General george meade and union forces from july to december 1863 as they followed confederates through virginia. This event was part of historical parks small battles, big result s symposium. Im very pleased to introduce our last speaker of the afternoon, Jeffrey William hunt, director of the military forces museum at camp maybury in austin, texas, and adjunct professor where he has taught since 1988. God bless you. Author of the last battle of the civil war and contributor to essential civil war curriculum and the gail library of daily life. American civil war. His last work is a trilogy from the final stage of the Gettysburg Campaign to the end of 1863 and includes meade and lee at mayan run due for publication next year. So lets give a welcome for jeffrey hunt. [ applause ] thank you. Its a real pleasure to be here. I appreciate jerrys invitation. Its always fun to stand in a group of people who have the same passion that you do. You dont get looked at as strangely as you do when yo
Cultural things. One of my favorite soul books is the one i wrote, being lunatic farmer and that one kind of really describes the difference in our farming compared to the average. Tell us about your farm. We are in Virginia Valley and we are in pastured livestock, think about tyson chicken houses and factories, so our animals are out on pasture and they move every day or every couple of days, they go where they want . No, they are controlled with hightech electric fencing, we can be thankful for hightech electric fencing so we can mimic choreography of migration times and steer them around the landscape to get the benefit that nature offered for long time before, you know, before domestic livestock were the norm. What are those benefits . Well, in america, for example, you know, the big herds of bison built the deep soils of the prairies and where we live and the valley of virginia, kept it moving, native americans lit fires to attract them and to open up, you know, grazing areas and
Have acceded to the southern demands that they be a separate country, and if lincoln had gone along with the congressional reconstruction, would the radicals have done to him at least in modified form what they did to johnson . Is. Let me just say one thing thatll connect baseball to lincoln. [laughter] yes, i can do that. In the election of 1860, theres a wonderful political cartoon that shows Lincoln Holding a bat and the other three candidates holding balls, and its using baseball as a metaphor for which candidate should be elected. And lincoln is talking about striking the ball fair and hitting a home run. So [laughter] there are long connections here to baseball and lincoln. As for the election, you know, lincoln wrote a blind memorandum beforehand saying in the event that he lost, he felt it would be his duty before the inauguration of the next president to resolve the conflict in some way. So i dont know, jim if you have thoughts about what would happened had mccellen been elect
Down later on this evening, but for a closer look at whats going on this morning outside, lets head out to tom. Hes live on the patio. Pretty warm this morning. A bit of a breeze. You can hear it on my microphone. My hair is blowing around a little bit. You can check the latest storm information on the nbc washington app. Have your umbrella with you as well as likely the storms are going to be pushing on through this afternoon. Your bus stop forecast for this wednesday, well be fine this morning and through the Morning Hours well be hovering in the upper 50s to near 60 degrees. A little sun breaking out by midmorning and then its by 3 00 p. M. That will likely have those storms breaking through. Temperatures soaring into the upper 70s by then. Well have the new hour by hour timing coming up in just a few minutes with sheena. All right. Taking a look at trachbffic rig now. Crash there along the west side. Northbound 15 at west patrick street, a crash there blocking the left lane this mo
Live to explain how this will affect your rush hours commute. Stephanie . Reporter debra, the key tomorrow will be shuttle buses. Those will take over in places where those trains are not running. Expect those to be packed tomorrow. All across the board the orange, the silver, and the blue lines are going to be crowded running less frequently if at all. I started in metro center. But there is no blue line from rosland. So now i need to find another way to get to pentagon station. Reporter they are waiting for a bus. Instead i thought that there would be a blue line. Then i find out that there is nothing here reporter she is resorting to plan b. Its a bummer. I imagine it is pretty dangerous at this time. Reporter metro has shut down the orange, blue, and silver lines and benning road. I have spent some time in brussels, belgium. I trust their metro system far more than ours. Reporter dc is urging on commuters to going forward. Hoping that the manager will let her leave work early to ma