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Welcome you all to the Battlefields Foundation roundtable, guide you are all able to make it. Its going to be a very interesting, top were going to hear this evening. Remember, we do not have dues, but we do ask that everyone who comes to the roundtable become a member of the Shadow Valley Battlefields Foundation. Just to know a little bit about the foundation, we have close to 5000 acres, of civil battlefield that weve been able to preserve, please go to our website, and if you could, we would surely appreciate you becoming a member of the foundation. Im going to introduce our speaker tonight...

About now . That is better. Thank you for coming i am told coowner of the city book stop im happy to have everyone here tonight is anybody here for the first time . One person. Welcome. We are very glad youre here normally we have half the crowd but this is very much a hometown crowd this evening. And i just want to say a heartfelt thank you for supporting so a few logistics first of all please silence your cell phone when i forget to say that i always regret it. Books are for sale upstairs if you have it purchased a book if you havent youll have time after the talk we will just do the sightin...

Sorry about that. Ive been focused mostly on Carbon Dioxide in the atmosphere. And how do we adapt to the changes in air temperature that produces and mitigate. And so now were seeing this broader picture of other effects coming from Carbon Dioxide such as this algae story. And so were on the beginning of how do we g o engineer or deal with this . Im sure with innovation and some really great ideas. We will be able to deal with this. We should keep in mind though, the amount volumes of this are enormous. Well, we certainly hope that will come up with a plan or a solution. David hollins, theyre...

I am the director and would like to very briefly encourage you all if youve not done so to support the southern festival, which we keep free and open and have done so for over 29 years by making a donation to the festival which you can do online at humanities tennessee or Facebook Page or in person on the plaza at the headquarters at union avenue. We appreciate you being here this morning. A very quick note about the q a portion of todays event. You should be holding an index card if you have a question you would like addressed please write that on the card and about 15 minutes and if you pass...

Good morning, everyone. I am the csc a director, the associate director, and it is my pleasure to introduce to you john marszalek. John marszalek is the distinguished professor at Mississippi State university, where he taught courses on the civil war, jacksonian america, and race relations. He earned his phd at notre dame and joined the faculty at Mississippi State in 1973. During his time at Mississippi State, he also served as the director and mentor of distinguished scholars and as the executive director and managing editor of the ulysses s. Grant association. Grant papers are now housed at...