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St uncorrected proof of that book standing at this podium during the introduction of our 2007 symposium about robert e. Lee z ofte as isn often true, theres a hi story behind elizabeths rise to historian. She studied with the now president of harvard university. And i must tell a story about drew. When she waswh madee the president of harvard, people were saying le, sh isnt this unbelievable . Shes the first female to be theto president of harvard and i commented to her that i thought it was mor...

Courthouse National Historical park. Ron wilson talks about the terms of the surrender. This is about an hour. Thank you. Its indeed a pleasure to be here. I think this is the 16th seminar. I think we owe a debt of gratitude to Longwood University and to dr. Coles and Patrick Schroder and you ought to give them all a round of applause. [ applause ] how many of you, and there are quite a few of you, have been to the mcclain house at appomattox courthouse . That makes things rather easy for me. It...

The book received eventually every prize in the world i think elizabeth, the lincoln prize, our Jefferson Davis award, the richard b. Harwell book award and the Richard Slatten award for excellence in virginia biography. I personally had the opportunity to read aloud an expert from an uncorrected proof of that book standing at this podium during the introduction of our 2007 simple pose yum about robert e. Lee. A sanchez often true, there is a story behind elizabeths emergence as a major civil wa...

How many of you, and there are quite a few of you, have been to the mcclain house at appomattox courthouse . That makes things rather easy for me. Its time for lunch i believe. One thing thats probably not generally known is that the first offer of surrender didnt come from a letter from general grant. It came from a group of officers that have gathered april 7th and these officers concluded that because the circumstances facing the army that it might be best to suggest to general lee that he op...

Patrick, is as you know his story, in the courthouse in National Historic park. And hes worked with me one of our other speakers, the third speaker today ron wilson, is the person who helped get this 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 w...

Thank you. Its indeed a pleasure to be here. I think this is the 16th seminar. I think we owe a debt of gratitude to Longwood University and to dr. Coles and Patrick Schroder and you ought to give them all a round of applause. [ applause ] how many of you, and there are quite a few of you, have been to the mcclain house at appomattox courthouse . That makes things rather easy for me. Its time for lunch i believe. One thing thats probably not generally known is that the first offer of surrender d...

Our next speaker Elizabeth Brown pryor burst onto the scene in 2007 with the publication of reading the man, a portrait of robert e. Lee through his private lettersle. The book received eventually every prize in the world i think elizabeth, the lincoln prize, our Jefferson Davis award, the richard b. Harwell book award and the Richard Slatten award for excellence in virginia biography. I personally had the opportunity to read aloud an expert from an uncorrected proof of that book standing at thi...