Historical park. Chris calkins talks about the battles that took place as part of the appomattox campaign. This is about an hour. One of the benefits of those who were not here last night when i was talking about the entire campaign from petersburg to appomattox i mentioned when i worked at the park alt appomattox i would come to longwood. At that time one book was published in 1859 dealing with the final campaign called to appomattox. Its a good popular book but i remember after reading it and studying it i had a lot of questions as to where the events took place, how did the armys get from here to there . So this book here set up my quest, then, to learn more about these sites. At that time when i worked at appomattox i worked with a gentleman a lot of you probably know. His name was harold howard. He portrayed an exsoldier who stayed on. I took the role of a Union Officer who was stationed in appomattox on provoes duty after the surrender. He and i were companions in trying to learn
One of the benefits of those who were not here last night when i was talking about the entire campaign from petersburg to appomattox i mentioned when i worked at the park alt appomattox i would come to longwood. At that time one book was published in 1859 dealing with the final campaign called to appomattox. Its a good popular book but i remember after reading it and studying it i had a lot of questions as to where the events took place, how did the armys get from here to there . So this book here set up my quest, then, to learn more about these sites. At that time when i worked at appomattox i worked with a gentleman a lot of you probably know. His name was harold howard. He portrayed an exsoldier who stayed on. I took the role of a Union Officer who was stationed in appomattox on provoes duty after the surrender. He and i were companions in trying to learn more about the events that took place on the retreat. And one of the areas that i was particularly interested in was the battle o
Longwood. At that time one book was published in 1859 dealing with the final campaign called to appomattox. Its a good popular book but i remember after reading it and studying it i had a lot of questions as to where the events took place, how did the armys get from here to there . So this book here set up my quest, then, to learn more about these sites. At that time when i worked at appomattox i worked with a gentleman a lot of you probably know. His name was harold howard. He portrayed an exsoldier who stayed on. I took the role of a Union Officer who was stationed in appomattox on provoes duty after the surrender. He and i were companions in trying to learn more about the events that took place on the retreat. And one of the areas that i was particularly interested in was the battle of Sailors Creek. Sailors creek actually became a state park in 1936. And efforts were made to purchase more land for the park and to have it become a National Park. But something happened like world war
I brought some of our brochures. I had no idea how many people would be here. If you are planning to go to the park this afternoon, if you hold off taking one of these, they are in the back. We will get you some. Its on park row. My talk is referred to as black thursday, the battle for Sailors Creek. One of the Union Generals who was involved in the battle, he wrote in his book about the fighting 5 of the intelligent people of the united states, north or south ever heard of the battle of Sailors Creek. They dont know anything of its magnitude or importance. This is not strange. It was fought in virginia. This was three days before the surrender under general robert e lee. Events were happening so rapidly that no note was made of the battle. In the next few minutes, you will be part of that part of our nation. Just some point before we talk about the battle, there are three separate engagements referred to as the battles of Sailors Creek. As you enter the museum, it refers to it as batt
Who have worn the uniform of the United States proudly and sacrificed so much and risked it all. But just like the scandals in fort collins, colorado, phoenix, arizona, pittsburgh, pennsylvania and other cities, the ones at austin, san antonio, harlingen and waco are evidence of a calloused disregard for the health and wellbeing of americas heroes. The new information comes from a pair of whistleblowers. The first one a v. A. Scheduling clerk named brian turner told the Austin American statesman that his survivors at the v. A. Facilities in austin, san antonio and waco were directing him to falsify appointment data in hopes of covering up the problem of long wait times. Meanwhile, the former associate chief of staff at the harlingen v. A. Health care clinic, a man by the name of dr. Richard krugman has gone public with a series of disturbing allegations. According to the washington examiner, which interviewed dr. Krugman, veterans seeking routine colonoscopies, Cancer Screenings, in ot