All donations do help the museum. We are nonprofit, so we do rely on memberships and donations to bring you programs. Also, consider being a member. We have information at the house. So, the structure you are sitting in was built around 1844. That is when the house was built. Farmers lived and worked here prior to the battle of antietam. The union army took over their property. This structure was a Field Hospital where hundreds of Wounded Soldiers were treated by surgeons in the days and weeks following the battle. With us, Daniel Vermilya to discuss his new book. I will have to read from this because i could not memorize all this. Dan is a civil war historian and the author of several books including the battle of kennesaw mountainand james a. Garfield and the civil war. He previously worked as a park ranger at Antietam National battlefield and he currently works at the Eisenhower National Historic Site in gettysburg, pennsylvania. Before i hand it over to dan, cspan is here today. We
On memberships and donations to bring you programs. Also, consider being a member. Structure you are 1844ng in was built around. That is when the fry house was built. Farmers lived and worked here prior to the battle of antietam. Union army took over their property. The structure was a Field Hospital where hundreds of Wounded Soldiers were treated by surgeons in the days and weeks following the battle. Us, Daniel Vermilya to discuss his new book. I will have to read from this because i could not memorize all this. Dan is a civil war historian and the author of several books including the battle of james a. Mountainand garfield and the civil war. He previously worked as a park field,at the antietam and he currently works at the historicr National Site in gettysburg, pennsylvania. Before i handed over to dan, cspan is here today. We will have a question and and their answer section. Please wait for a member of cspan to ask the question. We will also have a book signing. A copy of dans bo
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Hauled off. Is there any other things you would like to get rid of . Reporter the city says it doesnt take personal property or force anyone to move. But David Tompkins says when the cameras arent rolling, things are different. I mean, theyre shoving around like pingpong balls. Reporter in general, does anyone hassle you . Nobody asks us to move. They tell us to move. They start taking our stuff. Reporter tompkins is a carpenter who lost his home several years ago. Now he offers to build homes on wheels for others on the streets. Ill build one for anyone free. All theyve got to do is ask. Reporter the city estimates some 3,500 people make their home on the streets. My name is rebecca. Im 34. And ive been out here for about a year. Reporter she lives in a tent under the busy 101 freeway. It was better than being by myself. We have our good days and bad days, i guess. Just like normal people. Padilla says the others who live on this strip of sidewalk are like her family. Its all pretty h
Hauled off. Is there any other things you would like to get rid of . Reporter the city says it doesnt take personal property or force anyone to move. But David Tompkins says when the cameras arent rolling, things are different. I mean, theyre shoving around like pingpong balls. Reporter in general, does anyone hassle you . Nobody asks us to move. They tell us to move. They start taking our stuff. Reporter tompkins is a carpenter who lost his home several years ago. Now he offers to build homes on wheels for others on the streets. Ill build one for anyone free. All theyve got to do is ask. Reporter the city estimates some 3,500 people make their home on the streets. My name is rebecca. Im 34. And ive been out here for about a year. Reporter she lives in a tent under the busy 101 freeway. It was better than being by myself. We have our good days and bad days, i guess. Just like normal people. Padilla says the others who live on this strip of sidewalk are like her family. Its all pretty h