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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...

Colleagues with emerging civil war, welcome to spotsylvania. Its a great location to be because you cant turn around without tripping over civil war history. Its a pleasure to welcome you to spotsylvania county, what is literally the bloodiest ground in america. Few days over the next we will have the opportunity to commemorate and recognize some of those stories and some of the legacies. The theme this year is civil war legacy. Im proud to be presenting for you a fabulous lineup of speakers over the next day and a half, and excellent to her on sundaymorning tour on morning. Kicking things off...

New book will be coming out the world war ii memoirs of major russell. To ourive our attention speaker, dr. Lawrence kaplan. [applause] thank you. Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. Discussing civil war artillery today, if it were possible, john tidball, who is one of theidered foremost experts on the topic, would be speaking to you today. Tidball died in 1906, thats not possible. The will be discussing topic based on his writings, which i edited, and were the title the Artillery Service in the war of the rebellion by Westholme Publishing in 2011. The main point that tidball makes is that F...

Wehink that is about all have. Thank you for coming today, we appreciate it. You are watching American History tv all weekend. To join the conversation, like us on facebook. Next, on the civil war, historians and officials from the National Park service commemorates the conclusion of the Overland Campaign, which took place in virginia 150 years ago in may and june of 1864. In keynote remarks, civil war scholar James Robertson describes Union General ulysses s. Grants crusade to destroy the southern confederacy, was culminated in the last major battle of the campaign a cold harbor. There, mr. R...

These bow your head with me. Father in heaven, we come to this place tonight not to but to celebrate sacrifice, loyalty, bravery, and the things that have happened in our history to make us the great nation we are today. May we learn from the lessons of history, may we not repeat the but maythat divide us, we repeat those lessons that make us indeed strong. Tonight, dear lord, i thank you for the National Parks service and theyre very hard work in bringing this event to our community, our state, and to our nation, and, lord, i am most grateful that you have allowed us to be part of this. Bless...