casey is a professor at lynchburg college and editor of the james dickey review and is english graduate director. a richmond native who grew up and appomattox county, he has editor of the multivolume "best creative nonfiction of the press" "texas review and a variety of other things. one of the editors of the encyclopedia of virginia, which is online. he's had a number of fellowships and received a number of awards. he has published over 100 works in anthologies and periodicals, such as the sewanee review, the virginia quarterly review and so on. author of " confederados: a novel of the americas." the confederates that left the u.s. at the end of the war and went to brazil. i remember from 30 or 40 years ago reading an article about that. bill maybe wrote that and i have never heard of it and i got interested. i'm looking for to hearing his top. -- his talk. his talk today is entitled, " confederados. casey clabough. [applause] professor clabough: thank you, dr. coles. thank you all for being here and for inviting me. so extend the last speaker' eloquent comment about the end of the war

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rains and some thunder, with hail, and small hail, that is covered the ground in the roanoke and lynchburgreas here. and we have been watching some heavier rains north of charlottesville. and culpepper west and southwest. and west of orange, if you have any problem, going down that way. very wet. but around here, it has been spotty. with some drizzle moving through now. and the spotty light showers. and you can notice, everything is moving northeast to southwest. not a typical direction for us. but we have the low level northeasterly flow. and keeping it really drizzly. and that's going to be the case. spotty showers and drizzle. i think we have a better chance of seeing some showers later tonight. and 58 at 6:00. and yes, that is probably wish casting right now. and i would be surprised if we get above a 5, 56. and temperatures are not bubbling. the rain forecast, isolated today. and rain chances do go down for the weekend. there is hope. one thing we are seeing, naturally, would he have temperatures by the way which are only in the low 50s right now. it is 51. 52. you can see highs today

-- but more importantly, another union army of david hunter was threatening a railroad center in lynchburg, virginia. lee had to address that. he ordered early west to address hunter. early would speed west. hunter would disappear into the mountains -- literally, really. he did disappear into the appellations. but then also lee told early that if you have the opportunity, turn north. why? because lee was trying to retake the strategic initiative from grant. this is the truly last great gamble of robert e. lee. bud mentioned this movie about fort stedman. that was a tactical gamble, right? early goes to the outskirts of washington dc and retreats. the new york times editorializes that the back door of the shenandoah valley had been left open to the confederates. it is in the east where sherman -- richard would know better than me -- banished reporters from the army. it was the east where the news is being made and here is the shenandoah valley once again. it is that great valley of virginia and you can argue, i don't know, in a sense, that the spirit of stonewall jackson still haunts there.

host: let's hear from charles in lynchburg who makes over $100,000. caller: i have a background in corporate management and owning a small business and i have worked in a turnaround for many years. what is going to happen, i think, as has happened in the past, the ruby a lot of commotion by business owners about this. in the end they have to have a certain amount of time -- it will adjust, those business guys that cannot adjust will go out of business, that is the capital system, we think that is a good thing. the people who can adjust are the ones we want to stay in business and i think they will. i think that sums it up. guest: i would not disagree with that, it is a huge change to ask employers to deal with right now. the next six months will be tough for them, because there is actually -- there are systems that process paychecks that do not even have the ability to log people's hours right now, so they have to build them and then there is the sense of, how do you handle payroll, particularly for small businesses, this will be an adjustment. people

host: let's hear from charles in lynchburg who makes over $100,000. caller: i have a background in corporate management and owning a small business and i have worked in a turnaround for many years. what is going to happen, i think, as has happened in the past, the ruby a lot of commotion by business owners about this. in the end they have to have a certain amount of time -- it will adjust, those business guys that cannot adjust will go out of business, that is the capital system, we think that is a good thing. the people who can adjust are the ones we want to stay in business and i think they will. i think that sums it up. guest: i would not disagree with that, it is a huge change to ask employers to deal with right now. the next six months will be tough for them, because there is actually -- there are systems that process paychecks that do not even have the ability to log people's hours right now, so they have to build them and then there is the sense of, how do you handle payroll, particularly for small businesses, this will be an adjustment. people