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About the Loudoun Valley campaign. This talk was part of a symposium. Welcome back to the emerging civil war. Thank you for joining us today online as well as in person. I want a thanks to our friends at cspan that they do to continue to promote American History. Theyre work is invaluable. Next today we have kevin pawlak. He works for Prince William county and he has his own battlefield where he oversees and he overseas a civil war hospital center. He is author of a hazard to all. He is going to talk to us about the aftermaths of the campaign, the stale end that gets over looked tieing into an earlier talk today. Set in the larger context. Kevin will talk a little about the Loudoun Valley campaign of 1862. Ladies and gentlemen, kevin pawlak. Thank you nar introduc ....
Battlefield. He has his own battlefield where he oversees the brison bristo station battlefield. Kevin is the coauthor of the book to hazard all, a guide to the 1862 antietam campaign. Today he will talk to us a little bit about the aftermath the antietam campaign, the tail and that is often overlooked. He will tie into an earlier talk from today. Set in the larger context, he will talk about the loudoun campaign Loudoun Valley campaign of 1862. Ladies and gentlemen kevin pawlak. Thank you, chris, for that introduction and thank you to all of you for tuning into our virtual symposium. We hope you will be able to join us next year in 2021 we will be reprising our topic of what was supposed to be this years topic a foreign leaders. Today, im going to speak with you about the Loudoun Valley campaign which is a campaign that does not get a lot of study at all unfortunately in the ....
That is the lack of conservation ethic and the culture of our society. All parts of it are important. I received a germination of this kind of ethic in this country. Ive been talking for almost 35 years around the country, every up manyd somebody comes of them are teachers. They have a strong ethical concept. High school kids coming up whose parents are more sensitive teaching them. I see the germination of an ethic that will say that if we intruding someplace, what are the consequences . Had any ordinary commonsense in the politics of would not have practically destroyed the everglades by diverting the water and so forth. Destroyed halfve the wetlands of the country, areidizing crops that already in surplus to the wetlands and drain grow more. We would not have polluted the rivers and so forth. A society outelop thehe young folks here, society that demands to know and asks the question, what are the consequences of our actions and if they are negative, we just will not do it. Compared ....
Drew gruber as the executive director of civil war trails, lives in williamsburg with his wife kate, their two cats, he enjoys reading, oysters, brown liquor and peace and quiet. Drew gruber. [applause] [laughter] [applause] i am going to introduce my coauthor, doug crenshaw, who is going to lecture about williamsburg today. [laughter] i sat down last night to review notes, and i couldnt think couldnt help but think about how ryan ended his presentation yesterday. It caused me to rewrite the whole thing. Thanks, ryan. Forgotten battles is a cool thing and i was going to open with a quote and then i thought about it, we have a morbid fascination with body count, only big, bloody battles are important. Then Richard Lewis said last night, the guy who falls from dysentery, that is his forgotten battle and certainly his familys forgotten battle. At the one guy on picket one night by himself on a cold day who is shut down, that is probab ....