states civil war. all these pieces of legislation were passed, at least in significant measure, because senators absented themselves from the united states congress. and again, because american people voted republicans into office in 1860. creek part of the civil war? it is an outgrowth of the civil war. it is an outgrowth of the same mechanisms and processes that that burst birthed the civil war, but also features civil war soldiers. united states soldiers on the payroll, who are mustered into the union army. again, i wasn t being entirely glib when i said yes, i think t is. is it as central a part of the civil war story as some of the events that others will be talking about here? no, i don t think it is. i don t want to overstate my claim. that is not the kind of historian that i am. but i do think it is a very important story and it s worth telling. thank you all again very much. [applause] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2014] [captioning performe
focus, moving back to the individual soldiers. let s start with an image we have seen here for a couple times. this is an artist rendition of one of the charges made by the army of the potomac at the 1862 battle of fredericksburg. wall, top, that low stone and a density of confederate soldiers because the frontage is so limited, they are stacked 6, 7, 8 deep. people in the back are low handing up loaded weapons. they are able to generate a volume of fire comparable to a gun. war i machine more than 10 separate charges try to go up the hill. remember, by the seventh or eighth charge, the wounded soldiers were struggling back and are begging comrades not to go. they think it is suicide. yet, they keep going. why do they do that? thise spring of 1864, cadet and the entire core of the virginia military institute were called up to try to block a federal army moving down the shenandoah valley. ps was initially held in reserve, and at the end of the ,ay with a federate position so
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