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Maneuvers of the union and confederate armies that brought them to appomattox. Thank you, patrick. Our final speaker tonight is christopher calkins. He a proud graduate of longwood university. Longwood college when he went here. You were one of the first male graduates of longwood. Chris has had a long career with the National Park service. He worked at appomattox, spotsylvania, and was chief of interpretation at petersburg for many years. In 2008 he took over the position of park manager for battlefield state park. It is only 15 minutes from here. He has done an amazing job in revising Sailor...

Okay. Ladies and gentlemen, our next speaker is cassandra newbyalexander. Cassandra is a professor of history and director of the Joseph Jenkins Roberts Center for african diaspora. She earned her ph. D. In history at the college of william and mary. Shes written several books on the africanAmerican History of Hampton Roads and is now coauthoring a history on the black community of norfolk. Many of you know cassandra from the 2010 virginia civil war sus question centennial conference, held at norfolk state on slavery and the civil war. The tough stuff of American History and memory. She was th...

At the college of william and mary. Shes written several books on the africanAmerican History of Hampton Roads and is now coauthoring a history on the black community of norfolk. Many of you know cassandra from the 2010 virginia civil war sus question centennial conference, held at norfolk state on slavery and the civil war. The tough stuff of American History and memory. She was the director of that conference. I first met cassandra at a conference in 2006 at ft. Monroe. It was interesting, that conference was cohosted by the museum of the confederacy and the United States army. I think it wa...

Freedmen, who came to be called and discusses their service in the union army and the challenges they faced in the aftermath of the war. This is just under 40 minutes. Okay. Ladies and gentlemen, our next speaker is cassandra newbyalexander. Cassandra is a professor of history and director of the Joseph Jenkins Roberts Center for african diaspora. She earned her ph. D. In history at the college of william and mary. Shes written several books on the africanAmerican History of Hampton Roads and is now coauthoring a history on the black community of norfolk. Many of you know cassandra from the 20...

I will give an abbreviated version of the bios we have in the programs. Tracy is a native of mathematics appomattox. He has worked for the National Park service. He has been at Petersburg National battlefield since 1997. He is the author of one of the volumes and the howard, virginia regimental history series. He is also passed president of the lynchburg civil war roundtable. And the appomattox county historical society. His talk today will be on the fall of petersburg. Please welcome Tracy Chernault. [applause] john lehman Tracy Chernault good evening. Im a big baseball guy. When he asked me ...