They said mr. President , what do you think, and he said, well, it reminds me of the story of the young woman who put on her stockings and she looked up and said, i think theres something in it. I dont know if they got this, you know, theres something in it, but they went to work immediately. They took that to be a yes. Yeah, thats a go, but its a good thing because the confederates are, you know, building this ship, so they rushed back to new york with a model, and they get to work on the actual ship. The image that sort of shows the launch of the monitor . Yeah. And its, you know, i feel a certain kinship to the monitor because it was built in my mothers ancestral home of green point. Theres still an Erickson Park there, my mother went to the monitor school when she was in 1921, its still there. Built in the 1890s, so its very much their town, but there was a big shed where ships were made, and it all converted today and night, 24 7 production of this ship with a very crew of workers
We used to ask ourselves that question. First we discussed the medium of the object. We wanted photographs, paintings, documents, relics, and then we wanted to represent every year of the civil war, 1851 to 1865. By the time we sifted through the criteria, we thought we had 50 objects out there that met those requirements. It was truly an embarrassment and it was hard to whittle them down, for sure. [laughter] that is definitely true. Tonight we will be discussing two objects that are considered technology during the civil war. You can see the images of those. We have one from 1861 and a half model of the monitor of 1862. Lets consider the two part object. This is in the papers of Alexander Robert chisholm, bert born in 1834, died 1910. He was a stockbroker, a merchant, a railroad investor, and he died during the gilded age in new york city where he had grown up. Theis youth, he served on confederate side of the civil war. Can you tell us about his background . Carolina born in south ,
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