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I cant remember when i first saw the picture, and i certainly did not know where cold harbor was at the time. Im sure i thought it was a port town somewhere in virginia. I may not remember in which book i first saw the photograph, but i know that immediately and lastingly linked the words cold harbor and death in my mind. In subsequent years, i came to read more about the events of the spring of 1864 that culminated at cold harbor, that deadly slog from the rapid ann to the james that saw the u....

Years after the war, that is filled with literary inventions. I suspect that is one of his many literary inventions. Its true that soldiers of the army of the potomac had done that before in earlier battles. This would be in november of 1863. But theres no evidence that it actually happened here at cold harbor. But everybody knew it was going to be a fierce and terrible day. 4 30 a. M. , the signal gun goes off, and this huge union monolith heaves forward. Or parts of it do. Thats the sad thing ...

Beneath to United States. The civil war did not permanently shatter you are nag nation. Yet it was a supreme test for a country that now stands in blessed unit, you are north and south. You are here together tonight here is evening we look back with learn from the greatest teacher anyone can have, history. Armed with an understanding of the time. Private maddux would like that. Thank you. [ applause ] the Overland Campaign was the largest and the bloodiest campaign of the entire civil war. Both ...

Can take petersburg, cut the supply line to the army in Northern Virginia, and finally defeat lee. The union plan works like clock work. Sheridan heads off on his raid. It will end disastrously at the battle of torrian station, but it serves its purpose for the time. And on the morning of the 13th of june, lee and his men look across and discover that the union earth works are empty. Grant once again has managed to pull his army away without lee figuring out what had happened. The union army swi...

Land. Our success in this Campaign Must ensure the integrity of the United States by the final overthrow of the rebellion. Success will give a new life to our country, and a new faith to the stability of free government to the world. It will also determine the next presidency as certainly as if the votes were counted. But if we fail in this campaign, that failure will be the greatest disaster in modern history. Upon general grant there now concentrates the deepest interest with which the world e...

My apologies. 30 more seconds. The hear ing will come to order. Sports have always played a huge role culturally and otherwise in the United States. Just last week on thanksgiving millions of americans were probably paying more attention to their tv sets than to their turkeys. Its part of our cultural deal. I hope its a good one. Athletes have become eicons in america. I remember my at that time 10yearold son had this poster of ray nichke that took up half his room. Thats the way it was then. He...

Waco is the home of dr. Waser, when a pharmacist mixing together some different concoctions in the back of the old corner drugstore. Where the pharmacy was located. He came up with a fragrant smelling mixture, that he likes very much. Used it in some medicine, but eventually, it was sold as a syrup with carbonated water in it, across the Soda Fountain counter. At first, it which is called a waco, but later, they gave it the name dr. Pepper. It became very popular in drugstores, and soon, other d...

Cspans 2014 student cam competition is under way. This competition for middle and High School Students will award 150 prizes. Create a five to seven minute documentary on the topic, the three branches and you. Videos need to include cspan programming, show varying points of view and be submitted by january 20, 2015. Go to studentcam. Org for information. Grab a camera and get started today. Tonight on cspan, American History tv examines spying in the u. S. Well start at 8 00 with a tour of the c...

They are almost complete and they are very optimistic that they start next phase of the trial with both of those vaccines in west africa. This slide indicated that there was a third company, but they were not expected to engage in phase one trials until the fall of 2015 which is a substantial ways away from where we are today. There other potential vaccine candidates in the pipeline. We are supporting some of those. They are behind this timeline and we are right now focused on trying to figure o...

Heard of that. We all remember typhoid mary of lore and she had the ability to infect people. Do your typhoid marys have the ability to infect people when theyre asymptomatic . We dont know. Thats the question. Typhoid mary, in the case of her, she was dealing with a bacterial infection. Right. What i do know for a fact, there have been a number of asymptomatic nonfebrill people whose blood has been drawn and they tested positive. I think there is something about the pcr test. In medicine, you n...