And unless you point lead over night with champagne this is the recipe. I found hard to see anything at all written about her but and when she died the newspapers referred to her as a popular icon. But i did find a lot of unpublished papers. I would like to know where she had to say. Everybody else likes her and they say she is smart and wonderful but every so often after douglass died and she was considered the great beauty she did say she didnt want to marry or settle. She did eventually remarry a Union Officer in had six children. How did you find all these letters . Modern technology is a wonderful thing. So the founding mothers cannot 2004 i started to work got that. And then you really did have to go places. But then from mrs. Google does that for you. [laughter] been years and get in touch with those societies to see if they have women that are not listed then they become far far more accommodating. So then they can scan the papers for a fee but now what you get it at that point
Its about an hour. Good morning. I will prewarn you today you will hear language that we fould repulsive. Im not going to cut it out because it makes us quiver. Well get started. On june 12th, 1864, after fails to defeat robert e. Lees army of northern virginia, Lieutenant General ulysses s. Grant accompanying Major General george g. Meades army of the potomac and a portion of the army of the james pulled away from the fortifications at cold harbor and began the Movement Toward petersburg. Some troops to the bermuda region north of petersburg to begin the attack on the city the following day of june 15th. Petersburg in 1860 had been virginias second largest city. With a population 18,266 folks. Since the war of 1812, it had been referred to as the four railroads radiated from the city by 1860. The Petersburg Railroad which ran south to weldon, north carolina. The richmond in petersburg, obviously connecting those two places. The south side which ran from city point, modern day hopewell
Providers and the people trying to deliver that media to the consumer. Whene in 11 Playing Field it comes to those kind of negotiations. Senators, monday night at 8 00 eastern on the communicators. Next on the civil war, Emmanuel Dabney of Petersburg National battlefield discusses the role of u. S. Colored troops. After weeks of tunneling, union forces blew up a mine to create a gap in the defenses. He discusses why the attack ended in a failure and why the colored troops were unjustly blamed. This event was part of the Gettysburg College Civil War Institute annual conference. It is about one hour. [applause] good morning. I will prewarn you, we will hear language that we find repulsive. I will not cut it out. We will get started. In june 1864, after failing to defeat Robert E Lees army, ulysses s. Grant and a portion of the army of james pulled away and began the Movement Toward petersburg to begin the attack, petersburg in 1850 was the second largest city with a population of 18,266
Eligible population, dont even meet the basic requirements to get into todays army. 99 of todays recruits have a High School Diploma or equivalent. An era where 79 of High School Students graduate. Thats 21 times lower rate of dropouts than the national average. Overall, todays recruits are healthier, more physically fit than the vast majority of peers and must adhere to zero tolerance policy on drugs and criminal issues. It is actually statistically easy tosh gier to get into coll enlist, not become an officer, but enlist in the army. Life of a soldiers no secret to them. They join knowing they will endure hard times then will endure sacrifice. They will be charged to keep us safe. The few that make the cut to get in, are willing to make that sacrifice, they are not always easy to find. If it was easy to find, we one need an entire command to recruiting. Those that get in, those that make the cut to get in and make the next cut, to get through training and into a unit, they become par
Believe that if those black regiments had been allowed to lead the assault, that would have been it. In other words, we can imagine black soldiers marching, charging over blanford hill, right, into petersburg. Thats a very soothing image. I think that tells us more about how we want to remember the war than the battle itself, because anyone who has studied civil war battles, they never go as planned. Right . Theres always something that goes afoul. So is it any surprise that given this massive detonation that no one really can predict what it will do to the landscape and whats beyond it. Remember, its not just that front confederate line they have to deal with. This is a complex sort of maze of bombproofs, traverses. Part of the problem is in the 1920s, the crater battlefield was an 18hole golf course. So a lot of that battlefield has been smoothed over in one way or the other. You really are hardpressed to get a sense of what it would have looked like in the 1860s. So would it have ch