You, but they want the same things. Could you even imagine a more pay tree patriarchal scene than this . Hes always trying to needle in a political point and in this case its right between by jeff davis in the doorway is the table upon which the surrender of general lee thats now the photographic pride. One of the other things that i enjoy is look at the girl. Look at daddys knee and mothers chair. She is locked in. She is not going to move. Shes not going anywhere. Something else that kind of intrigues me. Look at the preoccupation. I dont understand this gesture. I really got nothing here for you folks. Look how they solve the problem of keeping the little girl still in this one. Put your head on daddys shoulder. So charming. Here he is with his staff. The staff looks off in all different directions. Then youll find a slightly different shot. Oh, yeah, we got a movie coming on. This fascinates me on a number of levels. Look at this guys pants. Untucked tucked, untucked, tuck tucked.
Creek. Its all wednesday night starting at 8 00 eastern here on cspan 3. This sunday on q and a, Senior Editor for the Weekly Standard Andrew Ferguson on his writing career, the gop president ial candidates for 2016 and what voters are looking for in a candidate. They want somebody who looks like hes stood up for them. Im amazed now to the degree to which primary voters on both sides are motivated by resentment and the sense of being put upon and those people really dont understand us. Here is a guy, hes going to stick it to them. Hillary clinton will give her own version of that kind of thing. I dont think that was actually true 30 years ago. The resentiment has always been part of politics but the degree to which its almost exclusively the motivating factor in truly committed republicans and democrats. Sunday night at 8 00 eastern and pacific on cspans q and a. American history tv recently visited Longwood University in farmville, virginia for a seminar on the closing of the civil wa
It is about an hour. I want to introduce our speaker for the morning, Robert Dunkley is a historian awardwinning author, he has a degree in history from st. Vincent. He has worked at nine different historic sites, most recently on Richmond National battlefield park. He has written two books that are specifically listed. Im sure he will be talking about them today. I think we have at least one of them in the bookstore, the most recent one. To be bitter end, and the other one is the confederate of greensboro. His talk today will be on the forgotten territories. I hope he might mention florida a little once or twice. It was one of the regimens that was one of the last surrendered groups. Bert dunkley. [applause] bert good morning. I want to thank the organizers for having me. I appreciate the invitation. It is great to be here with so many people interested in the topic. What i would like to do was talk about all of the surrenders, not so much on appomattox, i think you have covered that
That the heavens and we read the words such as thomas hyde in the army of the potomac. Its very interesting to revisit the battlefield of the war that i never heard anybody that was engaged to express an interest. It is the best of peoples of earth and traversing covered ways they have yielded the sun but it remains in american history. Cold harbor would also become the final battle in the overlaying campaign and the fighting that took place in the spring of 1864 between the u. S. Is s. Grant and robert e. Lee. Beginning in the wilderness the fighting would move onto the spotsylvania courthouse and into the North Anna River and finally, the area northeast of richmond between the rivers. Stymied on may 26 the ulysses s. Grant with swing to the southeast. Robert e. Lee look and help her and they would be fighting at a place. The armies would face each other across the creek at the bethesda church. Finally, through fighting on the outskirts of the army between the calvary both armies woul
Wehink that is about all have. Thank you for coming today, we appreciate it. You are watching American History tv all weekend. To join the conversation, like us on facebook. Next, on the civil war, historians and officials from the National Park service commemorates the conclusion of the Overland Campaign, which took place in virginia 150 years ago in may and june of 1864. In keynote remarks, civil war scholar James Robertson describes Union General ulysses s. Grants crusade to destroy the southern confederacy, was culminated in the last major battle of the campaign a cold harbor. There, mr. Robertson says confederate general robert e lee earned his greatest and final victory of the war, but it was not enough to stop grant from continuing his march and beseechingly and his men at petersburg. The Richmond National Battlefield Park organized this hourlong event. [applause] good evening. I and the pastor here at the Fairmount Christian church, and we are really sad that you are here tonig