early novel. exploring other literatures than the western is something that interests me. the story of the stone, dream of the red chamber, all these chinese/japanese/indian classics, a lot of them tend to be spiritual books. something i have read off and on. keep exploring, keep trying new books. we also come to a time when you want to go back and read books. i was a kid and i read an occur retina, 8919. what did i know about marriage or infidelity? these are things you only

experience as you grow older. you have gone through a certain amount of living, you can go back and read these books and see much that you didn't the first time through. some people said you can't understand henry james in to you are past 40 because his books are all about regrets. things i should have done and didn't do, feelings that assail us as we get older and older and we know our time is running out. >> the book is "classics for pl at the

university of virginia bookstore. it is an hour. >> we are really fortunate today because we have two really special books and two wonderful authors. david lowe is the author of need's army and he is a historian for the national park service in the district of columbia and virginia and also authored several sites in the shenandoah valley of virginia and civil war in loudon county. the book he has got has got some special features to it that have

some personal interest to me because he discovered these journals that were tucked away, historians had seen them just briefly, they hadn't done anything with them. david low, i am sorry, david is going to present that. peter cozzins is the author of shenandoah, 1862, stonewall jackson's valley campaign. this is probably the most comprehensive work on this subject, as jackson was given the shore of fighting in the valley to draw away some of the union troops from the richmond campaign. what we are going to do, the format is going to be david will present meade's army and peter will present shenandoah 1862. each will have 15 minutes to discuss their work. and then we will have questions and answers, just some little housekeeping, these little

sheets are for you to fill out. you should have them. before you leave this session you should do that. you be a is giving 10% off of anything in the bookstore during the festival of the book. without further ado i would like to bring up david lowe to present his boat, need's army. [applause] >> thank you, appreciate it. quite an honor to be invited to talk about my book. to be called the author is probably stretching it because i am the editor of a very brilliant writer, the writers theodore lyman. people who study post gettysburg are familiar with the name theodore lyman. i did a survey of borden ray's books on the overland campaign, each site himto