james blankenship jr. jimmy is native here to the petersburg area.egan his park service career in 1975 as a seasonal park ranger at petersburg national battlefield. 1981, he accepted the first permanent position as a park ranger at independence national historical park. 1982, he returned to native state of virginia after accepting a positional colonial historical park and in 1984, his park service career returned to petersburg national battlefield. since then, he's held the positions of park ranger, historian, and now historian curator of battlefield. during his time alt petersburg, he participated in assistant projects at yellowstone national park, ft. stanwick national park, sagamore hill, george washington's birthplace, long fellow, national historic side sandy hook national sea shore and jamestown and yorktown collections. he is currently a member of the northeast region's emergency response team. he spent more than 30 years firing civil war era artillery, primarily field artillery for 16 years he served as a national level 19th century artillery

postal service and remarks by historian james blankenship who details the events of the battle.ent is one hour 15 minutes.

postal service and remarks by historian james blankenship. this event from petersburg is one hour 15 minutes. >> good morning ladies and gentlemen. morning for this being with us here at petersburg national battlefield on the 150th anniversary of battle of the crater. my name is chris price. you who were with us this morning at 5:30 we thank you again and welcome you here to the park. i was remarking a few minutes ago, much like it was for the soldiers 150 years ago who were in the oberlin campaign that started in 1864, it has been a long road to petersburg. we started this 150th event for 3, atparks on may spotsylvania courthouse. we have moved south ever since. .t has been quite a feat it is the first time three parks within a process of these commemorations have shared programming where we have tried to make a continual program of the oberlin campaign rather than look at it as the wilderness, spill something you -- spotsylvania, that this was one continual process for the soldiers 150 years ago. for some of you in the audience we have seni

. >> blankenship does hers and calls out our digital community manager right here. >> heather!you going to do it? >> i'll do it. >> are you doing it? >> i have to be on tv, so i will watch you do it. >> what? no. can we pour it on you? >> like right now? >> oh. >> challenge accepted. now what? >> bring it on. >> one, two -- oh, my gosh! >> well done, heather. >> are you ready, nick? we've been waiting all day for this. we have a strategy. one, two, three -- >> oh! >> that felt real good. >> he offers to take her for a spin. >> do you want to come for a ride? >> a ride in this? all right, cool. watch what happens. r ke dominos. >> you tip her well. >> give her a 20. >>> at it again trying to out the gold diggers. spots a girl, sitting in the fancy lamborghini. >> any plans tonight? want to come for a ride, i guess, do something? >> a ride in this? like, all right, cool. watch what happens now. she walks right past the lamborghini. an old lady comes -- >> stupid little [ bleep ] >> she realizes, this is not his car. he walks to what's really his car, and the girl, what does she d

postal service and remarks by historian james blankenship who details the major advance of the battle. held at petersburg national battlefield, this is an hour and fifteen minutes. >>> good morning, ladies and gentlemen. we thank you this morning for being with us here at petersburg national battlefield on the 150th anniversary of the battle of the crater. my name is chris rice, i'm chief of interpretation for petersburg battlefield. for those of you that were with us this morning at 5:30, we thank you again and welcome you again here to the park. i was remark ago few minutesing too one of my colleagues, much like it was for the soldiers 150 years ago who were in the overland campaign that started in early may of 1864, it's been a long road to petersburg. we started our 150th events in three parks, spot l vain ya courthouse, and we've moved south ever since and it's been quite a feat for the national park service. it's the first time three parks within the process of these commemorations has shared programming where we've tried to make a continual program of the overland campaign rath

james blankenship jr. jimmy is native here to the petersburg area.began his park service career in 1975 as a seasonal park ranger at petersburg national battlefield. 1981, he accepted the first permanent position as a park ranger at independence national historical park. 1982, he returned to native state of virginia after accepting a positional colonial historical park and in 1984, his park service career returned to petersburg national battlefield. since then, he's held the positions of park ranger, historian, and now historian curator of battlefield. during his time alt petersburg, he participated in assistant projects at yellowstone national park, ft. stanwick national park, sagamore hill, george washington's birthplace, long fellow, national historic side sandy hook national sea shore and jamestown and yorktown collections. he is currently a member of the northeast region's emergency response team. he spent more than 30 years firing civil war era artillery, primarily field artillery for 16 years he served as a national level 19th century artiller

james blankenship jr. jimmy is native here to the petersburg area.egan his park service career in 1975 as a seasonal park ranger at petersburg national battlefield. 1981, he accepted the first permanent position as a park ranger at independence national historical park. 1982, he returned to native state of virginia after accepting a positional colonial historical park and in 1984, his park service career returned to petersburg national battlefield. since then, he's held the positions of park ranger, historian, and now historian curator of battlefield. during his time alt petersburg, he participated in assistant projects at yellowstone national park, ft. stanwick national park, sagamore hill, george washington's birthplace, long fellow, national historic side sandy hook national sea shore and jamestown and yorktown collections. he is currently a member of the northeast region's emergency response team. he spent more than 30 years firing civil war era artillery, primarily field artillery for 16 years he served as a national level 19th century artillery

postal service and remarks by historian james blankenship.this event from petersburg is one hour 15 minutes. >> good morning ladies and gentlemen. morning for this being with us here at petersburg national battlefield on the 150th anniversary of battle of the crater. my name is chris price. you who were with us this morning

again it is with pleasure i introduced the park's historian and good friend, jimmy blankenship. [applause] >> folks, when we first started this process, they wanted a talk on the battle of the crater. i said, sure, i would be glad to do it. i was told i had 10 minutes. i'm going to condense nine hours into 10 minutes. it might be longer. needless to say i cannot do justice to the heroism both sides showed out here in 10 minutes.