And Chattanooga National Military Park, one of several small areas that are part of the Missionary Ridge battlefield of the larger chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park. The veterans will come together and get congress to establish in andst of 1890 chickamauga Chattanooga National Military Park as the first such public area in the United States. Subsequently, battlefields at antietam, shiloh, gettysburg, and vicksburg will be created in the first era of preservation and commemoration of the civil war, on the very ground where it occurred. Today, this National Military park, with its units at the chickamauga battlefield, on lookout mountain, the small areas preserved here on Missionary Ridge still tells this story, a vital story in the course of our nations history, an important part of deciding how the civil war turned out. You can read about our countries but here youoks, can walk some of the very ground where those decisions were made. Even though here on the chattanooga
Idleather said, nobody is around me. You are going to work at the foundry. After two years at the foundry, he decided maybe that is not what he wanted to do. He ended up working for his father in the finance department, and now realized he needed education. And so he went off to ultimately harvard. He was a very good student, but not an outstanding one. He was about in the middle of his class. He however was everybodys friend. Everybody wanted to get to know him. He was one of these natural. Eaders that is likable people are drawn to him. He is decisive. He is personable. He is a gentleman. When he came out, he became a lawyer. Moved back to. To erie. Suddenly, the civil war broke out. Patriot, he knew there was only one thing he could do. The first regiment he got involved in, from erie, pennsylvania, went to pittsburgh. They were only serving for three months, and they were mustered out after three months. He came home. Most people would have felt he did his duty. But a new regimen w
The United States and each of the states and the people in which that relation is or may be suspected or disturbed. If they did not return to the then, he would in 1863 free enslaved people, enslaved in the states in rebellion. Wanted toy, lincoln figure out a way to have a strong legal argument to support emancipation. And by focusing the emancipation proclamation on the states in rebellion, he was able to make it a matter of his extraordinary powers in war as president. He made an important political decision, because there were slaves in the states that were controlled by the union, and territories controlled by the union. Proclamationion concerns those in the states in rebellion. I was part of lincoln strategy, to have a strong Legal Foundation for issuing the emancipation proclamation, and part of his strategy to make unionhe public in the understood he was acting based on the need to win the civil war. Out of what is powerful about the document is that it is not particularly poet