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Arrested. For their alleged involvement in the murder. A lyon county jury has acquitted a Silver Springs man on two of three charges, in the death of a 2yearold boy. Cody wallace was found not guilty of first degree murder, and manslaughter. But the jury returned a guilty verdict for child abuse, with substantial bodily harm. The charges stem from a 2010 incident, when wallace was left alone with his girlfriends son. Wallace called 911, and said the boy stopped breathing. The boy later died. Wal...

Movement of the armies to cover a lot of ground. There are several bottles only way. By the time the armies battles on the way. By the time the army gets to appomattox they have been in constant contact. When they arrived at the courthouse, there is a final battle on the day of the surrender because nobody knew there would be a surrender that day on the morning of april. April 9. Here we have sailors creek, the largest battle of the campaign with eight thousand confederate 8000 confederate soldi...

Print parole passes for the confederates. This is the pattern that they use, it is called a check pattern, i think you can see why. They are important for a few other things as well. General grant indicated that they could be used for transportation on Union Military railroads and ships. For a lot of the men who lived near working railroads or can get home by ship, the Union Military will transport them. A lot of the men who lived in the deep south went to norfolk on ships, and got home that way...

The original photograph on the right the house was torn down later on. The house you see on the right is a reconstruction. The confederate soldiers are issued parole passes. These are very important because when lee surrenders, the war is not over, it is just lee surrendering the army of Northern Virginia. As the confederate soldiers go home they are entering other war zones, places where there are active fighting. They need proof that they have surrender and have permission to go home to protec...

Every guy knows white socks black shoes. Dont do it. Thats probably why in the margin over here the photographer scratched dont use. Look at them constructing that image together. The general doesnt look particularly good in this one so dont use it. Lets stand him up and get one thats even better. Not quite there though, is it . Mover, sir thank you. Just so your head is right in the middle of that cross. The image thats gone around the world. Even this has a little forensic secret. The devil is...

You, but they want the same things. Could you even imagine a more pay tree patriarchal scene than this . Hes always trying to needle in a political point and in this case its right between by jeff davis in the doorway is the table upon which the surrender of general lee thats now the photographic pride. One of the other things that i enjoy is look at the girl. Look at daddys knee and mothers chair. She is locked in. She is not going to move. Shes not going anywhere. Something else that kind of i...

Creek. Its all wednesday night starting at 8 00 eastern here on cspan 3. This sunday on q and a, Senior Editor for the Weekly Standard Andrew Ferguson on his writing career, the gop president ial candidates for 2016 and what voters are looking for in a candidate. They want somebody who looks like hes stood up for them. Im amazed now to the degree to which primary voters on both sides are motivated by resentment and the sense of being put upon and those people really dont understand us. Here is a...

Long days and lose track of things and make bad decisions. You are fatigue mentally fatigued mentally and physically. When word comes out that there is a flag of truce it is a shock. And really shakes them to their foundations, it is really hard to accept. They have been fighting and all of a sudden the war will be over quickly. The surrender meeting takes place in the mclean house, a private home chosen for the occasion. There are about a dozen witnesses in the room. Of course when you have a d...

Today. Two books i think we have them for sale in the bookstore. The most recent 1 i grabbed the wrong one. What is the title of the most recent one . To the bitter in. To the bitter end. And the second one, the final days of the army of tennessee. It is the transmississippi and indian territory. It was one of the florida regiments, the last surrendered group. Robert dunkerly. [applause] mr. Dunkerly good morning. I want to thank the organizers for having me. I really appreciate the invitation. ...

It is about an hour. I want to introduce our speaker for the morning, Robert Dunkley is a historian awardwinning author, he has a degree in history from st. Vincent. He has worked at nine different historic sites, most recently on Richmond National battlefield park. He has written two books that are specifically listed. Im sure he will be talking about them today. I think we have at least one of them in the bookstore, the most recent one. To be bitter end, and the other one is the confederate of...