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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...

Fixbering campaign. He discusses how the leadership contributed to a victory. This event was part of historical parks small battles big results symposium. Weve got a great speech for our second session this morning. Dr. Timothy r. Smith is a veteran of the park service and currently teaches history at the university of tennessee at martin. In addition to numerous articles and essays hes the author and editor and coeditor of 18 books including Champion Hill, the decisive battle of vicksburg. His book comes out this fall and actually is now out, and you can buy a copy of it out at our bookstore ...

Of the day is none other than steve kushman. He holds the robert c. Taylor it wasship in the English Department and a renowned poet and thrilled to say he is a scholar of the civil war as well. Three of professor kushmans 14 books dealt with the civil war including be lidge represent muse and the book i suggested you get in the back, civil war writing from the first conference with professor gallagher. With that, i will turn it over to professor kushman. Im grateful to everybody. I wont repeat the thank yous, but on behalf of tamika and myself, i will say thank you for being courageous and not...

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...

right now, the nations in the midst of reflection, the second federal observation of the black freedom struggle, expressed by the holiday known as juneteenth. it comes at the start of a potentially dizzying news cycle. starting this week, as the senate holds out hope that a tenuous bipartisan deal, on guns cannot get a quick vote. while the momentum is there after weeks of mass shootings. and one bracing for the supreme courts spending public to take decision on the future of the federal abortion rights, to come down within days. as the white house weighs its options to protect those...