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10 00 thursday morning in Scotts Valley with a bank robbery. It ended late this afternoon at 10th and taylor in san jose. We were there when the frantic search came to an end. Reporter the Sheriffs Office telling us tonight they are highly confident they have the Scotts Valley bank robber in custody. That robbery yesterday morning at 10 00, all of it coming to a head here in san jose around 5 00 tonight. Police swarmed in area after spotting a high profile stolen car, the silver chevy which was an unmarked Law Enforcement vehicle stolen in the Santa Cruz Mountains this morning. Police followed...

Dr. Coles our second speaker is casey clabough. Casey is a professor at Lynchburg College and editor of the james dickey review and is english graduate director. A richmond native who grew up and appomattox county, he has editor of the multivolume best creative nonfiction of the press texas review and a variety of other things. One of the editors of the encyclopedia of virginia, which is online. Hes had a number of fellowships and received a number of awards. He has published over 100 works in anthologies and periodicals, such as the sewanee review, the virginia quarterly review and so on. Aut...

And appomattox county, he has editor of the multivolume best creative nonfiction of the press texas review and a variety of other things. One of the editors of the encyclopedia of virginia, which is online. Hes had a number of fellowships and received a number of awards. He has published over 100 works in anthologies and periodicals, such as the sewanee review, the virginia quarterly review and so on. Author of confederados a novel of the americas. The confederates that left the u. S. At the end of the war and went to brazil. I remember from 30 or 40 years ago reading an article about that. Bi...

Its government officials thought, what better immigrants to have then these confederates who have advanced agricultural knowledge compared to a lot of other perspective immigrants. Obviously, are not happy with how things are going at home. So they essentially were given land grants to come to brazil. So that is the reasoning behind it. Just to bring home berts point, i would like to read something briefly called, its from the virginia magazine of history and biography. Alternatives to appomattox is the title. Edited by frank j. Merley. I want to read the opening paragraph. It really brings ho...

[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...