know, lincoln's mother nancy hanks lincoln died when he was quite young. when lincoln moved back to kentucky and brought back his stepmother, sarah, she insisted on a few improvements. that is what you see in this cabin. there is now a wooden floor. cut windows. whitewash the inside. make it more livable. many people thought pioneers brought only the absolute necessities with them, but they wanted a better life. they often brought treasured possessions. in the homes, there would have been furniture made by thomas lincoln, a very skilled carpenter. here, you see examples of his corner cabinets. on the one side, we have a -- they relate to the maxim, you get what you pay for. on the one side, we have a simple, practical corner cabinet that would have been something that was extremely utilitarian. in the other corner, we have a much more high-style corner cabinet with beautiful inlay that really shows the level of detail and fine craftsmanship thomas lincoln brought to his work. finally, we have a mallet that belonged to abraham lincoln. he spent his formativ

and then lincoln got a hold of it and he signed it whereupon the senate passed a resolution telling lincolno right to sign this. the president has no role in this. stratified by two thirds of congress and three quarters of the states. in the present has nothing to do with it and they did want him to sign it. >> said they were aware. >> a particular flavor of the trial. what were some of the prominent arguments of each side. >> it is very complicated. to make a very simple or simpleminded in a certain sense, i think the best way to make those arguments comprehensible just in a quick question answer period is to say that there was a narrow field of the legalistic view of impeachment versus the broader view. it was seen that the prosecutors, the people who wanted johnson out of office would take those broader view because for all of the reasons enumerated. and the irony was that the johnson defense team, william everts, and curtis and as i said very brilliant people took the broader view and they were basically talking about the dignity of the president. and maintaining that dignity again cong

a lodge that was built in lincoln hills was the crown jewel of lincoln hills. it has six bedrooms, the resort also had 17 cabins that were rented out between memorial day and labor day. you are probably asking the question, why only between memorial day and labor day? you saw the snowstorm yesterday. the roads were dirt roads going up to the mountain. up in that area during the wintertime, there could be three to four feet of snow. weeks lodge and winks tavern were only operated during the summer months. during the summer months, there were as many as 5000 visitors, and guess would come to the resort. lincoln hills, along with wink's panorama and the tavern were a monument and a testament to the ingenuity and the entrepreneurial spirit of black americans. wendell "winks" hamlan, the proprietor and builder of the lodge, was a valued citizen in the county. during his tenure from 1926 to 1965 that is when he passed away he not only operated the hotel, he was the deputy sheriff, he was a forest ranger, and those were some of the responsibilities he was also assista

we'll talk about lincoln hills in a minute. my great grandfather built three homes at cherry creek and several camps at lincoln hills. lincoln hills was created by a development company, there were two men, there were some questions whether they were black or white. my great grandfather was very fair skin and that because of his fair complexion that enabled him to do certain things dark skin black people would not be able to do. as my proposition of the two developers who purchased the property in lincoln hills which was about 100 acres were more than likely too fair skin black men. they applaudplotted that territo about 600 lots that were eventually sold to black people across the nation, from new york to chicago. the lots were advertised and lincoln hills was advertised in magazine and such as ebony and jet. that's how people found out about lincoln hills. what must be remembered back in the 1920s when this land was purchased and platted. the colorado was divided and segregated. this was the area where black people can buy mo

this is fort lincoln as well. we know this is a later war image of the fort because as you see in the corner there, there is a 100 pound rifle. it could fire three or four miles. that is what will be running into on july 11th, 1864. they started mounting the rifles in july, excuse me, in 1863. and one of the most popular images, this is gun number 13 at fort totten. a couple of things i want everyone to notice here. again, this is maryland. look how open the landscape is there. it is quite dramatic. this piece itself, gun number 13, you see the number there, 100 pound rifle was engaged in battle. so we know that this gun was fired in action against the confederate army as they're moving toward d.c. we have an image of the southeast forts across the anacostia river. we know this is a late war image as well. you got the original wall there. and the army started adding what we call bastion. see that right there, popping out. think of all of the star ports you may have gone to, you can cover the flanks of the fort. th

let's take the case of lincoln. we're so accustomed the thinking of lincoln in heroic term wets forget the depth and breadth of his popularity during his entire time in office. few great leaders have the been more comprehensively disdained, loathed and unestimated. a low southern view of lincoln is to be expected. but it was widely shared in the north, too. as lincoln biographer david donald put is, lincoln's own associates thought him a simple susan, a baboon, an aimless punster, a smutty checker, his cass called a first rate second rate man, george mcclellan, his opponent in 1864, openly disdained them as welsh meaning baboon. our rhetoric today can't hold a candle to that. lincoln was convinced, with good reason, he was doomed to lose that election with incalculable consequences for the war effort, the future of the nation and all he had done and all he had sacrificed to that end. so i quote from the book again: we need to remember that this is generally how history happens and this is very much directed towards

as lincoln biographer david donald put it, lincoln's own associates called him simple susan, of bolden joker. wendell phillips called him a huckster in politics, a first-rate, second-rate man. george mcclellan in the 1864 election openly disdained him and called him a well-meaning baboon. our rhetoric today can't hold a candle to that. for much of his election year lincoln was convinced and with good reason that he was doomed to lose that election. with incalculable consequences for the war effort, the future of the nation and all that he had done, all that he had sacrificed to that end. we need to remember that this is generally how history happens, this is directed toward young people but all of us, this is how history happens. it is not like a hollywood movie. we wish the background music swells and the crowd would applause and lead to its seat is your reader gives us timeless words and the camera pans the room across smiling faces. in real history the background music does not so. the trump us to do not sounds and the critics often seem louder than the applause. the leader or the s

come back to lincoln again. one always does this. it was lincoln who articulated in his first inaugural address the hope that what he called the mystic chords of memory would yet swell the chorus of union at a time when the prospects for the union staying together were diminishing by the minute. he was appealing in a moment of grave national crisis to the great american story, the nation's grateful memory of the generation of 76, of the revolutionary patriots who created the nation and all those others who had sacrificed so much to make the nation's grand experiment in democracy into a success. as we know, lincoln's great speech did not succeed in preventing a war, in his time. but that does not mean that his prescription was the wrong one for other times, including our own. we too live in a fractious period of disunity, full of disturbing portense, one in which there is loose and somewhat irresponsible talk of civil war. but we also have an even long e history to appeal to even in our current time of national discontent and strife.

adams was light, he never got lincoln. never learned to appreciate lincoln.one point when he's in london lincoln had a series of thanksgiving statements. he sends one over and adam reads it and says, this is pretty good. it's nicely done, obviously lincoln didn't write it because he can't write that we go to go to harvard. adams never get lincoln's greatness. he tries to find a middle ground. he selected just in time for lincoln to be elected in the south to begin to secede. congress puts together a committee, the committee of 33, 33 guys in the committee. to find a compromise package to keep the south in the union. of course this was all about the slavery and american southwest. adams and stewart are willing to allow the possibility to slavery in the mexico territory would include arizona. and adams says, it's constituents are really unhappy about this, adams says, first of all, the law is on my side and on the side of the decision, congress does not have the power to ban slavery in territories. and adams also says, for 10 years, thanks to the compromise of

lincoln viewed the body and mrs. lincoln is quoted as saying it looks , like he is asleep. we know that because of newspaper reporters there at the time. he lay for a week in washington, d.c., shipped to albany, new york where he laid for another week. newspaper reporters said, this man has been dead for two and a half weeks. there is no signs of death. no color change, no smell. it looks like he is still asleep. that's how the average person found out about embalming. dr. holmes did him free of charge and then charged $100 a person thereafter but $300 for generals. ok. these are tools of the embalming trade of 1861. this is -- about a pound of pressure. it takes less than five tons of pressure to preserve a dead person. the gravity system was used in 1701 by dr. raymond, the recorded arterial embalmer. firstthe system is still being used in some funeral homes in 2019. these tools have been used in all funeral homes in 2019. the only thing that changed in the last 300 years are the chemicals they use. it is done exactly the same way. there was no company selling embalming f

lincoln did in 1863, i think it was. lincoln, mrs. lincoln welcomed tom thumb and this is to the white house right after their gallo wedding in new york city which he sort of engineered self and as i just read, barnum felt comfortable sending lincoln telegram and so i don't think there was a close relationship. it's interesting that people who were very close to barnum such as forest greeley, very close. spent many nights in barnum's palace, it does not mention him at all in his memoirs. there's no mention whatsoever of barnum. and there are other memoirs that i can't quite recall where the same thing is true. and of course greeley ended up running for office to so it could be that he was very aware of the negative sides of barnum's public reputation . and so that's why he stayed clear in his memoir. >> could you explain please what the relationship was ar between barnum and tubbs college. why was there some relationship there? >> top college is often described as a universalist institution. more properly it was an institution founded

he, not lincoln. and one country declare slavery, illegally, they can to do that but under the power, war powers given to him he had a right -- slavery is a state issue. lincoln couldn't end slavery on the border states. even slaves and union occupied territory but he doesn't want to begin a social revolution but his troops he three things. they see slaves helping the confederacy but african-americans on the field, some are picking cotton and not shooting at us. it is sold by munitions for the rebels and in addition to that all the rebel fortifications including caves women hid in in the next berg our dog by slaves. we hurt them and the key, my whole book, they tell the story. these are kids not from abolitionist families, writing home to fathers almost comprehensively and are against slavery. if you went to war and traditions war against slavery. we steal one and are closer to victory and grant loses control of the army. he can't stop the village and burning, he can't keep in northern soldiers out of

lincoln says, not good enough. are11th and 12th corps detached from the army of the potomac to go to save the situation in chattanooga. this changes the strength of the army of the potomac not at all. all of the guys who had been sent north to enforce the draft back.ath -- men.s down to 55,000 is outnumbered by 35,000. the odds have shifted badly against him. all meade can see is he is lost two of his seven corps and he still has to send 5000 men to guard the railroad. and i do not go down this railroad line anyway. i know we are capable of offensive action. meade was not going to take advantage of the circumstances. lee's army is as biggest his own. he is not going to go over to the offensive. lee is of a different mindset. he goes over to the offensive. on october 9, he swings his county,ut of orange trying to get around the flank union army. federals pick up hints but the information is not specific enough. there is a possibility that the rebels might be retreating. that would make sense. backing up closer to ri

american conservatism edited since 1997 as a syndicated columnist and author with the study of abraham lincoln's and the new one speaks to a controversy in our politics a subject of an enormous amount of argument the last few years and the connection to the forces to drive the politics of the west in recent years. we will hear about the book and discuss it and then open to questions. so please let's welcome rich lowry. [applause] >> thank you everyone it's a pleasure to be here. thank you for taking your time i will share with you my favorite moment of the book to were so far it came very early on the second day with an npr intervie interview. they have a practice i like to think of as professor ring so they have you on as a conservative you give your take on the policy than they have a professor on and the role of the professor that you are in it to remus and allows that the npr listener believes anything that is said with some authority with credentials so now you're deemed to the ignoramus so everyone could go home happy this is like the jerry springer when big mama comes on. [laughter] so i

abraham lincoln became president with votes from the northern states. in the white house he faced a challenge of historic proportions. after his election in south carolina moved 1st soon 11 slaveholding states seceded from the united states the president decided to use the military to force the south back into the union. the civil war waged over differing definitions of freedom cost the lives of 600000 soldiers and 500000 civilians 2 percent of the population. it remains the country's bloodiest conflict. half of those killed could not be identified. in may $861.00 the white slave owners on the sea islands had like every year left for the summer. their slaves remained behind. the north took the opportunity to seize control of the islands and armed several 100 gullah slaves. many of the men took pride in wearing the blue uniforms and in joining the fight for their freedom. union forces soon occupied the nearby city of beaufort thanks to the 1st south carolina volunteer infantry regiment it was one of the 1st black regiments in the union army. the north no

lincoln sent it to me by the barrel. we use a lot of it for shock. like i said, the surgeons drank it because of the pressure during the day. we had pure alcohol, too. here is another thing we would do. if i would come to the general , we would open up the stump and stuff like this. i said the stump needed to be bled because tainted blood was in there. we put the stop in a bleeder pan, give him a cut, and let him bleed until it stopped. then we abandon jim back up and a couple days later, check him again. if he still needed to be bled, we could hang a couple leeches on it and let the leeches suck out the tainted blood. you, young man. legs,i amputated arms and i would suture them, so them shut -- sew them shut. all of a sudden, i am running out of suture thread. i have to use something else. what could i have used at that time? >> [inaudible] pete: i don't have no silk thread. it is in my other case. silk thread is what i use. not cotton because it would tear too easily. but i ran out of it. now i have a soldier on the table, i have to suture his stu

few great leaders have helped this burden more comprehensive than lincoln. do this a lot with other statements at time to appreciate what it's like to be the man in the arena. let me also suggest something, it relates to the story at the end of the civil war in 1865 in a way that might help for our fellow countrymen today that seems to regard the american past with contempt. here's how i described the scene in the book. somewhat longer passage here. on april 9 after futile resistance, arranged to be in a brick home in the courthouse to surrender his army. he could not formally surrender but the surrender of his army would trigger the surrender of all others. it represented the end of the confederate cause. it was dignified and restrained and sad is when a terrible storm that has raged has finally exhausted itself, leaving behind us strange calm. the two men had known each other in the mexican war. we arrived first wearing his dress uniform, soon to be joined by grant, and trenchcoat and muddy boots. they showed one another, a deep respectful courtesy. none w

writing "today's democrat would have impeached lincoln for obstruction of congress and abuse of powererally issued his emancipation proclamation. lincoln didn't ask congress for permission when he declared an end to a weird 250 years of slavery and offered freedom to millions of in the american south." that's a pretty good point. >> he makes a really interesting point and gives the several of lincoln's actions that democrats would not impeach him over. it goes back to -- the side of "the federalist" papers, so justice roberts. it should never be used based on the comparative strengths of party, but based on innocence of guilt and the constitutional parameters. "the federalist" papers lent on the side of the president. the constitution does come too. blagojevich makes a very interesting point. lincoln would be impeached today and future presidents will be impeached by the center they have set down. >> melissa: that may be true. we know that blago was on the apprentice and president trump has been in favor of pardoning him. this is what he had to say. >> i think he was treated unbelieva

what was lincoln's primary motivation, professor asks? he wanted to make sure that the government of indiana remained in the hands of republican loyalists, who would continue the war until victory. lincoln's request risked undercutting the military effort by depleting the ranks. moreover, during this time, soldiers from the remaining states faced greater risks. lincoln had dueling motives. privately he sought to secure victory for his party. but the president, as a president and as a party leader and commander in chief, made a decision with life or death consequences. end quote. professor blackman drew the following relevant conclusion from this and other historic events. politicians routinely promote their understanding of the general welfare while in the back of their minds considering how these actions will affect their popularity. often the two concepts overlap. what's good for the country is good for the official's re-election. all politicians, he said, understand that dynamic. like all humans, presidents and other politicians perfec

lincoln, the wentse of everything that down in the civil war was because of tariffs and taxes. when the south wanted to separate themselves from the itons, and along came with to free the slaves. but, it was all about the tariffs and taxes. -- thent lincoln confederates separate themselves from the union, if they did, they would be strong. can you weed out everybody that thinks it was because of the war to free slavery. that wasn't the issue. it was because of the taxes and tariffs and everything. host: i'm not an expert -- guest: i'm not an expert on abraham lincoln, but i think the debate was settled many years ago that the civil war was about civil rights. it was about freedom for african-americans. it was the very foundation of the republican party, which was elected in 1860. 1860 on limiting slavery, but he quickly evolved into an abolitionist, and that is what the war was about, about slavery. host: how long did it take you to write this book? how long was the research and writing? what was the process? guest: about four years. where i started, jesse, was getting a contra

obviously abraham lincoln spoke very kindly about nancy hanks and sarah roosevelt was very domineering of franklin roosevelt but he obviously lived with her basically his whole life even when he was president and went home in hyde park. reagan, i've written four books, had a very, very devoted relationship with his mother so much so that when he was of age, he and his brother neil were given the choice of following their father's religion, rom yap catholic or the mother, disciples cries and reagan win into the dedisciples os closs and neil win to the roman catholic. so he said nothing but very, very warm things. gave her a job in hollywood in the 1940s, answering his fan mail for him. bought hear house, bought her and her house a house. he his father a house. so i think most presidents -- again i think this is an indicator of leadership -- most presidents had very, very good, maybe sometimes tumultuous battling but strong relationship if with mother, abraham lincoln despited his father but loved his mother. maybe how a mother raises a son is just as important if not more important than

the lincoln's second son was edward bacon -- baker lincoln. baker and lincoln were tight. they were brothers. california becomes a state. baker decides i'm going to california. war, to that, the mexican they had the only political difference of their lives. lincoln was against the war. he commanded them briefly. with some credit, he did a decent job. he got written up because he was part of a brigade consisting of the third and fourth illinois and a single unit from new york called the new york regimen. these three regimens were part of a brigade commanded by james shields, who will later go on to utt kicked by stonewall jackson. cerro gordon, at that battle, shields takes a wound in the chest. baker takes over the brigade and continues and is mentioned in the dispatches as having done a very good job. baker has military experience. briefly. all right. baker shows up. he is in command of this and he goesrigade to general stone and says i know there's been a lot going on. can i help you? do you want to give me a briefing? stone says here's what we've got. told him about the

lincoln was corrupt under that definition. >> i don't agree with that analysis. go ahead. go ahead.o ahead. go ahead. >> let me finish. >> go ahead. >> because i made this point. i said that obama broke his promise to bomb the syrian military if they used chemical weapons. >> right. >> he broke that promise. if there were a memo in the file -- this is the hypothetical part -- that said he was going to bomb them, but his pollsters said to him, gee, it would really hurt you with some of the hard left, and he changed his mind on that basis. i asked the question, would that be corrupt? the answer is no, of course not. and neither would it be corrupt if any other politician -- and i talked to the senators. many of them came to me afterward and thanked me for making the argument because i said -- >> of course, they did. and they were all republicans. >> they look to electability and the other side was making the argument that would criminalize that and make it impeachable. that was my argument. i was not responding fought facts because i never agreed to come on the senate floor and talk a

i quoted president lincoln. when president lincoln told general sherman to let the troops go to indiana so they can vote for the republican party, let's assume the president was running at this point and it was in his interest to have the soldiers put at risk the lives of many other soldiers who would be left without their company, would that be an unlawful quid pro quo? now because the president believed it was in the national interest and be, he believed his own election was essential to victory in the civil war. every president believes that. that is why it is so dangerous to try to psychoanalyze a president, to get into the intricacies of the human mind. everybody has mixed motives and for there to be a constitutional impeachment based on mixed motives, how many presidents have made foreign policy decisions after checking with their political advisers and pollsters. if you're just acting in the national interest why do you need pollsters? why do you need political advisers? just do what is best for the count

trump or abraham lincoln? i said abraham lincoln. they say they did a poll on this. i think i remember the numbers. all i know is we won against abraham, honest abe. 53-47. you believe that? >> jimmy: no, i don't. [ laughter ] i don't believe it. maybe it happened but i still don't believe it. but go on. >> i went back to the first lady, i said first lady, i just beat abraham lincoln in a poll. [ laughter ] >> jimmy: he called the first lady first lady? [ laughter ] first lady. first lady, come give president daddy a kiss right on the lips. trump also a week after almost running us into a war loudly complained that he didn't win the nobel prize for peace. >> i mean, i'm going to tell you about the nobel peace prize. i'll tell you about that. i made a deal. i saved a country. and i just heard that the head of that country is now getting the nobel peace prize for saving the country. [ laughter ] >> jimmy: well, maybe we should blow them up, i guess. i don't know. [ laughter ] so far this week he's taken credit for saving ethiopia and curing cancer. he also landed that

abraham lincoln, abraham lincoln was accused of abusing his power for suspending the writ of habeas corpus during the civil war. president grant, grover cleveland, william mckinley, theodore roosevelt, william taft, woodrow wilson, frank and roosevelt, truman, jimmy carter, ronald reagan quote, concerning iran-contra and now i say professor lawrence stride said the following, following, quote, therein lies what appears to be the most serious breach of duty by the president, a breach that may well entail and impeachable abuse of power. george hw bush. the following was released today by the clinton gore campaign. in the past weeks americans have begun to learn the extent to which george bush administration has abused their governmental power of political purposes. that is how abuse of powers have been used. as campaign rhetoric. it should be statements issued by one clinical party against the other and that is the nature of the term. abuse of power is a political weapon and it should be leveled against political opponents. let the public decide. that is true but barack obama, house committe

that was lincoln's life line to the west for troops and for supplies. but kelley epitomizes the family struggles that define the civil war. his father-in-law was a slave owner. his father-in-law's family would be identified on these big, broadside lists of traitors of wheeling that were printed and pasted up all over the city. his brother-in-law made national news in october of 1860 one of his slaves would escape and go to cleave lapped. kelley's brother-in-law would track her to cleveland. in a court case would have her return to slavery. she woulding the last slave returned to slave under the fugitive slave act. that same brother-in-law would spend much of the war as a prisoner at camp chase. kelley had to grapple with this throughout the war. he was in wheeling organizing the first regiment. he was having a heck of a time with it. recruits were not the problem. he was getting hundreds of recruits from the northern panhandle and getting guys from western pennsylvania and eastern ohio where the regimental quotas had been filled and they wanted to enlis

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their into lincoln have first disagreement during the mexican war -- baker and lincoln have their first disagreement airing the mexican war. the mexican war. york wasrmy from new simply called the new york regiment. these three regiments were part of a big grade led by james led by jamesigade shields. shields is leading the advance. cerro gordo.t they are advancing. shields take a wound in the tax -- test. baker takes over the brigade. military some experience weekly. up because he is in command of this california brigade, this mostly california brigade. mostly pennsylvania california brigade. baker -- stone says this is what we have got. he told them about the reconnaissance patrol, the bad information. there to the go up crossing point at balls bluff, across from paul's bluff. you go over and evaluate the situation -- across from balls bluff. if you want to pull block -- back the troops that are there, you make the call." stone know that at that time that the messenger was reporting to stone, colonel devens 15 massachusetts had tangled with part of the 17th mississippi. fighting had s

abraham lincoln, abraham lincoln was accused of abusing his power for suspending the writ of habeas corpus during the civil war. president grant, grover cleveland, william mckinley, theodore roosevelt, william taft, woodrow wilson, frank and roosevelt, truman, jimmy carter, ronald reagan quote, concerning iran-contra and now i say professor lawrence stride said the following, following, quote, therein lies what appears to be the most serious breach of duty by the president, a breach that may well entail and impeachable abuse of power. george hw bush. the following was released today by the clinton gore campaign. in the past weeks americans have begun to learn the extent to which george bush administration has abused their governmental power of political purposes. that is how abuse of powers have been used. as campaign rhetoric. it should be statements issued by one clinical party against the other and that is the nature of the term. abuse of power is a political weapon and it should be leveled against political opponents. let the public decide. that is true but barack obama, house committe

abraham lincoln.id abraham. [cheering] [inaudible] [cheering] i said who do you like better and they did a poll, they set i think i remember the numbers all you know is we won against abraham, honest abe. we won. fifty-three to 47, do you believe that? abraham lincoln. i would back to the first lady nice at first lady, i just beat abraham lincoln and a pole. i don't know if they have pulls back then, but abraham lincoln, i can always say can be more presidential than any candidate than any ran that any president other than maybe abraham lincoln when he's wearing his hat. [laughter] but i like abe lincoln, but we are doing well. we have a lot of support. because our country is doing so well. our country is doing so well. and when we went out, we started, we went right to the top of the polls. it wasn't like these folks today. they are 2% or 3% in their climbing. we were right to the top from day one. we never missed a centerstage in those debates. we actually got higher ratings, they don't get good rat

king never could have imagined as he looked at memorials for lincoln and washington and jefferson that one day there would be a memorial for a profit. we come to say thank you because of all that he does and continues to do through the legacy that has been left. on this day, even though all he said 57 years ago has not come

trance exit new parking on lincoln. right now it stops along lincoln and our spaced every 600 feet which is below our agency's standard guidelines for stop spacing and we found the seventh and 11th avenue stops were low so we've been working with our transit engineering colleagues to consolidate those stops and bring stops spacing on the segment of lincoln up to our standards. it's tow away zone on the north side of lincoln between sixth avenue and 14th avenue from 4:00 to 6:00 p.m. on wednesdays and it creates a travel sane that speeds up and it doesn't cover the evening peak hours so we're proposing to expand that from 3:00 to 7:00 so we have heard a decent amount of members of the community coming out and opposing that and due to the loss of parking for that extra hour and the evening when they come home. going out and doing data collection we found that not very many people are parking there and just hour after that tow away zone ends right now. the speed improvements we think outweigh the disadvantage to parking al

president lincoln and u.s. navy weretary gideon wells convinced that the fall of fort wilmingtond close and closing wilmington as the last operational major seaport could isolateracy the south and help hasten war.ern victory in the lincoln authorized the necessary thel and army forces for fort fisher campaign and he said he would do so if general grant was willing. grant, now the commanding armies,of all northern had been reluctant to support a campaign that he believed would massive army-navy operation, but now he, too, time. it was 64,in early december 18 approximately 6400 federal troops were withdrawn from the marched front and were troop shipstilla of bound for an assault on far-away fort fisher. force forpal northern the fort fisher campaign consisted of the second division, 24th corps, of the the james, an army earliersome six months by a troop merger. yet toy of the james had prove itself. its troops were combat veterans they'd seen a lot of fighting in virginia. fewthey had enjoyed victories. also sele

it is key for the lincoln administration in the unionists of missouri and st. louis to protect this at all costs. to do this, they request the help of kept in the tanya lion, who is in command of company be of the second united states infantry regiment. he was stationed at fort 11 worth when the civil war began in april but was then transferred to st. louis where he would bring 100 man to grab the arsenal. he does realize that the arsenal is going to take a lot more men than just 100 to protected. especially knowing that governor claim or jackson, who has been working with the confederate government, conspiring with them, to in his eyes, hopefully bring missouri into the confederacy officially and join these rebellious states. what he is planning to do, is calling for the militia. the northeastern district of missouri militia has gathered outside of st. louis at a place known as liberals grove. it's actually where st. louis is the university campus is today. they gather they're, known as camp jackson, there's about 600 to 900 depending on what records you look

lincoln calls halleck to washington in 1862. doesn't really work out the way lincoln wanted it. lincoln envisions him being a great commander-in-chief. it turns out, the quote he becomes the best first rate clerk i ever had. something like that. but it eases the pressure on grant. i talked about grant counting the days, he has eight days and he can ask forgiveness later rather than asking permission. so grant has got it under control up the chain of command. now, down the chain of command, -- we know hethat has three corps in the army, two are commanded by grant proteges. sherman, his best buddy, is not afraid to tell grant you don't know what you're doing. in fact, when grant starts the seventh operation south of vicksburg, sherman basically says, grant, don't do it. go back to memphis, start down the railroad like we are supposed to do. don't do it. but the key is here, sherman didn't sit back and fight and work against grant during the midst of all of this. he is completely supporting grant in what he was doing. he will tell his officers, i don't like this roundabout movement

so it's key for the lincoln administration and for the unionists of missouri and st. louis to protect this at all costs. to do this they request the help of captain nathaniel lyon who is in command of company b of the second united states infantry regiment. he was stationed at forth leavenworth when the civil war officially began in april but then he was transferred to st. louis where he would bring with him about 100 men to guard the arsenal. he does realize, though, that the arsenal is going to take a lot more men than 100 to protect it, especially knowing that governor claiborne jackson, which he is pictured here, again, he has been working with the confederate government conspiring with them to, in his eyes, hopefully bring missouri into the confederacy officially and join these rebellious states. what he's planning to do is he's actually calling for the militia, the northeastern district of missouri state militia has gathered just outside of st. louis at a place known and lindell's grove, it's actually where st. louis university's campused too. but they gather th

president lincoln and u.s. navy secretary gideon wells were convinced that the fall of fort fisher would close wilmington and closing wilmington as the last operational major seaport in the confederacy could isolate the south and help hasten northern victory in the war. lincoln authorized the necessary naval and army forces for the fort fisher campaign and he said he would do so if general grant was willing. grant, now the commanding general of all northern armies, had been reluctant to support a campaign that he believed would require a massive army-navy operation. but now he, too, agreed it was time. so in early december 1864, approximately 6400 federal troops were withdrawn from the virginia front and were marched aboard a flotilla of troop ships bound for an assault on far-away fort fisher. the principal northern force for the fort fisher campaign consisted of the second division, 24th corps, of the army of the james, an army created some six months earlier by a troop merger. the army of the james had yet t

applause] we have been to the most interesting tour ever outside major cities went o to omaha and lincoln and wichita falls in waco texas and san antonio. south bend indiana. i'm finding when you go to texas i cannot believe so many people directly related to sam houston or somebody who fought in theed battle and when you go to those cities that i mentioned them in a 30 or 40 or 50 years my family fight in the revolution but to be honest this is some rough terrain if you go to nebraska and look around you don't even see a mountain is just flat the bind that these tile - - towns have with each other the people say they are related to the story and thank you for keeping your family story alive. thank you for the question. thank you for having the party and thank you for the book. thank you for coming out. [applause]e] >> thank you so much progress ed native texan. i have four or five pieces all good news the best is he will be in the big conference room for a little bit taking photos if you would like a photo with him we are trying to get them out of here quickly because we understand his s

when president lincoln told general sherman to let the troops to go to indiana so that they can vote for the republican party, let's assume the president was running at that point and it was his electoral interest to have these soldiers put at risk the lives of many soldiers that would be left without their company. would that be an unlawful ququid quid quo pro? no because the president believed it was in the national interest but b he believed his own election was essential to victory in the civil war. everybody has mixed motives. mixed motives would permit any president to be impeached. how many made foreign policy decisions without checking with their political advisers and pollsters. what do you need political advisers? just do what is best for the country. if you want to balance what is in the public interest with what is in your party's electoral interests, your own electoral interests, it's impossible to concern how many weight is given. and maybe we're right. t's not in the national elected but for it to be impeachment you would have to discern tha or she made a decision sole

trance exit new parking on lincoln.right now it stops along lincoln and our spaced every 600 feet which is below our agency's standard guidelines for stop spacing and we found the seventh and 11th avenue stops were low so we've been working with our transit engineering colleagues to consolidate those stops and bring stops spacing on the segment of lincoln up to our standards. it's tow away zone on the north side of lincoln between sixth avenue and 14th avenue from 4:00 to 6:00 p.m. on wednesdays and it creates a travel sane that speeds up and it doesn't cover the evening peak hours so we're proposing to expand that from 3:00 to 7:00 so we have heard a decent amount of members of the community coming out and opposing that and due to the loss of parking for that extra hour and the evening when they come home. going out and doing data collection we found that not very many people are parking there and just hour after that tow away zone ends right now. the speed improvements we think outweigh the disadvantage to parking alo