Who writes his memoir 40 years after the fact, writes it in a flowery 19th century flowery style. When wallace says they arrived here in the morning and lit their camp fires, hell Say Something like, you know, the ste ste steely ska gave way to the orange sun and which was great. You have to balance what wallace says in his memoir with his telegrams from the battlefield. His after reaction report two weeks later because wallace had a way of making himself sound really good. And, you know, he did a very brave thing here. Cant get away from that. And as i say in the book, i believe and i think the judgment of history is that what wallace did here did safe washington, d. C. So this battle took place on july 9th, 1864 and right now its november 2nd, 2007. Its a beautiful day. But one thing to keep in mind about this battle is it was very, very hot. They didnt have thermometers, at least no one referred to a thermometer in their memoirs, but it had to have been in the upper 90s and very, ve
Directed the American Heritage Rivers Initiative at the White House Council on environmental quality. Today miss newman will discuss the post war impact on the forts, on the surrounding neighborhoods in washington and their evolution into parks. And kim elder. Miss elder is the National Parks Services Program manager for civil war defenses of washington. She is responsible for the management, the Oversight Program development of 16 for 16 of the remaining forts and batteries opened and operated by the National Parks service. So today ms. Elder will highlight the parks today and provide us with a preview of this weekends activities at fort stevens. So let me begin now with dr. Cooling. [ applause ] good afternoon, folks. Pleasure to be back in this lovely facility even if every time i come here i go in the wrong entrance to the National Archives. As a researcher, i became very accustomed over 30 years or more of going in the other side. Well, you dont want to hear about that today. Ill
Tonight. We have looking for what is real food. This is the making of americas greatest president , congressman lincoln the making of americas greatest president. Thanks to cspan, for letting us talk about what we do and thank you for changing hands. The second event we have done having local bookstores like this, such a pleasure, i love spending time here, everyone is allowed to leave until every copy of this old. Thank you for being here tonight. So once again the book congressman lincoln the making of americas greatest president , what do i mean by greatest president . I mean most significant. At an end of day Abraham Lincoln made the decision to pursue the south to engage them in a civil war in order to preserve the union, Abraham Lincoln who ultimately resolve the slavery issue that had taken american statesman to the first of the founding. This story, y. Congressman lincoln . There are 16,000 books written about Abraham Lincoln. If you good to fords theater in washington d. C. Wh
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