this piece earned the john t. hubble prize for the best article in the journal's civil war history. so we'll begin with diane, presenting a paper on her work, and then, of course, we have our handle to comment. diane. [applause] diane: well, thank you, everyone, for coming out this muggy summer gettysburg afternoon. the panelists and i are, what we're going to try to do is to open up ways that we can have conversations with you y'all about the experience of confederate veterans returning home and to that end what i'm going to do is talk for maybe 15 or so minutes about generally the work that i'm doing. but then also pivot each of the panelists who will spend 45 minutes talking about a different topic that we can then have questions about and take it to you and have a really lively conversation that will take us through our allotted hour. i want to begin with a very famous quote by a historian, a social historian by the name of -- who wrote 25 years ago, that we needed to see some history being done on the lives of ordinary soldiers. despite the many, many other books and articles p

this piece earned the john t hubble prize for the best article in civil war history. diane who is with presenting a very brief paper on her work and we have our panelists. [applause] everyone for this monkey, summer gettysburg afternoon. thisi'm trying to do afternoon is to open up ways that we can have conversations with you all about the experience of confederate veterans returning home. and to that end what i'm going to do is talk about 415 or so minutes about the work i'm doing and giving each one of the panelists who will spend 45 minutes talking about different topics that we can have questions about. we can have a lively conversation through our provided hour. i want to begin with a very famous quote by a social historian by the name of mary. who wrote 25 years ago that we needed to speak of history being done on the lives of ordinary soldiers. despite many other books and articles published in civil war history, little has been history -- written about the personal experiences of ordinary soldiers. most of the works had dealt with generals, battles, politics,