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Understanding 9/11tv Old Barracks Museum CSPAN May 20, 2017 3:48pm-4:01pm EDT
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lincoln and a friend. >> they talked about the everlasting love for each other. towas normal and encouraged be expressive about intimacy and connection and love. i did that is the wages of his relationship. as long as the boundary was strictly maintained. >> breakaway schedule go to c-span.org. ♪ >> c-span where history unfolds daily. in 1979 c-span was created as a cable service by america companies. it is brought to you today by your cable or satellite provider. american history tv visited the old barracks museum in new jersey, coming we will take you opn a tour.
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>> fire. the 18thk about century culture and we talk about how the french and indian war are confused in the minds of most americans. tois a very complicated time see that is why five years we would culturally british to not wanting to be british anymore and to breakaway and be one of the most liberal and a free governments in the world. slide'serruckt initially used by british troops who would have been cornered here in the french and indian war. well the fighting was in new york and pennsylvania they needed a place to come and the wintertime. the british troops brought their troops into the eastern side of
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the county's and the french brother troops into quebec. ,hey were quartered and taverns both filled up pretty quickly and then the crown said i know we are not forcing the quarterly and people's homes, it is wartime, we have to make concessions. you will be paid. troops started showing up in people's homes, they would stay there for the winter. a lot of people were not happy about it. with colonists started a petition, in response the crown set aside some funds to build a barracks throughout new jersey. if you follow the corridor three the york, we have there and to down here. we are the only one still standing today. the building you see is very true to what it looked like in the 18th century with a couple
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of minor changes. balconies would not have existed. they would have straight staircases to the doors. the center staircase that exist because they have archaeological evidence of there some kind of landing. can only assume it would make sense to have a center staircase. the protection of it was built in 1858 and it was billed the following year in 1859. there are two very distinct styles. this squadron that we have is set up from a bunch of material from the french and indian war. , thesere not washington are soldiers fighting for the king of england on behalf of the colonies. we have some materials that are out, we have a jacket that would have been worn by a regular soldier. have fit twos what or three soldiers per bed. for a total of 12-18 soldiers
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room. bad and sayat these they are tiny, they are tiny and short. they were not any shorter people than we are today, their nutrition was pretty good so the average height would have been around five foot eight inches, people were very close together. they would have slept had to tell. you can do deal with what you have, it is better than sleeping on the floor or on the ground. the officer's house on the other hand is much larger and ornate looking. it has a natural stone face it has a very different lifestyle. as you enter into the officer's house you have is really grand hallway, there are two rooms on your left that can be used as
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bedrooms or offices. it was blue room extremely popular among very classy places in the 18th century this is called the long room it would have been used primarily for dining or entertaining. officers would accept visitors who were popular around trenton, they would play games, they went died, they had some of the finest foods around. above the fireplace we have a portrait of george the second, you would have seen this in most homes, especially government buildings. this bed bedroom we have this at up to be designed like junior officers quarters. early 18ty young, cannot they would have been the third or fourth son in a wealthy family purchasing a position for their son in the military.
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he was going to receive a inheritance so he would receive a prominent position. learns where he would about different things on the battlefield. this bed is a little bit more ornate than the officer's house, the whole thing comes apart. it can be brought out in the battlefield, that way you are not sleeping on the ground and it is a lot more comfortable. we have a musket hanging on the and a couple of different recreation things. a lot of these men were educated and work altered and wanted to make that best maintained that it they really did keep a good contact with their families in england. during the spring, summer and
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fall, they get a whole lot of fighting. they were out on the battlefield up near ticonderoga and down in the carolinas. new jersey is a very central point. it is easy to get troops in and out of here. the delaware river is right next to us. you can compose and ships through here. soldiersy to unfold and supplies. before the revolutionary war we have this colony owned the building. there was not a lot to do with it. there was usually a caretaker who lived here on the grounds. there really was not a lot of ordering of soldiers. revolutionamerican it was an empty building for the they would sometimes put soldiers in here and use it as a supply area.
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that in the beginning of the month we had british soldiers here. then the night before the battle hessians were already and trenton and taking over the houses. we believe and this building there may not have been many soldiers but we do believe that they would have been followers who were using them as protection. people who needed protection, they thought they had a very safe way of making them and their families of being safe. they were also swearing their allegiance, say they provided health and assistance. the night of the battle of mostly being women and older women -- men who were following along, they left.
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despite the weather. after the first and second battle happened and it was safely and patriot hands, it took on a incredible life. we do not know if washington ever step put in here, he thought this was a adequate building for running a hospital. said thatn 1777 he all troops needed to be inoculated with smallpox. we have this room set up to look like the office, he was in a position of running the barracks when it was used as a military hospital with the primary purpose of doing smallpox inoculations. they are different than a that people are familiar with. instead of just being a shot in the arm and you will be better by the end of the week this is a full on disease it is a mild
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form of it, it is a a lot form of a very deadly contagious disease that covers your body , if you ared wounds sick you have a fever, you cannot keep food down. you can imagine this room with a couple of pieces of hay on the floor. to fightare so excited for america and the first thing is they are giving a deadly disease. this all happens in the room. i 1780 the american army the building was empty so the state had no need for it they auctioned it off in public and it was purchased from there on it was publicly owned. 1914, the associations came
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together with an agreement that the state wanted a beautiful icon of new jersey's history history and the american revolution. we were the largest city at the time and the largest public building in the state. we were a pretty impressive thing, you came into town and saw a building of this magnitude , just a little bit outside of town it was a pretty domineering site. emblem to maintain this crazy history and this 18th-century history and we want to bring this every day for our visitors. >> our cities tour staff recently traveled to trenton new jersey for its history. learn more about trenton and other stuff that are to our four going to our website. you are watching american history tv, a weekend every weekend on c-span3.
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