Test. Test. It was sitting there so long, they played out of that quarry but close but no cigar in terms of the color of the stone. So he was one of the engineers on the Washington Monument. Another little circular thing here, the guest of honor at the laying of the cornerstone of the Washington Monument in 1848 was George Washington and custis, this guy who helped complete it is on his lawn. That looks like the Washington Monument. This is the grave of the first person of european descent to be buried on the property and her name is mary randolph. Randolphs were very prominent in virginia. Her father was thomas mann ran go dolph and a direct descendent of pocahontas, and she wrote a book called the virginia housewife that was the most popular cookbook and housekeeping book of the early the first half of the 19th century. Her cuss cousin was the wife of George Washington custis and she was buried there. Born april 30, 1781, and died in 1857. From his death until the union troops came a
On cspan3. Next, the president of the society of the honor guard, tomb of the unknown soldier, talks about the history of Arlington National cemetery and the tomb of the unknowns. He describes how confederate general Robert E Lees mansion became a Burial Ground during the civil war and discusses the role and creation of the tomb guard and tells stories about some of the notable people interred at Arlington National cemetery. Is a little over 90 minutes. [applause] all, thank you for the invitation and thank you, Jessica Jones were doing the legwork and getting this organized and put together. This is very much we have guys in their 90s, guys in active duty, and females in our society who have guarded the tomb because the tomb was guarded first in 1995 by corporal heather johnson, the first female to walk them at in 1995. The tomb guard badge depicted on case here,d in this this is the second least awarded badge with the exception of the astronauts badge. The astronaut is in the low 200
Our logo and in this case here, this is the second least awarded badge with the exception of the astronauts badge. The astronaut badge is in the low 200. Today, we are giving badge number 634 to a young man who has completed his training and is ready to be considered a badge holder and of the fraternity and sorority, brotherhood or fellowship of tomb guard. We are a 501 c 3 organization and part of our bylaws is that we do Community Outreach to educate the public about the tomb. I find that your generation, sort of a sweeping generalization, that your generation knows about the tomb. I talked to School Groups and it is appalling how little they know of our history. It is not their fault. We have failed them because we have allowed all of this testing and teaching to the test and not put history on the test. I will get off my soapbox. Just think of that. I do speak to a lot of School Groups pro bono. This is my 81st speech this year. I will have well over 100 by the time veterans day is
Pennsylvania avenue between the white house and the capitol. We will develop a vision for this iconic street which is home to so Many National treasures, including this building. I want to send a thanks to the National Parks service and recognize peter may. He is a fellow ncpc commissioner but his day job is associate director for lands, resources, and planning. Fort totten, fort reno, fort dupont. Locals may recognize these names as parks, neighborhoods, even metro stations but many are surprised to learn about their civil war history. The civil war was a milestone in the nations history. The role of famous battlefields like gettysburg and antietam are wellknown to all of us. Today we are going to learn about another important albeit less wellknown battle that took place not far from where we are today. Were it not for the defenses built to protect washington, d. C. The battle of fort stevens, the city of washington, d. C. Could be in a different place today. Today we will learn about
D. C. Next, marc leepson takes us on a tour of battlefields to tell the story of the battle of monocacy, where the confederates were delayed by union forces in their approach to the capital, and the battle of fort stevens, where general early probed the defenses of the heavily fortified city before deciding to turn back. After will list wilderness, you had petersburg surrounded. His idea, his plan was to choke robert e lee and force them to come out and fight what he thought would be the battle that would end the war. We knew this as well. Lee came up with a plan of his own witches he took an entire core of troops and he took them outside the defenses of washington on a bold plan, a fourpart plan that he hoped would mess up general grants grand plan to end the war. The first plan with the kick the forces out of the shenandoah valley. Lees biggest problem was supplied, including food and most of the food came from the shenandoah valley. These forces under general hunter had taken over j