gettysburg. >> i yo knew about it. i was not that interested as a little kid. >> some people said, didn't he lose, wasn't he a loser? that is the way a lot of history books talked about, pickett's charge. >> did you bury your head. >> i did that one time, i didn't know enough to defend him. >> someone that knows a lot about general pickett, civil iar historian earl earl coats, i mem on the battle feel. >> you are one of the icon excites of the civil war. >> what was pickett's contribution? >> general pickett to that time was known as a confederate commander, but after the charge he was known world over. >> pickett's under james long street in july 1 1863 in gettysburg. commanded by general robert elee. >> he was looking for a great victory on union soil. >> federal army holds high ground, lee orders a controversial attack, an assault on center of the union line, general pickett's troops are assigned to brake through the middle. >> quit right now we're on the confederate side. >> on the ground that pickett's division ca

it's a far cry from his famous great-great grandfather who fought at gettysburg. growing up did your family ever discuss that you had a connection to that battle? connection to that battle? i was not that interested as a little kid. >> some people said, didn't he lose, wasn't he a loser? that is the way a lot of history books talked about, pickett's charge. >> did you bury your head. >> i did that one time, i didn't know enough to defend him. >> someone that knows a lot about general doing that one time. i didn't know enough to defend him. >> someone who does know a lot is civil war historian earl coates. i meet him on the gettysburg battlefield. battlefield. pickett's charge. he c >> you certainly are. this is one of the iconic sites of the civil war. >> what was pickett's's wate contribution? >> general pickett to that timet was a certainly known as a confederate commander but after the charge he was known the n world over. >> pickett serves under general james longstreet in july, 1863 here at gettysburg in the army of northern virginia, commanded by general rob

and he went on to live a long life amazingly despite the events of the battle of gettysburg. before the civil war, dan fickles, as a congressman, was involved in a duel of sorts with the son of francis scott key. francis scott key's son had been engaged in a relationship with fickles' wife and he took issue and called him out on lafayette square. fickles killed key. he made a claim, he claimed that he had become so enraged by learning of this affair, that he had become temporarily insane. the jury was convinced by his argument and he is now known as the first person not being found not guilty by by reason of insanity. he had quite a name in washington circles. after the start of the war, he talked his way into a commission and eventually was elevated to commander of the third corps and found himself assigned to play a role in the battle of gettysburg. and a story well recounted by folks who know the gettysburg story well, he was not inclined not to follow orders and led his men ahead of the union line and suffered for it. his men were almost unilaterally slaughtered and dan h

and he went on to live a long life amazingly despite the events of the battle of gettysburg.efore the civil war, dan fickles, as a congressman, was involved in a duel of sorts with the son of francis scott key. francis scott key's son had been engaged in a relationship with fickles' wife and he took issue and called him out on lafayette square. fickles killed key. he made a claim, he claimed that he had become so enraged by learning of this affair, that he had become temporarily insane. the jury was convinced by his argument and he is now known as the first person not being found not guilty by by reason of insanity. he had quite a name in washington circles. after the start of the war, he talked his way into a commission and eventually was elevated to commander of the third corps and found himself assigned to play a role in the battle of gettysburg. and a story well recounted by folks who know the gettysburg story well, he was not inclined not to follow orders and led his men ahead of the union line and suffered for it. his men were almost unilaterally slaughtered and dan him

we featured specimens during the battle of gettysburg in 2013 and 2014.n 2015, our exhibit will feature artifacts and specimens from the last few months of the civil war and so visitors should look to see that on display when they visit. so as we continue through our civil war medicine exhibit, we come across the story of captain henry wertz. he is known for his infamous role as the commander of the andersonville prison a p.o.w. , camp run by the confederate army and known for its terrible conditions. it interred thousands of union soldiers and upon their release, the stories came out about the treatments that they underwent while prisoners of war. he was accused of a number of these crimes and claimed that he could not have committed some of those crimes, because of an injury to his right arm. well, wertz was tried and convicted and his claims failed to convince a jury and he was executed. he was executed for his crimes. after his execution, an examination of his arm, which we have in that jar, showed no loss of use of any part of his arm disproving the

, out of gettysburg into richmond, from richmond down to selma. her appeal kept working. it not only worked in the 1800s, but in 1965. when some folk were in jeopardy of not taking it over the bridge her appeal touch the heart of lyndon johnson and he federalized troops so they could make their way to montgomery alabama. i'm here to tell you today that our vote is necessary, our marching is necessary, but these don't get off your knees. remember that when we talk to the one who can make a difference he will send the army to fight our battles. harder yet maybe the fight sometimes right will yield to might. wickedness may rain and satan's cause may be there but there is a god who rules with a hand of power and a heart of love. and if we are right, and we are right, he will fight for us. [applause] >> i know i'm out of order but if we are going to get to this bridge

. >>> franklin county sits on the outskirts of gettysburg, pennsylvania, a must-see for tourists and military historians alike. but the locals found the lives of melvin and joanne snyder for more interesting than those civil war battlefields. on saturday, may 25, 1985, joanne snyder left for work around 5:30 a.m. she baked pies for a local diner. when she returned home around noon, her 43-year-old husband melvin was gone. and so was his truck. >> she looked around for him, and observed some things that she felt were out of the ordinary. first of all, he left his tools out. melvin snyder was very meticulous about his things. he was very careful about his things. he wouldn't have just left his tools laying about. >> joanne called some of her family to come over and help look for melvin. >> while searching the property a family member found a .25-caliber shell casing on the barn floor. but there was no blood evidence anywhere nearby. >> a bullet like that will usually not travel through a human body. if it does not travel through, you usually do not get blood running anywhere. it's not

the gettysburg address is on the south side. what people remember about it is -- of course the last phrase is what people remember the most, and why that page was displayed the most, that it's pretty extraordinary after four years of civil war, after hundreds of thousands of deaths, the treasure involved, the lincoln goes into the future, with malice towards none, with charity for all, that that kind of generosity isn't something you would necessarily expect. that was not frederick douglass's favoriete part of the speech. he called the speech a sacred effort, but he concentrated more on the passages of slavery, that this war was about commentating in some sort of larger sense for the sin of slavery, and that is where you get that for every drop taken from the lash will be paid with one from the sword. for african americans -- or member, this war was the war that illuminated slavery, that while abraham lincoln was giving this speech, the 13th amendment had been put out to the states and the 13th amendment was what had abolished s

. >> hundreds of tales from the battlefield at gettysburg, pearl harbor gettysburg, pearl harbor theyto be more sightings or reports. >> if i can this is a really touching part. over 4500 human remains were recovered. that adds up to as many spirits that can be wandering around. ♪ bill: a story you have been chasing about a young wife who is missing and presumed murdered. her husband is in custody. they have charged his mother. >> as her husband sits in jail for murder family friends and investigators are still searching for the body. another arrest has been made arrested for helping him conceal the body and destroy evidence. gave a written statement. we believe he played a major role in helping her son conceal the crime. assisted in the efforts. she has since been released on bail. the last time i tried to get comment i knocked on i knocked on the door and they called the police on me. >> the cops are about to talk to me. we even searched the ground surrounding the house for hours searching for any clue you know, she had a feeling that a feeling that the family knew something and was

>> well lee certainly looks back at gettysburg and has never given explanations for why gettysburg has failed. he says he's not getting good intelligence because jeb stewart has disappeared. jeb stewart as some of you know lee's cavalry commander and he goes on, basically a joyride before gettysburg, and lee relies on him for intelligence. he believes his corps commanders don't act in unison and even picket's charge could have succeeded if they had proper artillery support but no one told him they were running low after that initial bombardment. he does feel that he's running out of time, he has to destroy the union army. and if you go back actually to chancellorsville -- i mentioned this earlier -- and you look at robert e. lee's attitude after of the battle of chancellorsville, he's furious that joseph hooker manages to escape. and the final position was a pretty strong position x robert e. lee was planning to run a frontal assault, but hooker withdraws that night. and so in some sense hooker makes the greatest mistake of his life by retreating, and he saves robert e. lee from making

>> well, lee certainly looks back at gettysburg and has a number of different explanations for why gettysburgfails, he says. he's not getting good intelligence because jeb stewart has disappeared. jeb stewart, as some of you know lee's cavalry commander, and he goes on -- basically what's a joyride before gettysburg, and lee relies on jeb stewart for intelligence. he believes his corps commanders don't act in unison, and he believes even at pickett's charge maybe it could have succeeded, but no one told him they were running low on artillery. i think it's a moment of frustration for lee. he does feel he's running out of time, he has to destroy the union army. and if you go back actually, to chancellorsville -- i mentioned this earlier -- and you look at robert e. lee's attitude after the battle of chancellorsville, he is furious. he's furious that joseph hooker, who's then a union general, manages to escape. and, actually, a lot of confederates think that hooker's final position at chancellorsville was a pretty strong position and robert e. lee was planning to order a frontal assault against

gettysburg was the turning point. appomattox is where the nation reunited, at least that's what the billboard used to say. appomattox seemed to capture the simplicity of the whole thing. and of the story. all of these things are ingrained deeply in our culture, in our memory, some of them appear in school curricula across our land. if you will, think for a minute about the memories of your own life, our memories are always far simpler than the lives were as we lived them. they are neatly organized, far more organized than our expense actually was. the same is true for our national memories. we compile it into distinct periods of time with distinct characteristics characterized by ideas or facts, simplicities that become conventional wisdom. more than that, these nuggets of conventional wisdom that run through our history, through our culture, often become over time governed by rigid rules. especially when there are people who have a personal stake in the history that we are talking about. now, what happens to violator

get is it addresses on the south side. -- the gettysburg address is on the south side. people remember -- the last phrase. why that page was display the most. it is pretty extraordinary after four years of civil war after hundreds of thousands of deaths, the treasure involved in prosecuting the war that lincoln goes into the future with "malice toward none with charity for all." that that kind of -- that kind of generosity is something you would not necessarily expect. the other thing, that was actually not frederick douglass's favorites part of the speech. but he concentrated more on the passages with slavery, that this war was about compensating in some sort of larger sense for the sin of slavery. that is again where you get that "for every drop taken from the lash will be paid with one from the sword." for african-americans, remember this war was the one that eliminated slavery. while abraham lincoln gave the speech, the 13th amendment had been put out to the states. it abolished slavery. so the 13th amendment that had been proposed in 1861 was to leave slavery alone

this was the first booklet form, official version, of the gettysburg address.i thought it was interesting that when you look over to eve rett's speech goes on and on, and i did not see applause very often, but when you look at the short speech that many of us had to learn as schoolchildren, the speech lincoln gave, on the last page, you see where they put all of it right here, they put "[a pplause]" in brackets. this was recorded by a couple of newspaper people as well as various handwritten versions. there are several and there is controversy about, did he say this word or that word that might be different from the way it is written? it was not remarked at the time as a terrifically powerful piece of oratory. it was only later as years went by that the grace of his simple language, as opposed to the ornate, flowery language of the famous or eight or -- orator, faded away. most people would not even know who edward everett was. everyone would know lincoln was there. he had a very graceful, eloquent speech. he said everything that needed to be said. lincoln was

gettysburg was the turning point. appomattox is where the nation reunited, at least that's what the billboard is to say. appomattox seemed to capture the simplicity of the whole thing. into the story. all of these things are ingrained deeply in our culture in our memory, some of them appear in school curriculums across our land. if you will, think for a minute about the memories of your own life, our memories are also -- always far simpler than the lives were as we live them. they are neatly organized, far more organized than our expense actually was. the same is true for our national memories. we compile it into distinct periods of time with distinct characteristics characterized by ideas or fax -- facts simplicities that become conventional wisdom. more than that, these nuggets of conventional wisdom that run through our history, through our culture, often become over time governed by rigid rules. especially when there are people who have a personal stake in the history that we are talking about. now, what happens t

one would ask, i have not heard that name since gettysburg. it has been two years since you have heard someone in this auditorium talk about george pickett, and that is because they are decimated. many of those men captured at -- as prisoners of war have been lounging at the federal resorts set up for them, but by the spring of 1865, they have been sent back into the army. they have it -- they have been exchanged back into service. now, one of the largest services robert lee has available is of george pickett's gettysburg fame. they, under the new leader roberts e. -- robert e. lee's nephew fitz lee, and it will be there where pickett will luddy sheridan -- bloody sheridan's nose, which could have been the worst thing he could've have done because as i started the civil war there is no human being i would fear more rather than to serve with or against than the 33-year-old phillip sheridan in 1865. you did not get in his way. you did what he wanted. by pickett stopping him, he asked for support from the infantry. he did not like the answer that

the second inaugural is on the north side, the gettysburg address on the south side. is, of course, the last phrase is what people remember the most and why that page was display the most. that it is pretty extraordinaire, after four years of civil war, after hundreds of thousands of deaths, you know the treasure involved in prosecuting the war, that lincoln goes into the future with malice towards none with charity towards all. that kind of generosity is something that you wouldn't necessarily expect. the other thing -- that was exley not rhetoric douglas's favorite part of the speech, though. he called the speech a sacred effort. but he concentrated more on the passages of slavery. that this war was about compensating in some sort of larger sense for the sin of slavery. and that is, again, where you get that for every drop taken from the lash will be paid with one from the sword. so for african-americans remember, this war was the war that eliminated slavery. while abraham lincoln was giving the speech, the 13th amendment had been put out to the states. the 13th ame

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subsequently, the battlefield of antietam charlotte, gettysburg and -- shiloh, gettysburg and vicksburg will be created. with its units at the chickamauga battlefield, on lookout mountain and on missionary ridge still tells the 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 country's history in books but here you can walk the ground where those decisions were made. here on the chattanooga battlefield you are mostly in an urban environment. you can still stand near where ulysses s. grant stood. look at that profile of missionary ridge. understanding little about the difficulties he faced in dealing with the confederates on that formidable piece of terrain. and then seeing, amazed, the union troops charge up the slope. you can drive along crest road and see the monuments along the crest of missionary ridge marking where troops were stationed. and marvel at how the union troops charged up the slopes of missionary ridge. >> our live coverage continues on american history tv from farmville, virgin

with a lot of the battles and a lot of the struggles that took part in the eastern united states gettysburg, of course, sharpsburg or antitam. they think of the campaign in georgia and sherman's march from atlanta to savannah in late 1864 and up through the carolinas in late 1865. sometimes they'll think about the campaigns that took place in tennessee and mississippi. for example, the siege of vicksburg. there weren't a lot of major military actions that took place in texas. and so that -- texas sometimes doesn't get the attention that it probably should. galveston's role in the civil war was an important one. galveston at the time, in 1860 was the largest city in texas. it had it had the largest population. it was one of the two commercial centers of texas, and it was the primary seaport of texas. there were no rail connections between texas and the rest of the united states in 1860. you could not get on a train in texas and travel to the other parts of country. and so texas was, texas' primary link to the rest of the united states or after 1861 to the rest of the confederacy was by sea.

no one hoping to occur at gettysburg. by mistake actually. neither one expected to be fighting there. looking frantically for a commander to get the orders to. it was the end of the union line. i got a was absolutely undefended. one of the people looking at the battle map saw it was uncovered. send orders to coverage immediately. the person who brought the orders could not find the man he was supposed to give it to. vincent saw him frantically writing around looking for the guy inside what is your orders? the orders were to defend. he said i will take the responsibility of defending the top, and he moves his men over 1000.

. >> that old cap was worn by general pickett at gettysburg. there's his sleeve.sonal letters photos. his military sash and this picket's own hand drawn map of the gettysburg field. >> he was delighted. like a gold mine. >> very cool. 9:30 p.m. eastern time. a story of a real estate developer who fills his home with quirky furniture. that once obscure furniture maker is a world-renowned artist. it airs at 9:00 p.m. on fox business network. coming up, apple jumping back into the new product game with its new apple watch. we'll have the details. we're looking out for you and your money with a look at a new move from charles schwab. roboadvisors. we'll explain after the break. ♪ so kickstart designs low cost irrigation pumps enabling them to grow high value crops throughout the year so you can make a lot of money. it's all very well to have a whole lot of small innovations but unless we can scale it up enough to where we are talking about millions of farmers, we're not going to solve their biggest challenge. this is precisely where the kind of finance that citi is gi

the gettysburg address is around that theme, we might survive as a nation and we might not.nd i think the general feeling of americans when they celebrate king or martin luther king is that it symbolizes patting ourselves on the back for the accomplishments we have had. that if not for king we would not have the civil rights bill if not for king we would still have jim crow. but king was not overly concerned about whether we got a civil rights movement. when you think about it that is not much of an accomplishment. and what i mean by that is that the 14th and 15th amendment stated much more clearly than the civil rights act of 64 and -- 1964 and the voting rights act of 1965. if we wanted a clear statement of the right to vote, we had it. it was passed 150 years ago. why did we need a voting rights act? because we did not obey the clear language of the constitution. so i think that when we look at ourselves honestly i think the one quality that americans have more than anything else is self-confidence. and it is misplaced. we think of ourselves, we are the richest nation, th

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you folks in gettysburg and frederick and hagerstown may see 80% of snowfall. here's a look at the 6:00 a.m. future cast. rain and snow pushing in the metro area. temperatures are above freezing. bad news is the snow is far south. it is overdone. remember blue is snow. by 9:00 snow across the entire metro area. again, temperatures are above freezing. it will snow hard in the early morning hours. when we come back we'll look at springtime. >>> annapolis man nearly lost his home of 40 years because of legal issues of the death of his wife. the home is filled with memories shared with his wife. he almost lost it because of a reversed mortgage she took out in 2008. since the paper work was in her name he had to pay lenders thousands of dollars or get out. >> i would have never went along with it. >> luckily there is some good news. a neighbor robert barely knew started a gofundme website. >>> the ambassador is hosting prince charles. supreme court justice john roberts. later tonight prince charles and his wife are off to a black tie dinner. the royal couple had a s

when the secretary of war american stanton read the gettysburg address at a republican rally in 1968,e declared triumphantly that is the voice of god speaking through the lips of abraham lincoln. in 1890, shelby cullum praised the great hearted patriot. he continued, never was a nobler man born of woman and never throb a pure heart in breast. no man has ever existed on the american continent superior to abraham lincoln. lincoln had won immortality when he died with a crown of glory upon his brow. in a senator from iowa 1905, proclaimed that lincoln had been transfigured since his death. an allusion to christ. he had become a mysterious personality with a higher power with a commission to help and bless the human race. idaho senator declared sacred writers, had he lived in those days would have placed him among the seers and profits and invested him with hidden powers of the mystic world. antiquity would have closed a being with the attributes of deity. lincoln's prophetic dreams became integral part of this process. the white house funeral dream and ship on the water dream occurred in

double scan already showing us that the atmosphere is beginning to get moist down by baltimore and gettysburg and dover delaware this initial precipitation may not be hitting the ground but we are setting the table for that precipitation coming in from the south and west. the system extends towards cincinnati and nashville. this is pushing past us and bringing us the majority of rain the low pressure is swooping by to the south as well. some clouds are rolling and we started with how this was this morning going to change and there is that rain, the initial onslaught of it is not all that heavy, enough to slow things down on the roads and getting steadier toward rush hour the wide view it moves in from the southwest to the northeast and at times there are steadier cells popping through and at midnight everything begins to calm down and how much rain are we expecting the models vary on this and a couple of them close toward a third of an inch we feel comfortable with the half inch to inch rain and i'll show you how this rolls and out, and tomorrow's weather with a nice upswing in temperatures.

go out wider here, lets just go all wait out there is a second batch forming by harrisburg and gettysburg. there could be more on the way an hour to hour and a half later. we have cloudy skies and aboard chopper 6, sunshine that stayed with us throughout the morning, now that the rain is on our doorstep the rain has got and thicker, winds out of the south-southwest at 13 miles per hour, that is as strong as they will get today as we go through the middle of the afternoon, there is a chance of a sprinkle or shower to the north and sweeping through the northern areas, more action popped up down the shore by tonight and we are looking at spotty light stuff high temperatures in the region up to 50 in cape may and 45 in allentown a lot of areas from philadelphia south getting to 50 or so in atlantic city 52 this afternoon as we roll down from philadelphia coming down from the high, to 49 and 47 by 5:00 and 44 by 7:00, i'm posting the possibility of showers here in the 3:00 to 5:00 period. spotty and light. a lot of you can avoid that. watch how temperatures kind of just settle and pop up by mi

fields about his loss -- feels about his lost opportunity in uniting us by going to big spurt or gettysburg, or going to appomattox next week and celebrating the 260,000 -- let me change that, 360,000 dead union soldiers who died for the national stated policy of freeing the slaves that they never met. >> two things. first off national park service doesn't really have a mind of its own. it is a collection of people with their own minds. secondly, the president of the united states is my boss. i would be hesitant -- no matter what my opinion was, to enter into that discussion with you in this setting. i would be happy, when i'm off my uniform, offer up my opinion. i hope you will excuse me for that. >> my name is aj douglas. from virginia. i hope you don't mind me doing this. kind of long, but i would like to say that i don't think the civil war was entirely about slavery. why? because throughout history people don't really care about black people that much. i don't need to say that way but for example, the massacre in paris. that same day, 5000 africans were killed by the same organization

unsolved for 15 years until a civil war buff found more than military memorabilia in the grounds near gettysburg

. >> that old cap was worn by general picket at gettysburg. there's his uniform sleeve.otos his military sash. and this, picket's own handdrawn map of the the battlefield. >> he was delighted. it's like he found a gold mine. >> it's a sneak peek of strange inheritan inheritance. i got goose bumps. >> swindled. he -- you have to see the episode to see what happened to him. but for so many years, ed picket was known as picket because he was embarrassed. we learned it in school, it didn't go very well. he led his soldiers into battle and many of them died. but as we started to go through the history and see those civil war and gettysburg memorabilia, this is about learning about these incredible family legacies and this is an incredible story. this is what can happen if you don't research what something is worth. ed picket realizes now that general george picket was a great soldier. he's a great great grandson of him and he was doing what he was ordered to do. that's one of the episodes. >> were these artificates in the family all these years? >> all these years in a suit c

we've been watching a few snowflakes move through gettysburg but not affecting our area just yet.o on outside and see what it looks like as we go live in sky 6 in hd checking out philadelphia international airport where we're dry and we actually have partly cloudy skies, not too bad to start you off but look at that temperature. it's just 25 degrees right now. it's cold out there and the wind chill making it feel like it's in the teens so colder than yesterday morning. the dewpoint way down, just 11 degrees so we still have to moisten up the atmosphere before we get any precipitation. winds out of the north and they're light at seven. nothing like the windy day we had yesterday and that barometric pressure is holding steady right now. satellite6 and action radar showing the clouds filling in at this point and precipitation still well out to our west. we'll be watching that until later on. we brought in our always on day planner to see how temperatures will go through the day. future tracker 6 we're fine during the morning then we advance this to 3:30 in the afternoon and that's wh

, out of gettysburg into richmond, from richmond down to selma.er appeal kept working. it not only worked in the 1800s, but in 1965. when some folk were in jeopardy of not taking it over the bridge her appeal touch the heart of lyndon johnson and he federalized troops so they could make their way to montgomery alabama. i'm here to tell you today that our vote is necessary, our marching is necessary, but these don't get off your knees. remember that when we talk to the one who can make a difference he will send the army to fight our battles. harder yet maybe the fight sometimes right will yield to might. wickedness may rain and satan's cause may be there but there is a god who rules with a hand of power and a heart of love. and if we are right, and we are right, he will fight for us. [applause] >> i know i'm out of order but if we are going to get to this bridge -- i cut off the other bishop to intervene. to say three things. that this was a spiritual movement as much as anything else. and my role with martin luther king was always to be deferred.

with a lot of the battles and a lot of the struggles that took part in the eastern united states gettysburg, of course, sharpsburg

war their more familiar with the struggles tajo in the eastern united states late into the more gettysburg in late '80s and 64 -- 1864 talking about the campaign from tennessee and mississippi there were not a lot of major military actions that would take place though that could not get the attention it probably should. galveston's role was important it was the largest city in texas with the largest population went into commercial centers and the primary seaport there were no real connection is between texas and the western united states. canso texas to the rest of the confederacy that was the better harbor but so with that blockade running went through galveston for the of the most part. listed was primary. even before the confederates fired april 1861 in charleston, s. secession becomes a shooting war. the idea of a plot by -- a blockade is an old traditional technique used warfare to keep shut -- ships and vessels to get support from outside. declared a blockade that was two days after jefferson davis had authorized privateers to go after union ships which itself is an act of war. but t

fields about his loss -- feels about his lost opportunity in uniting us by going to big spurt or gettysburg, or going to appomattox next week and celebrating the 260,000 -- let me change that, 360,000 dead union soldiers who died for the national stated policy of freeing the slaves that they never met. >> two things. first off national park service doesn't really have a mind of its own. it is a collection of people with their own minds. secondly, the president of the united states is my boss. i would be hesitant -- no matter what my opinion was, to enter into that discussion with you in this setting. i would be happy, when i'm off my uniform, offer up my opinion. i hope you will excuse me for that. >> my name is aj douglas. from virginia. i hope you don't mind me doing this. kind of long, but i would like to say that i don't think the civil war was entirely about slavery. why? because throughout history people don't really care about black people that much. i don't need to say that way but for example, the massacre in paris. that same day, 5000 africans were killed by the same organization

he retired in 2000 after working 35 years at various locations including gettysburg, johnstown flood national memorial, allegheny portage, lincoln boyhood national memorial. but for the last wood five years of his career, he was the historian at appomattox courthouse national historic park. i can let patrick and ron duke it out as to who was the better historian, ron or patrick. but as i mentioned earlier, ron is the person who did get the seminar started. my first year was 1999-2000. and ron hold over here this year and asked if we are interested in cosponsoring a seminar. and i said, yes. a study much smaller than it was -- is now. ron's talk today -- he was the co-compiler of one of the volumes in the howard series, appomattox paroles april 9 to 15th, 1865. he is retired now and lives in lake monticello. i was just telling ron yesterday that i look like i have aged 30 years, and he looks exactly the same. maybe it is the water at lake monticello or something. but we have been following through this morning, in kind of rough chronological order, the appomattox campaign from the fin

those of you that have seen the movie "gettysburg" -- he was the corps commander of the second core, which is the union core that faced picket's charge. he is a fairly significant fellow. he eventually became major-general and commanded the left-wing of the army of the potomac. he ran for president in 1880 and narrowly lost to garfield. the next fellow is george thomas, known as the rock of chickamauga. his defense saved the union army. he later became the general of the army of the cumberland. he essentially destroyed the confederate army of tennessee at nashville. military experts rate him as probably the third best general in the union army behind grant and sherman. he is not too familiar today. phil sheraton was the commander of the u.s. calvary from the army of the potomac. he later served in the western army ann kuster served under him. -- and custer served under him. he became top dog under grover cleveland. this is a fellow named joseph mansfield. he was a core commander in 1862 battle of antietam. he spent 40 years in the army. he had no reason combat experiment -- experienc