls dysentery, t
We are going to continue our wonderful afternoon with our next and it is my personal and absolute pleasure to introduce him to you my colleague, my friend, my mentor and the wonderful brains behind entire operation. This weekend, dr. Paul quigley. Dr. Quigley is the James Earl Robertson junior associate of civil war studies and, the director of the Virginia Center for civil war studies here at virginia tech. He is the author of shifting grounds nationalism. The american south, which received numerous awards including the association for american studies book prize and is currently writing a book on brooks. And i encourage you to ask about that. This afternoon he will be giving a talk entitled George Mcclellans expedition up the peninsula and into Early American History. Please join me in welcoming paul quigley. Thank you so much, mollie and thank you all for being here very much as can tell, i think from my title decided to go all in with theme of civil war journeys. Of course as the o
Part of a symposium on great defenses of the civil war. , on xp kurt is one of the great emerging voices in the field. When i travel all across the country, i hear you to get more young people involved. If we need a poster child, kevin pollak is it. Hes getting married in a couple weeks. I will be a major life shift for it. He is the education director for the Mosby Heritage area and coauthor of an upcoming civil war book series about the maryland campaign. He will talk with us a bit about what he considers to be a great defense robert e lee at , antietam. My pleasure is to introduce one of the great emerging voices in the field, kevin pollak. [applause] kevin good morning, everyone. Thank you to chris for that humbling introduction and thank you all for being here at my Bachelor Party. I think we might set a Virginia State record for the largest Bachelor Party in all of history. It is about to get crazy, if you will. Talking about robert at the battle of antietam. Even before last yea
In American History with 23,000 casualties between two size and ended in the unions strategic victory. This 40 minute talk was part of a symposium on great defenses of the civil war hosted by the emerging civil war blog. Our next speaker is one of the great emerging voices and the entire field. Ien i first met kevin pollack thought, this is one of those guys that is going to be a rock star. I hear when i travel across the country, we have to get more young people involved. If we need a poster child for getting young folks and involved with the civil war, kevin pollak is it. He is getting married in just a couple weeks. As you know, that will be a major life shift for him. Kevin is the license battlefield guide at the Antietam Battlefield. He is coauthor of an upcoming book or the emerging civil war. About the maryland campaign. Us aboutng to talk to what he considers to be a great defense, robert e. Lee at 8 p. M. It is my pleasure to introduce kevin pollak. [applause] kevin good morni
That lament goes Something Like this. Young people are not interested in the civil war anymore. Civil war military history is on lifesupport. Nobody cares about the civil war after the sesquicentennial. Every time i hear that i have to politely push back. And the reason i do so in large part is because of the emerging civil war. It is a great honor and privilege for me to be here to support your work to support emerging civil war and all it has done in a remarkable space of five or six years. Truly incredible. I hope this weekend can be a real celebration of those efforts. First, a copy spine of marylands South Mountain. Sunday, september 14, 1862. Woefully outnumbered soldiers saw to stem the tide of a federal offensive. If successful it would defeat an already divided Confederate Army and curtailed and finish off robert e. Lees first invasion of the north. And three mountain passes almost unrivaled in its ferocity at , least in this point of the war, ensued. Breathless union and conf