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Panelists compare yalta, to previous meetings between the three leaders, and examine the political motives that drove the deliberations. The National World War Ii Museum in new orleans hosted the event. Welcome back, as we begin to silence our conversations, please remember to silence your cell phones as well. I was thinking with yalta being an eightday conference, we have almost made a full eight hours talking about it. The last session is often one of our favorites. And that is a roundtable discussion where we get all of the speakers up together to talk about themes, to ask each other questi...

Weve got a great speech for our second session this morning. Dr. Timothy smith is a veteran of the National Parks service and currently teaches history at the university of tennessee. In addition to numerous articles and essays, he is the coeditor of 18 books, including Champion Hill, decisive battle of vicksburg, which won the Nonfiction Book award from the mississippi arts and letters. You can buy a copy in our bookstore. I am pleased to introduce dr. Timothy smith. [applause] thank you. Appreciate that. Appreciate the opportunity to be here. This is my first time to be here. I am a believer...

Test. Test test. Test test test. He stormed out of headquarters without orders, down the street, to the dock side, commondeered a steamer and went to forth fi fi. When he arrived, he got anything but an optimistic greeting. I am come to share your feet, you are to be sacrificed. Despite his gloomy prediction, and even though he had barely 1 15000 troops in the force. In the woods, general cherry deployed his troops in lines stretching from the Atlantic Beach across the peninsula to the backs of the peninsula. In the rear, a secondary line faced northward where terry feared a confederate attack...

His book on the raid comes out, it is now out and you can buy a copy of it at our bookstore. Im pleased to introduce dr. Timothy smith. Thank you, i appreciate the chance to be here. I have always heard about pamplin park, and it is great here. Were going to talk about the western theater today. Vicksburg, how many of you have been to vicksburg. She o he is one of the great battlefields, listening to the civil war American Trust now, you know theyre doing a lot of work down there. They turned over nearly several hundred acres. So there is a lot going down at Champion Hill. So were going to tal...

Crestcom bank center for military studies. Graggs work on battle of gettysburg won an award for best civil war book that year and his history of fort fisher earned a prestigious fletcher pride award for Civil War History is thats given out yearly from the new york city civil war roundtable. Lets give rod gragg a warm welcome. [ applause ] thank you. Thank you. Pleasure for me to be in a room full of historians and i say that seriously because i have learned, i may write a lot but the folks who really know the civil war are those of you who read a lot. And i appreciate that. Before i begin, if ...