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Transcripts For CSPAN3 The Civil War 20141102

Mr. White is the coauthor of a season of slaughter the battle of Spotsylvania Court house, may 821, 1864. This talk was part of a symposium hosted by the emerging civil war blog. Our first speaker today is a man for whom i hold the utmost respect. Three years ago this again, in fact, we sat on the back porch of a little building next to the stone lodge action shrine and we were thinking, you know, what can we do to help people become more invested in these stories of the civil war . That is were the emerging civil war blog first came to be. Since then, over the past three to a, we have expanded publishing series that we will talk about this afternoon. Of course, the symposium and a number of speaking engagements, as well. We are continuing our outreach to help people become invested in these very important and engaging stories. Historian ander former licensed battlefield guide at gettysburg here he is one of those men who you could drop him on any battlefield, take off the blindfold, a

Transcripts For CSPAN2 Book Discussion 20140901

Daniel davis and Philip Greenwalt talk about the 1864 battle of the harbor that took place in the civil war. This program is next on booktv the place harkens a sense of doom. A child visiting for the first time with my dad making our way through and around the entrenchments found a certain sense of foreboding. The perception persists today 150 years later we see the images after the war from the battlefield which is that on the cover of the hurricane from the heavens and we read words such as the six core of the potomac. Its very interesting to visit the battlefields of the war but i never heard anyone as engaged that expressed an interest in the harbor. Its a peoples of earth and the rifle pit and traversed covert way theyve now yielded to the sun and the plow but it remains in american history. It would become the final battle that took place in the spring of 1864 virginia between the u. S. Assist grant and robert e. Lee. Beginning in the wilderness wilderness the fighting would move

Transcripts For CSPAN3 The Civil War 20140629

Wehink that is about all have. Thank you for coming today, we appreciate it. You are watching American History tv all weekend. To join the conversation, like us on facebook. Next, on the civil war, historians and officials from the National Park service commemorates the conclusion of the Overland Campaign, which took place in virginia 150 years ago in may and june of 1864. In keynote remarks, civil war scholar James Robertson describes Union General ulysses s. Grants crusade to destroy the southern confederacy, was culminated in the last major battle of the campaign a cold harbor. There, mr. Robertson says confederate general robert e lee earned his greatest and final victory of the war, but it was not enough to stop grant from continuing his march and beseechingly and his men at petersburg. The Richmond National Battlefield Park organized this hourlong event. [applause] good evening. I and the pastor here at the Fairmount Christian church, and we are really sad that you are here tonig

Transcripts For CSPAN3 The Civil War 20140706

I begin with a word of invitation. Father in heaven, we, to this place tonight not to celebrate war, but to celebrate sacrifice, loyalty, bravery, and the things that have happened in our history to make as the great nation we are today. Lessons ofn from the history. May we not repeat the lessons that divide us, but may we repeat those lessons that make us strong. Tonight, dear lord, i thank you for the National Parks service and their hard work in bringing this event to our community, our state, and our nation. Do in this place this evening, and we humbly ask, dear father, that you bless our nation in jesus name. Amen. On may 4, 1864, the union army of the potomac crossed the rapid and river rappadan river and crossed into the wilderness. Errors andd national other soldier favors that stirred mens souls with optimism and hope. None could know, but the final campaign of the war had begun. By the end of may, the armies had crossed many rivers. The bloody battles of the wilderness, spots

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