Acts of power exhibit is the fact that we are one location that many of the events took place in these exact area. We have the exact equipment used in the civil war. We present a bottom up history of the b and o railroad. Technologies and the people involved. This would be an entire area of activity. There were paint shops, carpentry shops, car shops. They were casting the rail. They were building bridge part. Loading things on trains. As the confederates would damage a section of track, or blow up a bridge, the repair crews would go out, pull out the damage, loaded on a car and recycle it. I firmly believe that at the outbreak of the war, the baltimore and Ohio Railroad was the First Military and political objective of the war. Cop that playing good cop through the state of maryland. Robert e. Lee gave specific instructions to his field theanders do not harm b o railroad. We wanted for ourselves. Things then turned around and the b o railroad became a continuous target. But no railroa
It coincides with the American Civil War sesquicentennial. Anduns for five years changes each year to address that your of the war. Interesting aspect of our exhibit is the fact that we are one location that many of the events took place in these exact area. We have the very equipment used by the railroad in the civil war. We present a bottom up history of the b o railroad. We present the technologies and the people involved guarding, destroying, building, and operating the railroad during the civil war years. This would be an entire area of activity. There were paint shops, carpentry shops, car shops. They were casting the rail. There were machine shops. They were building bridge parts. Continuously loading things on trains. As the confederates would damage a section of track, or blow up a bridge, the repair crews would go out, pull out the damage, load it on a car and recycle it. I firmly believe that at the outbreak of the war, the first 90 days, the baltimore and Ohio Railroad was
That year of the war. The interesting aspect of the exhibit is the fact that we are on location, that many of the events that took place with the b o railroad were in this exact area. We have the very equipment used by the railroad during the civil war, and we present a bottom up history of the railroad during the civil war by presenting the technologies and the people that were involved with riding, guarding, destroying, building, and operating the railroad during the civil war years. This would be an entire area of activity. There were paint shops. There were carpentry shops, car shops. They were casting of rail. There were machine shops. They were building bridge parts, rails, continuously loading these things on trains. And, as the confederates would damage a section of track or blow up a bridge, the repair crews would go out. They would pull out damage. Theyd load it on the cars, bring it back here, and recycle it. I firmly believe that at the outbreak of the war, the first 90 day
Mr. Philbrick thank you. Wereeachers our parents teachers at the same high school and are kids were educated by them and it is great to see you. And it is wonderful to be in the Coolidge Center theater with this great bookstore, cosponsored with the massachusetts Historical Society. Which has been an institution that was essential to my life as a historian. Have taken up residence in the archives in every book i have done has been a central part of the information that has come from there. And it is just an organization that is essential to anyone looking into not only the history of boston but this country. And the genesis for bunker hill goes back to the summer of 1984. My wife and i had just moved to boston fulltime. We were living at the north end. That time, i was a feeling failing journalist, but my primary responsibility was to be with my daughter at home. I would push the stroller through the crowded streets of the north end and it was there , at copps hill, what of my ivorite