i'm william thompson, former chaplain at hampton sidney college and now residents.d i want to make a comment about a local confederado theme here. i'm a retired southern presbyterian minister. in 1867 the southern presbyterian denomination established a -- its foreign mission field in brazil. now, this was not as it turned out to be an evangelical approach to the native population or to protestants wishing to change from the roman -- wishing to proselytize from the roman catholic church there, but the reality is that -- and i can speak to this because presbyterian seminary was located at hampton sidney, there were several of our initial southern presbyterian evangelical missionaries who went to brazil in the late 1860s not to convert but essentially to be a chaplain presence to our kind of people who had immigrated as confederados. there was a strong appeal by a theology professor to get some -- who had been on stonewall jackson's staff, to get people from this area to go to brazil as as confederados. he made an especially strong appeal to mrs. thornton who lived ov