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The civil war. He discusses topics such as, how intelligence was used during the war and why they are so few primary source documents on civil war era intelligence gathering. The Smithsonian Associates hosted this event. It is a little under two hours. He is a historian with the Central Intelligence agency. He joined the u. S. Government in 1986 as a staff historian at the army center of military history, where he served for 14 years before he joined the cia. During his time with the agency he also served in rotational assignments as deputy and chief historian at the National Reconnaissance of...

He is a historian with the Central Intelligence agency. He joined the u. S. Government in 1986 as a staff historian at the army center of military history, where he served for 14 years before he joined the cia. During his time with the agency he also served in rotational assignments as deputy and chief historian at the National Reconnaissance office and at the office of director of National Intelligence. Dr. Laurie has taught at the American University and university of maryland at baltimore county. He specializes at the history of intelligence. He is the author of 40 articles on both military...

john has recently retired from the national park service career, which began 40 years ago >> john has recently retired from the national park service career. which began 40 years ago. at the manassas national battlefield park. he became the chief historian and one of the many projects there. it was the publication of an exhaustive research and matt study of the truth movements. showing where each unit was engaged and moved about the battlefield during that three-day battle. i well remember meeting up with a john in the early 80s as they hiked around those 5000 acres of preserved batt...

january of 1862 and met with the president and the cabinet, laid out his plan for the capture of the confederate capital here in richmond and the defeat of the confederate forces defending richmond. he told them that his plan would involve defeating the enemy's capacity to make war and he would do so through the use of maneuver as opposed to costly headlong assaults against confederate bastions. the seizure of what was known as strategic points by the napoleonic scholars of the day would enable him to grab the initiative and force the confederates to respond to his initiatives. and w...

and then arrived in washington on the 26th of july. very, very exciting for someone in his mid 30s. this gentleman right here. i think that probably his letters describe best what it was like in washington in july 1861. because after meeting with the president, the commanding general of the army about that time quite elderly and infirm winfield scott and a number of influential members of congress, he sat down that night to write as he did almost every night to his wife at home who was waiting for him in pennsylvania. and here's what he said to ellen. "i find myself in a new and stra...