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He has been a permanent ranger and historian and Richmond National Battlefield Park since 2003. One thing he is well known for his his website, civil war richmond. I tell my students there are so much junk and garbage online in terms of civil war sources, this is one of the best websites relating to the civil war i have ever seen. I got a lot of good stuff from mike ross website. Deftly go see mikes website. Definitely go see that. He served as a Technical Advisor on the set of lincoln. And is s...

Much for being here for the leadoff. [applause] david thanks. Great questions. [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2015] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] American History tv recently visited longwood university. Next Michael Gordon talks about richmond in 1865 and what historians can learn from photographs. His talk is just under an hour. Our next speaker is Michael Gordon. He ...

Yesterday got the magazine of virginia history and biography. The new issue is on lincolns visit to richmond at the end of the war. There is an excellent article. The talk this evening is on photo forensics. Richmond, 1865. Please welcome him. [applause] Michael Gorman i am miced up. Can anybody hear me . I hate podiums. First things first. Was anybody here for the last time i spoke in 2010 . Wow. We got some new people and some veterans. This is great. I was thinking about, what did i talk abou...

Stedman in 1865 where a general wants to launch an assault by having one of the pickets fire a warning shot. In doing so the century pauses and yells out before firing the shot, hey, yank were just out gathering some corn and then fires a shot because he wants to clear his conscious because they have inthis informal truce that no one will fire on either side. There are newspaper boys from richmond who go through the lines to sell papers. There are sketches in newspapers that even record it. Its ...

Not a good place to be in when youre an officer in the army. That being said warren tends to not want to follow orders as grant gives them. Warren tends to want to interpret orders to the benefit of his men only do what he thinks is going to preserve his fifth corps. Thats not how grant wages warfare and it is certainly not how sheridan wages warfare. Sheridan instantly balks knowing that some of these are warrens men. When sheridan is told that he has to use the fifth corps as his support led b...

I want to read through it more closely. Mikes talk this evening is on photo forensics so please welcome him. Thanks a lot. All right. I am micced up here. Can everybody hear me okay . I hate podiums. I would like to collect all the podiums around the world and pitch them over a cliff. Was anybody thats here today were you here for the last time i spoke in 2010 or Something Like that . Okay. Wow, we have some newbies and some veterans. This is great. I was sort of thinking about what did i talk a...