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I appreciate it. As i told you folks i talked with his morning, it is an honor for me to be here. There is Something Special about the battlefield here at cold harbor. I came about my interest in the american civil war, im sure like most of you did. I got it from my father. My dad was born in 1901 and a little town on the tennesseealabama border that was only 35 years after the end of the american civil war. As you might imagine, most of those old men sitting around the Grocery Store were confederate veterans. He grew up listening to their tall tales and talking with them about their battles. ...

Person from the conservancy. She is absolutely right. It was and still is central arc is the first great civic work of art in this country. In this young democracy of the mid19th century, mid19th century. Europeans hoped we would fail. We did not. They said, you may have succeeded, but you will never put anything out culturally that is interesting. You are nothing but a bunch of carpenters and political heirs bricklayers. What do you know . We full them. We put together our own central park. Park. It is a city that has grown. We had 60,000 people in a city that barely stretched from the batter...

Every night. [laughter] in this photograph, there is no risk of his work falling by the wayside. For freeman was the bag or the biographer and wrote for albums on robert e lee. He did three volumes on the army of Northern Virginia entitled these lieutenants. All good work beautifully written. Tohad froze that is equal british cadence. He did great original research. He was very much enamored with the general. He admitted to this. Every morning as he walked to work, he would salute the statue of robert e lee in richmond. Thats a little odd but nonetheless, he had great admiration for the genera...

In the long march of history, we keep moving along, keeping pace with new scholarships. Thats what reality is. Most of our books fall by the wayside. I had that realization at a recent book signing in which i did not have to strain my eyes very much to see the end of the line. As people made their way up, a honey,d to his wife this is the author of the book that i have been reading every evening. She said, the book you falsely to every night. [laughter] the book you fall asleep to every night. [laughter] in this photograph, there is no risk of his work falling by the wayside. For freeman was t...

That the heavens and we read the words such as thomas hyde in the army of the potomac. Its very interesting to revisit the battlefield of the war that i never heard anybody that was engaged to express an interest. It is the best of peoples of earth and traversing covered ways they have yielded the sun but it remains in american history. Cold harbor would also become the final battle in the overlaying campaign and the fighting that took place in the spring of 1864 between the u. S. Is s. Grant and robert e. Lee. Beginning in the wilderness the fighting would move onto the spotsylvania courthous...