at the battle of antietam. the families shared the devotion that you saw in the men and that is what i'm talking about when i tell you i think we need that full picture of the multiple communities that make up and sustain military units to understand their effectiveness or ineffectiveness in war. one last thing i want you to think about. it was interesting to me while writing the book. most of the war historians will tell you that one of the frustrating parts when we are writing is that we do not want to end our book in 1865. they kept writing letters but nobody thought they were particularly important because they were about everyday things. they did not save or donate them. it is hard to trace these men when they get home. , as jack davis mentioned earlier, one of the great things about the digitization of civil war era newspaper is is that you can find them and you can find what they get home. i wanted to find out -- do they come home -- a lot of these guys were in the same company and you were -- and you we

tom almost missed the battle of antietam or sharpsburg. if you join the confederate cavalry, you had to provide your own horse. when he left washington county, he left riding one of his father's horses. they had some land and some horses. the army of northern virginia was north of the potomac on maryland soil, and tom's horse became ill. it was not shot or anything. if he knew what was wrong with the horse, he didn't write about it. he probably didn't know. he wasn't a veterinarian. well the army of northern virginia is not going to take time to find a horse. tom had never been to maryland in his life. he doesn't know anyone. after several hours, he said -- and you can use her own imagination on filling in this potential clue -- he secured a horse. he had no idea where the army of northern virginia was. they were planning to fight along the banks of antietam creek. tom goes riding north, and in the distance, he can hear the sound of the guns. by the time he arrived, the battle had been raging for hours. during the battle, certainly a horre

a medical logistics genius but it's true when she took a wagon train of medical supplies to the antietam battlefield, the doctors on the field the surgeons were binding wounds with corn husks from the nearby cornfield they had run out of sheets from the nearby farm house by tearing them up. she was in the right place at the right time just behind the canon where the action wasn't people lived up to that. the next person to talk about is the least well-known. sarah hale in the mid- 18 hundreds was famous because she was the editor of a women's magazine first the women's journal and then the book she was the editor of the she was also great at attracting american writers and giving them credence in their publication and she paid back in those days a lot of people picked up stuff and just ran it because copyright was pretty loose. a long time would use the magazine as a marching platform. believing that women need to be educated and colleges and poughkeepsie new york raising enough money to establish college and also for them out vernon association so it could be renovated after falling in

his texas soldiers in tight places and argued, we must have more of them following the battle of antietam. in april 1864 when james long streets first core reunited with generally, he declared texans the best fighting brigade in the quarry. -- heired the rival chaired the arrival. expressing his confidence the men would turn the tide of the battle, which they did other confederates, and i am picking non-texans because texans love texans. confederate major general longest day bo smith commented thethe spring of 1862, wo texans won immortal honor. organizediment now and texas could be transported here and armed tomorrow, properly led, they would end the war in three months. dorothy pender county invited to his wife that hoods texas boys were the best material on the continent without a doubt. soldiersow foot agreed. private alexander hunter referred to the texas brigade as the pride and glory of the army of northern virginia. >> learn more about the people at events that shaped the civil war and reconstruction every saturday at 6:00 p.m. eastern here in c-span3. >> next on the presidency, r

they were planning to fight along the banks of antietam creek. tom goes riding north, and in the distance, he can hear the sound of the guns. he arrived, the battle had been raging for hours. battle, certainly a horrendous battle, still the most costly day in our nations casualties,erms of september 17, 1862 in antietam. in the middle of a battle like that, you cannot say excuse me, can anyone point me in the direction of the cavalry? i am looking for jeb stuart and his boys was a mark -- his boys. he just secured his horse. so he takes it to the rear, ties it to a tree -- you don't want shot.orse to get and he joins the battle with the second south carolina infantry. he writes a great deal about that. it was a unique experience for him and it was important for him to find a horse because if you are in the confederate cavalry and you lose your horse, you had better find another one quickly or you are going into the infantry. nothing wrong with boots on the ground at all, but at that point in the war, troopers had grown very fond of life in the sa

tonight conditions in the mountains outside madrid are ideal thanks to a full moon company antietam has a natural light source for his long exposures together with his artistic process the resulting photo acquires a magical quality. and that brings us to the end of dissident of your bags don't forget to visit our web page our check is out on facebook for more about the show plus you can also take part in our current draw for me and the whole team here and ellen thanks for joining us and see you again next time i know. grappling hooks some tricks. expressing feelings i am not very creative yet but i would love to be considered an artist mandate looking for new perspectives. to it and not to be replaced by a previous candidate doing things differently. come to the place where we reflect on society oxycontin. d w. fighting the silent killer asbestos. he grew up near an asbestos factory and today he's an elf filmmaker dannielle lomborg reveals the callous business practices of the asbestos industry the lives of people around the world i've been part. of the asbestos companies are protected

the eastern theater is big fancy battles, gettysburg and antietam, robert e. lee and ulysses s.rant fighting it out. that is mostly what americans think when they think about the civil war. we have done a pretty good job mixing that up and realizing how complicated that is. the western theater, big fancy battles, big fancy armies, but a lot of division and complicated stuff. trans-mississippi theater, the war looks different here. you don't have as many of them -- of the big fancy armies and battles. you have what is called guerrilla warfare or irregular warfare. there are historians who recognize forms of irregular warfare take place throughout the confederacy, but the most explosive and certainly most famous parts of guerrilla warfare takes place in missouri and kansas, which is where we will spend of the class. half in the borderlands -- this here, which is oklahoma, is unorganized territory where native americans are forced to go during the 1830's during the trail of tears, from the expulsions in the southeast. they wind up in indian territory. along the gulf coast and into

another example of clara barton when she had brought this wagon train to antietam she had to pass a trainion wagon train that had guns and ammunition and stuff. she went to the man in charge of the right wagon train and said i would like to jump ahead have medical supplies. no way, you will wait here.so in the middle of the night she got up, got her teamster and off they went. she disobeyed the powers that be and didn't follow instructions. is that a negative or positive? that's a positive. clara barton seemed to be picking on clara barton but as time went on with her american red cross she hated to give up control of it. it became a real thorn in the sign of the people who were trying to run it in a logical organized way. she would drop everything, run out to a disaster and leave everything that had to be done administratively to be done done or not done by somebody else. harriet tubman, wonderful woman every time she saw a need she gave her money and i said come back and ask people for more money. >>. [applause] thank you. if you haven't already purchased the book we have plenty at the

not be appropriate during a crisis, but it does remind me of lincoln showing up at the battle of antietamh his campaign hat. "suck it south!" ( laughter ) yep, that's what he ran on, "suck it south." you don't remember that? >> jon: i don't remember that. >> stephen: up until now, there have been not been enough coronavirus test kits available, but trump says that problem is solved. >> anybody that wants a test can get a test. that's what the bottom line is. anybody right now and yesterday-- anybody that needs a test gets a test. we-- they're there. they have the tests. >> stephen: wow! that is so reassuring and so not true. 1.1 million tests were just distributed for a country of 328 million. so, yeah, no. ( laughter ) ( cheers and applause ) but, according to trump, these tests aren't just everywhere, they're also just the best. >> they have the tests. and the tests are beautiful. the tests are all perfect, like the letter was perfect. the transcription was perfect, right? this was not as perfect as that, but pretty good. ( audience reacts ) >> stephen: so the coronavirus tests are almo

we all believe he was right when he told mcclellan he should pursue the enemy after antietam.all know the agony he went through when george made to not pursue him from gettysburg and how horribly upset he was. at the same time, we celebrate his essential humanity. his ability to appreciate and empathize with the human suffering that was the american civil war. he seems to have been able to do both things at once. to be a man of empathy and of hard action. a president who could order men to their deaths yet genuinely rue the dying. it is this quality of lincoln that we don't often appreciate. we don't often remark upon it. his ability to balance things. he was able in so many aspects of his life to find a proper balance point between extremes. whether it be the intellectual realm, his balancing the constitution's pragmatism with the declaration's idealism or the political realm, his ability to steer a middle course between the radical and conservative aspects of his party. or the personal realm with his lifelong balancing of humor and sadness, fatalism and idealism. abraham lin

brigade talks about the success of this confederate unit despite high casualties at the battle of antietam in his lectures in history, we visit the stony brook university classroom of professor nancy todd who teaches about the 1918 influenza pandemic and u.s. public inspiration -- efforts to stop the spread. at 10:00 eastern on railamerica, 19 57lent invader, a educational broadcast on the a virus that caused a pandemic that killed more than one million worldwide and 116,000 in the united states. that is what is coming up here on american history tv. >> i was going to introduce she has herl but complete credentials here on the screen so maybe i do not need to. our next speaker has for years been at the top of my personal list of speakers i have been wanting to introduce to our audiences. thislked about this and may be your first public speech in richmond, virginia. she is a professor of history for the study of

. >> with the civil war, i first think of great armies clashing at gettysburg, shiloh, and antietam,. but that's the story these miniature vessels tell. when war between the states breaks out in 1861, union general winfield scott creates the anaconda plan. the idea -- blockade southern ports, take control of the mississippi, and, like a huge snake, squeeze the south into submission. the union builds a navy of more than 600 ships. >> they would commandeer boats from people -- ferry boats, paddle-wheelers, anything that floated and they could put a gun on it. >> larry's father, william, made models of many of them. there's the c.s.s. gaines, a wooden side-wheel confederate gunboat built in mobile, alabama. there's the u.s.s. vicksburg and the c.s.s. alabama -- a massive propeller-driven ship built in secrecy in england for the confederacy. all are made precisely to scale. 1 inch here translates to 8 feet on the real vessel. where did this all begin? did dad buy a book on ship building? >> i don't remember anybody ever teaching him how to do this. it's just something you have to be born

graduated military academy, wounded at antietam in the foot. he became fighting joe hooker. actually fighting joe hooker. commanded the army of the potomac in 1863. got very badly defeated at the battle of chancellorsville. got hit on the head by a pillar and he was replaced by general meade before the battle of gettysburg. hooker's men moved from the east to chattanooga before the battle of missionary ridge. he was in command of the 11th and 12th corps in their move to the western theater in an amazing feat of engineering it only took them two weeks to get there by railroad. and this is his forces at ringgold, 46 regiments. 12,532 men in total, divided into four divisions. remember cleburne has one division. four divisions are going to be coming at him. some interesting fellows here. i think peter ustherhouse is very interesting. a prussian. does some good fighting during the war. the most interesting man up there is probably general john w. geary. geary is one of those guys who keeps showing up in different places. he just has a knack for being in some place at one time or

shaffer discusses his experience at bull run and antietam, as well as his severe wounding in 1863 and amputation of a left foot a year later. r. shaffer also examines colley's post-war life detailing with his struggle what we now know as post traumatic stress order. the roundtable hosted this event.

schafer discusses the trooper's experience at key battles such as bull run and antietam and his severe wounding in 1863 and the amputation of a left foot one year later. he also examines his war wr itings and his struggle with what we now call posttraumatic stress disorder. >> thank you again for the invitation to speak here in the old dominion home. i want to take just a couple of seconds to thank two specific groups. long story short, i was invited to speak at a church in washington county in july of 2016. the church was celebrating

association reactivated, folks from texas, one person from australia, and they have been at harpers ferry, antietam, gettysburg, the national civil war museum and we welcome you. we thank c-span for covering this for our national audience. without further ado. [applause] >> hey, everybody thank you for coming out. it has been a wonderful week up here in pennsylvania. i moved to the south about 20 years ago. east texas is still considered south. i moved to mississippi about 10 years ago but spent my first decade here in pennsylvania. it is good to be home. it has been a wonderful week with the association reactivated. but we don't all come to the same conclusions, but we are dedicated to a tremendous amount of learning. it has been a good week. wayne and mary beth, thank you for having me back. this is an outstanding museum. so often we don't become members of museums if we are not in the area. we support the ones we can get to a lot, and it is a wonderful reminder you can still support museums doing wonderful work. we toured this museum yesterday and had a behind-the-scenes to -- behind-the-scenes

discusses the battle of antietam, the amputation of his foot, writings of his postwar life dealing withtruggle of what we now call posttraumatic stress disorder. at 7:00 p.m. eastern, george mason university professor examines the various ways early americans respond to the natural and man-made disasters, as outlined in her new book "inventing disaster: from jamestown to the johnstown flood." at 8:00 p.m., professor jenny martinez teaches a class about the confederacy's economic policies during the civil war. at 8:45 p.m. eastern, a discussion on u.s. and japanese perspectives of world war ii. grandson of an intelligence officer who served under general dwight eisenhower. that's what's coming up here on american history tv. again for the invitation to speak here in the old dominion home. i want to take just a couple of specifico thank two groups. long story short, i was invited to speak at a church in washington county in july of 2016.

at antietam, 23,000 fell in a single day. in one assault at cold harbor 7,000 fell in eight minutes it was reported. in the wars sprawling military camps tens of thousands grew ill and died of killers like measles and dtyphoid fever. in the south homes and farms were destroyed. towns and cities were set ablaze. inflation, shortages and threat of invasion made living hard for many. in the north, as in the south, frequent casualty reports carried grief into countless homes. still the war continued to call america's sons to distant fields of death. alongside a stretch of north carolina beach in late 1864, would unfold a mighty drama intended by northern forces to force an end to this massive bloodbath that surged across america. there, in the mouth of the river the largest joint army-navy operation of the civil war would be staged. if successful, it could place the south in the final stranglehold and could lead the north to a final victory. it would be a deadly contest, a life and death struggle for men in blue from new york, co

he gets to attack the sunken road at antietam and the stonewall at fredericksburg. and chancellorsville. none of this goes well, as you can imagine. and it has an impact on the man. and this is something we always forget when we are examining civil war history. we tend to look at most of its characters as static. what they are at the end and the beginning of the war. we fail to take into account how what they are experiencing is affecting them. a lot of generals are drunks. there is no aspirin. any pain is a bottle. and ptsd was a real thing in the civil war, too. if you have ordered your troops to attack the stone wall at fredericksburg, isn't that going to have an effect on you? some differently than others. it's injected caution into french's character, maybe it's led him too heavily to the bottle. nonetheless, he is the guy in charge of the right wing of the union army. his corps moves late that morning and when he gets to jacobs ford, that is on private land. as most of you are seeing it for the first time. this is to the north. over that ridge. you come down t

mediocre division commander and a very unlucky one, because he gets to attack the sunken road at antietam. he gets to attack the stone wall at fredericksburg. he gets to try to hold assailant at chancellorsville. none of this goes well, as you can imagine. and it has an impact on the man. and this is something, i think, that we always forget when we're examining civil war history. we tend to look at most of its characters as static -- what they are at the end of the war, what they are at the beginning of the war. we fail to take into account how what they're experiencing is affecting them. you know, a lot of generals are drunks. well, remember that there is no aspirin. liquor, any ache and pain, it's a bottle, right? and ptsd, which is something we recognize now, was a problem in the civil war, too. if you ordered your troops to attack the sunken road to attack the stone wall at fredericksburg, isn't that going to have an effect on you? it's going to affect some men differently than others. and i think it's injected caution into french's character. maybe it's led him a little bit too heav