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
Kevin is a licensed battlefield guide at the Antietam Battlefield. And hes coauthor of an upcoming book for the emerging civil war series about the maryland campaign. Hes going to talk to us a little bit about what he considers to be a great defense, robert e. Lee at antietam. Its my pleasure to introduce one of the great emerging voices in the field, kevin pollock. 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 Virginia State record for the largest Bachelor Party in all of state history. Its about to get a little crazy in here. Talking about robert e. Lee at the battle of antietam. Even before last years symposium when a letter was sent out asking for topic ideas for great defenses of the civil war there was a caveat left in the email that allowed us to quote think outside of the box. And the topic that i propose is the one that im proposing or presenting to you now, robert e. Lee at
Im here to introduce mary k. Byerly. All of us here at emerging civil war we wear many hats and several months ago we started serious called my ecw stories and this introduce you to some of the faces around. A way you when you come to a symposium and you want to wring her neck or tell us what you didnt like on a blog you know her background. Theres so much with emerging civil war. Her fingers are in every aspect of the but i didnt realize how much she did and how much she does until i read her contribution and i would encourage you if you look up you will find it. She has the daily schedule every day of the week where shes working on some aspect of emerging civil war. Its just incredible so if you like what you see make sure you give sara a pat on the back and if you have any complaints take them to dr. Dr. Dr. Mckee housekeeper its probably his fault anyway. [laughter] sara byerly graduated from Thomas Edison university with a b. A. In History Service managing editor at emerging civil
Byerly. All of us here at emerging civil war we wear many hats and several months ago we started serious called my ecw stories and this introduce you to some of the faces around. A way you when you come to a symposium and you want to wring her neck or tell us what you didnt like on a blog you know her background. Theres so much with emerging civil war. Her fingers are in every aspect of the but i didnt realize how much she did and how much she does until i read her contribution and i would encourage you if you look up you will find it. She has the daily schedule every day of the week where shes working on some aspect of emerging civil war. Its just incredible so if you like what you see make sure you give sara a pat on the back and if you have any complaints take them to dr. Dr. Dr. Mckee housekeeper its probably his fault anyway. [laughter] sara byerly graduated from Thomas Edison university with a b. A. In History Service managing editor at emerging civil war works on staff at the tr