On memberships and donations to bring you programs. Also, consider being a member. Structure you are 1844ng in was built around. That is when the fry house was built. Farmers lived and worked here prior to the battle of antietam. Union army took over their property. The structure was a Field Hospital where hundreds of Wounded Soldiers were treated by surgeons in the days and weeks following the battle. Us, Daniel Vermilya to discuss his new book. I will have to read from this because i could not memorize all this. Dan is a civil war historian and the author of several books including the battle of james a. Mountainand garfield and the civil war. He previously worked as a park field,at the antietam and he currently works at the historicr National Site in gettysburg, pennsylvania. Before i handed over to dan, cspan is here today. We will have a question and and their answer section. Please wait for a member of cspan to ask the question. We will also have a book signing. A copy of dans bo
Before introducing this panel, i want to take advantage of our collective presence here and invite the immediate past president to open the session with the native lands acknowledgment. A statement that those crucial to who we are as an historical organization. We care deeply about the past and the past of this part of the world. I would like for you to repeat after me. In this language, we say this word. I want to welcome you. Being an american and in scholar, we exhaust we are on the land here. In being here, there is not always in india presence but this establishes the american scence. An indian pre you have to remember American Indians being part of the past, the present and the future. [applause] thank you. Questionesses a simple. Perhaps an odd question for the western History Association to thing about. Does the west even matter anymore . Regionalism matter in American History . At a moment when people are increasingly brought together by transportation, the internet and shared
Has barned 54,000 acres, containment has dropped to 5 . Another 80,000 homes are threatened by flames. Firefighters believe it will take until november 7th to contain the fire. Schools are closed because of the smoke and ongoing Power Outages. We have a full list on nbcbayarea. Com and running them on the bottom of the screen all morning. And tracking new evacuation orders overnight into. Sharon katsuda is live at the frontlines. Firefighters are still on the scene there . Reporter that is right. And we just moved from a decision location so were now here right along spot road in the heart of this evacuation area and you could see behind me there are fire engines here. They saved this home. Im told that the flames came right up to the back side of this home so very good use here but the fire has moved on closer towards santa rosa. That is what im hearing. Now lets take a look at video of the flames. We shot this about 3 00 this morning just off the road here. Got very close to structur
Of those, 40 are homes, three are commercial buildings. 80,000 structures are still threatened. Containment still only at 5 . Dozens of schools are closed because of the smoke and Power Outages. Sharon katsuda is live for us in santa rosa. She spoke with some of the people about the tactics being used to fight the flames. Sharon . Reporter marcus, in the News Conference this morning the leaders of this battle against the kincade fire were clear they are working together to try and get evacuees back into homes. But right now there are still structures threatened, theyre saying especially in the windsor area and the mt. Saint helena area they are concerned and that is where we were live all morning long along spot road and pleasant avenue. Overnight the most fire activity that we saw was just south of the town of windsor along the shiloh ridge area. Firefighters made an aggressive stand in that area and brought in a significant number of resources as it was impacting a relatively populat
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