Conditions at the prison and some of the officers in charge. This talk was part of a symposium on the war in the east hosted by the civil war blog. Hello, and welcome to the emerging civil war virtual symposium. Im editor in chief of emerging civil war. Delighted to have you with us. Our first speaker today is derek maxfield. Fr it earned fame at the courthouse. Derek has recently earned fame for his brandnew book as part of the emerging civil war series. Its called hellmira, prisoner of war camp. Please welcome derek maxfield. Thank you very much. Im very pleased to be here to talk about my latest project. You know, prisoner of war camps have been a surprise to me. Ive studied the civil war since i was quite young and, you know, knew the lengths of the tragedy during the civil war. But it was eyeopening to me the extent of the humanitarian crisis that unfolded over the course of those four bloody years. Over 56,000 died in prisoner of war camps over that time. Just over 500,000 incarc
House of representatives. And im a historian, has going. And we want to talk today about the history of African American representation in the 20th century. And we have a lot of artifacts, from house collection, they have to do with that in a lot of history to cover. In the last African American sort of to be elected in the 19th century leaves a 1901, george white of North Carolina. And then its a long time before another African American comes into the house, and that is oscar to priest from illinois. And we have a couple of really rare artifacts from this man, from the 19 twenties and thirties. But before a legit because i love them so much, matt, tell us a little bit about oscar, and how he got into congress . So theres a long period, almost three decades after George Henry White leaves congress, where there is no African Americans who served in either house or the senate. And that has everything to do with a gym crow laws that go in the books in the south. In the way that changes o
Fringe of the storm system nearing the coast, access to atmospheric river. Two to five inches of rain saturday through sunday and lowerelevations, bay and valleys, inch to 2 1 2 inches of rain. Started 10 00 a. M. Tomorrow morning and dont expire until 3 00 a. M. , gusts on the coast approaching 60 miles an hour. Not good for the burn area in kinkaid. Totals double. Lingering until monday. Updated look at sevenday forecast and when heaviest rain arrives in about ten minutes. Three, two, one. What all this means is as were kicking off the holidays, also gearing up for rain and wind as new storm moves in. Christmas in the park organizers say theyre ready for wild weather. Rob roz slater is live with more. Reporter watching the forecast hour by hour, they have vulnerable exhibits and trees and they have a contingency plan in place. San joses annual christmas in the park. For 40 years dozens of beautifully decorated Christmas Trees he attraction. This weekend they could be threatened by bu
All donations do help the museum. We are nonprofit, so we do rely on memberships and donations to bring you programs. Also, consider being a member. We have information at the house. So, the structure you are sitting in was built around 1844. That is when the house was built. Farmers lived and worked here prior to the battle of antietam. The union army took over their property. This structure was a Field Hospital where hundreds of Wounded Soldiers were treated by surgeons in the days and weeks following the battle. With us, Daniel Vermilya to discuss his new book. I will have to read from this because i could not memorize all this. Dan is a civil war historian and the author of several books including the battle of kennesaw mountainand james a. Garfield and the civil war. He previously worked as a park ranger at Antietam National battlefield and he currently works at the Eisenhower National Historic Site in gettysburg, pennsylvania. Before i hand it over to dan, cspan is here today. We
Well as some low elevation snow for the bay area, and whats ahead, but mike, youre getting reports of some roadway flooding. Weve been getting reports through the night, kari, as the rain really hit last evening, really kicked in the afternoon and evening. We saw the big reports and then a lot of surface streets. Right now all this radar activity, superimposed over the traffic map. The roadway sensors are green but that green radar kind of covers it up. This is where youll find that more intense rain right now as kari has been talking about. Watch this. See as we move down now the san mateo bridge ill pick it out and the dumbarton bridge and anywhere south of the dumbarton bridge things are much calmer right now, more coming in off the peninsula, so that will be a factor. We see green sensors around the bay and look at our san mateo bridge camera. Well have an issue with water kicking up on your lens and scattered showers right now, more coming as kari says. Back to you. Thanks, mike.