dr. mark grimsley. [applause] dr. grimsely: a pleasure to be here this afternoon. and i'm looking forward to talking with you. oh good, we have this up on the screen. will be talking today about the civil war. and about the final wars against native americans. and yet, i am neither a civil war historian nor a historian of the military. don'te way in which, worry i still know a lot about the civil war -- [laughter] identify as a military historian. and the way i actually came to the subject of my first book, which i will be talking about some today, actually was by way of the interest in moral judgment in war. the kind of moral judgments that we often make in wartime. and as an historian, the kind of judgments that we do make. and that was the genesis of the interesting ine the moral judgments that union officers and soldiers made towards southern civilians in the past of war during the american civil war. so that is where that came from. having written that book, i have formed an apparently career-long association with william t sherman. people zynga think i am an