grant, sherman, albert sydney johnston, pete g.t. beauregard, brag and on and on we could talk. the wonderful that shiloh has above all the other battlefields in today's world and listening to the additions that are going to be made to shiloh makes this more a fact. it is location. location in a rural part of tennessee, a place which in so many ways remains very much akin to what this area looked like in that previous period. so we are very fortunate to have a july like shiloh here. what we are going to do today as van indicated. we are going to hear from three of the leaders in civil war scholarship as pointed out. i am not going to reintroduce them again. we have larry daniel at the en. we have wylie sore here at this end and in the middle, james lee mcdonough. the frightening thought is if a terrorist puts a bomb under this table and it goes off, we lose most of our historical knowledge in the battle of shiloh. if you see any suspicious packages, please inform your nearest agent. let me begin by asking our panelists, what we are going to do is have each person do an opening s