And just make up some stuff because jonerik cups to us from West Virginia and hes done some fantastic scholarship for us at the blog about those early months and the early year of the war in 1861, which really set the stage for what happens in 1861 and onward. A lot of people forget about how formative the action in West Virginia was and hes in there with his sleeves rolled up. Really working the material in a way that ive been impressed with. But now im going to read this really nice introduction. From mount pleasant, ohio. He studied history at Bethany College and received a masters of library and Information Science at kent state university. Where he focused his studies on archives and preservation. He started his career in the preservation at the library of copping and later worked for a congress and later worked for a pittsburghbased preservation firm, where he developed Preservation Strategies for libraries, archives and museums. In 2012 he was named director of archives and reco
Family. Nine members of the family have worked at the white house. I talked to one of the butlers who works every week at the white house. His uncle was the head butler. He told me my uncle ram the white house. They brought him in when he was 17 years old in 1959 during the eisenhower administration. He is still working there. He described how he used to work in the kitchen and they kept on giving him ice scream ice cream because he was skinny. It is incredible he remembers how the eisenhowers word. They are a dying breed. Tonight at 8 00 eastern and pacific on cspans q a. Over the next four hours, we are giving you a special mothers day presentation with the children and grandchildren of former first ladies, sharing tales of life in the white house. We begin with the grand daughter of lou hoover, the grandson of breast truman, and a daughter betty ford. Good evening everyone and thank you for being here. It is always a pleasure to be here. If what happened in the last few minutes back
Beginning early in the 19th century, a number of banks were established in Charles Town. The first came in 1818 after the Bank of the Valley in Virginia was incorporated
How the Civil War Divided Virginia
George B. McClellan forced the Confederates in northwestern Virginia to retreat into the Alleghenies in 1861. It fell to Robert E. Lee to stabilize the situation.
Here s What You Need to Know: Over the course of the four-year war, the western counties of Virginia sent approximately 25,000 men to fight for the Union and approximately 15,000 to the Confederacy.
The blue-coated soldiers trudged uphill through the forest trying their best not to get snagged on the laurel branches or stumble over the tree roots. At the head of the column was a David Hart, a handsome 22-year-old guide whose father owned a farm at the summit of the mountain. The five-mile trek, which was supposed to take just three hours, had begun at dawn and dragged on into the afternoon. Just as the march started, the heavens opened up and a hard rain fell on the untried troops. They received some protection from the mature trees that bent over the trail.
you can watch this and other programs online at booktv.org. .. host: clifton, it s so fun to be a ridiculously spent a lot of time talking the past like your grandfather and my great-grandfather s relationship and you just written this new boat as a bass drop a miniature midlife has their teen hundred letters that your grandfather, harry truman wrote to bess. response they only had 184 letters that bess returned to harry. what s the story quiet guest: my grandmother was a very private person. grandpa was an open book. you asked a question and answer. he saved everything. scraps of paper, gas receipts, anything he thought he was a natural packrat anyway, but he was very mindful of the fact that the american people should be able to learn from the mind of their president. so he saved mostly all this important papers. he didn t mind that people would read these things and know what he was thinking and what he had said. my grandmother and the other hand had not been presi