Our final speaker tonight is christopher calkins. He a proud graduate of longwood university. You were one of the first male graduates of longwood. Chris has had a long career with the National Park service. He worked at appomattox, spotsylvania, and was chief of interpretation at petersburg for many years. In 2008 he took over the position of park manager for battlefield state park. It is only 15 minutes from here. He has done an amazing job in revising Sailors Creek. As a mentioned in the beginning he will be available tomorrow for some tors of their cash for some tors out there for some tours out there. He is responsible for the retreat route. He is actively involved in battlefield preservation, the association of preservation for civil war sites, particularly building up petersburg in the past getting a large amount of land for petersburg battlefield. Received an award for marriage in 2015. For merit in 2015. Numerous books on sailor creek and appomattox. Also a study of the 29th d
The reality is they opened up but it was to be an outreach to our kind of people there. Thank you. I just had a quick question. Do you think the majority of the people, do you have any information on this, left for political reasons, not wanting to live under yankee rule or was it more economics hoping to reestablish a Slave Institution in brazil or elsewhere . And also, do you have any information perhaps about the states that they were more likely to have left were deep south states like alabama, mississippi or upper south states, which i would think it would be deep south states but im just guessing on that . Well, let me start with your last question, yes, it was predominantly deep south states where it was where the brazilian government advertised and also the ports lended themselves to transportation to brazil as well. Although, there were some virginians. They would have left from norfolk and there was a man in lynchburg whose last name was noonen who was sort of the point perso
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Very good tuesday to you. Im richard lui. In their first phone call in more than two weeks, president obama warned russian president Vladimir Putin that there will be serious costs for further actions in ukraine. Meanwhile, armed prorussian separatists seized more government buildings in eastern ukraine. President obama is urging putin to use his influence to stand down. Danielle leigh joins us this morning. How did that phone call go . Reporter good morning. The phone call was described as very frank and neither side seems to agree on much. But the good news is it got the conversation going and those talks are going to continue later this week in geneva. In ukraine, protesters upset about the governments lack of action rallied through the night. Prorussian separatists confiscated more buildings in eastern ukraine. The kiev government warned it would send troops to retaliate, but so far hasnt followed through. The white house expressed growing concerns russia is behind the highly organ
This campaign is people see what did i say i was going to do in 2008, and what have i delivered, and they can have some confidence that the things i say i mean. Good morning, everybody. Thats a beautiful shoot. Bales of hay there. Its thursday, october 25th. Welcome to morning joe. With us on set, we have National Affairs editor for new York Magazine and msnbc political analyst, John Heilemann. We also have pulitzer prizewinning historian jon meacham. Thats a nice smile. Yeah. Hi, willie. And willie geist is here as well. Willie, you know, when president ial campaigns are coming down to the final stretch, we all know who they go to, right . Right. How do you set the shot up, right . Exactly. Whats the angle . Whats the image . And who do you go to . You go to tvs own willie geist, right . You do. Let me ask you, willie, what were you thinking yesterday when you decided im going to put the president of the United States down in some corn. By a hay bale. With bales of hay all around to m