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Peter i am going to go ahead and turn it over to john. I want to start with something i read in the introduction. Just absolutely fascinated by. And it is about your father. It is really a lovely story. Irwin silber. Book, published a songs of the civil war. He was not like a diehard civil war buff. He was not that kind nina he did like to sing the songs. Peter i have a question about your father. This is what you wrote. This book is not about my father civil war. It is partly about the people who created the civil war my father came to love as well as those who created the kind of civil war t...

American history offer. His word john adams, john republicanism an obstacle to stand before us was published by a Massachusetts Historical Society in 2014. His his book length study on the general james long straight performances battle of gettysburg was public this year but Macfarlane Press currently he lives in marilyn with his wife and children without any further introduction, i would like you to present you to mr. Cory pfarr thank you very much. Thanks to the Gettysburg Heritage Center for having me here. We will get right into it just after janes longstreet nine new york we will begin re...

George wouldve gone to england to school but for his fathers death, instead mary hatch together tutors and schools for george and betty and the younger boys and provided them with enough polish despite a real essence of any cash to help the mingle with frederick best society. She could only afford to lend george the money to pay for his dancing lessons. In his first little tiny eye q writes about paying his mother back for his dancing lessons, which taught of not just dancing but also correct posture and they cared of a well bred man. George had is, like marys devotional books, he got the famo...

This 45minute talk was part of a daylong conference hosted by the university of virginias center for Civil War History. So we will begin this mornings lecture with gary w. Gallagher. As many of you know, we owe a tremendous debt of gratitude to professor gallagher. He was the founding director of the nau center, retired just last spring from uva where he held the john l. Nau chair in Civil War History from 1999 to 2018. He is the author or editor of at least 39 books, including the union war, the american war and most recently civil war places which, too, is in the back, beautiful book, his so...

shenandoah valley campaign, may 18 1864, which was published in 2010 and tonight. he's here to talk about his newest book from arlington to appomattox. robert e. lee's civil war day by 1861 to 1865. and so with that i'm going to turn the screen over to our guest author. great. thank you, kelly. and see him there we go. all right, and good evening everybody and it's my pleasure to be here with y'all and like kelly said tonight. i'm gonna be talking to you a little bit about my newest book from arlington to appomattox, which is kind of a an almanac or reference book if you will about e...