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gettysburg. how many of you aware? there were two battles of gettysburg, one on june 26, 1863. another one you might have heard of on july 1st, 1863, over thousand monuments of gettysburg. the second battle. we're going to talk about the first battle with monuments on the battlefield. two, the june 26, fighting at gettysburg. it was part of jubal early expedition, a little picnic in pensive genius. one of his men would call it, well, let's talk about their goal for jubal. he was the wrightsville bridge campbell wrightsville columbia. here's was a quick geography lesson. this is south central pennsylvania. gettysburg, of course, is the bottom left. we're all familiar with that. we're all familiar with gettysburg, of course, key to the south central pennsylvania to understand the gettysburg campaign is the geography. harris works on the right side of the river. if you're a yankee, think god harrisburg's on the right side of the river. if harrisburg is on the left side of the river, we might be sayi
gettysburg. how many of you aware? there were two battles of gettysburg, one on june 26, 1863. another one you might have heard of on july 1st, 1863, over thousand monuments of gettysburg. the second battle. we're going to talk about the first battle with monuments on the battlefield. two, the june 26, fighting at gettysburg. it was part of jubal early expedition, a little picnic in pensive genius. one of his men would call it, well, let's talk about their goal for jubal. he was the...
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gettysburg. how many of you aware? there were two battles of gettysburg, one on june 26, 1863. another one you might have heard of on july 1st, 1863, over thousand monuments of gettysburg. the second battle. we're going to talk about the first battle with monuments on the battlefield. two, the june 26, fighting at gettysburg. it was part of jubal early expedition, a little picnic in pensive genius. one of his men would call it, well, let's talk about their goal for jubal. he was the wrightsville bridge campbell wrightsville columbia. here's was a quick geography lesson. this is south central pennsylvania. gettysburg, of course, is the bottom left. we're all familiar with that. we're all familiar with gettysburg, of course, key to the south central pennsylvania to understand the gettysburg campaign is the geography. harris works on the right side of the river. if you're a yankee, think god harrisburg's on the right side of the river. if harrisburg is on the left side of the river, we might be sayi
gettysburg. how many of you aware? there were two battles of gettysburg, one on june 26, 1863. another one you might have heard of on july 1st, 1863, over thousand monuments of gettysburg. the second battle. we're going to talk about the first battle with monuments on the battlefield. two, the june 26, fighting at gettysburg. it was part of jubal early expedition, a little picnic in pensive genius. one of his men would call it, well, let's talk about their goal for jubal. he was the...
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how many of you thought abraham lincoln wrote the gettysburg address on the train to gettysburg? she's the one that put that into th little book sold 600,000 copies, published in 1906. it became required reading for high school students english. and she tells the story that he's sitting on train struggling. william seward opens up a carton of books and has some brown paper. and lincoln says, can i borrow the brown paper? and he writes, the second gettysburg address on the brown paper. and as she says and he knew it was a failure from the beginning. and for 50, 75 years, that was the story. what we're saying here together is no lincoln, never would have simply written something on the fly, on the way to. he was very careful, both his writing and his speaking. he re-edited and as ed suggested, over being willing and able to speak, this is what happened to put that no name and in the american public. hopefully we don't believe that anymore. and by the way, it finally i you know, i'm not i'm not great on the decades between 1970 and now but it did inspire television movie in lincoln
how many of you thought abraham lincoln wrote the gettysburg address on the train to gettysburg? she's the one that put that into th little book sold 600,000 copies, published in 1906. it became required reading for high school students english. and she tells the story that he's sitting on train struggling. william seward opens up a carton of books and has some brown paper. and lincoln says, can i borrow the brown paper? and he writes, the second gettysburg address on the brown paper. and as...
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he's he's chamberlain here in gettysburg. and one question would be whether you think of his of his portrayal as a winsome, as most people, as my civil war medicine interest has had me studying great detail. what happened to chamberlain and which which you alluded to. and so another question in my is what does it say about the character of this man that with a tremendous pain he was living with it for the rest of his life? he was to accomplish what you had outlined here. thank you for the question. how could he accomplished much with such tremendous pain? but i found remarkable was he never talked about it. so one of his old comrade came to him one day and said, i know that you were in such pain. he was not someone who is to complain about this. this was just part of who he was and he suffered through it. but modern studies, both physicians and wonderful historian, written about invisible wounds, talk about what this must have to him. a doctor when he was age 50, said, you're not going to live very long. he lived until 2014.
he's he's chamberlain here in gettysburg. and one question would be whether you think of his of his portrayal as a winsome, as most people, as my civil war medicine interest has had me studying great detail. what happened to chamberlain and which which you alluded to. and so another question in my is what does it say about the character of this man that with a tremendous pain he was living with it for the rest of his life? he was to accomplish what you had outlined here. thank you for the...
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so gettysburg the famous the famous disagreement with lee gettysburg lee's strategic offensive into pennsylvania in the summer of 1863. longstreet to lee's tactical decision is famously july 2nd, july 3rd to to go on tactical offensive and to attack a federal position on on cemetery ridge. longstreet believes that that those attacks that lee plans and calls for are ill considered and longstreet propose is famously again on the evening of july 1st looking forward to second that the confederates themselves from the disadvantageous this low ground and and move around the left flank of the yankee army get between it and richmond find some a strong position of their own some high ground and invite the union army to attack them. and he has in mind a repeat of fredericksburg essentially. so he proposes this to lee not once, but many times and lee rejects his advice. longstreet is hurt by the fact that lee rejects his advice, and this is all a matter record so and we'll come to origins of the scapegoating of longstreet. but let me just make a few more observations. so longstreet's hurt that lee waves of
so gettysburg the famous the famous disagreement with lee gettysburg lee's strategic offensive into pennsylvania in the summer of 1863. longstreet to lee's tactical decision is famously july 2nd, july 3rd to to go on tactical offensive and to attack a federal position on on cemetery ridge. longstreet believes that that those attacks that lee plans and calls for are ill considered and longstreet propose is famously again on the evening of july 1st looking forward to second that the confederates...
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and that train, as well as the gettysburg address and others. and maybe you could tell a story about how the inaugural address got lost along the way have been, well, this is a moment. i mean, i hope there's tragedy in the story, including i mean, survives the assassination attempt. and i, i forgot tell you some of the other sources besides ellen pinkerton. but there are there are some. but there's comedy, too. and a good has comedy as well as tragedy. i often thought of the chevy vacation films put out by national lampoon as guy who can barely control his own family, let alone the united states of america. and robert lincoln is always out getting drunk with his friends, often including hay and tad and willie are not well behaved in the cars and that's noticed. but one of the first night of the journey to come into indianapolis, i mentioned and lincoln has a black valise that holds the absolutely precious only of his inaugural address that has he has made a couple copies to show friends back in springfield. but it's his only copy and there is no
and that train, as well as the gettysburg address and others. and maybe you could tell a story about how the inaugural address got lost along the way have been, well, this is a moment. i mean, i hope there's tragedy in the story, including i mean, survives the assassination attempt. and i, i forgot tell you some of the other sources besides ellen pinkerton. but there are there are some. but there's comedy, too. and a good has comedy as well as tragedy. i often thought of the chevy vacation...
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now, as we've heard today, civil war battles like gettysburg, antietam produced thousands and thousands of war stories, just like chapels. and all too often, these cases, they ended in grisly deaths from infection or blood loss exposure. you name it, there's a million ways to die in the civil war. so judging by outward appearances, we might consider chapel to be one of the lucky ones, because after all, he somehow managed to survive long enough to actually tell his story. in 1886, in the letter that we see here on the seen, but chapel didn't see it that way. he did not consider himself one of theucky ones because him survival in the long aftermath of the battle of gettysburg was a living hell. and that is because 23 years after gettysburg the unexpected consequences of chapel civil war wound still dominated the old soldier's day to day life as he explained in that tortured 1886 letter quote the put me on morphine and i stop that. in other words, chapel had become and remained hopelessly addicted to the morphine that surgeons had given him in that field hospital to treat the pain from hi
now, as we've heard today, civil war battles like gettysburg, antietam produced thousands and thousands of war stories, just like chapels. and all too often, these cases, they ended in grisly deaths from infection or blood loss exposure. you name it, there's a million ways to die in the civil war. so judging by outward appearances, we might consider chapel to be one of the lucky ones, because after all, he somehow managed to survive long enough to actually tell his story. in 1886, in the letter...
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and so everyone goes to gettysburg and they see that brown park's on the side of the road. it's monocacy. then they went by it about 65 miles an hour. so today we're going to spend about 45 minutes or so talking about this very important battle that takes place in july of 1864. so let's jump right into it as all good talks. let's start at the beginning. all of the maps i'm going to show you. you have on the table in front of you. so if you have trouble with the screen, feel free to use the maps that were handed out to you in the spring of 1864. right. ulysses grant has been promoted to general in chief of the united states army. he arrives in virginia in march of 1864, and he makes the decision to to join the army, the potomac in the field. but the army, the potomac and george meade are not going to be the only armies fighting in the spring. in virginia alone, you have what's going to be called the overland campaign. benjamin butler, the army, the james attack from june 100. there will be cavalry campaigns in the southwest of the state. and you have another force assigned t
and so everyone goes to gettysburg and they see that brown park's on the side of the road. it's monocacy. then they went by it about 65 miles an hour. so today we're going to spend about 45 minutes or so talking about this very important battle that takes place in july of 1864. so let's jump right into it as all good talks. let's start at the beginning. all of the maps i'm going to show you. you have on the table in front of you. so if you have trouble with the screen, feel free to use the maps...
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the term shortly was popular regarding gettysburg. the union, dakota, and wrote that the prospect is good for capturing the bulk of lee's whole army before he can cross the potomac. the sacramento daily union called the battle a substantial victory for union arms and that meade seemed to be satisfied with holding his ground. there will never a better opportunity disposing of lee's army than is now presented. this only mentioned possibilities, not certainties. the washington statesman concluded that the news encouraging enough to cause union men to rejoice with joy unspeakable. but it praised the modesty of meade's reports, contrasted these with the, quote humbug ing bombast heard before the central city register described the victories as glorious, but then added, we cannot say where the matter will end, how much bad news. we may yet have occasion to record. but we are determined. determined to rejoice while we make a prophetic statement. as almost two years would pass before the last confederate surrender. in conclusion, western news
the term shortly was popular regarding gettysburg. the union, dakota, and wrote that the prospect is good for capturing the bulk of lee's whole army before he can cross the potomac. the sacramento daily union called the battle a substantial victory for union arms and that meade seemed to be satisfied with holding his ground. there will never a better opportunity disposing of lee's army than is now presented. this only mentioned possibilities, not certainties. the washington statesman concluded...
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he never got over the wounds he sustained at the battle of gettysburg as he explains in a tragic 1886 letter. the captain was shot while storming union lines with general pickets ill-fated virginia division on the hot afternoon of july 3rd, 1863. all of the offices above chapel's rank had apparently been shot. it fell to him to lead his unit through clouds of smoke. a white hot led miniball stopped chapel in his tracks and prevented him from completing the charge. when it smashed into his left kneecap at full force and pancaked on impact with the bone. the wall angerly ripped through the cartilage and the soft tissue of his leg at the joint tearing a massive exit hole in the leg. so, he dropped to the tall dry grass in unspeakable pain. that is where he lay until the dust settled that afternoon when retreating survivors of the 14th virginia, chapel's outlet, carried him out. he hitched a ride along with lee's 17 mile long wagon train. with union troops nipping at their heels for much of the way. every rut and rock in the road would of added to his agony and misery. now, as we heard to
he never got over the wounds he sustained at the battle of gettysburg as he explains in a tragic 1886 letter. the captain was shot while storming union lines with general pickets ill-fated virginia division on the hot afternoon of july 3rd, 1863. all of the offices above chapel's rank had apparently been shot. it fell to him to lead his unit through clouds of smoke. a white hot led miniball stopped chapel in his tracks and prevented him from completing the charge. when it smashed into his left...
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the confederate army during part of the war was barefoot and and there's a rumor that the battle of gettysburgwas started because the word spread in the confederate army army that there was a a a warehouse full of boots in the town of gettysburg and they marched there and then blundering to the union. and the fight started there. but that's that was kind of just supporting i mean, it's not that not that hookworm was important in the outcome of the civil war. it's more that hookworm was incredibly prevalent in the american south. and in the 1930s, obviously many decades after the civil war. john de rockefeller miller put $1,000,000 into the rockefeller sanitary commission. and one of the first things he decided to fight was hookworm in the american south. but the the doctor who was in charge of it was from this long line of methodist ministers, from new england that had a way of sort of talking down to people. and what he said to all southerners is you've got to stop defecating outdoors. you've got to dig, you know, outhouses and build them and only use those. and they never go in the fields ag
the confederate army during part of the war was barefoot and and there's a rumor that the battle of gettysburgwas started because the word spread in the confederate army army that there was a a a warehouse full of boots in the town of gettysburg and they marched there and then blundering to the union. and the fight started there. but that's that was kind of just supporting i mean, it's not that not that hookworm was important in the outcome of the civil war. it's more that hookworm was...
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the gettysburg address took less than three minutes to say. but some would be 2, 3 hours long.incoln-douglas debates, with stephen douglas, each candidate had 1.5 hours to speak, and in those speeches, he would not use appeals to emotion necessarily. he would not tell some dramatic story. he would not play on people's fears necessarily. he would reason with them. he took his audience seriously and had faith that they would stick with him and reason through the problem with him. and that is remarkably different than a lot of politicians are trained to speak today and it certainly is different than the approach the former president has taken, although he will also speak for a long time. host: gary is in jacksonville, florida on our democratic line. caller: good morning. mr. inskeep, looking at the politics of today, you should have differences, but how can one party work with another party when one candidate is a convicted rapist, tax fraud, insurrectionist who we know stole documents, shared national secrets? host: did you have questions for steve about lincoln or the book? call
the gettysburg address took less than three minutes to say. but some would be 2, 3 hours long.incoln-douglas debates, with stephen douglas, each candidate had 1.5 hours to speak, and in those speeches, he would not use appeals to emotion necessarily. he would not tell some dramatic story. he would not play on people's fears necessarily. he would reason with them. he took his audience seriously and had faith that they would stick with him and reason through the problem with him. and that is...
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the confederate army during part of the war was barefoot and and there's a rumor that the battle of gettysburgwas started because the word spread in the confederate army army that there was a a a warehouse full of boots in the town of gettysburg and they marched there and then blundering to the union. and the fight started there. but that's that was kind of just supporting i mean, it's not that not that hookworm was important in the outcome of the civil war. it's more that hookworm was incredibly prevalent in the american south. and in the 1930s, obviously many decades after the civil war. john de rockefeller miller put $1,000,000 into the rockefeller sanitary commission. and one of the first things he decided to fight was hookworm in the american south. but the the doctor who was in charge of it was from this long line of methodist ministers, from new england that had a way of sort of talking down to people. and what he said to all southerners is you've got to stop defecating outdoors. you've got to dig, you know, outhouses and build them and only use those. and they never go in the fields ag
the confederate army during part of the war was barefoot and and there's a rumor that the battle of gettysburgwas started because the word spread in the confederate army army that there was a a a warehouse full of boots in the town of gettysburg and they marched there and then blundering to the union. and the fight started there. but that's that was kind of just supporting i mean, it's not that not that hookworm was important in the outcome of the civil war. it's more that hookworm was...
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but hood's division's officers preferred the man who had replaced hood both at gettysburg and at chickamauga, evander and law and jenkins hated one another and had gone back to a rivalry started at the south carolina military academy. today's citadel where they were both cadets and it continued when both had teaching positions. the york military academy in south carolina they despised one another. so that's another problem for the confederacy. now ignored bragg's october 25th order to launch a reconnaissance towards bridgeport and instead longstreet was convinced that the danger to his position on lookout mountain would from the south. he feared that that active d that was reported it was hooker's men getting ready come across from bridgeport. that hooker's intention was to go up and to look out mountain at a place called johnson's crook which is about 20 miles south of the nose of lookout mountain. and then those yankees would move south to north and attack longstreet that position. so instead of sending troops out towards bridgeport longstreet sent troops south on mountain. now anticipatin
but hood's division's officers preferred the man who had replaced hood both at gettysburg and at chickamauga, evander and law and jenkins hated one another and had gone back to a rivalry started at the south carolina military academy. today's citadel where they were both cadets and it continued when both had teaching positions. the york military academy in south carolina they despised one another. so that's another problem for the confederacy. now ignored bragg's october 25th order to launch a...
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they were there at pickett's charge at gettysburg and the day before they beat back lang lang brigade a whole brigade at cemetery hill starbird was from litchfield enlisted as a captain and this regiment was from kennebec, somerset and knox, sarah hawke and waldo county. now you might ask, where's waldo? and waldo is on the coast guard. go ahead. now it's balding. lieutenant colonels joseph spaulding, because starbird is shot on the bridge, spalding takes over the regiment. colonel joseph spaulding, who was from richmond, maine, which is interesting as a first lieutenant and he wrote a couple of after after action reports, one of them is in the congressional record. i mean, not congressional record. the the the final records of the war. it's two paragraphs. it basically we saw the bridge, we took it put out the fires. but i like this one better and i'm going to read a couple of sections of it, if you don't mind. very quickly, the next morning, friday april 7th, air corps advanced it in three columns. colonel miles division having the road. barlow's second division to which we belong 1
they were there at pickett's charge at gettysburg and the day before they beat back lang lang brigade a whole brigade at cemetery hill starbird was from litchfield enlisted as a captain and this regiment was from kennebec, somerset and knox, sarah hawke and waldo county. now you might ask, where's waldo? and waldo is on the coast guard. go ahead. now it's balding. lieutenant colonels joseph spaulding, because starbird is shot on the bridge, spalding takes over the regiment. colonel joseph...
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next week, it's abraham lincoln's 1863 gettysburg
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not an act of unthinking bravado, a kind of, forlorn charge like the brigade, or for matter picket at gettysburg. here it was a practical response to a swiftly unraveling situation. it was also absolutely the right decision. any decision would have led to chaos at a critical moment. once through the minefield without casualties. by the way, farragut squadron easily defeated the rebel squadron inside mobile bay and seized command of the bay, which cut off the city along with sherman's of atlanta, farragut capture of mobile bay helped. secure lincoln's reelection. arguably the most strategically decisive event the entire war. so it is easy for me to hold up farragut to midshipman as an example of good leadership for his faithfulness to his mentor his instructive and unblinking to his country, for his quick decision making in a crisis. so what about guy? i wanted to include in this conversation. i think he fits the point. i'm trying to make about and decision making, but also to be honest, because i recently wrote a book him and he's been on my mind. nimitz to interestingly is the son of in this ca
not an act of unthinking bravado, a kind of, forlorn charge like the brigade, or for matter picket at gettysburg. here it was a practical response to a swiftly unraveling situation. it was also absolutely the right decision. any decision would have led to chaos at a critical moment. once through the minefield without casualties. by the way, farragut squadron easily defeated the rebel squadron inside mobile bay and seized command of the bay, which cut off the city along with sherman's of...
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abraham lincoln stood on the blood-soaked grounds of gettysburg, where he inspired americans to lookthe civil war not as a political struggle, but as a fight for human freedom. fdr's fireside chats inspire the nation during the depression and the second world war. jfk inspired the country to go to the moon. >> by some say the moon? why choose this as our goal. they my ask -- they may ask why climb the highest mountain, why 35 years ago fly the atlantic? why does rice play texas? we choose to go to the moon and to do the other things not because they are easy, but because they are hard. >> jesse: those presidents were the main characters of their time, but in today's times, we have joe biden. >> he is an uninspiring candidate. there is nothing about joe biden that makes you want to listen to him. he should be leaning on people who are more inspiring than him, more charismatic than him, and he should just be -- i guess if you want to call it the brains of the operation, behind the scenes. that sounds crazy that we are saying that about a president of the united states of america, but h
abraham lincoln stood on the blood-soaked grounds of gettysburg, where he inspired americans to lookthe civil war not as a political struggle, but as a fight for human freedom. fdr's fireside chats inspire the nation during the depression and the second world war. jfk inspired the country to go to the moon. >> by some say the moon? why choose this as our goal. they my ask -- they may ask why climb the highest mountain, why 35 years ago fly the atlantic? why does rice play texas? we choose...
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if the federal army if longstreet had just gotten around the flank at gettysburg or or of william scott's, i forget who he was fighting, but william seals had just emerged on little round top that the federal army would have collapsed in the war, would have ended. it's an unreal expectation. we place far too much hope in our past that way. maybe the most important. you look at the before and after. the most important change associated with first manassas is is that it was a gateway or an entry way into an expanding changing war. so after the battle you see north speak with a much greater gravity than they had before. one newspaper man reported men no longer speak lightly of this war or of the manner of conducting it, or of the time or conditions of termination. what is to become the country? where is it all to end? have we been mistaken in our. of this whole subject? is not the war likely to linger for years in the north? the battle inspired, newfound respect for southerners and respect that word in many circles. most circles persist till after mathematics in. new york snap after wrote. a
if the federal army if longstreet had just gotten around the flank at gettysburg or or of william scott's, i forget who he was fighting, but william seals had just emerged on little round top that the federal army would have collapsed in the war, would have ended. it's an unreal expectation. we place far too much hope in our past that way. maybe the most important. you look at the before and after. the most important change associated with first manassas is is that it was a gateway or an entry...