Now to be on the wall was the cane she used to get around that was very important for her. Toward the end of her life, she was bedridden for much of her time. There is a wonderful photo of her drinking out of this drinking cup here. It was given to her by her very dear friend mary mercer. ,it has her name engraved on it. That was something she kept at her bedside throughout her life. Carson was married to reeves mccullers. Soldier stationed at fort benning that she met when she went here. They had a very tumultuous relationship. Tragedyately ended in when reeves committed suicide. There is a lot of emotional misunderstanding and infidelity on both sides throughout their relationship. There was also a real love their and something that connected them with their love of literature and writing. So, these are two books that reeves gave her. In particular, this one you see here says christmas 1936 two o carson, these books and my deepest affection, reeves. Even though the relationship was n
Not just a southern thing. Omaha, nebraska. St. Louis, chicago, illinois. All erupted in race riots. Millions of workers, about 4 million workers are going to go on strike in 1919. And this wave of labor unrest then fed into this conservative mood. It seemed to spark hysteria. This is a time when we are dealing with the red scare. The red scare with the bolshevik revolution being so fresh, that americans now determined that perhaps bolshevism had come to the american shores and were undermining the capitalist system as we speak, right . So in this climate there is a very harsh reaction to labor unrest in 1919. There were accounts of violence that seemed to be tied to the labor unrest. The u. S. Post office during 1919 intercepted dozens of bombs that were being mailed to prominent americans. They did not intercept all of them. One of them blew up on the front door of mitchell palmers house. Mitchell palmer was the attorney general of the United States. Heres the thing about the red sca
For nearly a century. Fort benning was established on macon road in columbus, georgia, on approximately 85 acres of land in october of 19 18th 1918. On that day the war came to a close and there was talk of closing fort denning. Many officers who had served in the American Expeditionary forces to france went before congress to testify that had our soldiers had better training they would not have suffer the casualties that they did in just 210 days of actual combat, so it was determined by congress that we would keep fort benning on a smaller scale and luckily for us, it survived. But first, go on board the css jackson, one of only four surviving ironclads dating back to the civil war. We are in the National Civil war naval museum on the banks of the chattahoochee river. The purpose of the naval museum is to tell the stories of the navys during the civil war. We are the only facility that focuses entirely on that particular story. We are in a unique place, right here inside the museum a
Down. This is how they got it done. Nifty footwork there, tucker barnes. Scoots into the end zone. There is the hoodie. He looked discombobulated all day. It was 137 new england at the half. Here is the funny stat. The patriots, 670 with tom brady and Bill Belichick when they led at the half. They didnt care about that staff. Joe flacco got it done. The first and two to antoine bolden. If you liked that one, you will love the next one because it is the same play a little bit more to the right side. Ravens shut out patriots 210 in the second half. They are going to the super bowl. What about another half . 49ers in hotlanta. There is jim harbaugh,ed older brother of john harbaugh. It is the terps helping to bring them back. Just before the enof the first half, atlanta would strike again. He will find tony gonzagaally hes who would have to retire. He said he is retiring if these lose. Tony gonzalez dunking the ball over goal post because here come the 49ers. Watch what he does . Dirty bi
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