It coincides with the American Civil War sesquicentennial. Anduns for five years changes each year to address that your of the war. Interesting aspect of our exhibit is the fact that we are one location that many of the events took place in these exact area. We have the very equipment used by the railroad in the civil war. We present a bottom up history of the b o railroad. We present the technologies and the people involved guarding, destroying, building, and operating the railroad during the civil war years. This would be an entire area of activity. There were paint shops, carpentry shops, car shops. They were casting the rail. There were machine shops. They were building bridge parts. Continuously loading things on trains. As the confederates would damage a section of track, or blow up a bridge, the repair crews would go out, pull out the damage, load it on a car and recycle it. I firmly believe that at the outbreak of the war, the first 90 days, the baltimore and Ohio Railroad was
90minutes conversation. Allen is the third professor of the gettysburg college. He serves as the director of the studies program. He did his graduate work at the university of pennsylvania where he focused on the history of religion. He also holds a master of divinity degree. His roster of publications is so long that i am not going to even try to read them all to you. You can go to allenguelzo. Com and get a full accounting of not only his publications, but other salient elements of his biography. What i am going to do here is areion books i think especially pertinent to what we will be doing this afternoon. I will read them in order. First is called Abraham Lincoln, redeemer president. Published in 1998 and won the zes. T of the lincoln price emancipation proclamation published by simon schuster. It brought him his second again lincoln prize. Lincoln and douglas. Published in 2008. It did not win the lincoln prize. [laughter] the next came out from Oxford University press in 2012. Th