The civil war and using 50 objects, while the multi layered and political history, takes in the totality context of the war, it does not consider the history, or sequence of battle. Harold what do you think about that . Well it is a fair enough comment of course the objects that we are discussing are all in some way related to new york history so it relates to the soldiers who served the leaders who helped or hindered the union war effort, and along the way here, over these last few weeks weve touched on bells. Those who experience them, and certainly the battle for new york city because early on we dealt with the draft riots, indeed indeed. So we are doing okay i think. That is a fair comment. I agree. I thought we might as well air. It yes. Tonights evening has two objects. The portrait of ulyssesesque grant from 1860, eight and a coined by Benjamin Franklin butler. So first up is the london portrait of grant such 1864 and ulysses as grant arrives in washington to receive his promoti
Social and political history of objects takes into totality of the context of the war, it doesnt really consider the military history or the sequence of battle. What do you think about that . Harold it is a fair enough comment. The objects that we are discussing are all in some way related to new york history. It relates to the soldiers who serve, the leaders who are helped or hindered the union effort, the relics brought back from battle. Last the way, over the seven weeks, we have touched on battles. Those who experience them and the battle for new york city. Early on, we dealt with the draft riots which [indiscernible] indeed. We are doing ok i think. [laughter] tonights Program Features to object. Great portrait great portrait. Grant first up is the portrait of Ulysses S Grant. Grant arriveses s in washington to receive his promotion from lieutenant first, and this is the he is the first since George Washington to achieve that rank. He raises eyebrows when he tries to register at t
Longer. Some would say even thousands of years. We are inside the Casemate Museum, aptly named because we are actually inside a casemate. A casemate is nothing more than a vault inside a fort wall. So you are actually inside the fort wall, kind of unique for museums at this point in time. We will walk you through the museum and talk to you about the interesting history that occurred here. Some of our stories will deal with the virginia indians, the africans that first arrived here, and their plight during the American Civil War. Thousands and thousands of years ago, the natives of this land started to migrate. Far west asd as mexico and the Mississippi River valley. They migrated as far south as south america and essential america. They migrated all the way here to Point Comfort, where fort monroe is located today. They were hunters, they were gatherers, and lived a very prosperous life here. In 1607, the english had come here, and by that time the virginians had learned the art of cul
Wanted to capture our earlier discussions about the meaning of freedom when we talked about free communities, free folks in the north and how we came with this representation of freedom. Freedom. The question of freedom and what does it mean. For today, we are going to be talking about what did freedom mean . In particular, what did it mean to the free people . In january of 1865, the secretary of war, Edward Stanton and general William Sherman had a meeting with 20 preachers in savannah, georgia. They were preachers, pastors, lay Church Leaders and they wanted to find out from these preachers basically what is it that the freed people wanted from freedom . What did they expect . And what did they expect in the aftermath of the emancipation proclamation . The group of 20 people who was ostensibly representative of freed black folks in the community selected garrison frazier, a 67yearold man to be the representative of the community. To speak for them. General sherman asked him what did
The casemate is nothing more than ewald inside the fo than a vault inside the fort wall. We will walk you through the museum and talk to you about the history that occurred here. Thousands of years ago, the natives of this land started to migrate, starting as far west as mexico. Asy migrated as far south south america. Migrated to port comfort where fort monroe is located today. Day were gatherers and live prosperous life there. Come07, the english had and by that time they learned the art of cultivation. 20 and odd negroes arrived here. They were traded for goods. After that we see the laws and rules and regulations that would start to manage the africanamerican population here in hampton. 1812 we look at the war of and find why this report is in existence and how it came about. In is the largest stone fort the United States here today . The war of 1812 as a backdrop to that story. British invaded the United States. They were stopped at a place. Alled baltimore after the war of 1812,