time, then the war in virginia ought to look different after gettysburg them before gettysburg. let me go find out what was going on in virginia following the battle of gettysburg. when i went to find secondary literature on it, i drew a blank, because there isn't any to speak of on what happens in andinia between gettysburg the overlaying campaign. you can find a paragraph here or there and it will get mentioned in a biography for a few pages or a regimental history now and again. i was forced to go to the official record. i started reading regimental newspapers, archives to find the answer i wanted. contraryscovered was to the way history is treated, which is to say nothing of , meade andappened lee maneuvered around each other but it was essentially a stalemate after the armies lick their wounds following gettysburg. though historiography hit the fast-forward button from ofdle july to early may 1864. if you pay attention to anything going on during that time, you have to pay attention to chattanooga and chickamauga. military historians like to follow the big battles. that is

he will head towards gettysburg. he comes within six miles of hearing gettysburg before he turns south and heads back into virginia. stuart alarms the railroads here in pennsylvania. they realize exactly how vulnerable they are. we've already lost bridges. now we've lost rolling stock in the confederates have proven that a well-planned raid can reach the very heart of some of these northern railroads. of there some photographs taken of the confederates. to burn going chambersburg, rolling stock warehouses. this is what the town would have looked like. governor curtain is quite alarmed by this. frantically starts dispatching with washington's about and how can the cumberland valley be better protected. 1863 the railroad has got another problem. they rebuilt the depot. they rebuilt just about everything just in time for the gettysburg campaign and the confederates come back to pennsylvania again. it's jenkins from west virginia. he will lead his cavalry into chambersburg. they will start writing the railroads and they

congress has thanked him and joe hocker for the victory at gettysburg. so, he's got all that going on, okay? he has not been able to score the knock out punch that everyone wants him to score. he's done okay at bristow and rap hammock station. he hasn't done anything wrong but hasn't done anything right. does that make sense? just before the army leaves the camps, word comes from chattanooga that ulysses s. grant has lifted the siege and driven the confederate army away. so, out west things are happening. gosh, we need something to happen out here too, don't we. and they haven't, have they. if we consider all of that on mead's soldiers as he looked across this field ready to launch that assault and he calls that off knowing the great personal and political peril it will put him in, but he does not want to sacrifice his army. and he's got to somehow try to salvage this. and he can't. so, he will cut the orders to begin to withdraw. and so on the evening of the 30th, he will tell his men build big bonfires. make it look like you're there so that they can s

. >> have you july for the fast 25 years the gettysburg has hosted a reenactment depicting cap life next we talked around actors, about victoria era marriage expectations and civil war brothels. >> my name is cheryl williamson i'm portraying today the reenactment what it would've been like to abandon victorian prostitute. the time of the american civil war which was at the mid smack victorian period. they were very very few choices for women women were in essence supposed to be the pillar of the household, the center of the family, were talking about middle class women. without any means of support, you had very few choices, you could be a domestic servant. you could be a laundress or you could work in a factory. at the time of the civil war there was a spike in widowhood, winning all the sudden middle class women, didn't really have any visible means of support. we saw this more in the south and in the north, because the war was fought, mainly in the south, these women would become prostitutes. it was not attractive choice it was certainly not their first choice. between that and starva

here at gettysburg, we are portraying one that would be theoretically organized and near a camp. if you had a large camp of soldiers and within about two football fields, you would have for example another civilian business. it was licensed by the army to sell civilian and other supplies to the soldiers. in our scenario, we are hypothetically assuming that we would also like the army in the west -- would have licensed a brothel in a camp style. and so, we have a front if you will of the sewing service to keep a low profile. if in fact it would be licensed like the army experimented licensing prostitutes during the war, you don't want the criticism of the local community of permitting this kind of activity. had is alt, what you typical kind of brothel which would be run by a woman. ms. blackwood in this case. she basically comes out and hires me, a fancy man. we set it up likely what a bricks and mortar house. what wen the middle of would call the parlor. this is where the gentleman would come and they would be entertained by me. the other obligation i have is also as a security m

for those of you familiar with the gettysburg retreat, the retreat from gettysburg, the horrible rain they have to go through starting july 4. well, some of that comes from middle tennessee and meets the other armies up in pennsylvania later. this is atrocious weather and should always be remembered when you consider the tullahoma campaign. early morning hours of june 24, the army to cumberland gets in motion. the decoy forces begin to move into their area and do their job. they skirmish with claburn at liberty gap on 24 and 25th of june. the main elements of thomas'corps begin to move southeast towards hoover's gap. in the front is a very special unit of mounted infantry. they don't want to be called cavalry. mounted infantry under the command of intrepid 33-year-old indiana colonel named john wilder. he realized that having tried to chase confederate cavalry by marching infantry, this wasn't going to work. i want as many horses and mules as i can and he fronts the money to give them seven shot spencer rifles. and they have gone out and done very good work and they are now in front.

i would say people remember gettysburg. wilson's creek will set the stage and people don't necessarily always realize that. it's not taught in the history books. i was flipping through a textbook for my brother and i saw that his history textbook mentioned manassas but there is no mention of wilson's creek. it is an essential part of 1861 and the trans-mississippi west. coming up. sharing with you this story is so important because it's another one of the battles that people ought to remember even more than what they do and that you understand more of the context behind it and what it resulted in. >> thank you. ' >> world war ii 61 army divisions were locked in a mortal combat with the enemy. the european theater of operations. this film is about one of those divisions. the tenth army.

i would say people remember gettysburg. wilson's creek will set the stage and people don't necessarily always realize that. it's not hot in the history books. i was flipping through a textbook for my brother and i saw that his history textbook mentioned manassas but there is no mention of wilson's creek. it is an essential part of 1861 and the trans-mississippi west. coming up. sharing with you this story is so important because it's another one of the battles that people ought to remember even more than what they do and that you understand more of the context behind it and what it resulted in. >> thank you. ' s grant's lesser-known petersburg offensive. at 8:00 p.m. eastern, it's lecturer >> i'll be, >> the petersburg campaign certainly has quite a bit to discuss. for the sake of our c-span audience, who we deeply appreciate i want to run through a few highlights of our keynote speaker. wilson green is the former executive director of pamphlet historical park and the national museum of the civil war soldier located

. >> every july for the past 25 years, the gettysburg anniversary committee has hosted a civil war battleeenactment and living history village depicting camp life. we talked to reenactors about marriage expectations and civil war brothels. >> my name is cheryl williams and i'm portraying today at the

what role did women play in gettysburg? i did the women of vicksburg, great diaries of women caught in the circle of violence. and a granddaughter with jeff davis over here in the archives and published, a biography by her, diary or autobiography. so much needs to be done on this end and i wanted to treat it as a campaign, not a battle. i don't think battles win wars. we won world war ii because of the day. individual battles mattered. same for the civil war. with a relentless campaign, grant came up with this campaign. the mississippi river was open, really important things, not trying to dismiss them but a big outtake on the battle as he learned about salad and he fought at that time what was considered a total war. it was pretty rough stuff and it was relentless. sherman learns to fight from grant, not vice versa. i kept running into sherman. he said go after it. they fit the narrative, grant did not have the supply line. he had a helluva supply line. warren took me to the battlefield and took me to his home. minute deta

shilohd to gettysburg or or some of those it does not reach that realm but we are about 25,000 to 30,000 troops on each side, casualties thousands. it is on the high end of a little battle if you want to battle. a little but it has tremendous results, huge results. i won't argue to you like some topic ans get into their so much or writing biography and getting into it too much and where the war was won and lost. i won't say champion hill is the north won the war or south lost the war. depend in that case on what you think of vicksburg. guessing here up in the army of potomac northern virginia we would get a lot of eastern centric ideals and the was one and lost in the east and gettysburg obsession. hail from the west and i'll thoroughly convinced that the lost in was won and he west, gutted, the confederate say was absolutely utted while you are stalemated up here a little bit. that is arguable. feedback on ng some that. we are not here to argue where was won and lost. i won't argue that champion hill the he deciding battle of war. i will leave it that wherever the whole cksburg in schem

with us look at the 1863 battle of chancellorsville, and in 2013 when we studied the prelude to gettysburg, the army's move north. scott has written numerous articles and books. forgotten fury, the battle of 6.edmont, in 199 1864ndoah summer, the valley campaign, published by the university of north carolina press in 2009. longstreet'sas, attack, published by the potomac press in 2011. also that year, the battle of piedmont and hunter's raid, published by the history press. in 2013, the last battle of winchester. theidan, jubal early and 1864 shenandoah valley campaign. in addition to his articles and books, scott served for 10 years on the board of the kearns town battlefield association and has twice served as president of the bull run civil war roundtable. for the last 10 years, scott has worked with the shenandoah valley battlefield foundation on updating and frankly correcting the battlefield interpretations of the third winchester battlefield. acresw, over 600 of core battlefield has been saved,an accomplishment that has virtually saved an entire battlefield from certain destruction.

to serve as a seasonal park ranger at gettysburg national military park. dan received his bachelor of arts from youngstown state university where he studied instrumental music education, particularly in the french horn, which i understand is pretty much means learning how to play on the upbeat for anything that souza has composed. dan provides a valuable service here for emergence civil war, something you receive every month. he solicits all the news and notes for the merging civil war newsletter. and it's certainly a tasking, thankless job. for as much as we love to write about history, we don't like to write an email a whole lot in response. so, sorry for not providing anything for the july newsletter. dan's a great guy, member of the emerging civil war organization. it's my pleasure to welcome here to the stage. dan welch, ladies and gentlemen. [ applause ] >> well, good afternoon everyone. when we think about civil war charleston, we think about the hot bed of the secessionist movement, the early or first secession convention as the war is on the horiz

it is the dedication of the 9th pennsylvania monument at ge gettysburg, and they will remember it. when it is time for annual meetings on the anniversary of dranesville, and even the regiments who did not fight there, they had it as close to december 20th, because is pit first victory they had, and the first victory they put under their pocket or belt, so it is something they have for them. they keep it in mind, and for this one from 1903. the membership of the association is becoming reduced by natural causes. and so the soldiers are dying of old age, but they still remember dranesville. so what i wanted to finish with is one last slide, this one. i don't expect you the read this. this is 272 names. the 272 names of the tas s of t of dranesville, and the wounded and the captured of dranesville. so why did the battle matter? because they matter. their memory matter, as. so with that, i thank you all for listening, and we will go on from here to have a great weekend and thank you so much. [ applause ] anybody have any questions? anybody? everybody okay? over here in the corner. take

we have so much more, we have gettysburg, summit, iwo jima, west berlin, dozens of other places thaterve as markers for the progress of the american spirit. but we cannot draw effectively on a history we have forgotten. or worse, have never known at all. comprehensive ignorance of the past is no longer a hypothetical danger but a clear and present one. in that sense, i hope that "land of hope" in a small but helpful contribution to the much larger project of national frustration. thank you. [applause] >> thank you very much. wonderful review of the book. his trust fantastically also jumps out from the book itself which is a sense that our history can be a source of unity. i want to start out by asking about that in particular. there's a way in which politics now is using history as a source of division, whether as to describe the american story as rooted in sin and expression of oppression are really whether it can draw out of the american story proof that the other side of the train, the american tradition. has our history been used as a source of unity traditionally? is this someth

we have gettysburg, promontory summit, ellis island, iwo jima, berlin, selma and dozens of other placesat serve as markers of that spirit. and we cannot draw on a history we have forgotten or worse, what we have never known at all. and the erasure of the past is no longer a hypothetical danger but a clear and present one and in that sense i hope in the land of hope can be a small but helpful contribution to much larger project of national restoration. [applause] >> there are alligators in there. thank you very much. wonderful overview of the book. it stressed fantastically what jumps out for the book itself which is a sense that our history can be a source of unity. i want to ask about that in particular. there is a way our politics is using history as a source of to describe the american story as rooted in sin and an expression of oppression and whether it is to draw out of the american story proof that the other side is betraying the american tradition. has our history been used as a source of unity or is this division in fact something new or is it always a danger inherent in the use

louis and the gettysburg college special collections. kristen is working on her first book as part of the emerging civil war series. please join me in welcoming kristen pollack. [ applause ] >> all right. first of all, thank you to everyone here. thank you to emerging civil war for having me out this evening. this is an honor to be able to speak to you all about the battle of wilson's creek which was fought on august the 10 sou of missouri, which is my native state. tonight's presentation is actually entitled this means war, the forgotten battle of wilson's creek. i want to start off kind of setting the stage and also talking a little bit about what we mean by this means war. but i want to take us back to june 11th of 1861 in st. louis, missouri, to the planter's house hotel which is just downtown, it's one of the nicest hotels in the 19th century. but six of the most important early war leaders in missouri have set together at the planter's house hotel on june 11th. we have brigadier general of u.s. volunteers nathaniel lion, his aide a

. >> every july for 25 years, the gettysburg anniversary committee has hosted a civil war reenactment and living history village depicting camp life. we visit a union army surgeon and and ballmer and talk to -- and embalmer. >> during the very beginning of the store, -- the war, there was a lot of quack surgeons in the union army. general took over the medical corps, he devised the whole thing around. he created an ambulance corps so we could get men off the battle quicker. he had the surgeons do tests to be army qualified. that's where it got better. , 600,000 died.t wounds on that battlefield. what i was dealing with at that time was the musket. it went in like a finger and came out like a fist. it shattered the bone so bad, there was no way i could repair it. even today, they would have to amputate because you blew that bonaparte completely. -- that bone apart completely. survival rate was great. 78% survived amputations, but it decreased to 60% due to disease. it there was nothing wrong with one of them, had no disease in his system, survival rate was 70%. if the next soldier had

gragg's work on the battle of gettysburg won the james j. roberts award for best civil war book that year and "confederate goliath" earned the prestigious award for civil war history given out yearly from the new york city civil war roundtable. let's give rod gragg a warm welcome. [applause] rod: thank you. rod: thank you. it is a pleasure for me to be in a room full of historians and i say that seriously because i have learned that i may write a lot but the folks who really know the civil war are those of you who read a lot. and i appreciate that. before i begin, if you don't mind, i'd like to tell you the story about the young history major who decided after he got a bachelor's degree in history, he probably ought to get a masters degree in business so he could earn a living. [laughter] rod: so he was accepted, enrolled in a distant prestigious school of business and wondered soon after he got there if he made the right decision because he failed his first exam and so did everyone in the class. now, the professor was notoriously irascible,

king and his team want something that's going to be on par with gettysburg. now, we know a lot of these details because the fbi were kind enough to record them for us. [laughter] >> he wants something on par with gettysburg, and so his -- one of his main aides, wyatt t. walker says to king, don't do the i have a dream thing. it's a cliche. you have used it too many times before. that's the first line of the book, and indeed king had used it many times before. he first recorded using it in 62, probably used it in 61, couple years before. he had used it in june at a rally in detroit, and even a week earlier, at a fund raiser for black insurance executives in chicago, so this was not the first time that by a long stretch that he had used the i have a dream refrain. he seeks counsel. he has a lot of input much more than he would generally, and what we know is that when he goes to bed at 4:00 a.m., the morning of the march, i have a dream is not in the text of the speech, that we know. and according to his lawyer and his speechwriter, it was not in king's mind to

chatter] [roaring] every july for the past 25 years, the gettysburg anniversary committee has hosted a civil war reenactment and living history village depicting camp life. next we visit a union army surgeon and embalmer. aboutlk to reenactors medical practices during the war. theuring the beginning of war, like i said there was a lot , of quack surgeons in the union army. dr. lederman took over the medical corps. when he took over the medical corps, he turned the whole thing around. he created an ambulance corps so we could get the men in off the battle quicker. he also went and had to do tests for sergeants -- surgeons to be army qualified surgeons. that is where he got better and better as far as service was concerned. 3 million fought, 600,000 died. 700,000 wounds on that battlefield. but what i was dealing with at that time was really musket. it went in like a finger and came out like a fist. it shattered the bone so bad, was no way that i could repair it. even if you get shot with one of them today, they would have to amputate because you blew that bone apart completely. so but

. >> every july for 25 years, the gettysburg anniversary committee has hosted a civil war reenactment and living history village depicting camp life. we visit a union army surgeon and and ballmer and talk to -- and embalmer. >> during the very beginning of the store, -- the war, there was a lot of quack surgeons in the union army. general took over the medi

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

gragg's work on the battle of gettysburg won the james j. roberts award for best civil war

the gettysburg address and the constitution to be in anyone's list of 13 american liberty documents, but you can have other ones also. cu could be a b team or a team -- i am not saying they are junior varsity, less important. these are the 13 i picked to tell the story of liberty in american history for 400 years. those 400 years, when you look at those documents and as we enter the year 2020, what do those documents say to this country right now -- it's citizens, elected officials, about how to conduct ourselves, our business? guest: two it says two things. it says look at our past, the men and women over 400 years -- some of them famous, some of them quite ordinary. some of them, all we know is they were there at the time when we signed or ignore step -- endorsed those documents. americans have stood up for the principle of liberty and have made it real in our national life. thisecond thing it says is is great but we have to keep doing it. it is not something that automatically replicates itself. it is not a perpetual motion machine. it is in our natural character. it is good that

we think of the gettysburg address.ow we are thinking of adam schiff on marie's moment and the conspiracy with joe biden? take it away. >> first of all i think that this appeal to history is very interesting. in a strange way i think it's a confession of rhetorical defeat. essentially what they're saying is listen, a hundred years from now people will be really convinced that this guy was telling the truth. when you can convince the jury that is sitting in the room. you can't convince the people watching on tv, you've got to appeal to the jury of people not yet born. hoping that maybe they will go along with you and see the wisdom of your words. >> laura: come on. the thing about this that i love, bernie and amy klobuchar -- when i was watching them, i was awake. they are shifting in their seats here they're listening with one year. they want to get to iowa. these democrats know how this will end. they want to get to campaigning. bernie is on the rise! >> it's a game and when you get to see what those senators are doing

great speeches of america, political history, we think about reagan tearing down this wall, the gettysburgress and now we are thinking of adam schiff on burisma and conspiracy with joe by then. >> first of all, i think the appeal to history is very interesting because in a strange way i think it's a confession of rhetorical defeat. what they're saying, 100 years from now, 200 years from now people will be very convinced that this guy was telling the truth. when you can't convince a jury that's fitting in the room and you can't convince the people watching on tv, you've got to appeal to the jury of people not yet born. hoping that maybe they will go along with youy and see the wisdom of your words. if speed do i mean, come on, the thing about this that i love tht bernie and globalrn chart, i mean, just watching them. i was awake for most of it. but there shifting in their seats, their listening with one year and they want to get to w iowa. i mean, these democrats they know how it's going to end up and they want to get their campaigning and bernie's on the rise. >> it's a game and we need to

ireland had held the extreme right flank at the battle of gettysburg. chamberlain of the other side from that northern state. the new yorker sprinted 600 yards from the railroad, depot to the job buildings, using several men along the way. once behind the buildings, his men began to build breastworks. having learned their value. soon, he began moving a sharpshooter ahead and then cannons back into the gap. from that point, the new yorkers stayed undercover. shooting only occasionally. for the next hour, the battlefield remained in stalemate. much, the lines that were the final lines, that is how a free much ended up. suddenly, the men heard a rumbling on the road to the rear. of missouriens horse artillery was finally coming. they were charging down the road. the flying dutchman, as he had been known, the road had been blocked with the cannons wildly bouncing. the road was cleared as by magic. his appearance was marked by prolonged cheering by the union troops and short time, union projectiles begin rolling toward taylor's ridge. again, this is the fina

he'll take part in the gettysburg campaign and then by 1864 he's helping as commander of the confederate department of western virginia. john mccauslang grd graduated f the virginia military institute in 1857. the following year he returns to vmi where he taught. he witnesses john brown's hanging. during the civil war he'll be at fort donaldson. he'll take command after jenkins is killed. mccausland is often remembered in the burning of chambersburg, pennsylvania which will occur later in 1864. now, what happens with the union cavalry raid. they' this is almost a microcosm of grant's strategy happening on a very small scale. they're going to be targeting places like saltville where the salt of the confederacy was produced, leadville, looed is mined and of course the virginia and tennessee railroad road. that vital link. it starts off on may 2nd. george crook leaves the river and takes with him the second infantry division. he sends averill to a separate starting location. crook is going to have a skirmish at calligan station. averill will leave logan courthouse on may 5th. they're actual

multiple men died defending the flag right around the spot where they gave the gettysburg addre address one was wounded and handed the flag over to another sergeant who was wounded and who took it to another officer so they could wrap it around as they died when he was grievously wounded. so, these are very, very deep and part of our cultural inheritance. finally, we teach to the truthful about our history and yes we have national sin, but that isn't all that country is about. we shouldn't be teaching our history as a tale of them relieve depression but the glorious story of three people who are living in a blessed land. and i will leave you with one last quote and then i will conclude. this captures how deep these attachments are and how even if we don't realize it we all feel this. it's given by a scholar named john thornton who went on to become the president of harvard anand is 701798 speech we've led to love our country because it is our country, because we are near it and we have an opportunity of being useful to it because we share it down piece and the spread of our fathers brow

and after gettysburg it looked like several more confederate ships were going to escape from british. adams sent a very short powerful warning to john russell and he said, your lordship, you realize this means war, period. adams knew when to be tough, when to back off, how to use public opinion so he really was a superb minister to england and kept england out of the war as did lee's failure. and he was terrified after lincoln was assassinated because he was badly cut up. adams was terrified would be called upon to come back to the u.s. and replace the word in the state department but here's the irony, not because he disagreed with president johnson and the conciliator of the white south, he regarded johnson as a southern lowlife and beneath working force. they agree on policy. he just doesn't like johnson as a person who didn't go to harvard, adams is terrified of course sewer does recover him and continues on. on and on during the seven years in europe his various children come to be fourth-generation. on the left is the oldest child and down to her brothers, his sister lou. sister

hectic and demanding that the tensions were so high, if given a choice, we would rather cover the gettysburgattle again rather than impeachment. it wore people out and disillusioned people in both sides of the case and undermined the faith in government. the clinton trial was more abridged. mid-january to early february. it was a long time, but not near andrew johnson's. i do not think it surprised anyone at the end as it came out. i do not think it disillusioned people the same way that the early one had. it focused a lot of attention. the public can be both interested and pay attention, and get bored quickly and lose interest and say, why are they doing this? you never know what the public opinion will be. there are more ways for the public to pay attention this time. coverage is complete. you will not be shut out. in the andrew johnson trial, so many people wanted to get into the capital that for the first time they had to print tickets to let you into the galleries. we still print tickets. a special tickets for the clinton impeachment trial. the nixon trial would have had a tv camera if

in the table, and desk, on which there's a copy of the gettysburg address. written lincoln's hand. wow. the president knew that my wife luis is british originally, america now. and he gave her use of the queens bedroom for the day, right across the hall. or churchill stayed, the queen stays, before the announcement, they asked us not to make any phone calls. but they no problem with louise calling her parents back in england. they figured, five hours ahead, it's the middle of the night, they'll never tell anybody anyway. so louise calls her father, and she says dad, you are never going to believe, it's going to be neil. my father in law had stayed up to watch the news, and he said, darling, and watching the american news, and there's another fellow, and he's driving this aghast a shun is driving on his way to washington, and i'm pretty sure it's going to be him. in laws. the other fella is a dear friend of mine as, well louise says, yeah, i'm pretty sure it's neal. i'm sitting in the lincoln bedroom. and he quickly replied, yes honey, but president trump, the other guy might be dow

to be honest, every battle that you've heard or will hear about this weekend, they look like gettysburg compared to philippi. this was a very strong enga engageme engagement. there were only a handful of shots fired. because it was small does not make it insignificant. there were some important implications from this small battle and we'll talk about what those were and what's really a benefit to civil war historians and enthusiasts like us is that for nearly 4,000 men north and south, philippi was their first experience of the civil war, the first time seeing the elephant. later in the war, something like philippi might not have even registered on their radars to record in their diary or to write home a letter to their family or local newspaper, but for these guys in june 1861, this was a big deal and so they were all too happy to record their experiences. so we have a lot of good one-liners that i'll throw in here. so et set the stage, we need to look briefly at the situation in virginia on the eve of the civil war. virginia was very much a divided state but not divided north and sout

investigators say the girl ring in to a parked cars and to get a stop sign before finally spinning out on gettysburg street where the man was fun to the ground. >>they say she then takes off it this time nearly missing running the man over and just missed my truck by inches and then you know and. >>the car took off and just miss that guy by just inches 2 officers later arrested both teams after right he likely won't forget the victim was able to walk away with non life threatening injuries. >>i mean that his legs were happy to be over the. it or something and they want to you know go to smash them never than i was very lucky, lucky mass could it turned out a lot worse. >>scary stuff. the trump administration is threatening california with the potential loss of federal health care funds over the state's requirement that insurance plans cover abortion that's right. the announcement from the health and human services department came today just a short time before the march for life in washington dc today, california will have 30 days to comply with a federal law that law bars federal health care money

distinguished himself at gettysburg. he was an excellent field officer. but this hold fuel thing -- feud thing with him went on and on. hes did not say much but wrote his after action report. you would have thought ames won the battle. aars later, years later veterans group in new york city was meeting at dell monaco's restaurant and it was announced in advanced -- like we are doing here, they made presentations on different topics and it was announced that ames was going speak on the battle of fort fisher. this was in the 1890's. they were elderly by then. delivered this. general cherry had recently died. their ended up in one of rare volunteer officers who kept his ranks, stayed in the regular army. he was the officer that sent custard to the little bighorn and he was distinguished in career after the war but became ill and died. died, amester he asked to make this presentation. critics said he took credit for fort fisher. according to critics, their interpretation was that he really told terry what to do and that is why things work out the way they did

investigators say the girl ring in to a parked cars and to get a stop sign before finally spinning out on gettysburg street where the man was fun to the ground. >>they say she then takes off it this time nearly missing running the man over and just missed my truck by inches and then you know and. >>the car took off and just miss that guy by just inches 2 officers later arrested both teams after right he likely won't forget the victim was able to walk away with non life threatening injuries. >>i mean that his legs were happy to be over the. it or something they want to you know go to smash them never than i was very lucky, lucky mass. but it turned out a lot worse. that was christy grosz reporting police arrested both of the teenagers the 17 year-old faces carjacking related charges. >>the 15 year-old faces charges of attempted homicide carjacking kidnapping and vandalism. >>and brown is out of jail and florida. he was released on bail after turning himself in last night. brown is accused of attacking a moving truck driver with his trainer. a judge set a $100,000 bond for brown and required him to su

roads, about 15, 62 miles north of leesburg through gettysburg. it's the same road. all right. the third map, this is the one that really is the best map of the battlefield on the day of the battle. you will find all kinds of maps that purport to be of the battlefield of ball's bluff. some of them in newspapers not too long after the battle. those are second hand drawn by journalists. somebody said i was there. this is what it looked like. the shape of the field is all over the place. it is round, diamond, rectangular, all signs of shades. the size changes. acres to 20m two acres. this is the map of the battlefield on the day of the battle. this was drawn by captain william francis bartlett. he was on the field from before dawn until after dark. he was not under fire until midafternoon. he had plenty of opportunity to see the field. he drew this map three days after the battle. he included it in a letter to his mother. this map is accurate. he does not include any dimensions. this is what the field looked like. we always like to use this. other maps, in newspapers, or they appe

general hancock announced he could not remain on the battlefield due to the festering of his old gettysburg wound. the 39 year old bernie had risen ranks despite the fact he had no west point education. his father had been a presidential candidate on the liberty party take, and his son's abolition credentials helped him raise through the armies volunteer hierarchy. a philadelphia lawyer, he organized the pennsylvania regiment on the outside of the war and used a combination of skill and drive and political influence to obtain division command and less than a year. he impressed most observers with his intelligence and his capacity learn military principles. some perceived and unflattering degree of personal ambition and a lack of combat aggressiveness. we all like general bernie, but he is not able to manage such a large command just yet. the sixth corps, had been led by a ratio right. when sedgewick fell victim to a sharpshooter just a few miles. a 44 year old native of connecticut, right's graduated second and is white point class. he verged six foot tall, puffy cheeks, bulging forehead. h

a reminder about 15, 60 miles north of leesburg it runs through gettysburg. that same road is called the emmitsburg pike. map of the the best battlefield on the day of the battle. you will find all kinds of maps that purport to be of the battle of balls bluff. some appeared in newspapers not long after the battle. they were all secondhand. the shape of the field is all over the place. it is round, square, a diamond. the size of the field changes depending on who is writing tout it, anywhere between 10 20 acres. this map is the map of the battlefield on the day of the battle. this was drawn by captain william francis bartlett who commanded a company of the 20th massachusetts. he was on the field from don until dark. he was not in battle until noon -- from dawn until dark. noon. not in battle until he included this map in a letter to his mother. he does not include dimensions. you can figure that out. this one.like to use all the other maps were either in newspapers or appear many years later. we will refer to those at different times. early in the war, you hav

we have so much more, we have gettysburg, submit, ellis island, iwo jima, west berlin, selma, dozens of other places that serve as markers for at the progress of the american spirit. but we cannot draw effectively on a history we move forgotten or worse have never known at all. such comprehensive ignorance, so abject erasure of the past is no longer a hypothetical danger but a clear and present one. in that sense, i hope that land of hope can be a small but helpful contribution to the much larger project of national restoration. and i thank you. [applause] >> thank you very much. wonderful over view of the book and stressed what jumps out from the book itself, sense that our history can be a source of unity. i wanted to start out by asking you about that in particular. there's a way in which our politics now is using history as a so source of division whethero describe the american story as root medicine and an expression of oppression or whether it's to draw owl of the american story proof that the other side is betraying their american tradition. has our history been used as a sour

investigators say the girl ring in to a parked cars and to get a stop sign before finally spinning out on gettysburg street where the man was fun to the ground. >>they say she then takes off it this time nearly missing running the man over and just missed my truck by inches and then you know and. >>the car took off and just miss that guy by just inches 2 officers later arrested both teams after right he likely won't forget the victim was able to walk away with non life threatening injuries. >>i mean that his legs were happy to be over the. it or something and they want to you know go to smash them never than i was very lucky, lucky mass could it turned out a lot worse. christy grosz reporting. there police arrested both teenagers citizen clear if they knew each other. >>president trump made history today by being the first president to attend the annual march for life rally in washington. 47 years ago this week roe versus wade legalized abortion nationwide. the trump administration has consistently worked to regulate or restrict abortion access. and has appointed 2 supreme court justices scene as ho

the summer of 1863 may have numbered as many as 75000 men into pennsylvania, comedy the battle of gettysburg. he may have had as many as 10000 enslaved men. i would have also included servants, what we would have called body servants. if you are an officer from back class, he would have brought in the army a slave from york plantation, your home. the individual would have functioned as your personal slave and would have done anything the officer needed to allow him to do his job. between the servants and the slaves, you get a sense of how important slavery was in the war effort. the vice president of the confederacy, he said slavery was the cornerstone of the confederacy and he is absolutely right. when you look at the army and acknowledge the presence of thousands of enslaved men, you get a sense of what he's talking about. they could not have done anything, they could not have marched efficiently and even conducted battle efficiently or a sufficiently as they were able without the presence of enslaved men. throughout much of the work, they are mobilized enslaved labor. that changes as more