184:"I met Dr. Thomas A. Desjardin in 1992 when he was a graduate student at the University of Maine. It took me ten seconds to realize that Tom is a gifted, knowledgeable, yet skeptical student of the Gettysburg Campaign. Tom has also presented lectures to my Brandeis students (lending his wisdom as much to me as to them)." Dr.
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