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The virginia sesquicentennial organized this hourlong event. Welcome back everyone. We are here in our fourth and final panel. I am joined by fitzhugh brundage, barbara gannon, and Thavolia Glymph we want to begin with a discussion of the scope and significance of the service in the u. S. Army of African American troops. Barbara, maybe want to get us started. Prof. Gannon u. S. Colored troops are more than anyone ever imagined. The u. S. Colored troops are federal volunteer units, theres over 140 of them of various times. They were a significant military force. Its interesting, at the beginning of the war, none of the white northerners would have ever imagined you would have had black northern soldiers. In fact, they turned many, many patriotic northern free men away. Its only the process of the war, the high discounts, sickness, and the fact that it didnt go well, that pr ....
Barbara, maybe want to get us started. Prof. Gannon well, first you have to understand the u. S. Colored troops are more than anyone ever imagined. The u. S. Colored troops are federal volunteer units, theres over 140 of them of various times. They were a significant military force. Its interesting, at the beginning of the war, none of the white northerners would have ever imagined you would have had black northern soldiers. In fact, they turned many, many patriotic northern free men away. So its only the process of the war, i. E. The high death count sickness, and the fact that it didnt go well, that prompted people to really think about arming African Americans. The emancipation proclamation was authorized. So you had over 180,000 troops which on one hand, people always say, well, there were 2 Million Union troops, but they came when they were needed. They were fresh troo ....
Comply with new regulatory mandates than it is for a larger institution . A very small institution, we recognize there are burdens involved. We have often tried to tailor our regulations so that there is less burden and fewer rules applied to smaller institutions. There has been an increase in capital standards that apply to those institutions but most of the things we discussed today, stress test and other things, liquidity regulations apply to those institutions and tried to make many efforts. To simplify the Regulatory Regime and capital regime for those institutions. The number of changes negatively affect the community to offer products and services to consumers more than it has affected larger institutions . I dont know that it has affected smaller institutions more than larger institutions. I would submit that it has because to be honest i dont know how you started this. I dont know how you start business in this economi ....
Statement, you outlined Real Progress thats been made within isil in terms of limiting their Financial Resources and the reality of inspired terrorist attacks that have global reach including here in the homeland as we have seen this week. What progress is being made in degrading isils ability to inspire terrorist acts through the digital or even traditional media and how have we learned how to measure that progress . We are trying to go up stream and find out who is responsible for spewing the information into the internet that inspires these individuals to carry these attacks. And working with our military partners, we are trying to make sure that the appropriate actions are taken in syria and iraq where a lot of this emanates from. In addition, we are trying to share as many information with Global Partners becau ....