william rosecrans disaster at chickamauga is. funny for a lot of reasons, but my favorite is that it gave abraham lincoln the opportunity to utter one of his funnier barnyard stories and that was that rosecrans, after the battle, looked stunned like a dog hit on the head. i've never seen a dark kid on the hood, but i imagine it's very funny and the idea that lincoln had is excellent and i really enjoy it. it's one of my favorite civil war stories, so you have stunned the dark william rosecrans and accidentally victorious braxton bragg and bragg says, i've actually won a battle. it's not even a tactical draw. i could claim a victory. so what i should do is let rosecrans retreat. yeah, yeah. so he did. he did it. he. he allowed rosecrans to fall back chattanooga while his army looked down on the city from atop the high bluffs of missionary ridge. he had not consolidated the prize and mutiny once again threatens his command. this is a theme in braxton bragg army in the days and weeks that followed the battle, rancor ripples through

chancellorsville, gettysburg, chickamauga 140,000. the united doesn't wade through that much blood in that time frame at any other time in the 19th century. in fact, the next time it will wade through that much blood in that short time frame, even shorter. in fact, be 19, 18, and then it will wade through that much blood again in, that time frame in 1944, the last six months, seven months of 1944, and the first seven months of 1945 in the pacific alone. so the scale of human distress that is occurring in this country in 1863, on top of a very bloody 1862, that's why lincoln has to go to gettysburg, because country the united states. what does this mean? this getting worse? it's getting bloodier. what does this mean? what is this war really about? he goes to gettysburg to define the conflict and the conclusion i think is perfect for that because it's you know, if you read the gettysburg address and you read it go back and read it now that statistic in mind, go back and read it and think about the emotional, the draft rights. i mean, th

no. st. chickamauga mendoza or we're not criminal, there's no no criminal 0 for the people in my neighborhood. i'm a hero unless we guarantee their safety there's no safety here and that's available. but if you go to the fema speeches around you, you see themes everywhere in here, only the crazy people steal. yeah. because each have you ever killed someone again? oh, it's of no for you and no others do that. this is a strange situation somehow. how do you say goodbye to a criminal. ready ready ready ready ready is in front of me that i can find you've had enough that because we drove 200 meters into the fella. and suddenly someone in front of us pulled the q and for 2 meter long rail out of the ground. so we could pass what it says, it was a barrier for the police just stopped him going in there immediately. we were surrounded by armed men and we had to get out. it was in the middle of the intersection. they were vendors, cars. suddenly we were the focus of everyone's attention, especially the gangsters. and we had to justify our presence. it was very tense, vol. at that moment, i didn't know

it's no accident to me that some of the first outfields preserved in this country were chickamauga, vicksburggettysburg. and then you had a few others in there as well. that illustrates to me how important to that generation to the veterans and to the nation, and that to me put an exclamation point on the importance of this and why it matters. so now i'm going to turn over to vicksburg.th here you go. >> i would just sit here, thinking the first week in july, obviously i mentioned you couldn't win a presidential caucus or nomination in iowa or new hampshire, where you can't win a pennant in april or may. well, that first week in july, that's your super tuesday in a presidential primary, or that's the dog daysog of august down te stretch in a baseball season. i would suck at that. but my big take away, moving from the past to the press is just what a class act emerging civil war is,s, what chris and e gang has done in putting on a conference like this and all yo folks, it's highly compressed, it's a pleasure to be here and be part of it and kudos, , well done. keep it up. >> thanks. [applause]

to the temporary comes because detention center has a full. reynolds met some of those migrants in chickamauga hot springs. next to the steel fence on the mexican border, migrants rush out of cars and squeezed through a gap. many looked weary at the end of their long journeys. but what awaits them are squalid. open their camps in the desert. here, my friends are on their own. there's no space in government migrant detention centers. so border patrol officials tell them to stay and wait. often for days or more in these camps until space opens up, the migrants come from all over the world. you're a good in fled political persecution in turkey. it's difficult because i live in my family, but uh, i want to be better. the medical issues most say their goal is to give themselves up to authorities, request asylum, and begin the long legal process. they hope will allow them to stay permanently, but for now they're stuck in the circle of playing those, then we expect it to be taken care of for shelter. people here set up make shift tents with sticks in plastic sheets or just lie out in the open. food a