Making business in michigan. Hes not married. So he sits down with his mom to write out his final will and testament now. He is a fairly talented individually starts off as a Company Commander after two years a war though. Now he is the colonel of the fourth, michigan. Between the battle of gettysburg in the battle that happens right before gettysburg two months prior harrison goes home on leave. So he has a vacation of about two weeks while hes home the town members join him as he gets ready to hop on the train and head back to his unit and they present the unit with a brand new flag and you can see the battle flag in this picture about a flags are important the American Civil War and a time when command and control is as loud as you can yell as fast as you can ride a horse or send around with a note in the smoking noise of battle when the big flag goes forward. Wed go forward when the big flag goes back we fall back so you never wanted to lose your flag. Not only because of the ensui
Before gettysburg two months prior harrison goes home on leave. So he has a vacation of about two weeks while hes home the town members join him as he gets ready to hop on the train and head back to his unit and they present the unit with a brand new flag and you can see the battle flag in this picture about a flags are important the American Civil War and a time when command and control is as loud as you can yell as fast as you can ride a horse or send around with a note in the smoking noise of battle when the big flag goes forward. Wed go forward when the big flag goes back we fall back so you never wanted to lose your flag. Not only because of the ensuing confusion that would cause all so because we had all joined as a Community People from our community had died defending that flag, and you never your flag. After two years of war the fourth michigan flag was fairly shot up. And so the townspeople show up and present Harrison Jeffords with a brand new flag for his regiment and he pl
Emphasis on a decentralized government. Prof. Martinez good afternoon, everyone. How are you all doing . Our topic for today is the second part of our civil war content for the semester. About to talk today Economic Policy and social events tied to the economy. I titled this feeding the confederacy. We will talk about the crucial issue of how you make sure your soldiers and civilians have enough to eat over the course of the war. There are two key ironies of this confederate experience for me, that historians of the confederacy point to. One is that the Confederate States of america is a predominantly agricultural nation. Of the unionrity and confederacy live on farms. We are dealing with a population overwhelmingly living on farms. Yet they will struggle to feed themselves more often than they will run out of bullets and armaments. This is surprising when you think of an agricultural nation. The second big ironing is secession documents before they founded the confederacy said we want
Has been recognized as among the most important contributions to scholarly and public understanding of the 19th century of 19th century america. His book Abraham Lincoln redeemer president received the 2000 lincoln prize. You can look more at his bio and see all of the incredible. Dr. Elizabeth spalding is a senior fellow at pepperdines school of public policy. Last but not least, my Dear Colleague dakota wood from the Davis Institute for National Security and or and here at the heritage foundation. Before you get to meet our incredible panelists, i want to turn it over. We want to make sure you remember to engage in the conversation by putting your questions in the question box. Welcome. Dr. Guelzo thank you. Being a history person, im going to start by sketching some background for how we got particular office of government we call the president of the United States. As it is, the president of the United States is probably the single most familiar face in the world, and the irony of
Television companies supports cspan2 as a public service. American history tv continues now with more from the Pamplin Historical Park civil war symposium. Im very privileged to introduce a. Wilson greene. It says hes retired. I dont believe that. From a 44year career in public history, most notably as a former and founding executive director of someplace. [ laughter ] will previously served as historian and manager with the National Park service before becoming the first president of the association of civil war studies. Hes currently at work on his last two volumes of his trilogy which were desperately waiting for. Whats going on, are they coming . Theyre coming, great. Im very happy to introduce a. Wilson greene. [ applause ] boy, is it good to look out on these faces. I gotta say. Its just wonderful to be with you all, and especially to be with such great colleagues. Were really fortunate that brian was able to make it, because he has a twoweek engagement at the boomboom room at th