Screeria nigeria. Thank you. We recently visited virginia for a closing of the Longwood University and courthouse National Historical park. Next tracy chornault talks about the long standoff between lee and grant and the entrenchments outside petersburg and the final battles in 186 a. 5. He discusses the importance of supply lines to both armies and the disparity between the access in food and ammunition. This talk is about an hour. We have programs out there f you didnt get one in the mail pick up a program. Im going give an abbreviated interduction of the bios we have in the program. Trait tracy has a ba in history from avert college in danville and he has worked for the National Park service, first part time and then full Time Starting in 1991 at apamatics courthouse and since 1997 at Petersburg National battlefield. And as patrick mentioned tracy is the author of one of the volumes in the howard, virginia regimental history series. This deals with the 18th and 20th battalions of he
Mcclaine house to discuss terms of surrender. University of richmond president ed airs provides the key note address and other speakers include decedents of key grant and lee aides who took part in that historic meeting. Also part of the program reenactments of grants arrival at the mcclaine house as well as lees departure following the surrender. This is about an hour and 45 minutes. My name is robin snyder and i am currently the acting superintendent at Appomattox Courthouse National Historical park. It is my distinct hopper on behalf of the National Parks service and the United States Postal Service to welcome each of you here today on this s hef historic day intr our nations history. This courthouse village stands not just as a symbol of wars end, but as a point of departurepart for aur transformed nation. The significance of what took place in mr. Mcclaines parlor settled the issue of who would be the victors of the american civil war, but many questions remained unanswered. Soldi
Chemical or biological attack, a few recommendations for ensuring effectiveness would be, one, that the federal government must provide accurate and timely thread information to local . ; First Responders. 3o . Jrering the multitude of potential threats and certainly we still see budgetary constraints of local government, local First Responders need to know which threats they should prepare for. If groups are promoting violent extremism and publishing training materials on the internet or social media, the federal government should provide information about tactics and techniques which are being taught, again, in order for local entities and agencies to be prepared. The local joint Terrorism Task forces are working to build strong relationships with local Law Enforcement to help local fire and Emergency Medical Service departments to obtain this information. Chief, ill tell you what. I know you have lengthy testimony. Id like you to submit it as part of the record here and wed be pleas
Americas meandering Journey Towards freedom justice and equality. Its the foundation from which our nation emerged on to the world stage as a world power. Its the greatest demonstration of both the failure and durability of democracy. It is perhaps the vivid reflection of our virtues, successes and failures all wrapped up into one. These are all things that have shaped the lives of every american and millions and millions of people beyond our nations boundaries have lasted 150 years. In our relentless quest for simplicity an our selective memory that exists on history that flatters or inspires us Many Americans and maybe america at large today fail to see the immense legacy of the civil war in our lives and in our culture. Too many people are interested if the civil war. Problem is not enough are interested in the civil war. Every american should be able to find a gateway into this story for engaging the civil war as part of not only the National Experience but the frame work of their
When he asked me to speak as the leadoff man, that was a first for me. Most of you can tell by my size, i have always been rather large i never hit leadoff because i that requires somebody speedy. Being the leadoff man is something new for me. I was surprised when pat pointed out that the magazine contains his article, because you get to this article, you have to read through my article. Which i think should have been the end of the magazine. [laughter] we could have avoided a lot of history that would have droned on. Please pick up one of those and read my article. Mike gorman has an article as well. It is always a pleasure to speak about petersburg, because most of you in this room having heard stories of petersburg, probably never delved into it. When i was at appomattox courthouse a number of years ago my boss at the time, who , promises to heckle me later, asked me, when i said i was going to petersburg, are you crazy . He said that it was the most unimportant story in all of the