Property onoric spotsylvania battlefield in central virginia. He has worked as a historian for the National Park service and fredericksburg and Spotsylvania National Military Parks. I am not crying. My eyes decided to water at an awkward moment. [laughter] sorry, chris. [laughter] [indiscernible] he was also a historian for the National Park service at fredericksburg and Spotsylvania National Military Park where he at four major battlefields. As well as the building where Stonewall Jackson died. Chris has authored or coauthored a dozen books on the civil war and his articles have appeared in all the major civil war magazines. He serves on the board of directors for the Virginia Battlefield trust as a National Advisor on the board for the civil war chaplains museum in lynchburg, virginia. Please help me to welcome him. [applause] dr. Mackowski you are going to see something rare, a Chris Mackowski powerpoint presentation. I know. The reason i am doing it is so i have an excuse to show e
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To the south. This is where the storms are. You may hear that beeping. Thats for a brandnew warning here in madison county. That warning going until 4 45 today. 4 45 warning there. Culpepper unty, very strong storm in your area, and this one was severe. These storms moving right down towards fredericksburg over the next hour or so, so this is, ofs cour something well keep an eye on for you. Now, we do have some Severe Weathereain our ar but more Severe Weather back to the west. Numerous severe thunderstorm watches here and take a look at the nuters. Hi a High Temperature so far and back to 86 in d. C. And 91 in richmond. Guys, seen a little biy in the wa heat so far this summer. Its really about to get hot. Talking about temperatures in the mid to upper 90s throughout the rest of the week. Here we go. Here we go. Thanks, doug. Back now to the video that d has sparkeoutrage after a transit officer used a stun gun during an arrest. T just a short time ago a lawyer for thaan at the center
Court. He talked with the woman who recorded that video. Path, what did she tell you . Reporter she has a lot to say, jim, but, first, lets talk about the victim here. Hes a howard grad, a finance major. He works in a startup here in our city. Saturday he wanted to see his mom. He decided to take metro. He goes down into the u street station and and lets go to the videotape. The metro cop tased him and then tased him again. They say the man was trying to be a peacemaker when it happened. The 29yearold man cuffed and charged wit assaultn a police officer, charged with obstruction of justice, charged with resisting arrest and jailed for two days. According to his attorney, the charges all dropped today. Hear now from his mom who was at the courthouse. I couldnt believe my lawyer. They dropped all the charges and happy. He is very upset. Highly raumatized, and hes not happy. Hes not happy the way things went. Today i shock with shameer jones who took the pictures. I kept screaming like yo
2015 graduate of hood college in frederick, maryland. Focusing on public history. Worked in a number of other civil warrelated jobs and also at fredericksburg and Spotsylvania National Military Park and also writes on the history of pennsylvanias coal region in his blog, winning histo history. This talk today is entitled discovering Clara Bartons missing Soldiers Office. Mr. Wynn. All right. Thank you very much. Hello, everybody. Good morning. Im so excited to be here this morning and talking about something that i am very passionate about. The story of clara barton and her role during the american civil war. As was said, i am the director of interpretation at the Clara Barton Missing Soldiers Office museum and the National Museum of civil war medicine. Ill explain a little bit about how that connection works here in just a bit. I want to talk a little bit just kind of introduce what im going to be discussing today. I would say, can we see a show of hands how many of you have heard of