Belarusians of the world with great pleasure they come to the capital of our homeland, to the heart of our belarus, they are ready to come literally at the first invitation , they live almost all over the world, and from one and a half to 3. 5 million, according to different sources, they all fly to their historical homeland with great pleasure to meet and talk, tell how they live in their countries, see how beautiful belarus lives, enjoy our belarusianness, soak in it. Take them with them in order to popularize them and show what a wonderful country belarus is, we are like belarusian diaspora, we gather, celebrate national holidays, and of course, ritual holidays, for example, the last holiday that we celebrated was swimming, we floated wreaths on the water, jumped over a fire, st. Nicholas day, we arrange creative meetings, we organize internships , linguistic internships for spanish students who study russian on the territory of belarus, they come here in the summer for summer inten
Civil war. Historians discuss how africanamericans remember and interpret the civil war. This is an hourlong event. We are here for our fourth and final panel to discuss africanamerican opinions on the war. We want to begin with a discussion of the scope and significant. Maybe you want to get us started. The u. S. Color troops are more than anyone imagined. Massachusetts had three state registrants. There are over 140 of various kinds. They are a significant military force. What is interesting that i think in the beginning of the war none of the white northerners would have imagined you had black northern soldiers. They turned many patriotic northern freemen away. It is only the process of the war. The high death count, the sickness, and the fact that it did not go well. It prompted people to think about arming africanamericans. The emancipation proclamation was authorized. You had over 180,000 troops, which on one hand, people always say there were 2 Million Union troops, but they cam
The virginia sesquicentennial organized this hourlong event. Welcome back everyone. We are here in our fourth and final panel. I am joined by fitzhugh brundage, barbara gannon, and Thavolia Glymph we want to begin with a discussion of the scope and significance of the service in the u. S. Army of African American troops. Barbara, maybe want to get us started. Prof. Gannon u. S. Colored troops are more than anyone ever imagined. The u. S. Colored troops are federal volunteer units, theres over 140 of them of various times. They were a significant military force. Its interesting, at the beginning of the war, none of the white northerners would have ever imagined you would have had black northern soldiers. In fact, they turned many, many patriotic northern free men away. Its only the process of the war, the high discounts, sickness, and the fact that it didnt go well, that prompted people to really think about arming African Americans. The emancipation proclamation was authorized. You had
Barbara, maybe want to get us started. Prof. Gannon well, first you have to understand the u. S. Colored troops are more than anyone ever imagined. The u. S. Colored troops are federal volunteer units, theres over 140 of them of various times. They were a significant military force. Its interesting, at the beginning of the war, none of the white northerners would have ever imagined you would have had black northern soldiers. In fact, they turned many, many patriotic northern free men away. So its only the process of the war, i. E. The high death count sickness, and the fact that it didnt go well, that prompted people to really think about arming African Americans. The emancipation proclamation was authorized. So you had over 180,000 troops which on one hand, people always say, well, there were 2 Million Union troops, but they came when they were needed. They were fresh troops at the end of the war. I dont think any other military historian would dispute at the end of a very long, hardf
Of the flooding has subsided as we look at double scan live radar, a line is developing east of pittsburgh and one in the ohio valley, these two push to the east overnight tonight, they wont pass through here until after midnight you wont be jolted out of bed after midnight with the line of downpours and rum arables of thunder and another round of showers and thunderstorms midday tomorrow in the afternoon, and that is especially in new jersey and southern parts of delaware and we begin a drying out process in the afternoon, when we come back well look at the sevenday forecast. Wait until you see thursday and friday some spectacular days, and the good part of the forecast as well. Stay ahead of Severe Weather, with the Storm Tracker 6 app, youll find the radar images and alerted for incoming storms and when you see Severe Weather happening, we want to know send your picture to jointheaction 6abc. Com or post them to 6abcaction. President obama is minutes away from delivering a special a