Parents outraged. I had absolutely no idea that emotions would run so high. Buy she says. Why she says her intentions were good. And best of the best. Nominations for this years Golden Globes honoring both movies and television are out this morning. Well bring them to you live today, monday, december 12th, 2016. Announcer from nbc news, this is today with matt lauer and savannah guthrie, live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. And good morning, everyone. Welcome to today on a monday from rio. Dont you kind of wish you were in rio right now . Welcome back. Hi. How are you. . Good to have you here. You are going to be here for a while. Yes, i am. While everybody is continues on maternity leave. She is. This is the kind of morning you just wake up and want to stay under the covers with all the crummy weather. It is our top story this morning. Snow and ice, bitter cold taking aim at the northeast after hammering the midwest over the weekend. We have it covered from the roads to the airpo
Parents outraged. I had absolutely no idea that emotions would run so high. Buy she says. Why she says her intentions were good. And best of the best. Nominations for this years Golden Globes honoring both movies and television are out this morning. Well bring them to you live today, monday, december 12th, 2016. Announcer from nbc news, this is today with matt lauer and savannah guthrie, live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. And good morning, everyone. Welcome to today on a monday from rio. Dont you kind of wish you were in rio right now . Welcome back. Hi. How are you. . Good to have you here. You are going to be here for a while. Yes, i am. While everybody is continues on maternity leave. She is. This is the kind of morning you just wake up and want to stay under the covers with all the crummy weather. It is our top story this morning. Snow and ice, bitter cold taking aim at the northeast after hammering the midwest over the weekend. We have it covered from the roads to the airpo
He will be with us for the next hour to talk about the history of andersonville and why does consider the most notorious site of the civil war. We are opening our phone line so you can join the conversation. If you want to join the conversation, 2027488900. That is for eastern and central time zones. If you live in the pacific or Mountain Time zones, 2027488901. You can also post questions and comments on our facebook page. Facebook. Com cspanhistory. Mr. Leonard, thank you for joining us this afternoon. Page mr. Leonard, thank you for joining us this afternoon. Mr. Leonard it is my pleasure to be here. Lets start with where is andersonville . It is important to start with this idea that military prisoners and prisoners of war are often left out of the mainstream telling of the war. Quite friendly, there are no winners in the story. This is not a battlefield. It is something entirely different. It is a valor and honor. Those concepts take a different form here. And many respects, in a
Adjacent to the cemetery location is eric leonard, the chief of the historical site. He will be with us for the next hour to talk about the history of andersonville and why does consider the most notorious site of the civil war. We are joining our phone line so you can join the conversation. If you want to join the conversation, 2027488900. That is for eastern and central time zones. If in the pacific or Mountain Time zones, 2027488901. You can also post questions and comments on our facebook page. Facebook. Com cspanhistory. Mr. Leonard, thank you for him joining us this afternoon. Mr. Leonard it is my pleasure to be here. Host lets start with where is andersonville . For someone who is not aware of andersonvilles significance, where does it fall . Mr. Leonard it is important to it is important to start with this idea that military prisoners and prisoners of war are often left out of the mainstream telling of the war. Quite friendly, there are no winners in the story. This is not a ba
Brotherhood. I know that with his persistence without his persistence, we would have never known this tale , nor how his existence on this earth created a family of future soldiers. Being o invention of the anon did researchmillers through the National Archives to uncover archives to pay a portrait of his ancestor. Like a puzzle, piece after piece, perfectly placed, these facts and figures help contribute to our now intimate, and personal, glimpse into a shared National History that comes directly from the genealogy of many family trees. Miller was himself a volunteer soldier. He chose to serve and a time of war, despite being a student at. Enn State University as he turned back the pages of American History, he learned how improbable his existence was, and yet, he stands amongst us today to share the unlikely yarn. You see, little did he know that in the course of just one year, fight, benlist, captured at st. Marys church prisonginia, survived , and be relocated to andersonville, and