the final speaker, ryan quint, is scheduled to begin shortly.share with us spot on the programming, you can connect with us on twitter at c-span history and on facebook at facebook.com/c-spanhistory. this is american history tv, only on c-span3. folks, if we could ask you to take your seats, please. folks, if i could ask you to take your seats, we will get ready for our last speaker of the day. those of us who are from the great state of maine -- those of us who are from maine know a comedian by the name of tim sample. tim has this great bit where he talks about getting directions, and he says, you can't get there from here. and he a fellow mainer has proven you can get there from here. ryan comes to us from the great state of

ladies and gentlemen, ryan quint. [applause] and then there was one. the last one of the day. i want to thank you all so much for coming out. i would like you to indulge me to do one thing. i have been getting texts all day for my parents and family in maine saying, stand in front of the camera and waved. so hi, mom. there we are. [laughter] ryan: with that out of the way, i want to reiterate a question that chris asked this morning. who is -- who has been to monocacy before? i am very excited to see that number of people because most people don't know about monocacy. that is probably a strange question to ask to a civil war seminar, because of course you have been to monocacy. it is only 45 minutes south of gettysburg and was people are whipping by and will go later and later never happens. i'm very excited to talk about lou wallace and battle of monocacy. that story starts in march of 1864. the battle is in july. because that is when ulysses s. grant comes east to take command of united states army. he is going to plan out his campaign. he has decided to headquarter himself

we will have our last speaker, ryan quint, who wrote "determined to stand and fight." the battle of lew wallace. >> you are watching live coverage of the emerging civil war symposium in spotsylvania virginia. after the break, we will be back with the final speaker of the symposium, ryan quint. the author of "determined to stand and fight." his topple focus on the union general's stand. this weekend on american artifacts, we travel to west branch, iowa to tour the life portraits exhibit at the herbert hoover presidential library and museum. here is a preview. >> here we are with calvin coolidge, the 30th president of the united states. calvin coolidge has been a lifelong fisherman.