encourage everyone to come out and visit and a special thanks to elizabeth wilke and associate and warren perry for sharing this information in the great resources. thank you. >> hi, good evening. my name is warren. i would like to thank you for inviting me to talk about cedar creek and the smithsonian collection. i will like to thank the associates and park service staff in virginia for allowing me to speak this evening post a as i conclude my own time at the smithsonian, it was wonderful for me to be able to address this audience and tell everyone how much i have enjoyed this work. i would like to thank a couple of other folks. frank, who is director of the museum of art. he is a great colleague and friend who invited me in the production of -- invited many people on the ride of the production of the civil war book. and john barber, one of the great civil war historians, who has taken time to enlighten me over the years. and his door was always open to me and i was grateful for that. michelle delaney made it is to happen and i am thankful to her and my boss at the national portrait gallery. l

. >> i am going to introduce our speaker, warren perry. from memphis,ly tennessee. he has a graduate degree in medieval literature and from the catholic university. , while women -- walt whitman and the civil war. elvis,cowrote office -- which received the bronze award from forward magazine in 2010. in his 12 years at the national portrait gallery, he wrote over 200 articles for print and the web. more than 40 on the american civil war. here he received one of tim's secretary research prizes for 2013 for the smithsonian congress of scholars. we are very proud of him. he is founder and director of library of perry theater. i would like to introduce amy well, the site manager and she is going to make a few remarks and then we'll have one come up here. warr come up here. thank you. e>> thank you. i would like to thank you so much for coming out. creek and belle grove historical park was excited to partner with the smithsonian for this lecture. thank you for agreeing to speak on this great history. we think it is such a perfect theto be able to marry resources that the

writer warren perry discusses the battle of cedar creek which took place in virginia's shenandoah valleyr 1864. it was fought between confederates and jubal early and union troops under general sheridan and resulted in a decisive union victory. he shares pieces from the smithsonian collection related to the battle to illustrate different aspects of the fighting. smithsonian associates and the national park service hosted 10-minute event. >> i am going to introduce our speaker warren perry. he is originally from memphis, tennessee. he has a graduate degree in medieval literature and from the catholic university of america in drama. his one-man play, walt whitman and the civil war. it was published in 2009. "elviscowrote

. >> warren perry discusses the battle of cedar creek which took place in virginia of october 1864. it was fought between confederates and jubal early and union troops under general sheridan and resulted in a decisive union victory. he shares pieces from the collection related to the battle to illustrate different aspects of the fighting. the national park service hosted

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perry, someone who has run something. >> in 30 seconds, juan, what does 2014 tell you about 2016? >> the birth of populousism. look beyond hillary clinton, there's elizabeth warren. watch that. >> panel, thank you all. thank you, too, for being so quick. that was great. be sure to keep it on fox news channel for continuing election coverage. we'll all see you tuesday night, all of us and a bunch of other people starting at 6:00 p.m. oorn and going into wednesday morning, as you tell us who you want running the government. that's all for today. have a great week. and we'll see you next fox news sunday. >>> hello, everyone. welcome to america's news headquarters. >> hello, everyone. i'm eric shaun. in the news at this hour, mitt romney has last-minute predictions before tuesday's big elections. what he says this year's mi midterms will show america who the real party of no is. >> and the nurse quarantined after returning from an ebola hot zone in west africa speaking out again. why she's now accusing lawmakers of putting politics over science. >> plus, following that horrible explosion of the space plane, we'll take a look at what the future holds for the future o