If you are planning to go to the park this afternoon, if you hold off taking one of these, they are in the back. We will get you some. Its on park row. My talk is referred to as black thursday, the battle for Sailors Creek. One of the Union Generals who was involved in the battle, he wrote in his book about the fighting 5 of the intelligent people of the united states, north or south ever heard of the battle of Sailors Creek. They dont know anything of its magnitude or importance. This is not strange. It was fought in virginia. This was three days before the surrender under general robert e lee. Events were happening so rapidly that no note was made of the battle. In the next few minutes, you will be part of that part of our nation. Just some point before we talk about the battle, there are three separate engagements referred to as the battles of Sailors Creek. As you enter the museum, it refers to it as battles. I mentioned the spelling difference. There were two branches, most of the
, gas stations etc. That sometimes as he took off the asphalt, we would come down actually into a grave area. And in that case, there would be a few may buttons found, a few tax, some engines for the coffin hinges for the coffin. These were simply photographed, nothing moves. And that is the goal. To make sure that everyone buried at Friedman Cemetery will be preserved. There are no historic photographs of Friedman Cemetery, so we didnt know what to find. What we have also we have also looked for the absence of grace. And one of those places was clearly a pathway that was coming into the cemetery from washington street, and coming directly in. And that pathway will not be used for a new walkway for visitors to enter through a gate and come into the cemetery. The preservation of friedmans freedmans cemetery has been miraculous. That so much of the cemetery has been preserved, even with so much Road Construction all around it, Building Construction gas tanks being placed at the gas stati
At the very moment the confederates come out at what was called devils den ready to attack, there was vincent putting his men into position. They attacked only minutes of vincent with his manager position. So his place ing of the men he did it on its own without any authority saved the day because those guys beat back the attack. Unfortunately, the confederate attack was years. Part of the lines began to buckle. Visit sees that part of the line was starting to cave in, rushed to the side and had his wife writing and is the with white writing crop. He just had the white writing crop. He was saying hold your position and had the writing crop in the air, and it was a perfect target. It got to the abdomen and proved fatal a couple of days later. Chamberlain who is been under vincent, developed a very close friendship was in charge of one end of the line took over when vincent was mortally wounded. He did not die right away. He was carried to the back. Chamberlain took over. Within the next
Here named Fred Blodgett who was 16 years old but the veteran of a dozen bottles and writes out and pulls out his serve all over pulls out his revolver and you know what he said . Hands up. The trains are captured. They will not leave the train right there. They will try to get him down the track. It is a volunteer army. They have previous occupations before joining the army. Some of them have worked on the railroad and start to move the trains out of the area. Send some artillery shells start to fall on the area of the station. Where are they coming from . Coming from the command of this guy here, rubin Lyndsay Walker from virginia. He commands the reserve artillery. He also let the distinction of having the best mustache and goatee in the can direct army. Wouldnt you agree . That is just dandy. So nice he likes to keep it in good order. He actually is sitting on a stump and having his men give him a shame that morning with the news comes in there is federal federal calvary approachin
Summer of 1865. The second new york advancing on the station first. There is a young fella right here named Fred Blodgett who was 16 years old but the veteran of a dozen bottles and writes out and pulls out his serve all over pulls out his revolver and you know what he said . Hands up. The trains are captured. They will not leave the train right there. They will try to get him down the track. It is a volunteer army. They have previous occupations before joining the army. Some of them have worked on the railroad and start to move the trains out of the area. Send some artillery shells start to fall on the area of the station. Where are they coming from . Coming from the command of this guy here, rubin Lyndsay Walker from virginia. He commands the reserve artillery. He also let the distinction of having the best mustache and goatee in the can direct army. Wouldnt you agree . That is just dandy. So nice he likes to keep it in good order. He actually is sitting on a stump and having his men