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We will close the benediction, but we do hope each of you will come over and join us. Just across the street youll get some instructions. Its the moment to join us for the first fine of the civil war here in the District Of Columbia since 1864, 150 years ago today. Fire a canon, yes. Please welcome again reverend louis as he leads us through the benediction. Please stand. Now lord we ask for our blessings that as we leave this place, that the street fellowship of the Holy Communion will rest, ru...

For years nobody believed it. The confederate soldiers themselves claimed to see the dome of the capital. Thats hock um. Theres nowhere to see the dome of the capital. You can see its below where visual would have gotten it out in Silver Spring. Probably saw the lights of georgetown. But mccauslin had gotten up there. Theres claims to ride up in broad daylight. No substantiating that. Old soldiers have vivid memories. One little comment, not a question. I was a surveyor in washington, d. C. For ...

Men took up their stand against the confederate troops, who came straight down that way from where the tracks are, and this is where they held them. This is the actual junction. It says frederick junction, but its known as the monacacy junction then. The old train station was right behind us over here. And, in fact, these are the tracks that the troops came down from baltimore. Anyway, after their vermonters finally couldnt take it anymore, they fled down the tracks, around the bentd, and the ol...

Then the senate. As they get more and more influenced by what they are drinking, they boast, tomorrow well march down massachusetts avenue and well escort general breckenridge into the capitol, into the senate chamber, which he had presided over and place him back there. Well, the president is going to pay a visit out here again on the wealth. Hes going to arrive out here and hes going to bring mary with him. Now mary and he, there have been causalities out here, and close to the walls of fort s...

Wounded. You know, it is maybe you have something to say about that that. I said, maybe i dont. He said, try. And so, i did. I thought about it and he was absolutely right. I was hoping with this book to write something that would number one, show people what to the cost of combat really is. But number two, aimed at men and women coming back in seriously bad shape. Loss of limbs, all sorts of things. Maybe this book will give them something to hang on to. A sense a little luck, some grit, so peo...

The interview. Sony defying hacker threats releasing the movie in theaters and online. Its actually a masterpiece of film making according to critics. They will pay their final respects to one of the nypd officers killed this week. And in oakland, california, a protest against Police Tactics turned violent. If you unwrapped a playstation or xbox, you might find yourself against grinch. President obama paid a visit to the Marine Corps Base in hawaii. We could not be more thankful. Economic crisis...

Now, im going to make a detour. Were going to make a sharp turn south and were going to turn back the clock. Were going to go back to december of 1864. And were going to follow this man, general william t. Sherman and his progress in what he believes and hopes will be his final campaign of the war. Now sherman and grant are pursuing the grand strategy that they form lated in march of 1864 in cincinnati, ohio. The idea was to keep the armies in the east and in the west confederate armies so busy ...

Under the command of general early nearly invaded washington, d. C. Next, marc leepson takes us on a tour of battlefields to tell the story of the battle of monocacy, where the confederates were delayed by union forces in their approach to the capital, and the battle of fort stevens, where general early probed the defenses of the heavily fortified city before deciding to turn back. , the Bigger Picture of what the war. This was just after the bloodiest six weeks of the civil war. The battle of t...