This facility. Right now we are in the baggage room. A lot of the original stuff is still here. Original construction, none of that has changed. This would have been the passenger and Light Commercial freight area. Your passenger freight, anything you are traveling with would come across here and be weighed just like what you have on the airplanes today. Your commercial freight would be done on the scales up top. One of the cool things you will notice as we go through the building is the construction of this building. This was billed by railroad built by railroad engineers, built to last. This building right now is over 100 years old. As we go through the building, keep in mind, this is a room that is unique. It is important to our history. This room would have been called the colored only room. This is where segregation took place. It has been converted to a room that people use for weddings and stuff like that, but it is an important part of our history and we want to make sure we ke
Bones. This top was part of a daylong seminar cohosted by Longwood University in from 10, virginia, and appomattox courthouse National Historical park. Alright, our last speaker for the day is mr. Brandon buys, superintendent of appomattox National Historical park. He has a masters degree in applied anthropology, and as you mentioned, a long career in the National Park service. He was legislative coordinator for the National Capital region of the National Park service, project manager for the rehabilitation of arlington house, worked on the George Washington memorial parkway, and he will be, as you just heard, the topic of his talk today is the unprecedented discovery of Field Hospital burials unearthed and Appomattox National park. I really looking forward to sharing this unprecedented story with everyone here. Again, i have been great privilege and humble privilege of being the superintendent of 5000 acres of some of americas most hallowed grounds. I feel that to give the obligatory
Off north carolina. This was part of a seminar the. Without further ado, let me introduce our first speake he has received many awards including the National Trust for Historic Preservations president s award for Historic Preservation and many, many others. His talk today is the ship that saved the nation, the monitors recovery and conservation. Please welcome mr. Quarstein. [ applause ] thank you. Well, you know, on march 8th, 1862 it was a terrible day for the union. In fact, it turned the tide, it appeared in favor of the confederacy when the css virginia emerged from the Elizabeth River and sunk two major union warships, the cumberland and the congress. The union navy was in disarray. People were in the white house looking out the curtains, down the potomac, fearing that this super weapon, as they would have called the merrimack, as southerners called the virginia, would be there soon and the war would finally end in a confederate victory. But all was to change as if magic, because
The National Park service until his retirement in 1995. Has published many books primarily related to the western fear of war and his three volume Campaign History of vicksburg which is viewed as a classic. In 2015 legislation was introduced to award him a congressional gold medal for his contributions to Civil War Preservation and history. So his talk today is recovering the uss cairo, right. Not cairo i always his frounds from from the yazoo. Mr. Bears. Thank you so much. [ applause ] always a pleasure being down to where we are today. Down to Longwood University to talk about the raising of the cairo. Now, if you want to find out how to raise a vestal you will not do it the way we do it. When i arrive at vicksburg on a in 1966 i entered on duty at vicksburg. And after i had been there about a year the superintendent called me in, mr. Mcconhi. And say, ed, i want you to see if you can find the gun boat cairo. It was one of 7 casemented city series ironclads built by the United States
Our first speaker of the afternoon is dr. Caroline jenny. Dr. Jeannie is the john l noll, and i pronouncing it correctly . Professor of American Civil War and director of the john l now, i will get it right, silver personal history and university of virginia. She is a graduate from uaa, worked at the National Park service as a historian, an active lecture as you might imagine, winner of a number of different teaching awards. She is coeditor of the university of, and oppresses American Civil War series, past president of the Society Civil war historians, published five books, have them listed on your program, civil war reunion and the limits of reconciliation. She edited petersburg appomattox to work in virginia, and another one on the list is during the debt but not the past, it is memorial associations and the lost cause. Her talk today is we were not surrendered, parole and lees army after appomattox. Good afternoon. It is nice to see so many familiar faces in the audience. I know th