congressional correspondent chad pergram has the story tonight from fredericksburg, virginia. >> morehe nationals number 8 jackson -- >> more than a year without defense. [cheers] months without fans. >> enjoy it let the fun begin. >> the pandemic was a double whammy for the fredericksburg nationals, farm team of the washington nationals. if you build it, they will come they said in field of dreams, yet, when they build a new stadium for 2020, no one came. >> it's quite a blow, you know, to be ready to open a ballpark. the community being ready for it not happening is hard. the financial impact is going to last for a number of years. >> the minor leagues lost 92% of all revenue in 2020. in addition to all these seats being vacant last year, that meant there were no popcorn sales, hot dog sales, and beer sales. bipartisan lawmakers wrote the minor league baseball relief act that would award teams grants to recoup losses. >> you could argue that the federal government shouldn't be involved in helping restaurants or helping a local theater or helping a music venue. exclude minor league b

where is lee going to be used in, leaves the area around fredericksburg. it is the blue ridge mountains. increasing reports on the part of hooker's buys and scouts but pleasanton needs to go out and get more information to hooker as to where lee is. the best way to do it is by going through these gaps. you see the gap at sticker's bill. i'm not doing that. that is on its own, the gap is right here. what is going to happen is for the next several days there will be constant combat has pleasanton is going to get to these gaps to see where is lee's army and stuart is trying to block them from getting past him so it is going to be a very interesting situation. you can see what ocher says, without knowledge of the rebel army, what we are going to see, you are not going to lose a lot of guys but it is intense. it is pretty gruesome in terms of splitting open heads but that is what is happening. to keep pleasanton to look into the shenandoah valley. the first -- has anyone ever been to these battlefields. they are well preserved. it is one brigade of rebels and o

michael harris has worked at the national park service here in fredericksburg, virginia. also forts lot park in new jersey. and at brandy wine battlefield. he's led numerous tours. that have been able to take part of. and was awarded the american revolution war table awarded 2014. his second campaign in germantown was released in 2020. michael to graduated university marilyn washington in the american military university. to close this out welcome michael with general john sullivan, the battle of brandywine. it's put in the bio, and supposed to say go caps because you're a philly fan. but as we know watching the capitals, they're not going anywhere. but our wizards in washington or plain the 76 years. we will just go ahead and have nba competition. which i think you are going to come out on top of. but for those that are going to watch michael i had the recommend both his germantown book which we will put the link to and brandy wine which is speaking about this afternoon. michael, i appreciate you being here. we will go ahead and get started. >> all right, when i agreed t

received her bachelor's degree in historic preservation from the university of washington in fredericksburg. she enjoys drinking craft beer and helping animals of all kinds. we welcome vanessa as she present american revolutionary war from the bottom up. southern theater misconceptions. >> thank you so much. thank you for having me today. i am probably going to be talking to you a little bit about the southern theater and some misconceptions that go along with it. so let me first go over what we consider the southern theater. it seems straightforward enough and it pretty much is. the southern theater includes military engagements that took place in the southern colonies. in the previous presentation, somebody asked about kind of the mid-atlantic colonies. what do we consider the middle of the colonies. and virginia is one of those that was discussed. at least for the course of this presentation, i've focused primarily on the carolinas, georgia and florida. there is a lot of substance to dive into just with those. i figured we can talk about the virginias in a different sense at another poin

received their bachelor's degree in historic preservation from the university of mary, washington in fredericksburg, virginia, and our master's degree and resources interpretation from stephen f austin state university in texas. she enjoys researching family histories drinking craft beer and helping animals of all kinds we welcome vanessa as she presents american revolutionary war from the bottom up southern theater misconceptions. thank you so much phil. alright everyone. hi. thank you so much for having me today. i am hopefully gonna be talking to you guys a little bit about the southern theater and some misconceptions that go along with it. so let me first kind of go over what we consider the southern theater seems pretty straightforward enough and it pretty much is so the southern and southern theater includes military engagements that took place in the southern colonies, and i know in the previous presentation somebody asked about kind of the mid-atlantic colonies. what do we consider kind of the middle of the colonies? and virginia is one of those that was discussed and at least for the cours

we may get isolated severe storms, too, baltimore, d.c., fredericksburg, richmond, damaging wind willeat. and this just happened a couple of minutes ago. the national hurricane center said we now have tropical storm elsa out in the atlantic. it's a weak storm at this point, but this one could be problematic. it looks like it's going to head through the caribbean. the hurricane center has it getting up to 65-mile-per-hour winds over the weekend. that would be just below hurricane strength. it's going to have land interaction with haiti, cuba. but regardless, it looks to be somewhere near florida by the time we get to late monday or tuesday. what strength is yet to be determined. for all of my friends in florida, you've got to keep an eye on this one. for today, heavy rain, showers, very humid in the northeast. middle of the country, not too bad. a little rain in oklahoma. then for the fourth of july weekend, heavy rain unfortunately. the southeast on friday. saturday, not bad. a lot of the country's looking pretty good. the exception will be new york city, cloudy, on-and-off rain. sund

faces at emerging civil war one of our emerging voices if you will john tracy has worked both at fredericksburg and spotsylvania national military park as well as gettysburg national military park. he's done some fantastic work on the website forest this year particularly focusing on gettysburg, but spreading his wings he's going to talk today. you can find a rabbit hole and really fall in and that's what today's topic is today. he's coming to us from the university of west virginia where he is just finishing up his master's degree in public history. ladies and gentlemen, john tracy. all right. hi so today we're going to be spending just a little bit of time on the experiences and in the head of john rankin who you see up on the screen there. we've got a picture of him straight out of the regimental history taken when he's a sergeant because he's going to hold a couple different positions that we'll get to alongside a really nice period image again from the regimental history of their monument on the gettysburg battlefield, which again is going to become pretty important as we move along. so jo

michael harris has worked at the national park service here in fredericksburg, virginia. also forts lot park in new jersey. and at brandy wine battlefield. he's led numerous tours. that have been able to take part of. and was awarded the american revolution war table awarded 2014. his

i did a lot of work on the battle of fredericksburg. rod: before i let you go talk about how you got into giving battle tours? gary: when i moved to northern virginia from wisconsin after i got my masters degree. i joined a roundtable, civil war roundtable called thebull -- called the bull run civil war roundtable. we started tours were members would get together on weekends. in a caravan of cars we would go to battlefields because a huge advantage we had was most of the battles of virginia and maryland and gettysburg were not far away from where we were located, within an hour or hour and a half drive. we would designate different stops on the battlefield where each of us would prepare presentations to give. that is how i got my start. cutting my teeth by giving those kind of tours, over a couple of years. that i lucked into a national tour, done by a civil war society that was in charge of a magazine. then i got hired by a couple of different history groups and local groups and it took off from there. i have been tours -- i have been

host: that is examined fredericksburg, virginia.uestion we are asking, which is more important to you, is it expanding ballot access? protecting voter integrity? you can keep calling in on our phone lines as we take you to the headline from "the austin american statesman" on the latest out of texas on the voting rights site in texas, texas house ok'd absent democrats and senate takes up gop election bill. a state politics reporter with the newspaper, take us to the first part of that headline and explain the latest news out of the state legislator out there in texas. guest: we had a big event on the floor of the house yesterday, as you were explaining earlier. in the house, basically the house cannot do anything, they cannot vote on bills, but one of the few actions that is afforded to the remaining members, in this case, all of the republicans and four democrats to stay behind, one thing they can do is vote to send texas law enforcement officers to compel members for absent ones in the chamber, including the option to arrest member

. -- from fredericksburg, virginia. caller: i support the vaccine, just like anyone else. was apprehensive. however, if there is any possibility of this medicine succeeding in helping all people, i am for it. i did not enjoy the process i had to go through, to get it, but i am thankful that my wife and i both got this, and that i don't have to be worried about having something to give to my child, my grandchild. host: wilbur, if i may ask, at this stage where we are as far as distribution, we are talking about renewed efforts. why do you support the renewed efforts specifically? caller: anything that will help our country and our people. we've always got complaints from people. i believe our leaders today are trying to do something for all people. as a retired military person, i believe that it is absolutely best to help every fellow american in the united states, and this is very little to give, to just deny that something doesn't work. i didn't enjoy the results of the test, it hurt a little bit, but i am thankful i did, and i am happy that i support it. host: wilbur in

received their bachelor's degree in historic preservation from the university of mary, washington in fredericksburg, virginia, and our master's degree and resources interpretation from stephen f austin state university in texas. she enjoys researching family histories drinking craft b

let the authorities find out if it is true or not. >> sam in fredericksburg. the question we're asking in this segment. "washington journal," which is more important? expanding ballot access? protecting voter integrity? you can keep calling in on our phone lines as we take you to the headline from the austin american statesman on the latest out of texas. and the voting rights in texas. texas house okays the arrest for absent democrats. senate takes up gop elections bill. madeleine is state politics reporter with the austin american statesman. explain the latest news out of the state legislature in texas. >> right. we had a big event happening yesterday as you were explaining earlier. the texas house democrats broke quorum in the house. when they do that, the house can't do anything. they can't vote on any bills. they can't move forward. one of the few actions that is afforded to the remaining members, in this case, all the republicans and four democrats who stayed behind. one thing they can do is vote to send texas law enforcement officers to compel attendance