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Longsuffering panelists for bearing with me as i arrived at a workable concept and title. I did have a very clear idea of what i wanted this symposium to be, a blend of wellknown speakers who would discuss what theyve learned about the study of the civil war over decadeslong careers, blended with excellent lesserknown speakers whom you should want well, know well and will want to know well and had them speak about their Exciting New Research and their contributions to civil war scholarship. And i finally stumbled upon a title and a gimmick, using the 2020, 2020 vision, 2020 hindsight, insight, cute idea, i guess. Providing both hindsight and insight into the study of the civil war. With that concept in mind, i want to introduce our new our first speaker, an obvious choice to lead off this conference. Jack davis has been one of the most prominent and accomplished civil war scholars for several generations really. He started ....
In West Virginia you could, probably. [laughter] coupleto mention a people who are here. My beloved cousin, barbra markns and her husband park here. They are from huntington and moved down to atlanta about 10 years ago. And general hoods greatgranddaughter and her husband skip from asheville, North Carolina are here. I am going to embarrass her and make her raise her hand. So [applause] marys grandfather was oswald grbel, one of the 11 hood children we will talk about later. Wrote any mentioned, i hood, and it was originally to be titled history versus John Bell Hood. And what i did was and i will be talking about this here in a few minutes. I was a little bit distressed at a lot of the things that had been written about hood, especially from around the 1970s on. And i decided to write a book that would really expose a lo ....