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Receiving an award this afternoon and will be unable to participate in the Panel Discussion during the afternoon session. Therefore, it is important to get your questions in early because she is going off to receive the womens history award from the Northern Virginia District Of Columbia maryland affiliate of the National Association of negro business and professional women. [applause] i came to know dr. Medford through a predecessor of hers at howard, lorraine williams, who wrote a book about wrote an article about intellectuals who campaigned for lincoln. Among the people she mentioned was m...

Discussion during the afternoon session. Therefore, it is important to get your questions in early because she is going off to receive the womens history award from the Northern Virginia District Of Columbia maryland affiliate of the National Association of negro business and professional women. [applause] i came to know dr. Medford through a predecessor of hers at howard, lorraine williams, who wrote a book about wrote an article about intellectuals who campaigned for lincoln. Among the people she mentioned was my great uncle, general thomas osborne. Through searching that out, i got to know ...

I have a lot of people to thank. I would like to thank rosemary. I would like to thank mark and his wife were driving alice and myself down here. I would like to thank [applause] a serious mistake. I i would like to thank the letter carrier. When. When i was a little boy my parents gave me a book called they carried the mail. I only remember one sentence neither neither snow, nor sleet, nor rain, nor dark of night shall save these careers from the swift completion of their appointed routes which i believe were words sponsored by the king of babylonia i dont no how many hundreds of thousands of...

Stymied. Lee is any a powerful position and grant cant break through. What does he do . Maneuvers. He pulled the army of the potomac ought of the wilderness and goes to the spotseslvania courthouse and then lee has to come out from the wilderness and fight him on opened ground. This is a tactical maneuver aimed at pulling lee from his strong entrenchmentes. The army of the potomac shifts south, a drama take point in the war because up to this point, whatever Union Generals had been trounced in the battle as bad as lee had defeated grant and in the wilderness they always retreated but grant mov...

[applause] for those who have more questions, he will be in the lobby signing his books. You can ask questions. One thing to keep in mind, there were also native americans that did fight in the union army as well. Particularly from minnesota. And yesterday we talked about ely parker, who drafted the terms at appomattox. Bert has several books, the confederate surrender at greensboro no turning back. And then, his talk was about to to the bitter end. People only say i would like to buy a book for my friend. They love the civil war but i do not know what books they have. They do not have this bo...