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Williams-McElroy History Endowment brings Civil War historian and Richmond National Battlefield Park Ranger Mike Gorman to campus.

Civil War historian and Richmond National Battlefield Park Ranger Mike Gorman, shown here with history endowment supporters Jack McElroy ‘49 and Jack McElroy ’79, was the guest speaker in Upper School Chapel on Tuesday, April 21. His appearance was made possible through the Williams-McElroy History Endowment, established in 2014 to promote the study and understanding of history.

Mr. Gorman also met with juniors and 7th graders during the day in recognition of the 150th anniversary of the fall of Richmond. He shared the story of that event through the use of photographs taken in and of Richmond immediately after the evacuation of the city by Confederate forces. He used modern technology to enlarge those same photographs to reveal different perspectives that seem invisible in the original images.
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