he works as a historian at gettysburg national park. he's here to talk to us about one of the lesser known, but absolutely vital actions of the battle. ladies and gentlemen. dan welch. >> i want to begin by thanking all of my friends and colleagues in the merchant civil war. are supposed co-chair, crisp white at the american battlefield trust for having me today to present to you this often forgotten story of the battle of gettysburg. over the last hundred 75 years so many of us are familiar with the stories of joshua chamberlain, seminary, wretch pet what often gets lost are some of the stories that will occur on the union army's right flank on july 2nd and july 3rd. a location known as copes help. now at the dedication to a monument to honor george green in the years after the american civil war and the battle of gettysburg. a luminary major daniels tickles would give a dedication speak to this monument that have been dedicated in honor of green and his performance at gettysburg on the evening of july 2nd, 1863. sickle said, this quot

investigate leadership at gettysburg. and the campaign through the fight that fall, culminating in the -- run meade well testified to the committee, several times. the testimony -- for the gettysburg campaign, is really spearheaded by some of the most controversial generals in the union army, dan sickles, and dan butterfield. they have already testified to the joint committee of the conduct of the war, meade is in washington d.c.. in early 1864, to discuss the reorganization of the army. this is march of 1864, right? the army is going to be reorganized, grant is going to be coming east. meade it is in washington, walking around the streets. and he's hearing washington talk about the investigation that's going on about his leadership. he did not even row know about it, he writes this letter home to his wife, all the courtrooms, all the bar rooms, all the conversations in the street are about my leadership in the gettysburg campaign. he ends up testifying to the joint committee on the conduct of the war, the book you showed

at gettysburg. now, by the time of the battle of veggies, but -- summer of 1860, three green have been promoted. there's no longer the commanding officer of the 60 of new york, but in command of a brigade of new york soldiers. consisting of the 68, 78. 102nd, one serving -- volunteer infantry regiments. the men that comprise these units came from such places, -- new york city. buffalo, rochester, utica, bennington and every -- and other small towns in the state of new york. it would be these men, that greene would lead to battle at copes hill. before greens brigade took a position at cults hill, union deployments on this hill, would have started the evening before on the afternoon of july 1st. the union army had fought for approximately nine, nine and a half hours west north of town of gettysburg. the town of gettysburg itself, ultimately suffering a defeat. by four for 30 on the afternoon july 1st, the union army's first and 11 the core -- the army -- will retreat through the town of gettysburg. ma

would you write out the gettysburg address and send it to me. this is what abraham lincoln sent him. everett made a scrapbook memorializing that day and on the final pages he pasted in these two pages of the gettysburg address. in the 20th century that scrapbook was available for purchase and school kids in illinois during world war ii they save their pennies they -- save their pennies and nickels and they were able to purchase that scrapbook containing the gettysburg address. they then donated that scrapbook to the illinois state historical library and of course that's our collection. i love this piece the gettysburg address written by abraham lincoln, how could he get any better than that? but it has an illinois connection and that's really our mission. abraham lincoln and the entirety of illinois history and this document speaks to it perfectly. i wanted to end by showing you a letter from the end of abraham lincoln's life. this was written on march 20, 1865 and this is really abraham lincoln's response to an admirer. the young lady had told

gettysburg, of course. they also have new core commanders winfield scott hancock, george sykes are new to their command positions, too. i'll show you this picture. you're gonna meet these gentlemen your first stop or most of you will meet them at your first stop. depending how your guide does this, but if you read that quote, remember lee's assumption that they will be much demoralized. because of their many losses because of the disruption of units that have fought next to each other with all these men that have left. but if you read that quote. kind of get an idea that perhaps perhaps they're not that. they just need a here's how this is going to go down again confederates and red union in blue. they're gonna start to move north and as we predicted the union army will follow him. lee's calvary three types of troops in the american civil war. we have our calvary guys riding around on horses. those are your eyes and ears gathering intelligence and screening the enemy so they can't gather intelligence on you

he pasted in the two pages of the gettysburg address. in the 20th century, that scrapbook was available for purchase. they saved their pennies, nickels, their money, and they were able to purchase that scrapbook containing the gettysburg address. they then donated it i love this. it was written by abraham lincoln. it has an illinois connection. that's our mission, a a dual mission at the presidential library. this document speaks to it perfectly. i wanted to show something from the end of abraham lincoln's life. this is his response fonts to an admirer, a young lady had told her brother that she wanted abraham lincoln to handwrite the second inaugural and send it to her the request comes and he wants to do something nice for this young lady. he doesn't write out the entirety of the second inaugural address. it is the shortest. it is just 702 words. it is also the best religious meditation on the meaning of the civil war. abraham lincoln second inaugural sounded more like a sermon than a standard political speech. mr. lincoln just writes

heading to gettysburg. and once again, it was pretty dicey that there were thugs climbing onto the side of the car trying to get at lincoln and only with bayonet. could the soldiers get those guys off the train. so baltimore stayed really tough and as you know it was it was violent when the massachusetts troops came through in april 1861. what's some of an inexplicable all of it a little bit frightening? so yeah, yeah, i see. jonathan white is on i'm going to sign off for a bit and come back. i thank you ted. thank you harold conversation. yeah, i really enjoy another couple of hours, but i know we have one and jonathan has i see a lot of questions stacked up here. so i'm going to turn it over to him. thank you harold. thank you ted. that was wonderful. what conversation great way to start off our forum today. we've got a lot of questions in the q&a. i'll start with one from brian steinbergen and he asked how many of the places along the route were you able to visit during the process of writing the book. a

the gettysburg address is very short, 272 words. it took only two minutes. and yet, it is the greatest speech in the language. it concentrates america into the idea of human equality. we are all equal. it also defines the american government. it channels so much of america into almost a poem. ironically, the speaker before him, edward everett, went on for two hours talking about dual -- talking about rome, cromwell, the civil war. it went all over the place. then lincoln comes out with this poetic statement about america. everett says you said much more in two minutes then i said in two hours. host: i think yours is the first lincoln book i read that talks about this. these are some dirty jokes that abraham lincoln used to like. guest: he said if i collected some of my jokes, you would have to hold your nose because of the stench. that was part of his thing. ralph auto -- ralph waldo emerson, a thinker back then, said lincoln is the one example we have of someone who has a whole range of experience from the highest it with shakespeare and the opera down to t

a woman who survived all the way to 1913 the year of the 50th gettysburg reunion think of that. a living link to the history that she helped transform. we're going to be presenting two brilliant panelists to discuss harriet tubman. first our friend catherine clinton professor of american history at the university of texas at san antonio. she is author of the definitive life of mary lincoln. along with the book stepped orders of history. so then women and the american civil war she is a frequent panelist and speaker at the lincoln forum and a of our advisory board. joining her will be the distinguished professor manisha sinha. chair in american history at the university of connecticut former professor of american history and amherst college and author of such books as the slaves cause a history of abolition for which she won the prestigious gilder lerman frederick douglass prize. leaving the discussion and also providing an unusual aspect and feature. and enactment of harriet tubman herself will be catherine harris coming to us from springfield, illinois. she is a member of the l

what are we doing here at gettysburg ... this has been the place -- this is been the place where we are testing whether that nation, or any nation can long endure. is that an illusion? is that just, something that we drums up in philadelphia? in 1776? this is the test, lincoln says. this civil war is the test. well we came through that test. we demonstrated we, demonstrated and blood. we demonstrated that, in fact, this dedication, to this proposition, really does work. you can build a nation upon, it and that nation can live, and the 14th amendment, the 15th amendment, and the life we have lived under the constitution since. every day that we live out that promise, it is a justification of what lincoln was saying. so, lincoln, yes. he was a very practical man. but he was also a man of great ideals. on flexible, and then double ideals. ideals arising, from the declaration of independence. a document he said, that is politically speaking, i have never had. a different idea from. and, we get every one of us would say the same

gettysburg declaration and i'm glad that the tradition continues at least with you. so when when we think of the second inaugural? we think of the fact that for the first four years of his administration the country and himself were scarred by civil war. which is probably the worst that could happen to any country, especially a republic. and the deaths were over 650,000 at least by that time as and wounded were double that number. so i i wonder and i think the audience in our forum members wonder why you and undertake this project of the second inaugural in in every drop of blood a wonderful book. when there were two great books recently ronald white's the lincoln's greatest speech and james take cash. also another rhode islander talking about lincoln's moral vision the second inaugural address. why would you want to take this project for another book on the second inaugural address? well first thank you mr. chief justice for having me here and dr. holzer as well on that. maybe i can start with one of lincoln's stories. he told of an ugly man riding through the woods

what are we doing here at gettysburg? this has been a place. this has been a place where we're testing that nation, any nation, so conceived can long endure. is that an ilsflugs is that just something we dreamt up in philadelphia in 1776? this is the test, lincoln says. this civil war is the test of that. well, we came through that test. we demonstrated. we demonstrated in blood. were demonstrate that had in fact this dedication to this proposition really does work. you ask build a nation upon it, and that nation can live, and the 14th amendment and the 15th amendment and the life we have lived under the constitution since, every day that we live out that promise is a justification of what lincoln was saying, so lincoln, yes. he was a very practical man, but he was also a man of great ideas, unflexible, unbledable ideals, adeals arising from the declaration of independence, a document he said that politically speaking i have never had a different idea from and would every one of us say the same thing today. >> we do need to move on to the next

we went to the anniversary of the battle of gettysburg and there is a big stage with. i don't know 2000 people in the audience and generals lee and longstreet and were pickett. we're discussing hood we're discussing the strategy. so there were acting to some extent but not all of these people considered a lot of reenactors are not actors. they're just there for for the pleasure of being with other friends of their so they're not actually acting the sense of delivering lines, but some are so there is a internal difference i guess. anybody yes, thank you for your presentation enjoyed it mid 90s. i've been involved with a lot of civilian acting and living history events, but from for the purpose of exploring the music and there's always interesting to see the dialogue taking place not only in terms of the material culture, but also in terms of the repage part interpretation and the difference between, you know, people that are very focused on ideas about being authentic having accurate reproduction material yet. they might show up with their 1979 gifts and mastertone banj

i think he's practicing for blinken's gettysburg address. his daughter will later write that slade is mentioned blinken would read it out loud. which by the way is how he would practice he was constantly reading stuff out loud for people around him. practicing out loud. he would do that and we know the gettysburg address however short it was a will be the greatest two-minute ration in american history. in the person who seems to have been the primary sounding board there was an african-american and had known them for years. so that's all of the blinken story. the book is not endless it's only four -- five header pages pretty wish i could get to everything but i'd like to think i got some of them. >> thank you so much. michael gerhardt, h.w. brown and for a wonderful discussion : : ♪ ♪ ♪♪ we are really lucky today dan three debts. outstanding in helping us understand what is going on in our political discourse today. steve kettmann, anthony scaramucc and cynthia tucker. we obviously are coming to you via zoom today. i find it interesting to t

viewed as a founder of the democratic party that is one of the number of self-evident truths the gettysburgis a down to one proposition that all men are created equal. i view the american story is set out a goal for ourselves we are in fact people. but when we do we aggressively get closer to who we said we would be and in the inauguration the other day we are not a book and nation simply unfinished. when we orient right that's more likely to we said we would be. in the work to do as a civil-rights lawyer and elected officials. >> and the inspiring way that speaks to a lot of what americans believe across both parties. you bring up the word naÏve launching your career thinking you could work better and it was naÏve but i got you in there and got you going. how does that still hope you now as we confront the huge crisis? >> i'm so glad you asked that question with our naÏvetÉ most of the work not get done. and then you have to be a pessimist we be an optimist or pessimist? but i continually run up against recognition of my own native it night to tell you. in the senate when we passed reform

i think john slade is reportedly there is the only person tolincoln practicing the gettysburg address . slade's daughter will write that slade mentions lincoln would read it out loud which by the way is exactly how lincoln would practice. he was possibly reading aloud to the people around him so he would do that and we know thatgettysburg address , however short it was may well be the greatest two-minute oration in american history so the person that seems to have been the primary sounding board was an african-american who hadknown him for years . so that's all part of the lincoln story. the book is not endless, it's about 4 to 500 pages. i wish i could get everything but i'd like to think i got to some of it thank you so much, michael gerhart and judy for a wonderful discussion. the crucial question of lincoln and his mentors and the civil war more generally, he has inspired us and reminded us lincoln was educable and so are we and so do you the national constitution center, thank you for taking an hour in the middle of your evenings to educate yourself and the constitution and you c

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order the books written by our panelists through the gettysburg heritage center and you can find them at gettysburg museumstore.com and they will come with a signed book plate for this very special 25th anniversary of the lincoln forum. thank you all so so much for this discussion. mark floto's book in their letters in their words, illinois civil war soldiers write home features the writings of 165 troops from abraham lincoln's home state and covers the war from the earliest and listees through final muster. up next mr. floto shares a few of those letters and talks about what they reveal about the daily lives cares and motivations of those who fought in the conflict. he's interviewed by mark depue of the abraham lincoln presidential library and museum which hosted this discussion and provided the video. today i have the pleasure to talk to a good friend of mine you and i have known each other for quite a few years here mark and been colleagues. i like to think that we've collaborated on successfully in several different things. you're an anthropologist by training you got your degree

heritage center at gettysburg museumstore.com and bill has presigned these book plates. and so please order from there and you can get your own copy signed by bill. thank you. again. this has been a wonderful talk. thank you. love the opportunity. while photographs of earlier conflicts exist the civil war was the first to be extensively documented through this then nascent medium. next deborah willis shares dozens of images of african-american troops and their families. she collected for her book the black civil war soldier a visual history of conflict and citizenship. the book shows how african-americans use photography to document for history their role in the war and to project stories of courage family and citizenship to counteract prevailing stereotypes the national archives hosted this this talk and provided the video. greetings from the national archives. i'm david ferriero archivist of the united states and it's my pleasure to welcome you to today's virtual book talk with deborah willis author of the black civil war soldier. the civil war was the first large and

back in the army, including rumors that he will be back with the army and continue through the gettysburgmpaign, and even beyond. i want to close with this. a famous statement from ulysses s grant. most of you i think have heard some of this before, but i dare say most of us have not gotten the full quotation. here is grant on mcclellan. he described mcclellan as one of the mysteries of the war. what is less often noted was grants conviction that no commander was likely to succeed early in the conflict. as grant said, it's always seemed to me that the critics of mcclellan do not consider this vast and cruel responsibility. the war, a new thing to all of us, the army knew. everything to do from the outset, with a restless people in congress. mcclellan was a young man when this devolved, and if he did not succeed, it was because the conditions of success were so trying. if mcclellan had gone into the war with sherman, thomas, or meade, and fought his way along and up, i have no reason to suppose that he would not have one as high a distinction as any of us. thank you very much. [applause] [

the gettysburg address is very short, around 272 words.concentrates america into the idea of human equality. we are all equal. it also defines the american government. it channels so much of america into almost a poem. the speaker before him, edward everett, went on for two hours talking about dual enrollment, cromwell, the civil war. it went all over the place. lincoln comes out with this poetic statement about america. he said you much -- she said that you said much more in two minutes then i said in two hours. host: i think yours is the first lincoln book i read that talks about this. these are some dirty jokes abraham lincoln used alike. guest: he said if i collected some of my jokes, you would have to hold your nose because of the stench. host: ralph waldo emerson, a thinker back then, said lincoln is the one example we have of someone who has a whole range of experience from the highest it with shakespeare and the opera down to the really lowest. he had this incredible cultural range. even though he had barely any education. he was a

this wasn't exactly gettysburg for the reagan wall.r games routine. they are lucky he dressed at all after the way he had been treated. he was photographed in russia after his honeymoon with no shirt at all. i don't think bernie is showing white privilege. i think he's just being bernie. raymond, we have -- they want to get rid of the trump presidential library. "the washington post" said he's not allowed to have a library. if you were going to run the trump presidential library what would you put in there. >> i read those pieces. i would put the diet coke button he had installed on the resolute decks. the sharpie pens he signed every pen and executive order with. that's big. the maga hats. if he opens a presidential library in orlando or tampa, this will be maga world and it will be flipped into every family vacation. and melania's jacket, i really don't care jacket. they could make great displays. jesse: raymond arroyo, he doesn't own mittens either. the tom brady hat factor explained. ♪ ♪ the chevy silverado trail boss. when you hav

so the first is that he lost in second one of the things that he did with war crimes going into gettysburge kidnapped three black people brought it back to virginia for sale. he also killed black pows. was the better than grant? heck no. they always talk about guerrilla warfare and the free african-americans in the south and there were 4 million. so what would have happened with the 4 million formally enslaved people? the other part is sheridan had week to have a in the shenandoah valley and sherman was doing that in georgia and south carolina and north carolina. >> i do think lee does deserve a great deal of respect for his tactical and operational expertise. and then to be revered and respected the way he was. there were some real leadership qualities here that deserve a degree and emulation i think it's very important to remember and he didn't lose just because the south had the industry and everything else but because when he needed to do strategically the only way the south could win the war was by prolonging it in a way with the unrest. so that the union league club was created and t

do you remember the language from the gettysburg address? government of, by and for the people?not just the well connected people. not the rich people. not the people with supporters in the media. not the people with the connections to foreign dictators. no. all the people. the trump administration fought for the people who worked on the keystone pipeline. but to biden and his team, most americans are racists who are destroying the planet. biden team, people are disposable and dispensable. the folks with the connections are buried in benjamins. under the biden administration, the privileged few biden family's, wall street plutocrats, the big tech billionaires and the hard left special interest groups like b.l.m. will get paid big. that is not compassionate. it's not caring. it's cruel cronyism and heartless indeference to the working -- indifference to the working people. this is what people voted for. this is what georgians voted for in january. until we vote again, this is what we will get. a tale of the two societies. of the average americans scrambling to stay afloat while e

remember that language for the gettysburg address, a government war, by, and of the people appeared notust the well-connected people, not the rich people, not the people with supporters in the media. all the people. the trump administration fought for the sort of people who worked on the keystone pipeline. but to joe biden and his team, most americans are racists who are destroying the planet. to the biden team, all working people are disposable and dispensable. meanwhile, the folks with connections? they are buried in benjamin's. under the biden administration, theen privileged few, biden's family, wall street plutocrats come up tech billionaires, and hard left special interest groups like blm are going to get paid big. that's not compassionate. that's not it's cold indifference to the working people of this country. sadly this is what americans voted for last november. this is what georgia voted for in january. until we can vote again, this is what we are going to get. a tale of two societies of average americans scrambling to stay afloat while the elitesil such as biden's friends and

then to discourage the guerrilla warfare tactics but we lost and with the war crimes going into gettysburg his army kidnapped three black people he also killed black pows who is he better tactically? absolutely was he better than grant? had no. the other part about guerrilla warfare the south feared most is to free african-americans in the south and there were 4 million said he had gone to guerrilla war what would have happened with those formally enslaved people there is no way to do that and to wreak havoc in the shenandoah valley sherman was doing that in georgia insert south carolina the whole idea of guerrilla warfare seems overblown general patraeus could talk more about leadership than i could see medically deserves a great deal of respect for his tactical and operational expertise and it's not a trivial factor to be respected by your men like he was there was some real leadership qualities that deserve a degree of emulation and it's very important that he lost not just because the south had the industry but because he didn't understand what he needed to do strategically the only wa

washington has been dead for many decades by the time abraham lincoln says that in the gettysburg addressmazing. thank you just for walking us through that and fact checking us. it's quite the tweet and quite the fact check. alexis coe, thank you very much. >> thank you. >>> next, after senator pat to toomey voted to convict donald trump, one state republican in pennsylvania said, he didn't send toomey to washington to, quote, do the right thing. whe, that allowed me to pay off aggressively and save without breaking my back or breaking the bank. ♪ we made usaa insurance for members like martin. an air force veteran made of doing what's right, not what's easy. so when a hailstorm hit, usaa reached out before he could even inspect the damage. that's how you do it right. usaa insurance is made just the way martin's family needs it with hassle-free claims, he got paid before his neighbor even got started. because doing right by our members, that's what's right. usaa. what you're made of, we're made for. ♪ usaa ♪ covid's still a threat. and on reopening schools, we know what happens when we do

there are a series of monuments around gettysburg devoted to who went furthest, two, one put up by virginians and north carolinians both claiming to be the further point in pickett's charge, if you ask any military, i don't know what you're talking about, furthest isn't a meaning, furthest to the east, into the enemy lines, furthest marched, whoever went further e- was the bravest, they all want this claim and so these monuments are often about claiming valor and especially these ones with the high water mark of the confederacy are just fascinating to me in the way that they portend to be historical marking, but they're really about proving that one state or the other fought better. and so -- and i think it's worth remembering that monuments put up by the union have multiple meaning as well and who was involved in this creation, who was included. i'll give you an example. there is a monument in pitsville, massachusetts, that has one of my ancestors on it. he died, there is a monument and it's like that's cool, right. it's a cool monument to my ancestor and all of the veterans who died from pi

mcclellan back in the army including rumors that he will be back with the army that continues to the gettysburg campaign. and even beyond. i want to close with this. a famous statement from ulysses s grant. most of you i think i have heard some of this before. but i dare say most of us haven't gotten the full quotation and here is grant on mcclellan. he described mcclellan as one of the mysteries of the war. it. we've all heard that. indeed. what is less often noted was grants conviction that no commander was likely to succeed early in the conflict. as grant said, it's always seem to me that the critics of mcclellan don't consider this cruel and vast responsibility. a war. and using to all of us. the army knew. everything to do from the outset, with the restless people in congress. it mcclellan was a young man when this devolved upon. him if you didn't succeed it's because the conditions of his success were so trying. if he had gone into the war with or meade had fought his way along and up, i have no reason to suppose that he would not have won as high at distinction as any of us. thank you ve

there were only three paragraphs in the gettysburg address.i have to say, i think mcconnell blew it. this was his party's best chance to make sure trump never ran again. you remember the end of "lord of the rings" when frodo brought the ring all the way to the volcano and then decided to not throw it in? this was like a dumb version of that. [ laughter ] even so, it was the most bipartisan impeachment vote ever, 57-43. seven republican senators voted to convict. burr, collins, romney, toomey, murkowski, cassidy, and sasse. and now they're paying a price for it at home. the chairman of the washington county, pennsylvania, republican party was furious at his senator, pat toomey. >> we sent him to washington to represent our interests. he's our representative in washington. we did not send him there to vote his conscience. we did not send him there to do the right thing or whatever. >> jimmy: that's right. [ laughter ] we didn't send him there to do the right thing! we hate the right thing! and if pat toomey don't have the guts to not stand up fo

lecture about the causes and military objectives of the civil war prior to a day-long staff ride at gettysburg for the college's resident class. it's good to be with our panel with our forum members and to have you at acorn with us. this is an important occasion. i think for many reasons are you in

host: mike is in gettysburg, pennsylvania. go ahead.r: like i told the lady who answered, i don't know how they can put a rate on somebody who lives in the country versus somebody who lives in the city. i almost agree with a lot of things the lady said. how about all the people losing their business and need the money now? it's all subjective, and it should be applied for and reviewed. i'm not going to discount people who had a lot of money in the past in taxes, because again you live within your means and if you happen to be one of those rich people, i hope that you have money stored away in the bank to be able to survive with. where i live in gettysburg, pennsylvania is no comparison to where i lived outside of washington, d.c. in the past. the cost is just not the same. how can they have one thing for all? host: that is mike in pennsylvania. let's go to the neighboring state of delaware, crystal in wilmington. caller: good morning, how are you, i wish i could have got through on the other segment, but i couldn't. in reference to the

certainly for whom he was providing service at the time, who went on to distinction at the battle of gettysburg as it turns out. so, that's the brooks line. my father then becomes the first one regularly committed into the military as a commissioned officer through the reserve officer training corp. program at virginia state college, as it was called then, graduating commissioning in 1954 as a second lieutenant and went into the infantry and changed to the corporal master corp. a little bit later in his career as a young officer and spent the rest of his career as a logistics. we moved from place to place like military nomads do. at 29.5 years of service, my father retired. my brother and i were on active duty at that time. my brother was a captain at that time, having been a year ahead of me at west point. so, that's really our journey. i have a sister also who's not in the military, but she still runs the house just as my mother did until her recent passing. >> general, you are really fortunate to be able to trace your family back that far. >> yes, you're right. it's unusual. >> along with yo

said it wasn't just he himself that had helped save the union army at victory at gettysburg, but it was the stubborn resistance of greene alone that saved us from disaster. but i think the importance of greene's story and the actions of july 2nd, 1863 on the slopes of culp's hill was said best in this quote that i'd like to close the program with today. it says this, these who are now present, those of you watching at home, watching on your ipad your phone screen, those that are watching on your television on c-span, these that are now present, you, remind this generation us today of the debt it owes to the soldiers who won the victory for the union, not only for themselves but for the millions who enjoy the fruits of the triumph gained at the cost of so many thousands of lives. thank you. >>> weeknights this month we're featuring american history tv programs as a preview of what's available every weekend on c-span3. the national history center hosts events for congressional members and staff to learn the historical background behind contemporary issues. andrew johnson became president