Petition drive underway to honor Ed Bearss

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A petition drive is underway to honor Civil War historian Ed Bearss.

Bearss, historian emeritus for the National Park Service and a good friend of many in the Knoxville Civil War Roundtable, just turned 93 and is still active in the field of Civil War history and preservation.

Ed Bearss

Those who wish to join the petition drive may do so at this site.

Bearss is the Civil War Trust’s Special Assistant for Military Sites and former Chief Historian at the National Park Service. He is the winner of numerous history and preservation awards, including the T. Harry Williams Award, the Bruce Catton Award, the Alvin Calman Award, the Bell I. Wiley Award, the Harry S. Truman Award for Meritorious Service in the Field of Civil War History, and the Civil War Preservation Trust Edwin C. Bearss Lifetime Achievement Award.

 

Civil War Trust provides excellent video introduction to Gettysburg

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With the approach of the anniversary of the battle of Gettysburg (July 1-3), KCWRT.org will be providing some information about the battle during the next couple of weeks.

A great place to start is the video introduction to the battle produce by the Civil War Trust, which you can see below.

 

Historian Garry Adelman gives a quick run-through of the battle with lots of animation and supplementary footage.

Gettysburg is so iconic — particularly because of the Gettysburg Address that Abraham Lincoln delivered four months after the battle — that we tend to lose sight of what it meant to the people who lived during the war.