it is my pleasure to introduce kevin pollak. [applause] kevin: good morning. thank you to chris for that very humbling introduction and thank you all for being here at my bachelor party. [laughter] i think we might set a virginia state record for the largest party and virginia state history. it is about to get crazy talking about robert e. lee at the battle of antietam. even last year at the symposium when an email was sent out there was aopics, caveat left in the email that allowed us to quote " think outside the box." the topic i'm proposing, robert e. lee at antietam, i thought that was going to be a very straightforward presentation about a great defense of the civil war. looking into it, there is a bit more to robert e. lee's defensed and what we have thought. as human beings, we are always products of the past. as history buffs, people who love to study the american civil war, we are always reading and looking again to what historians before us had said. what i'm going to ask you to do now is for the next 45 minutes, forget everything you have ever heard

my pleasure is to introduce one of the great emerging voices in the field, kevin pollak. [applause] kevin: good morning, everyone. thank you to chris for that humbling introduction and thank you all for being here at my bachelor party. i think we might set a virginia state record for the largest bachelor party in all of history. it is about to get crazy, if you will. talking about robert at the battle of antietam. even before last years symposium one and email was sent out asking for topic ideas, there was a caveat in the email that allowed us to "think outside the box." the topic that i proposed is the one i am presenting to you, robert e. lee at antietam and i thought it would be a straightforward presentation about a great defense of the civil war. the more i started looking into it i realized that there is a bit more to robert e. lee's defense at antietam than what we have always thought. so as human beings, we are always products of the past. as history buffs and people who love to study the american civil war we are always reading and looking into what historians bef

author kevin pollak talks about confederate general robert e lee's defensive positioning at the 1862 battle of antietam and takee used it to defensive. the battle was the bloodiest day in american history. ended as a union strategic victory. this part of

author kevin pollak talked about confederate general robert eva lee positioning at september 17, 1862 battle of antietam and how he used it to take opportunities of the defensive. the battle was the bloodiest day