General george meade and union forces from july to december 1863 as they followed confederates through virginia. This event was part of historical parks small battles, big result s symposium. Im very pleased to introduce our last speaker of the afternoon, Jeffrey William hunt, director of the military forces museum at camp maybury in austin, texas, and adjunct professor where he has taught since 1988. God bless you. Author of the last battle of the civil war and contributor to essential civil war curriculum and the gail library of daily life. American civil war. His last work is a trilogy from the final stage of the Gettysburg Campaign to the end of 1863 and includes meade and lee at mayan run due for publication next year. So lets give a welcome for jeffrey hunt. [ applause ] thank you. Its a real pleasure to be here. I appreciate jerrys invitation. Its always fun to stand in a group of people who have the same passion that you do. You dont get looked at as strangely as you do when yo
He is completing an edited collection titled soldiers of the cross. The text will be out sometime later this spring. I think hes going to talk about rosecrans, but he is also instrumental to everything that we do at the center, especially to our Digital Projects and black virginians in blue. He is fundamental to our under graduate internship and Public Events like this. So i would like you all to join me in welcoming will kurtz. They dont usually let me talk at these things. Im afraid you are about to find out why. Ro rose cranes is kind of a downer and this is perhaps the first and last time we will talk about him in our day together. He may have mentioned him briefly and after he mentioned grants name for the fifth time, i kind of tuned him out. I dont hate grant. I hope you take that away from this talk. In fact i think that the failed relationship between general grant and rose cranes and rosecrans and Everything Else was detrimental to the union cause. Im going to talk about gener
Passes directly from the sun and the earth tomorrow it will happen again and people all across the country including here this our region will be watching. Sunday night im Sarah Bloomquist along with walter perez and the big story on action news is the eve of the Great American eclipse. The last time the moon cast the shadow was february of 1979 and 14 hours the big celestial show continues. And Trish Hartman is in center city with the excitement and prep ra preparations and Melissa Magee tracking the forecast during the critical hours. And adam joseph is live from st. Joseph missouri a prime spot watching the eclipse on the so called path of totality. Hi adam. People here are pumped including myself and we made that 1400 mile trek here to missouri to see totality here tomorrow and we are at rose kranz airport a place where 20,000 people will congregate something this spot has not seen in 214 years. And do you know what a lot of people are already in position for that big show tomorrow
They had been talking about the eclipse for months. We have been waiting for this for a long time. Its amazing. Ive been typing it up and looking all about it and im like oh, my god its so cool like im like wow mom like i cant believe were seeing this. Reporter everybody was like that, wow mom, i cant believe im seeing this. This is the lark ken family. They came from pottstown to see the eclipse and experience all of this here at the Franklin Institute. Why did you make the trip . Why did you need to be here. Well, we thought this would be a super fun place to see where real live science goes down. Whats happening in the sky behind us and this is science. What is science. Science is amazing. Reporter what was it cool to be here with so many others. It was really fun. Ive never seen anything like this. I love science. Reporter so cool. Reporter does this enhance your love of science more. It was really fun. Reporter will you tell your friends at school about it. It was really fun. It w