host: outstanding. you are the drummer. wasn't it one of the more dangerous positions to be a drummer in the union or confederate army? >> not really. on the battlefield in the movies, you see five's and drums advancing with the line. that never really happened. what they would do, they would drop their instruments and assist the surgeons and act as stretcher bearers. host: what got you interested in participating in events like this? >> i was friends with his nephew, and in 2007, i decided to join before four mchenry guard. i started off doing war of 1812 events, and i gradually did war of 1812 and civil war events. host: you are the musical coordinator for the national park service. you are in the fort mchenry group. how different was the martial

music from 1812 to 1865? >> very different. it is very stately and marshall and slow in the war of 1812. they were doing a direct step. by the civil, that pace picks up very quick. we demonstrate that at fort mchenry and throughout the bicentennial. we would play "yankee doodle" from the war of 1812 and the civil war to demonstrate those differences. host: there obviously are not recordings available. how do we know what music sounded like? >> there are manuals. we resourced several manuals from both eras that showed the drum beatings and the music. they are very distinctive. you could play "the girl i left behind me" and the word 1812. very few notes. in the civil war, it gets fancier. we have the manual. it is all at our disposal.

we are national park service. we have to uphold those standards and play it right. we don't make it up. what we present is the real deal. we want to play it just as it sounded, so you are getting the right sound from a b-flat fife. this is a tension snare drum. a lot of breast bands have plastic -- brass bands have plastic heads. host: i'm not going to say little drummer boy, but you are a younger guy, but very proficient on the drums. are you a drummer and doing other kinds of music? >> i drummed in middle school, but this is such a big commitment, being in the fort mchenry guard. there are a vends every weekend.

sometimes, you get off school. i don't have time to be in the high school band. this is a lot more fun. host: as you perform for people what do you take away from their reaction to your music? >> i think it is always really nice when people come up and say, you did awesome. most people have never heard a live fight syndrome before -- fife and drum before. it is a really good experience. host: can you give us one more demonstration? >> would you like to hear the 1812 "yankee doodle" and the civil war? we will play that for you. [drum rolling] [playing "yankee doodle"] ♪

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host: thanks so much. screeria -- nigeria. - the

nation's capitol for the national book festival celebrating its 15th year. that's a few of the events this summer on cspan 2's book tv. coming up tonight on cspan 3, american history tv's coverage of the have you been der at eight an mat i-- then a ceremony marking the exact time 150 years ago that general's grant and lee met to discuss terms of surrender. after that is correct we'll hear from two living historians who

portray the generals at the ceremony. and later, remarks on the leg of appotomax with historians. each week american artifacts takes viewers to his forrics sites around the country. on april 9th 1865, confederate general robert e. lee met ulysses s. grant and sun rendered his arm of north virginia effectively ending the civil war. next we visit the confederacy in a appotomax appotomax. >> welcome to the museum of the confederacy of appotomax. i'm listened de lipt lipscomb.

the museum hare opened three years. we are an extension of the museum that was originally founded in 1890 opened in 1896 in richmond virginia. we house here a lot of aircraft facts that were from the confederates. we'll tell you how we got some of the artifacts. here we tend to focus on appotomax because we are in the location. a lot of people ask the question, why appotomax why did lee come here to surrender. it was not his original intend. lee has been looking for supplies. his goal is to find supplies for his men and then turn south to meet with general john ton who was down in north carolina. as he is traveling from petersburg here, gran has been able to effectively block off all of the railroad supplies that lee has waiting for him as he is coming along. he gets into appotomax courthouse