Introduce our last speaker for the afternoon. He is the director of the Texas Military forces museum. And an adjunct professor of history at Austin Community college. He is an author and a contributor to essential civil war curriculum. His last work as a trilogy covering the civil war in virginia from gettysburg and includes meade and lee, which is due for publication next year. Lets give him a welcome. [applause] thank you. It is a real pleasure to be here. It is always fun to stand in a group of people that have the same passion. You dont get looked at as strangely when you talk to other people. I am going to break precedent today and have a powerpoint demonstration. I am doing that for several reasons. Pamplin spent a lot of money to put this system in. You will not have to get a new puppy at the end of my presentation. I became interested in the story of what happens in the Virginia Theater after the battle of gettysburg following a conversation i had with one of my favorite profes
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
testimony, documents and nazi and allied films to chronicle the rise of nazi germany. it s annexation of neighboring countries, military invasions, war crimes and death camps. that s what s coming toi am very pleased introduce our last speaker for the afternoon. of the texasector military forces museum. adjunct professor of history at austin community college. he is an author and a contributor to essential civil war curriculum. his last work as a trilogy covering the civil war in gettysburg and lee, which is and due for publication next year. let s give him a welcome. [applause] thank you. it is a real pleasure to be here. it is always fun to stand in a group of people that have the same passion. you don t get looked at as strangely when you talk to other people. i am going to break precedent today and have a powerpoint demonstration. i am doing that for several reasons. spent a lot of money to put this system in. you will not have to guarantee it a new puppy at the end of
Battlefield because he was born in a hospital that sits on the battlefield grounds. This is a man who is deeply rooted in that part. He also has a passion for parks that reach beyond the boundaries of his daily work life. He is finishing up work on a book for the emerging civil war series. Earlier this afternoon, davis talked about the rise of John Bell Hood and we will talk about the beginning of the fall of that very same army. Ladies and gentlemen, mr. Lee white. [applause] mr. White i have a special connection there and it is one of the reasons why i tell that story. I became familiar with general patrick cleburne. My first really big civil war biography was on patrick cleburne. His story is set in franklin. I have been interested in it ever since one of the top experiences of my life is when i went to franklin for the 150th on the actual date, november 30, 2014, and i was there and i found out that there was a commemorative march. Hold on a minute. This picture is at the end. Thos
If youve had the chance to walk around particularly out at the mule shoe, you know what a beautiful landscape it is, easily one of the best preserved civil war landscapes that we have available to us. Its pristine. There are a few monuments out there, but youre seeing what the soldiers saw in 1864 when they first arrived. The tree lines are pretty accurate. The fields are pretty accurate. Then over course of two years like a swarm of locusts they transformed that landscape so dramatically that the traces of it are still there today. If you want to after our program this afternoon, ill be happy to show you some of those traces here at stevenson ridge. But i hope over the course of my talk, ill be able to help you understand some of those traces that still exist so the next time you go out there, you can see for yourself the story still written on had most beautiful of landscapes. To understand how the armies got here, we pick up where chris left off where theyre fighting in the wilderne