Although lincoln is hard to read emotionally, what was so fascinating was that they spoke about loving lincoln. Over and over again people right we loved him. They loved him as a father. People most often spoke of him as a brother and son. That speaks to his emotional distance. I have some questions on psychohistory. I am a licensed psychiatrist. I am bound not to speculate. You can look at what information is available and put into some context. I caution against trying to utilize information on someone who has been dead since 1865, trying to put that into a category that is 150 years later in terms of that. I think at times with a figure as large as Abraham Lincoln, what would have not have been as large is made larger in that extent. I do have some concern about that. Having said that, it was not clinical depression. It would be classified as this fine mia dysfimia. One of the most astute psychological assessments of lincoln, it depends on what you are trying to find. I would make a
Would become maine. It would also mean no American Military power on the great lakes. We cant agree to this. And so after two months of negotiations going nowhere Great Britain is going to quietly drop it as well. Theyre going to abandon their native American Allies in october. So than the british say ok, we are not going to create a buffer zone, but now the negotiate treaty means whenever anybody held at the end of the war, they keep. Bad for us, because we have not seized any part of canada. Good for Great Britain because they have this whole part of maine, and they have these forts along the Niagara River and up here at the michigan territory. We say no, nothing doing. Not going to work. Theyre going to drop back in november. August, september, october november. Four months, no negotiations, no compromises. Finally, the last big issue is british navigation of the Mississippi River and american use of the fisheries off new england and newfoundland. American and british negotiators ca
For nearly a century. Fort benning was established on macon road in columbus, georgia, on approximately 85 acres of land in october of 19 18th 1918. On that day the war came to a close and there was talk of closing fort denning. Many officers who had served in the American Expeditionary forces to france went before congress to testify that had our soldiers had better training they would not have suffer the casualties that they did in just 210 days of actual combat, so it was determined by congress that we would keep fort benning on a smaller scale and luckily for us, it survived. But first, go on board the css jackson, one of only four surviving ironclads dating back to the civil war. We are in the National Civil war naval museum on the banks of the chattahoochee river. The purpose of the naval museum is to tell the stories of the navys during the civil war. We are the only facility that focuses entirely on that particular story. We are in a unique place, right here inside the museum a
Admiralty . And its interesting. I found no smoking memo. Believe me, i would have found as looking memo. There was nothing from churchill to Jackie Fisher or to somebody else in the admiraltysaying lets let the lusitania going to the sea because we wanted to get sunk. Nothing like that exists. Announcer tonight at 8 00 eastern and pacific on cspans q a. This year, cspan is touring cities across the country exploring American History. Next, a look at our recent visit to columbus, georgia. You are watching American History tv, all weekend, every weekend on cspan 3. Jeff seymour today we typically think of hybrids as the cars the combination of electricity and gasoline, but if you ask somebody but hybrids in the mid19th century, there went to talk about ships. This is a hybrid. It is a combination of sale and steam power. It has got large masts that carry large sails on it, and it also has steam, and the chattahoochee of course is named after the river right here, and the css chattahooch
The battle of columbus took place in 1865. James wilson is a Union Cavalry officer. Their job was to attack the states of alabama and georgia. Their goal was to destroy important targets like columbus because of industrial output. They wanted to disrupt supply lines and communications, anything to further along the collapse of the confederacy. An ironclad like the jackson would be used at a port city. If there was an approaching army, the vessel can move up and down the waterway and fire its big guns at the opposing forces. This is what confederate ironclads did. She is right at completion in april 1865. There is no crew yet. The navy has her on the list as the next ship to the commission to. The war is winding down and the confederacy is collapsing. During the battle of columbus, she said of the navy yard. The navy guys never could come aboard and get her steam up here in there was not enough men available to do that. Its a nice showpiece. The next morning, wilsons men came into the n