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Present arms. [national anthem playing] [applause] [drumroll] mr. Sellars you may be seated. Throughout the service, the United States flag stands prominently at the center of the National Cemetery as set at half staff in mournfully knowledge meant of these losses. Retired brew deal general robert corner him has performed the duty of raising the flag to full staff. His honors the service of medical staff throughout American Military history, and echoes the role at the famous nurse clara barton p...

The deadline. So andersonville is also a place of great contradiction. In some of the northern prisons, it is a ditch or a line of posts where at night they put candle lanterns on. A line that if you cross you are going to get shot at is the sort of thing which soon shouldnt have any ambiguity. Host the next call is mike from california. You are on with our guest, eric leonard. Caller yes, thank you for the programming. I have kind of a twofold question. Firstly, i want to know what happened to ...

From the disaster at andersonville is the human treatment of p. O. W. S defines our natural identity and reit rates our army values by ensuring dignity and respect is paid to every enemy combatant. Weve also learned how precious freedom is and that freedom always, always has a cost. The cost is paid by men and women, men and women who are willing to endure torture, mall nutrition, loneliness, despair and even death in the pursuit of freedoms cause. History tends to remember the dates. It remembe...

Professor gordon i think you were speaking of the common point of how men came to terms with the decisions they made. Again, with my work on the 16th, theres one particular soldier who, in his diary, theres one section where he is extremely critical of men that took these paroles or it again, to work in the cookhouse or work in the hospital. Some of them worked as shoemakers, which was a highly valued trade for the confederacy. They wanted help making shoes. He was extremely angry and bitter abo...

[indiscernible] you are watching American History tv on cspan3. Our coverage of ceremonies in andersonville, georgia at the site of the andersonville prison. You have been learning about it. Earlier today we had a chance to talk with an historian on this topic, you saw the ceremony. We continue with our conversation to learn more about life at andersonville prison. Our next guest joining us now will be with us, the University Professor Leslie Gordon, she just spoke at the funeral. She will be ta...

Good afternoon, catch sump s. Live to the Andersonville National Historic Site and cemetery for the next three hours taking your phone calls and watching a commemorative funeral for the 13,000 prisoners of war who died here in 1864 and 186 35 our guest eric leonard, the former andersonville chief of interpretation and Leslie Gordon, university of akron history professor. We are opening up phone lines to so you join in. If you want to give us a call and ask questions, 202. 7488900 in the eastern ...

Its about an hour. Good morning. I will prewarn you today you will hear language that we fould repulsive. Im not going to cut it out because it makes us quiver. Well get started. On june 12th, 1864, after fails to defeat robert e. Lees army of northern virginia, Lieutenant General ulysses s. Grant accompanying Major General george g. Meades army of the potomac and a portion of the army of the james pulled away from the fortifications at cold harbor and began the Movement Toward petersburg. Some ...

That big. Im going to negotiate a very dangerous set of rapids this morning. The professor at Georgia Southwestern State University who is married u in fact torks one of my employees, dr. Glen robins, he says and i agree completely, generally, you can either talk about andersonville or the other military prisons of war. It becomes emotionally difficult to try to do both. I hesitate to use the acronym p. O. W. In a civil war context. Its a 20th century term. And i wliek to talk about. So it tends...

, who is married, in fact, to one of my employees, dr. Glen robins, he says and i agree completely, generally, you can either talk about andersonville or the other military prisons of war. It becomes emotionally difficult to try to do both. And i will explore that. And i am going to weave in between the two a little bit. A note on semantics before i start any further. I hesitate to use the acronym p. O. W. In a civil war context. Because its a 20th century term. Like to talk a lot. Prisoner of w...

In the region, this was their homeland, the whole pikes peak area was their homeland, and they would circumnavigate pikes part of their seasonal journeys. In the summer, they could find plenty of game and bison and elk on the west side of the mountains, and us fall would approach, they would start making their seasonal journey back to this area of Colorado Springs. In the wintertime, if you can think of the red rocks providing shelter and some warm areas to we have parks that have been dated to ...