Of the union army, and he blocked general lees line of retreat, thus general lee had to continue further west, searching for rations and hoping to get around grants army. The next place general lee could gather supplies was about three miles from us here at appomattox station. Supplies had been brought over from lynchburg to feed general lees army. Its everything the army really needed. Hundreds of thousands of rations, new uniforms, equipment, and thats where theyre heading for on april 8 after leaving Cumberland Church on the night of april 7. General lees advance is led by confederate reserve artillery under general Reuben Lindsey walker. They go to camp about a mile from appomattox station about two miles from here on the afternoon of april 8th. And general custers cavalry advances on that station and captures the supplies, then encounters general Reuben Lindsey walkerss general artillery and fight for about four hours the ballofp at mattox station. A very unique battle in the civi
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Checkups. Doing great except for thisac handep. Erin lets talk about thele commute already this morning. T its already a messy morning commute despite the fact we dont have any rain. Adya we havveeny a r live look fire s checking out the tracks onracks benning road. Benning you can see activity there. Benning road northeast shutortha down at the 3300 block. B were going to keep you keep y updated on that and let youet yu know if there are any metroetro delays in regards to that asrdst well. Okay, all right. Okay, all r and we have to check in with gary because we reallyea dont want to hear about theeaau rain, gary. I know. The work week is unsettled but b its not necessarily dreary. Re ill explain in the full exp forecast coming up. Re sounds good. Happening today, the maryland m man accused of shooting sixotg people and killing three ofhree them during a twoday shooting t spree is due in court in rockville. Rockvie. 62yearold Eulalio Tordil is facing several murder charges. Police say
Bothersome debate. And maybe its a symptom of why so Many Americans are kind of put off by the war. Why do you argue about stuff like that . But lets look at those names in a different way. Each of those names represents a perfectly valid perspective on the war. And each is a potential gateway for americans to engage in this story. This worldchanging story. The problem is and for reasons that seem mysterious to many, people who are not inclined toward history the problem is we continue to throw barriers large and subtle in the way of those intellectual gateways into this history. We view the labels, these names as not able to stand side by side but mutually exclusive. If the war is a war of northern aggression, it cant also be a war for emancipation. But, in fact it was. It was all those things. And thats okay. So like our fellow americans our history always challenges us to be better. We draw strength and inspiration from those who risked and gave all for our communitys protection, ou
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