[wind blowing] the temperature a bare 10 degrees above zero. The wind, a cutting 20 miles per hour. The date, almost any bleak day in january, 1778. The place, valley forge, pennsylvania. The event, famine, disease. Exhaustion, and disease. 11,000 soldiers of the American Revolutionary army starving and freezing in Winter Quarters. Shivering sentinels keeping an weary eye on the wellfed british forces, safe and warm and captured philadelphia. 20 miles to the southeast, on this bone chilling morning, 2000 of the ragtag colonials are without shoes, feet wrapped in rags. Onethird to onehalf of them are unfit for duty. Before this terrible winter is over, 3000 of them are to die. On the windswept hills and ridges, rolled log huts with clay, with floors of dirt provide the only shelter. In all the bleak, lonely whiteness, the only cover is the crimson of blood that stains the drifting snow. A revolutionary poet says this for them, bitter words and bitter memories of the war against king geo
Exhaustion. 11,000 soldiers of the American Revolutionary army starving and freezing in Winter Quarters. Shivering sentinels keeping an wary eye on that well fit british forces, safe and warm and captured philadelphia. 20 miles to the southeast. Morning,one chilling 2000 of the ragtag colonials are without shoes, feet wrapped in rags. One third to one half of them are unfit for duty. Before this terrible winter is over, 3000 of them are to die. On the windswept hills and ridges, huts of clay with floors of dirt provide the only shelter. In all the leak lonely , whiteness, the only cover is blood that stains the drifting snow. A revolutionary poet says this for them bitter words and , bitter memories of the war of king george as they left their bloody footprints on the snows of valley forge. Yes, the revolutionary war could have ended here. Yet somehow, this winter of despair becomes the turning point of the revolution. Corps] from it, comes defeat for the , the birth of the United Stat
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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
Isnt it beautiful . Im on my way to the town of topping to hear all about a strange inheritance that was literally stuck in mud. My brother billy and i inherited our fathers oyster biz, which his father started farming in 1899. We didnt want them. The business was dead. Hoping we could bring it back to life. Hey, guys, im jamie. Hey. Im travis. This is my cousin ryan. Nice to meet you. How are you . Its absolutely gorgeous here. Before i crack open the croxton family story, you got to know a thing or two about oysters, which raw, baked, or fried have been a part of the north american seafood diet for thousands of years. I get the scoop from tommy leggett, a marine scientist and longtime commercial fisherman. So, were they always so popular . I mean, oysters are all the rage. Is that sudden . No, no, no. Native americans have been eating oysters forever, all around the Chesapeake Bay. Tommy tells me oysters were not a delicacy back then, but an everyday meal. When they finished eating t