i am privileged today to introduce gary ecelbarger. first met gary a number of years ago and he was a featured speaker for a memorial day program organized by the logan circle senate association in washington. born in western new york state and educated in buffalo and then at the university of wisconsin madison, gary's masters degree is in science rather than history. his day job with the washington hospital center is as a nutritionist, concentrating on those with feeding tubes and iv solutions. it is as historian that gary appears today. a historian with countless historical books, articles rather, and nine books to his credit. gary's talks that it material from his 2005 work, “black jack logan: an extraordinary life in peace and war." most if not all of his books and battlefield tours concentrate on civil war battles in the shenandoah and the battle of atlanta. for well over 20 years, he and his wife and his children have lived in northern virginia. gary is a former president of the bull run civil war roundtable, and a charter member

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