an army colonel, he was killed in the battle of gettysburg. c-span spoke with historian william garvey about the life and death of strong vincent. >> this is a great story of a patriot. strong vincent was born around 1837. the family moved in from waterford, the county seat. his family was well-off. father is a successful manufacturer. at age 14, a good example of the kind of person he was -- he decided he had enough of school. he said to his father, i do not want to go to school anymore. i want to be active. i want to be involved. that is book learning. idleather said, nobody is around me. you are going to work at the foundry. after two years at the foundry, he decided maybe that is not what he wanted to do. he ended up working for his father in the finance department, and now realized he needed education. and so he went off to ultimately harvard. he was a very good student, but not an outstanding one. he was about in the middle of his class. he however was everybody's friend. everybody wanted to get to know him. he was one of these natural .

but wallace went to gettysburg.f attended a redead tags of the alabama monument, which had been placed in 1933. he gave a speech which i won't quote at length. but wallace's speech was very, very clear. the country should, quote, look to the south, end quote, as the true defender, quote, of the rights of states and individuals. wallace also said that the country was on the brink of civil warfare. that also is a quote. and told his colleagues in the senate that if they passed a public accommodations bill, mandating that public accommodations be open, regardless of color, this is wallace, quote, you should make preparations to withdraw all our troops from berlin, vietnam, and the rest of the world, because they need to police america. of course, we talked about the back drop. the civil war centennial occurred with the back drop of the civil rights movement. and of the very violent repression that was sort of -- that african-american -- activists in the south. the freedom summer of 1964 when the three were murdered in

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but wallace went to gettysburg. attended a redead tags of the alabama monument, which had been placed in 1933. he gave a speech which i won't quote at length. but wallace's speech was very, very clear. the country should, quote, look to the south, end quote, as the true defender, quote, of the rights of states and individuals. wallace also said that the country was on the brink of civil warfare. that also is a quote. and told his colleagues in the senate that if they passed a public accommodations bill, mandating that public accommodations be open, regardless of color, this is wallace, quote, you should make preparations to withdraw all our troops from berlin, vietnam, and the rest of the world, because they need to police america. of course, we talked about the back drop. the civil war centennial occurred with the back drop of the civil rights movement. and of the very violent repression that was sort of -- that african-american -- activists in the south. the freedom summer of 1964 when the three were murdered in m

but wallace went to gettysburg.attended a rededication of the alabama monument, which had been placed in 1933 by the united daughters of the confederacy. he gave a speech which i won't quote at length. but wallace's speech was very, very clear. the country should, quote, look to the south, end quote, as the true defender, quote, of the rights of states and individuals. wallace also said that the country was on the brink of civil warfare. that also is a quote. and told his colleagues in the senate that if they passed a public accommodations bill, mandating that public accommodations be open, regardless of color, this is wallace, quote, you should make preparations to withdraw all our troops from berlin, vietnam, and the rest of the world, because they need to police america. of course, we talked about the back drop. the civil war centennial occurred with the back drop of the civil rights movement. and of the very violent repression that was sort of -- that african-american -- activists in the south. the freedom summe

we visited obviously gettysburg, chancellorsville.ny trips to cold harbor, because there really wasn't all that much here. we didn't go to the north anna beat, because it didn't even exist. the overland campaign, which is the campaign that brings grant and lee to where we are now really wasn't the focus of that much american military history, all eyes seemed to be on the earlier battles in the war. what i'd like to do is take a couple minutes to orient you to help you understand why it is the armies ended up down here at cold harbor, and then i'll take a more detailed view of that battle itself. you can understand what happened here and why it's so special. so those of you who heard me talk this morning, if you can put you with me four or five minutes to repeat some background, then i'll move on to some more detailed information. i'd like to think back to the pring of 1864. the war had been going on for some three years, massive casualties and losses. tremendous disaffection in the north with the war. it looked like it would go on for

we visited obviously gettysburg, chancellorsville. we didn't make any trips to cold harbor, though, because there really wasn't all that much here. we didn't go to the north anna battlefield because it didn't even exist. the overland campaign, which is the campaign that brings grant and lee to where we are now, really wasn't the focus of that much american military history. all eyes seemed to be on the earlier battles in the war. what i'd like to do is take a couple of minutes to orient you to help you understand why it is the armies ended up down here at cold harbor, and then i'll take a little bit more detailed view of that battle itself. you can understand what happened here and why it's so special. so those of you who heard me talk this morning, if you can put up with me for four or five minutes while i repeat a little bit of background to get everybody on the same page, then i'll move on to some more detailed information. but i'd like to think back to the spring of 1864, the war had been going on for some three years. massive cas

shiloh for 1862, gettysburg for '63, the wilderness for '64, and then appomattox.ee in these stamps, tara?stamp >> i see that women and african-americans are kept out of them. >> yes, i think that's fair. th. austin? a >> they focus on the military t aspect of the war and not like the political or social implications or aspect.or >> if we think of some of the e books we looked at, it's not -- it's not, we've looked at some stuff about the military conflict, but this is all about the military conflict.erience and tara, you are completely w right.ar there are no women here.we se so it's about men's experience n in the war, presumably. even though we see silhouettes and we could imagine one of thin these is african-american, i nk think the assumption is that they're not. what do you think of the appomattox quote? if you can see the stamp here, appomattox with malice toward none. that's lincoln. right?th that's lincoln's second inaugural. okay.ok with malice toward none. of which seems to me as clear as possibly could be an effort to e kind of print reconciliationist m

the war had not been won after gettysburg. forget gettysburg. forget an teet yum. they all hung in the balance. it all hung in the balance on an afternoon here at fort stevens. my favorite confederate general hard swearing had children out of wedlock, spit tobacco. lee's bad old man of which i have a biography coming out shortly pointing out many of the foibles. he was a fighter. what about eight to ten maybe 12,000 men battle hardened veterans and was becoming a game changer here in this war in the east. how close the invasion, the time line, the citizens soldier, the lawyer, the uniform who oppose succession but went with a state much like robert e lee, never understood that. he was a west pointer. after the war in canada, he used to look across to fort niagra and complain about that barber pole flag, american flag they had to look at every morning. he swore allegiance to it when owe graduated west point. i don't have much truck for early and his comments on the american flag. it's all a matter of delays. it all begins with the previous week starting the fourth o

we visited obviously gettysburg, chancellorsville.dn't make any trips to cold harbor, though, because there really wasn't all that much here. we didn't go to the north anna battlefield because it didn't even exist. the overland campaign, which is the campaign that brings grant and lee to where we are now, really wasn't the focus of that much american military history. all eyes seemed to be on the earlier battles in the war. what i'd like to do is take a couple of minutes to orient you to help you understand why it is the armies ended up down here at cold harbor, and then i'll take a little bit more detailed view of that battle itself. you can understand what happened here and why it's so special. so those of you who heard me talk this morning, if you can put up with me for four or five minutes while i repeat a little bit of background to get everybody on the same page, then i'll move on to some more detailed information. but i'd like toh

this event was part of the gettysburg's institutes annual civil conference.s just under an hour. >> good morning. i will prewarn you today, you will here language that we find repulsive. i will not cut it out because it makes us quiver. we'll get started. on july twelfth, 1864 after failing to defeat robert e. lee's army of northern virginia, lieutenant general grant accompanied major general mead's river of the patomic and pulled away from the fortifications of the harbor and begun to move toward petersberg. some of the troops north of petersberg moved to begin the attack on the city the following day on july 15th. petersberg in 1860 had been virginia's second largest city with a population of 18266 folks. four railroads radiated from the city by 1860. the petersberg railroad ran south to north carolina. the richmond in petersberg obviously connecting those two places. the south side which ran from city point through petersberg to lynchberg. the fcity possessed three iron mills, three plaining mills and factories. these operations were cranking out supplies

he was shot at gettysburg, had a wound in his thigh. he will spend a lot of the campaigns against lee here in virginia in an ambulance. the union's fifth corps will be under a gentleman by the name of warren. general warren is an unusual character, a young man. he had been an engineer, had fathomed little round top at gettysburg. he's something of an odd duck. as a matter of fact, some of his cohorts would laugh at him. i'm sure we all know people like that. that's general warren. general warren also thought a lot of himself, and as you'll see at this campaign, often thought his plans were better than those of his superiors. the union's sixth corps will be in the hands of general sedgwick. he will be shot down by a south carolina sharpshooter at the battle of spotsylvania courthouse. the sixth corps will be beheaded by ambrose wright. horacio ambrose wright is a general that most of you probably have not heard about. and he comes to the sixth corps without much background. the union army will also have within it general ambrose burnside

an army colonel, he was killed in the battle of gettysburg. c-span spoke with historian william garvey about the life and death of strong vincent. >> this is a great story of a patriot. strong vincent was born around 1837. the family moved in from waterford, the county seat. his family was well-off. father is a successful manufacturer. at age 14, a good example of the kind of person he was -- he decided he had enough of school. he said to his father, i do not want to go to school anymore. i want to be active. i want to be involved. that is book learning. idleather said, nobody is around me. you are going to work at the foundry. after two years at the foundry, he decided maybe that is not what he wanted to do. he ended up working for his father in the finance department, and now realized he needed education. and so he went off to ultimately harvard. he was a very good student, but not an outstanding one. he was about in the middle of his class. he however was everybody's friend. everybody wanted to get to know him. he was one of these natural .

. >> studying and memorizing the gettysburg address. >> gluten are free. why do you enjoy it? >> it makes you fat. >> we begin with a call for action from former president jimmy carter. , the deprivation and abuse of women and girls. false interpretation of religious text almost exclusive by powerful male leaders, to proclaim the lower status of women and girls. growing tolerance of violence and warfare following the example set by the u.s. has also played a role as violence has encouraged more violence. for that i'm honored to welcome the 39th president of the united states and the 2002 noble peace prize winner. good to have you with us. >> delighted. >> you have redefined what it's like to be a former president of the united states. you are the only one who won the nobel peace prize after leaving the white house. you have traveled all over the world, doing humanitarian efforts from the carter center to habitat for humanity. you have written two does books. that? >> as a matter of fact, this is my 28th book. >> i apologize! >> the carter center is active in 79 different count

with the exception of a great victory at gettysburg a hard luck army who was well equipped, large, and slow. the army's sprawling winter camp in northern and virginia rant but in every available eastern unit until he had over a hundred thousand men. across the river was the army of northern virginia. weaponry. his army thought superbly and moved past. 42 miles away. instead of clearing wilderness his army stopped there that night to secure the wagon train. he will -- it was a mistake. a glittering opportunity that he did not waste. when may 5th ghandi -- is second quarter suddenly appeared on the turnpike. the union's fifth quarter advanced on the rebels fighting exploded along road and into the woods. his men repeled all of the union attacks. fighting spread when the third quarter arrived. and all that initially stood between the rebels and the road which is cut would have led to his offensive at the very beginning was a single regiment. the fifth new york cavalry fought brilliantly. the infantry division stop to the troops in a bloody battle and left the woods and flames. the second

this is not gettysburg or shiloh, or even the seven days. here we don't think of gallant charges, tactical successes, or feats of individual bravery. we think of death. we think of the two waves of u.s. troops who launched themselves, uselessly against deeply entrenched confederates and were mown down in staggering numbers. we think of the four days in which the wounded moaned and screamed for help in no man's land as they died, parched, in pain, afraid. and we think of that photograph. do you know the photograph i mean? in the photograph, a litter sits on the ground. its bearer kneels behind it. addressing the camera, with a steely gaze. in the background, four more men are stooped at their labors. these five are the living actors in this scene. but they are not the actors who draw our attention, who make this john reiki photograph one of the most haunting and macabre of the civil war. no, what draws our attention is not the living. it is the dead. how can we not look in this photograph, into the hollow, staring eye sockets of the five skul

a year later, and while americans continue to flock to gettysburg, enthuse amp for the war inquy 64 has diminished. this shouldn't surprise us. the battles that raged across virginia beginning in early may 1864 that eventually stretched from the rappahannock to the apamatic river here in petersburg fail to excite in the way that battles from the first half of the war do. armies no longer march long distances to engage one another in what could be decisive battles. gone are the daring maneuvers orchestrated by stonewell jackson where jeb stuart's ride around the clone. we yearn for the open fields of . . seems more civilized compared to what is to come. battle battles at cold harbor lock the battles ogether on confusingthe landscapes mired in blood, day in and day out, with mounting casualty lists and no end in sight. there are plenty of acts of bravery to react on both sides and the rank and file largery remain committed to their respective causes, but 150 years later, it is difficult to find meaning in the midst of such blood letting. and then there is the petersburg campaign. for most

and it's movies like lincoln and gettysburg that draw that desire to learn more.d for us the teachers, we have to give them the tools. >> right. >> to help them depict what is fact and what is not fact. but i think lincoln will have a better -- i think it's more of a positive in that it will hopefully draw people to want to learn more about lincoln. >> sure, but you agree with me, right? at the heart of the movie, there is this depiction of bribery that lincoln is not only aware of but he condoned. >> true. >> yeah. >> that's pretty dark. >> i know, it's very dark, and you compare it to modern-day politics where, you know, you have congress that's been doing insider trading for years. >> yeah. >> and all of these other things that lends to support what this movie unfortunately is saying. Ñ puts your finger right on it because everyone including tony horowitz and steven spielberg are comparing this to modern-day politics. it's a lesson more about modern day politics in some ways than 19th century politics. 19th century politics were corrupt, but it was difnt

what was the weather at the gettysburg address? could the flag have been flying? and the several hundred page screen play gets shrunk down to a few months. so there are ways. they're saying can mary lincoln wear this? can she wear that? well, she was actually wearing black. she was in mourning. but the larger authenticity of the film was to portray her as a vain shopaholic, someone difficult. so she wasn't accurate. if i had been someone who said, no. she must wear the black, otherwise it's inaccurate, you know, i think it would have -- just trying to give you concrete examples. i don't think it is quite so mean spirited they don't want to lear it but i am saying i found most people doing period pieces have their ideas in mind, have their scripts ready for the stamp of approval. can you go through and take the three things we will have to eliminate or change? you know, it depends of course. many other film makers as i said especially documentarians are amazing the way they absorb and they consider they are taking a course and i am very grateful someone like tony d

what was the weather at the gettysburg address? could the flag have been flying?the several hundred page screenplay gets shrunk down to a few months. there are ways. what is the question? can mary lincoln wear this or that? she was actually wearing black, she was in mourning. the larger authenticity of the film was to portray her as a vain shopaholic, someone difficult. she was not accurate. if i was someone who said no, she must wear the black otherwise it is inaccurate, i think -- i am trying to give you concrete examples. i don't think it is quite so mean-spirited that they don't want to hear it. but i am saying most people doing period pieces have their ideas in mind, their script ready for the stamp of approval. can you pick the three things we have to eliminate or change? it depends -- many other filmmakers are amazing the way they absorb and they consider they are taking a course. i am very grateful that someone like tony did read so widely and was able to bring lincoln to life through words that i felt like i was listening in to the people i knew. he was i

subsequently, battlefields at antietam, shiloh, gettysburg, and vicksburg will be created in the first era of preservation and commemoration of the civil war, on the very ground where it occurred. today, this national military park, with its units at the chickamauga battlefield, on lookout mountain, the small areas preserved here on missionary ridge still tells this story, a vital story in the course of our nation's history, an important part of deciding how the civil war turned out. you can read about our countries but here youoks, can walk some of the very ground where those decisions were made. even though here on the chattanooga battlefield today you are mostly in an urban environment, you can still stands near to where ulysses s. grant stood. look at that profile of missionary ridge. a little bit about the difficulties he faced in dealing with the confederates on that formidable piece of terrain . amazed, whenng, union troops charged up that steep slope. you can drive along crest road and see the monuments markers along missionary ridge. how those union troops could charge up the

make no mistake, it was not gettysburg. it was a little toll house, that was the fullest extent that the confederate forces at ft. stevens came on the afternoon of july 11th and 12th changing the course of the war and the course of us, today. quite frankly. we don't yet really know where lincoln stood. i think he stood all over the place. lincoln never stood still. he was over at ft. stevens. but we really don't know, for sure. despite the lovely stone and relief out there at ft. stevens. i'm 75 years of age, folks. i remember things differently. that's their monoyumt. we don't know that the justice of the supreme kourts really uttered one of those immortal words, get that damn fool down. veterans, as well as the owner of the ft. steven's property that also shouted get that fool down. horatio wright said he couldn't protect him. so finally, lincoln condescendingly gets down off of his perch. urbanized washington took over. still, washington forts are yet another of washington's many monoyumtss that have transitioned in purp

as part of the national park system, places like gettysburg and spotsylvania will forever be an importantof our shared national identity. thousands of visitors from around the world visit these sites, and other civil war sites year after year so that we will never, ever forget what happened here. and why are we constantly drawn to remember? josh wow chamberlain who many of you know is a college professor, a soldier, a colonel and then a general after the war became a great advocate for the preservation of special places like we are on today. he explained, perhaps, better than anyone else his own connection to the great fields of the civil war. he said, in great deeds something abides. on great fields something stays. so think about that. something stays. understanding this is no academic exercise. the required no great study. it requires only your presence, like that of today. it requires a place to remember. it requires your mind's eye and the -- when the words of those who were here, like we heard when we kicked off the ceremony today. as you come to these places to celebrate this comme

is in its sixth year and has been partnering with nps areas throughout the 150th observance from gettysburg to harper's ferry, antietam and in 2014 with fredricksburg and spotsylvania national military park. john ashley will also begin by leading us in the pledge of allegiance today, joined by jesse o'cain the director of educational programs for the journey through hallowed ground. john? >> can i ask that we all stand, and remove our hats for the pledge of allegiance. i pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of america and to the republic for which it stands one nation under god indivisible with liberty and justice for all. dilapidation and decay marked the course of everything at old laurel hill. both people and place are gradually falling into ruins. an air of suffocating loneliness reigns, as the shades of everything come on. the wind has a particular howling sound, as if ghosts and witches were mourning over the sad remain. this is a quote from catherine coos' diary which supports us -- which supplies us with a woman's and unionist account of the civil war in 1864. she is m

what was the weather at the gettysburg address? could the flag have been flying?nd the several hundred page screen play gets shrunk down to a few months. so there are ways. they're saying can mary lincoln wear this? can she wear that? well, she was actually wearing black. she was in mourning. but the larger authenticity of the film was to portray her as a vain shopaholic, someone difficult. so she wasn't accurate. if i had been someone who said, no. she must wear the black, otherwise it's inaccurate, you know, i think it would have -- just trying to give you concrete examples. i don't think it is quite so mean spirited they don't want to lear it but i am saying i found most people doing period pieces have their ideas in mind, have their scripts ready for the stamp of approval. can you go through and take the three things we will have to eliminate or change? you know, it depends of course. many other film makers as i said especially documentarians are amazing the way they absorb and they consider they are taking a course and i am very grateful someone like tony did

the war had not been won after gettysburg. forget gettysburg. fee eforget antetum.they all hung in the balance. it all hung in the balance on an afternoon here at fort stevens. my favorite confederate general hard swearing had children out of wedlock, spit tobacco. lee's bad old man of which i have a biography coming out shortly pointing out many of the foibles. he was a fighter. it was the last thing he had as an instrument of war. he appeared with about eight to ten, maybe 12,000 men battle hardened veterans and was becoming a game changer here in the war in the east. how close the invasion, the time line, the citizens soldier, the lawyer, the uniform who oppose succession but went with a state much like robert e lee, never understood that. he was a west pointer. after the war in canada, he used to look across to fort niagra and complain about that barber pole flag, american flag they had to look at every morning. he swore allegiance to it when owe graduated west point. i don't have much truck for early and his comments on the american flag. it's all a matter of d

you have these lovely little battle maps here at gettysburg that shows this regiment, this place at 10:00 a.m. and 10:15, at 10:30. we don't have that with the crater because people are just too mingled up, all sense of cohesion of a battlefront is lost on both sides, north and south. and so it's unclear how many people are stuck in the crater. they're stuck in there well enough for one survivor to say that the men who were dead couldn't fall and the living were squirming beneath their feet and blood is running into the tops of their shoes. so i don't know how many that is, but most people on the outside trying to move forward but the problem is they didn't know that these honeycombed bombproofs were behind the battery or a whole other line of confederate earthworks there or that the confederates have just right positioned their artillery to have this enfilading fire, crossfire directly into what had been elliot's salient. they thought they knew were all cannon were. >> disclaimer. this may be a controversial question. >> yes. >> when the black soldiers were captured and they were goin

and it's movies like lincoln and gettysburg that draw that desire to learn more.d for us the teachers, we have to give them the tools. >> right. >> to help them depict what is fact and what is not fact. but i think lincoln will have a better -- i think it's more of a positive in that it will hopefully draw people to want to learn more about lincoln. >> sure, but you agree with me, right? at the heart of the movie, there is this depiction of bribery that lincoln is not only aware of but he condoned. >> true. >> yeah. >> that's pretty dark. >> i know, it's very dark, and you compare it to modern-day politics where, you know, you have congress that's been doing insider trading for years. >> yeah. >> and all of these other things that lends to support what this movie unfortunately is saying. Ñ puts your finger right on it because everyone including tony horowitz and steven spielberg are comparing this to modern-day politics. it's a lesson more about modern day politics in some ways than 19th century politics. 19th century politics were corrupt, but it was different. t

we visited obviously gettysburg, chancellorsville.e any trips to cold harbor, though, because there really wasn't all that much here. we didn't go to the north anna battlefield because it didn't even exist. the overland campaign, which is the campaign that brings grant and lee to where we are now, really wasn't the focus of that much american military history. all eyes seemed to be on the earlier battles in the war. what i'd like to do is take a couple of minutes to orient you to help you understand why it is the armies ended up down here at cold harbor, and then i'll take a little bit more detailed view of that battle itself. you can understand what happened here and why it's so special. so those of you who heard me talk this morning, if you can put up with me for four or five minutes while i repeat a little bit of background to get everybody on the same page, then i'll move on to some more detailed information. but i'd like to think back to the spring of 1864, the war had been going on for some three years. massive casualties and lo

this event was part of the gettysburg college civil war institute annual conference. it is about one hour. [applause] >> good morning. i will pre-warn you, we will hear language that we find repulsive. i will not cut it out. we will get started. in june 1864, after failing to defeat robert e lee's army, ulysses s. grant and a portion of the army of james pulled away and began the movement toward petersburg to begin the attack, petersburg in 1850 was the second largest city with a population of 18,266 folks. since the war of 1812, it had been referred to as the -- city. four railroads radiated. the petersburg railroad which ran south to weldon, south carolina. the richmond and petersburg connecting the two places. the south side which ran from city point, modern-day through petersburg to lynchburg. and north of petersburg. in addition to petersburg's railroads, they contained 4 caught in males. these operations, the discussions we were having about the importance of places will be cranking out supplies and food confederacy. in addition to that, the confederacy operated

of all was to include scholars on-screen as extras in the 1983 film "adaptation of killer angels gettysburgen if we are brought on for advisors we may have crucial contributions to the screening of slavery. many of my colleagues had strident objections to blacks in spielberg's "lincoln" or interpretation or omission of the american african presence. i myself was impressed with the film and know it had limitations and nevertheless overwhelmed by its artistry and impact and in disclosure i did consult on the costumes and met with sally field more obsessed on lincoln than she was. i appreciated the complexity of the two african-americans with whom lincoln had the most constant and significant contact during his years in the white house. i thought the filmmakers did a powerful job in this particular portrait of racial dynamics within the walls of the executive mansion. as i discussed with eric phoner during the interview of civil war times and the length of our discussion was cut to fit the magazine. i remember distinctly defending tony kushner who can well defend himself and talking about the

. >> soldier from battle of gettysburg is making history with the medal of honor. an american guys fighting for the terror group isis and syria. details on the chicago connection in a live report. >> celebrations in the mideast with a cease-fire deal in place. one of the latest. >> today is the day, jackie robinson little the u.s. champions get a victory parade through the city. we will be all over the details. >> cannot wait. good morning and tonya francisco. >> i and erin mcelroy, looks good demetrius ivory. >> rain on the parade. slight chance for showers but not a big chance, good news is showers not thunderstorms. you guys will be working at all day. >> i am in the chopper. >> 71 oaklawn, elmhurst 70. satellite reader composite, showers will to the north. widely scattered showers, about is what we can expect early today. before 10:00 a.m.. as we get on into the latter part of the day, really during the parade our chance for rain shift from chicago to the south of interstate 80. that is good news. 77 degrees by 5:00 p.m., 68 tonight. >> inbound kennedy, fairly

just in terms of monument placement here at gettysburg. at the same time though, it is the idea being remembered as honorable and just the terms of how you want to be remembered. >> yeah. definitely. yeah, val, that is great. and way to work the civil war into it. we need to. we are here at gettysburg college. the story though, i think this is a great analysis. this is really well done. when the story is read, it is read as -- the one word that natalie was using. soldier trauma. the feelings of alienation from family. this, theyrpret interpret this struggle. do you see that as the take away from the story? do you see wider importance? a question i love to ask all of you -- if you're explaining the story to someone who does not know anything about the first world war, how would you explain it in a few sentences? run-on sentences, like hemingway, right? [laughter] and it was good. i caught the fish and i ate the fish, and it was delicious. he would not say delicious. he was say was good. i caught the fish. i threw my line out. i caught the f

it was like, what was the weather at the gettysburg address? could the flag have been flying?and then the several hundred-page screenplay gets shrunk down to a few months. so what is the question like? they're saying, can mary lincoln wear this? can she wear that? i say, well she was actually wearing black, she was in mourning, but the larger authenticity of the film was to portray her as a vain shopaholic, to portray her as someone difficult, and so she didn't -- she wasn't accurate. if i had been someone who had said no, she must wear the black, otherwise it's inaccurate, you know, i think it would have -- i'm just trying to give you concrete examples. i don't think it's quite so mean-spirited that they don't want to hear it, but i am saying that i've found most people doing period pieces have their ideas in mind, have their scripts ready for the stamp of approval. can you go through and tick the three things that we will have to eliminate or xhang? i'm -- it depends, of course, many other film makers as said i find are amazing the way they absorb and they consider that they

a radar, showers drifting out of pennsylvania, gettysburg, along 15, through carroll county in frederickounty. sprinkles down towards gaithersburg. a little bit of moisture continuing through the overnight. the bulk continues to drift to the south. as the high pressure builds in from the north, the dry air will replace the moist, comfortable air. the dew point is sticky, dry air. the dry air continues to move in, more of a comfortable feel. a better weather pattern will sink south, replacing the unsettled conditions with more settled weather and dry conditions. we start with clouds tomorrow, but through the day improving conditions with dry air moving in, sunshine breaking out. fairly comfortable, the temperature on either side of about 80 degrees. at the top, not a named system yet, but tropical depression 4 is churning to the south and east over the turks and caicos, impacting some parts of the dominican republic, east of cuba, southeast of the bahamas. the latest from the national hurricane center, the wind at 35, just shy of 39 which is the tropical system. it could become a system b

this is part of the gettysburg college civil war institute of the summer conference. it's about an hour. >> before we get started, the map you see up here is a campaign map on the left side. the inserts there or the smaller maps indicate the main battles. i know it's probably difficult for those of you in the back of the room to see the small details and maybe read the print, and so, what we did or actually, what pete's staff did is include this in your maps and handouts books. so hopefully most of you have this. if you turn to page 9, you'll see this map in there. you might want to refer to this, this is probably a little easier to read. but we'll be making frequent or i'll be making frequent reference to this campaign map, which will help us understand the course of the campaign. as general and chief of all union military forces in the spring of 1864, u.s. grant devised a grand strategy of coordinated offenses by a number of union armies stretching from louisiana all the way to virginia. and as you know already, the two most important of these offensives were those