Page 12 - Fourth Division News Today

Our invocation will be given by dr. George w. C. Lions. He was pastor here in petersburg. Pray with me in your own tradition as i pray loud in mine. Gracious god, after 150 years of reflection and remembrance, we invoke your name so that you would prod our hearts to remember the lives lost in battle so that we might seek peace in our time. We acknowledge your reconciling presence always at work. Even through battles. Which has brought women and men together from all walks of life from every stat...

Cohesion of a battlefront is lost on both sides, north and south. And so its unclear how many people are stuck in the crater. Theyre stuck in there well enough for one survivor to say that the men who were dead couldnt fall and the living were squirming beneath their feet and blood is running into the tops of their shoes. So i dont know how many that is, but most people on the outside trying to move forward but the problem is they didnt know that these honeycombed bombproofs were behind the batt...

Runaway slaves and, of course, people come and look for them and take them back into their ownership. Some people dont come looking because they dont live in virginia. Theyre maryland runaways or delaware slaves. Of course, there are free blacks from the north who have enlisted. So theyll be kept in these slave pens right down here in shockoe bottom. And theyll be there if they survive until the war ends. Some of these people rejoin their regiments and they go from missing in action to, you know...

Said, quote, the whites retreated into the niggers. Others were called having to, quote, fix bayonets to stop them. This was a desperate moment for the men in the 4th division, but for the other three divisions, there was now an added element of an enraged enemy that was likely to treat them as accomplices in citing foreign slaves in selection. George kilmer noted, quote, it has been properly asserted that white men fell back into the greater in order to keep whites from confederate vengeance. T...

Watching recalled, they made two attacks and they fell like autumn leaves. The georgians leave us some of our best accounts of their anger at the sight of armed black men, such as james verderi of the 48th georgia infantry sharing with his dear sister the day after the battle, the prisoners came leaping over our breastworks by 50 but our men took none, for they, he underlined this part, were niggers. Burnsides ninth army corps. As fast as they came over, the bayonet was plunged through their hea...

So just keep that in mind with those temperatures at or below freezing. We are looking at the concern for that black ice across the area. Temperatures have been holding pretty steady or below freezing. Folks have been sending in pictures as well. You can see that picture coming in from melinda showing you what it really look like as far as parts of the area dealing with that icy concern. So were monitoring those Winter Weather advisories as well as the temperatures throughout the rest of the eve...

The king of the blues bb king has died. We begin this news hour in iraq where Army Helicopters are targeting isil, who seized a compound containing local government headquarters in rimadi, the capitol of anbar. Isil fighters burned down the Police Station in the compound. Government troops still have control of two districts in the city though. People there have been fleeing their homes due to the fighting. Activists who shot these images say isil fighters are searching the town for anyone who h...

Next year. And im mike hannah in romalia where palestinians are saying they are bearing the brunt of the anger over iraqs nuclear deal. At least six government buildings have been stormed or surrounded in thailand has thousands of people demand that the Prime Minister step down. Her brother is in this exile after being convicted of corruption. The standoff has been growing now for three days. Demonstrators have occupied her office at Government House as well as the finance ministry cam campgroun...

Largest refugee camp. With the news from europe, including. With a guide to how scotland request be as ask independent state. And turning the pages of history. A rare symbol of the nations identity is put up for auction in the u. S. For up to 30 million. Within the past hour, the u. S. Has revealed two of its military aircraft have thrown around disputed islands in the east china sea, it did so without informing beijing, and thats in defiance of an air defense zone, that beijing imposed. And the...

Veteran of guam and iwajima. During the battle of iwajima, he and his eightman patrol team came across heavy assault from the japanese and unfortunately his close friend and platoon mate was killed. During the attack, mr. Mayes was wounded and has undergone numerous procedures for more than 30 years. But through this all, he has still found time to help the American Veterans committee and the world war ii Veterans Committee start the James Trumble iii scholarship in honor of his fallen friend. A...