on lectures in history, emporia state university brian craig miller talks about confederate veterans during reconstruction and how many southern organizations founded to aid veterans instead put their money towards large war monuments and pro confederate propaganda. sunday afternoon at 5:00, persian gulf war veteran and author steven d.wiehe recounts his participation in desert shield and desert storm. >> we began digging

history,tures in professor brian craig miller talks about the experience of confederate veterans through reconstruction. he describes how options for support. widely between the southern states. he also argues that many southern organizations founded to aid veterans, instead put their money towards large monuments and pro-confederate. propaganda his class is about 50 minutes. miller: april the 12th, 1865, was the surrender date. robert e. lee, ulysses grant had signed the official document a few days earlier. on that day, the confederate soldiers left in the army in northern virginia went on this long process of walking up, turning over the regimental flag. packing their guns. you can imagine that gun was part of your identity for the last few years of the war, now being turned over to the

. >> on lectures in history, professor brian craig miller talks about the experience of confederate veterans through reconstruction. he describes how options for support very widely between the southern states. he also argues that many southern organizations founded to v

. >> on lectures in history, emporia state university professor brian craig miller talks about the experienceof confederate veterans during reconstruction. he describes how options for support varied widely between the southern states. he also argues that many southern organizations founded to aid veterans instead put their money toward large monuments and pro-confederate propaganda. his class is about 50 minutes. >> on april the 12th of 1865 was actually the real surrender day of the army, the confederate army itself at. the official documents had been signed. on that day, the confederate soldiers who were left of the army of northern virginia went on this long process of walking up, turning over their regimental flags, stacking their guns, which you can imagine that gun as part of your own identity, that symbol of who you were as a soldier for the last few years of the war, now being turned over to the victors in the united states army, and then traveling home, going away, going back to where you came from. now, john dooley was one of the soldiers who actually did not surrender. he actually

history, professor brian craig miller talks about the experience of confederate veterans through reconstruction. he describes how options for support. widely between the southern states. he also argues that many southern organizations founded to aid veterans, instead put their money towards large monuments and pro-confederate. propaganda his class is about 50 minutes. miller: april the 12th, 1865, was the surrender date. robert e. lee, ulysses grant had signed the official document a few days earlier. on that day, the confederate soldiers left in the army in northern virginia went on this long process of walking up, turning over the regimental flag. packing their guns. you can imagine that gun was part of your identity for the last few years of the war, now being turned over to the victors in the united states army and traveling home. going away. going back to where you came from. john julie was one of the soldiers who did not surrender. he went with the confederate government when jefferson davis evacuated richmond and headed west. along the way, as he escaped into the carolinas, he was seeing

weekend on lectures in history, and poirier state university professor brian craig miller talks about the experiences of confederate veterans in the years after the civil war. here is a preview. >> a lost cause doesn't have a lot of room for injured veterans or orphaned children. when you had these organizations spring up, they would put in their mission statements that they were all about raising money to take care of that generation that had been destroyed by the war, but they would use that money to build a or construct gigantic monuments or even to go and battle to write textbooks after the war. organizations,se because they are not representing their own personal pain and damage, they don't want to attend yearly reunions to relive these injuries on a daily basis. this is an important juxtaposition moment in postwar history. we have an entire group of veterans who are struggling, and they don't fit the nicely-packed narratives. it's hard to argue around it in terms of wanting to nitpick particular elements. you have to argue the exact opposite. it becomes a standard set of talking

emporia state university professor brian craig miller talks about confederate veterans during reconstruction and how many southern organizations founded to area veterans put their money towards large war monuments and pro confederate propaganda. sunday afternoon at 5:00, persian gulf war veteran and author recounts his participation in operation desert shield and desert storm and describes soldiers day-to-day activities, harsh conditions and wartime pressures. >> we began digging frantically. we were just a few miles from the border from where these iraqis were going to come across. we started digging as fast as we could. about this far underneath the ground was shale. so the sinking feeling came across, we are digging positions six inches in the ground to withstand the iraqi onslaught. >> at 6:thirty on road to the white house rewind, the race for the 2004 democratic presidential nomination between john kerry and north carolina senator john edwards. for the complete american history tv weekend schedule go to c-span.org. >> the u.s. senate gaveling back-and-forth continued debate on apps and

on lectures in histo history, professor brian craig miller talks about confederate soldiers, sunday afternoonat 5:00 persian gulf war veteran and author steven d. wee recounts his participation in "desert shield" and "desert storm" and talks about harsh conditions and wartime pressures. >> we began digging frantically. we were just a few miles from the border from where these iraqis were going to come across. so, we went up and we just started digging as fast as we could. and about this far underneath the ground was shale. rock. and so the sinking feeling came across is we're digging our positions six inches in the ground to withstand an iraqi onslaught. >> then at 6:30, on "road to the white house rewind" the race for the 2004 democratic presidential nomination between massachusetts senator john kerry and north carolina senator john edwards. for the complete "american history tv" weekend schedule go to cspan.org. >>> so many of my former books were horizontal studies, many countries across a whole region. the ends of the earth, eastward to balkan, covering a minimum of six countries. here i

on lectures and history, state university professor brian craig miller talks about confederate veterans and how southern organizations founded to aid veterans instead put their money towards war monuments. sunday afternoon at 5:00, persian gulf war veteran recounts his participation and operations desert shield and desert storm describes the soldiers day to day activities, harsh conditions and war-time pressures. >> we we began digging frantically, frantically, we were just a few miles from the border from where these iraqis were going to come across, so we went up and we just started digging as fast as we could and about this far underneath the ground was shale rock and so the sinking feeling came across as we're digging our positions six inches in the ground to with stand an on lot. >> at 6:30 on road to the white house rewind, the race for the 2004 democratic presidential nomination between massachusetts senator john kerry and north carolina senator jon edwards. for the complete american history tv weekend schedule, go to cspan.org. >>> next, a forum on the latino vote on the 2016 el

. >> on lectures in history, emporia state university professor brian craig miller talks about the experienceof confederate veterans during reconstruction. he describes how options for support varied widely between the southern states. he also argues that many southern organizations founded to aid veterans instead put their money toward large monuments and pro-confederate propaganda. his class is about 50 minutes. >> on april the 12th of 1865 was actually the real surrender day of the army, the confederate army itself at. the official documents had been signed. on that day, the confederate soldiers who were left of the army of northern virginia went on this long process of walking up, turning over their regimental flags, stacking their guns, which you can imagine that gun as part of your own identity, that symbol of who you were as a soldier for the last few years of the war, now being turned over to the victors in the united states army, and then traveling home, going away, going back to where you came from. now, john dooley was one of the soldiers who actually did not surrender. he actually

on lectures in history, professor brian craig miller talks about confederate veterans during reconstruction and how many southern organizations founded to aid veterans instead put their money towards large war monuments and pro-confederate propaganda. sunday at 5:00, veteran and author steven d.wiehe discussing his participation in desert shield and storm and describes the war-time pressures. >> we began digging frantically. we were just a few miles from the border from where these iraqis were going to come across. so we went up and we just started digging as fast as we could. about this far underneath the ground was shale. rock. and so, the sinking feeling came across is, we're digging our positions six inches in the ground to withstand an iraqi onslaught. >> then the race for the 2004 democratic presidential nomination between massachusetts senator john kerry and north carolina senator john edwards. for the complete american history tv weekend schedule, go to c-span.org. >>> so many of my former books were horizontal studies, many countries across a whole region, the ends of the earth cov