white was in gettysburg. northern virginia didn't have enough cavalry because he was doing his own thing but white and stewart did not get along. they were together at brandy station in june of 1963 by that time the campaign begins. they send white off and that's how he ended up. >> he ends up running into another guy. the hills of southern pennsylvania. >> take it home. >> as far as stories go if you've come to previous ones travis can be depressing with his stories. this isn't that bad. all things considered, loss of an arm and a wife there were no murders, plane crashes or nothing like that. that's why i think he's lucky. you're going to hear some familiar names. as you can already tell and you might already know, loudoun county has concession this and you have both armies back and forth throughout the county. i want to talk a bit about some prisoners. when using prisoner of the war you probably think of john nevin's who get caught enjoying good scenery. you also think of andersonville and elmira. i want t

college, and the lutheran theological seminary in gettysburg. so, here you have a 22-year-old officer who has seen some experience, he's been horribly wounded in battle. >> one functional arm. >> one functional arm. literally going into battle with his arm in a sling, almost a year after his wanting, leading a bunch of students who have never heard a shot fired in anger, -- >> what could go wrong? >> what could go wrong? >> despite this -- despite this -- he and the 26th pennsylvania are going to march out on the morning of june 26th, 1863, and they are going to take a position on marsh creek along the cashtown pike, west of gettysburg, pennsylvania, to face lee's battle-hardened veterans of the army of northern virginia. so, i can't even imagine what's going through this guy's mind this morning. looking out, looking to the west, you are seeing a long column of guys in gray, butternut, marching toward you. slater did not know that these were men of the old core. these are hardened veterans. they're being escorted by a battalion of confederate ca

was the pennsylvania college not gettysburg college and the lutheran theological seminary in gettysburg. i have a 22-year-old officer. >> is one of functional arm frequencies literally leading a bunch of students who have never heard a shot fired in anger. what could go wrong? >> despite this, despite this he and the 26th pennsylvania 1863 and they're going to take up a position on marsh creek along cashtown north of gettysburg pennsylvania to face lee's keep looking out, looking to the west seeing a long column of guys clad in gray and butternut marching to you. they will be escorted by a battalion of the confederate calvary as they advanced to the pennsylvania countryside. in one of those weird twist of fate weird luck has a weird way of popping up in life and who's in the calvary show? none other than a large white. with two men representing loudoun county. one allowed and borne one but adopted to loudoun county. opposite sides of the battlefield. on luckily for luther slater i say what can be good and what can be bad. now you're turning it around your giving me a hard time for an. >

so my tie to gettysburg pretty significant. and now that i live there and you know, my wife is, a native born and raised in gettysburg, the tie, the full circle, plenty of sense and. you know, it's a wonderful place to be the home we live in is on the battlefield my attic is my office and head out the window of my attic. i have a perfect view of the round tops i can see little round top. my window right across the field will pick its to place. it's a pretty special place of so we don't forget it you when your your dad's estate and going through his files that. i don't know if you call it a novel or a novella that manuscript that baseball manuscript. don't you give him a quick oh, yeah. my father had written a baseball story, as i said, and he had given up on it. he couldn't sell it then publishers wouldn't buy after his death. my and i, going through his effects, found a manuscript. there was one manuscript that was all. he could very well have thrown it away. i took it to new york. baseball had gotten hot and so the book was p

he was physically ill from his gettysburg egg wound that he had received. and got down to the front. so there was no coordinate. it was like the cat that had caught the mouse but couldn't figure out what to do with it. that's that's exactly what happened there at mule shoe. any event, more attacks take place there at spotsylvania courthouse. grant cannot break through. so he decides i'm going to maneuver again and again. he's maneuvering around the same of lee pushing his way down toward richmond because he knows lee has to try to defend richmond so he'll be able to stick lee a place where he can finally getting the end up moving south. the next defensible position, which is the north and a river, gave me the chance. write another book called to the north and a river. anyway north and a river, if you think about it, confederate get below the river. that's where lee is. grant then the and i use grant loosely. this is the army the potomac wants to bust through. lee misjudged what grant's maneuver was going to be, did not defend the river line itself, but he w

have had to research gettysburg. but i didn't because they did not live that long. i got a very close up view of the war's first two years. after i'd written the book, i was reading about the later war, some books about the end of the war. i was struck by how absolutely hard and cruel and bitter and vengeful it was, compared to the first couple years of the war. not that war is a pretty place, people were dying from bullets in diseases like crazy in the early war. but there were something more innocent about it. at the end of the war, you had the rise of guerrilla warfare, which you never had before. 10% of the union army black troops, who were given no quarter by confederate soldiers. you have the rise of the hard war, people like will sheridan, basically conducting anti-civilian warfare, burning forms to the ground, burning crops to the ground. what sheridan did in the shenandoah valley was probably worse than what sherman did in georgia and the carolinas. just the desperation at the end of the war on the part of t

now, as we've heard today, civil war battles like gettysburg, antietam produced thousands and thousands of war stories, just like chapels. and all too often, these cases, they ended in grisly deaths from infection or blood loss exposure. you name it, there's a million ways to die in the civil war. so judging by outward appearances, we might consider chapel to be one of the lucky ones, because after all, he somehow managed to survive long enough to actually tell his story. in 1886, in the letter that we see here on the screen, but chapel didn't see it that way. he did n consider himlf one of the lucky ones because him survival in the long aftermath of the battle of gettysburg was a living hell. and that is because 23 years after gettysburg the unexpected consequences of chapel civil war wound still dominated the old soldier's day to day life as he explained in that tortured 1886 letter quote the put me on morphine and i stop that. in other words, chapel had become and remained hopelessly addicted to the morphine that surgeons had given him in that field hospital to treat the pain from hi

in gettysburg, when his balloon lands, he is captured and he is taken there and beaten severely so he can't escape. he's too weak but he is brilliant. he is an engineer and he helps r to design the escape. those were what rose called his silent partners. that is obviously not the ne tunnel they used to escape. wi there are no images of the tunnel but what i did, after reading multiple diaries, everything i could for a year, i went through and try to find e an image of a tunnel but i cr thought looked the most like what they described and this isi it. it is about the isheight and wih of it, just wide enough for a man to go through. rose was so big, he often got stuck in it and his shoulders were always wrong because he scraped either side of it. rock and dirt is what they dug through. they were a couple other challenges they had. i told you about the kitchen fireplace. they had to dig it brick by brick. had a sewer cave-in one day. rose is digging in the tunnel. hamilton is outside. rose says he's getting close. all of the sudden, the sewer collapses and rose almost drowns in raw sewag

prison so prominent folks would walk through and they'd say, oh, there's colonel so-and-so from gettysburg and there's the famous general so-and-so from whichever. and the prisoners felt completely, you know, dehumanized and they were disgusted that they put like animals in a zoo by being laughed at and and held their. so how did men stay alive? if you look at the picture i have there, it looks different than the first picture. one of the things that confederates did and the union did in their prisons to prevent people from escaping, they would paint the bottom half of it white that way night. if you're walking along your you know, your shadow stands out anyways. these are some of the things men did to try to stay alive. one is the lice see them, you know, plato and aristotle created the academy and the lyceum. perhaps the first institutions of higher learning and western civilization. well, they had their version of the lyceum, but because there were so many lice inside it, they called the lice. see now because they were high ranking officers. there were university administrators and prof

the gettysburg address, one of the three most widely quoted statements by any writer. and, of course, adams could have anticipated that at a much later date it would become one of the most constant a virtual in its claims that all men are created equal. adams never got over it. never got over it. he's got -- about later in life. why didn't i do it? i didn't let him do it. yeah. jefferson was i was pressured to get, to get, get it written quickly. there wasn't much time we don't know very much about on what days actually wrote, how much at each sitting, how many days he spent revising, what papers or book and books. he had with him. that's partly known. he had a copy, of course, of richard henry lee's june six declaration resolution independence. he had his copy of the draft constitution he had written before leaving williamsburg to come to philadelphia in of which you are very with that draft he hoped to get as quickly as possible to williamsburg. so his draft could become the dominant draft he had that with him and that contained a lengthy forensic indictment of georg

was received and finding that it just wasn't nobody noticed the speech of gettysburg that we now think of as a kind of turning point in american history. yeah, it was the march on washington was was king's speech in particular understood to be a big moment the day after the week after? well, i think it varied, you know, the washington post front page the next day didn't have a word about it, didn't. but the new york times had, i think, three stories about it. james reston recognized it instantly. so i think, you know, it depend it on or on who you were. it it grew, of course, into the into the culture. so that commonly now, you know, people simplify the civil rights movement to rosa sat down martin had a dream and i'm free you know that's that's pretty much that's pretty much how it came down so it's definitely i have a dream i think is recognized by schoolchildren everywhere. it is part of the culture. i think it took a while and for me it was really amazing to study it because he wrote an incredibly stilted speech. this was the biggest event of his life. he knew that and the speech t

military academy at west point, the civil war institute at gettysburg college, the u.s. army heritage and education center, ulysses s grant presidential library, and the virginia historical society. we're happy to welcome here him here to the american battlefield trust 2023 annual conference drew. well, hello and thank you. thanks to the battlefield trust. thanks to all of you for being here. and thanks for allowing an academic historian to serve as a kind of interloper among you and i really appreciate the opportunity. i teach afternoon classes and i understand how difficult it can be to try to stay alert and awake after lunch when you had a long day. so i will try to keep us going and try to keep us engaged a little bit here as we as we talk about the battle of franklin. all right. the night of november 30th and december 1st, 1864, must have seemed endless for the union confederate soldiers on the field at franklin, tennessee, with widespread confederate failure to break the union line and with the onset of darkness, the fiercest of the fighting began to wind down by 7

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you will have that in your head, like visiting a battlefield, like gettysburg, you go once and you can and feel it. no one has to tell you, thanks so much. >> and you know this, pete, education, if you have a kid going to school today, if your teacher is not going to discuss it, can we discuss 9/11. >> many parents say it is barely a blip in the history books and then you have to worry about how it is characterized. we had it coming, impulse a lot of universities had. i was in college, that is -- it is amazing and it you lose your grip, the narrative changes, they want to erase it and we cannot. >> ainsley: 3000 died on the day, when you see the numbers and wall of the people that died as result of cancer because they went down there to save other people and fight for our country. youngest victim, christ ine hanson and holdest robert norton and his wife jacqueline on the way to a wedding. >> victims from flight 93 and the families are invited to be by the wall. the memory of new york city bravest living through tunnels to towers. >> steven siller ran nearly two miles through the tunnel

the gettysburg address was 2 minutes and 10 seconds long and it was still renowned as maybe the greatestpeech of all- time. biden did an amazing thing. i support the union and hope to give everything they deserve. >>> up next, the clock is ticking as it looks like the american government will shut down. i will speak with someone at the heart of those negotiations over on capitol hill. >>> senators tucker tommy taking heat about a comment he made about race in the military. >>> as a judge rules trump is liable for fraud, how much is that building, mara largo, worth right now? >>> tonight, donald trump's entire empire is at risk. a judge finding him liable for fraud and allegedly deceiving banks, loners, and customers for a decade. there is a campaign refrain that takes on new meaning in the wake of these new rulings. >> if we could run our country the way i have run my company, we would have a country you would be proud of. >> do you subscribe to the notion the government should can and should be run like a business? >> it certainly should, but a business with hard because i am a big beli

the central issue of my presidency from the speech i made at gettysburg in the inaugural address to thenniversary of june 6th insurrection, our january 6th insurrection to independence hall in philadelphia. to the speech i made at union station in washington. i've spoken about the danger of election denialism, political violence and the battle for the soul of america today in america to honor an institution devoted to the defense of democracy named in honor of a true patriot. i'm here to speak about another threat to our democracy that we all too often ignore the threat to our political institutions to our constitution itself. and the very character of our nation, democracy is maintained by adhering to the constitution and the march to perfecting our union by protecting and expanding rights with each successive generation, including that little guy. he's going to talk about it and it's ok in my house, kids prevail. ok. this adherence is an, is an optional. we can't be situational. we can't be only there when it's good for yourself. it's constant and unyielding even when it's easy and mo

young men and women who fought war and stood on the fields in fredericksburg and gettysburg and stoodtle round top, people who stood in places like iwojima, those who rode across the english channel, left home, left a job, left family, left daddy, left their wives, left behind everything that they loved and went through all that training, went through all that basic suffering and went off to learn and got equipped -- went over to england, never had children. never had the pleasure of seeing themselves to get old and seeing grandkids playing on their feet. they died on the beaches of france and died in the mountains of italy, died in those places, 100 places in japan and those islands. why? why did they give up their lives? those men and women gave up their lives so i could stand here right now today. and as bold as they were standing in combat to give their lives, that's how bold you and me need to be today. we need to stop being afraid. we need to stop being nervous. we need to stop being afraid that someone is not going to like us. with some people, i want them to not like me. soone

the speech i made it gettysburg, the inaugural address to the anniversary of june 6th insurrection --ndependence hall in philadelphia. it's not easy. [shouting] [indistinct] >> sean: the june 6th insurrection? the best part of these remarks probably came when biden listed off all the things that he claims maga republicans are trying to do. one has to be "make america great again." just saying. anyway. see if this reminds you of anybody. take a look. >> seizing power, concentrating power, attempted to abuse power, purging and packing key institutions, conspiracy theories. spreading lies for profit and power to divide america in every way. >> sean: sounds like him of the democratic party. anyway. very familiar. everything joe is accusing quote maga republicans" of doing, he and his fans, the claimant alarmist religious cultists, they have been doing it themselves so it's pretty clear. he's just trying to distract from the mountain of evidence that was presented earlier today in terms of day one of the joe biden impeachment inquiry that took place in the house. anyway, it's the oldest tr

i remember probably decade or so ago sitting on a bus going from gettysburg college to the shenandoah, talking about next projects, our next speaker has been a great friend of me and institute and a great supporter of our journal of the shenandoah valley during the civil era. so it gives me great pleasure to introduce brian matthew jordan. bryant is associate professor of civil war history and chair of the department of history at houston state university. he's the author or editor. six books on the civil war era, including marching home union veterans and their unending civil war, which was a finalist for the pulitzer prize in history in 2016. his more 100 reviews, articles and essays have appeared in scholarly journals edited volumes and popular magazines, so without further please join me in welcoming brian matthew jordan. well, thank you so much jonathan, for that introduction. thanks for the invitation to participate in this wonderful conference today. it's always a pleasure to be here at shenandoah university to support the work of the mccormick institute. the work that you do h

. >> yes we have start to distract of the declaration of independence we have the gettysburg address. >> the library congress has three main buildings named after presidents, what are they each. >> jefferson first the library of congress really took over the copyright system for the united states and it was very helpful. >> the national washington d.c.? ... which ones? that is a great question. walking through lincoln's home in springfield bid the banister the ghostly first floor to the second floor as you walk down the same banister the president held going down but it's the closest i've ever gotten to touching a former president. >> i'm just getting excited because my family is from springfield, illinois. and that was such a thrill. i would spend the summers there and going to lincoln's home. >> you restore these homes? suppose the president said i grew up here and where to get the money to do that? >> well from congress. and we have a number of associations that help us across the united states were very generous. we get a number of private donations the american public that really

protection preservation of american democracy central issue of my presidency and the smepeech i me in gettysburgthe anniversary january 6th insurrection and independence hall if philadelphia. spoken about the danger of election denialism, political violence and battle for the soul of america. today in america to honor an institution devoted to defense of democracy, named in honor of a true patriot i'm here to speak about another threat to our democracy. all too often ignored. threats to our political constitution, to our constitution itself. the very character of our nation. democracy's maintained by adhering to the constitution and the march to perfecting our union by protecting and expanding rights of each successive generation, including that little guy. he's going to talk about it. it's okay. in my house kids prevail. okay? this adherence, isn't an option. we can't be situational. we can't be only there when it's good for yourself. it's constant and unyielding even when it's easy and most important when it's hard. for centuries the american constitution has been a model for the world with ot

had just retired from the major leagues and he was running a buick dealership in his hometown of gettysburg but he loved the idea of returning baseball. and that's how he signed up for the steelton team, one of the rarest autographs. really? yeah. if you if you find any play, it's worth a ton of money. i'll keep that in the 300. i know. and i love the name eddie plank. you know discovery one of my favorite discovery is just when you piece everything together was the the four -- on the bethlehem team. the fact that two played in the major leagues, the fact that i love the fact that al schacht, who became the clown of baseball, he was born in an apartment complex that was raised for a yankee stadium to be built. and i was shocked. ended up running a very popular midtown manhattan restaurant that was featured in the film breakfast at tiffany's. so and i've already could go on what his name, al schacht. the restaurant. the restaurant was shaq's restaurant, you know, just like toots teachers and all that. yeah. but because it was a prince, the first clown prince. we all know that max patinkin, y

coming up next >>> if you have keeping count the first one was on the anniversary of january 6th gettysburg2, the third at union station in washington, d.c., and today in arizona president biden did it again. he implored americans to save democracy for the fourth time at an announcement of a library honoring the late republican senator john mccain. four addresses in two years on the importance of american democracy and its greatest threat, extremists in the republican party. when has a president ever had to address the health of our democracy this much in such a short period of time? joining me now is someone who may know a thing or two about that, michael beschloss, nbc news presidential historian. michael, so glad to have you here tonight and give context to this bay zar moment we find ourselves in, but is there a historical analog of a president warning the public of its demise so often in its first time in office? >> yeah, let's remember how singular this really is. go all the way back through american history we've never had what we've had right now, which the the prospect of an electi

if we had a gettysburg every four months, mayday would have developed it. that's all speculation. thank you, though. >> degree you ever have to worry about unexploded ordnance on the battlefield during your research? >> that's a great question. the answer -- wow. this brings me back to fort blakely in alabama. i went to port blakely, which is a state historic park. out there in the spring. it rained the night before. looked like a wednesday. big state park. i drove and found where the mines were used. walked away from my truck. and i realized, i walking on a former mine field. and i didn't want to do that. and like, i'm here by myself. nobody is out here. and i actually was scared for a second. but the answer is no. and this leads me into a very interesting part. and the answer is this. it's that almost every single case, confederate prisoners of war were used to clear their own mines. and also, many that you saw. >> there are stories about relic hunters finding land mines once or twice. and i have been in somebody's house. and they askedne if i want to hold it. and i said no. tha

. >> if you have been keeping, count the first one was on the anniversary of january 6th and gettysburgindependence hall, philadelphia. the third, right before last year's midterm elections at union station in washington, d.c.. and today, in arizona, president biden did it again. he impart americans to save democracy from the fourth time, at an announcement at a library honoring the late republican senator john mccain. for addresses in two years on the importance of american democracy and its greatest threat, extremists in the republican party. when has a president ever had to address the health of our democracy this much in such a short period of time? joining me now is someone who may know a thing or two about. that michael beschloss, nbc news presidential historian. michael, it is so good to have you here tonight to give context to this bizarre and unsettling moment we fought ourselves in. but is there a historical and look for a president warning the republic of its imminent demise so often in his first term in office? >> let's remember how significant this really is. we go all the

we had a full front of days we had a gettysburg every four months, maybe they would have developed it. that is all speculation. thank you. >> did you ever have to worry about unexploded ordinance are landmines in your civil war research? were any of the battlefields still hot? but that is a great question. the answer -- this brings me back to work blakely. in alabama. i went to fort blakely, which is a state historical park. i would say it was the spring. it rained the night before. it was like a wednesday. big state park. i drove there, i found where the mines were used. walked away from my truck and realized, i'm working on a former minefield. and i don't want to do that. you know, it's not like -- and actually like i'm out here by myself. nobody is out here. my next footfall could be my last. and i actually was scared, for a second. but the answer is, no, and it leads me to very interesting part. and the answer is this. almost every single case, confederate prisoners of war were used to clear their own landmines and walk across the minefields. you know the clearance rate is going t