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150th anniversary of the battle of fort stevens. The battle took place july 11th and 12th in 1864 when Confederate Forces probed washington, d. C. s defenses before turning back. Speakers discuss the battles significance and contributions by africanamerican troops. This is just over an hour. Good morning, and welcome to fort stevens. My name is kim elder and im the Program Manager for the National Park service for the civil war defenses of washington. Id like to welcome and thank each of you all...

Peter, tomplaint came pouring into npr wn i first started i talked too loud. My favorite one was my laugh was too boisterous. He laughs too bows tmendously. Laugh was too much. My cence was wrong. I spo too fast. Everything about me isoo big for public radio. You know how npr is. This is National Public radio. My style is so different when i first started at npthe betting i wouldnt make it. Pb the betting wasnt as high. People didnt think it would rk on pbs. Charlie rose had done well for years ...

Generals men. The president of the railroad is telling him its a real threat and grant is going to move rather slowly. As the confederates will now move toward isolating the union troops, which evacuated Harpers Ferry on Maryland Heights and close in on frederick, maryland. On frederick, maryland, they have occupied it on the 8th day of july. A union army has been assembled there on the banks of the river and on the 9th day of july at the battle, who would write the most popular novel written in...

Cabinet members sign the blind pledge. She also talked about how important the soldier was to the outcome of the election. Election. N the 1864 this talk was part of a symposium hosted by the emerging civil war blog. All right, i am not going to adjust the microphone, because we spent some time getting it adjusted for meg. I apologize if i look like i am hunched over. [laughter] i hate to stereotype, but i am sure that meg looks like a mildmannered middle school math teacher. Ironically that is ...

Im 75 years of age folks. I remember things differently than when i was fighting or Something Like that at 20, 18, or what have you so the veterans may have been mistaken but they wanted to mark that spot and they got the stone out of the water reed area Cameron Creek and put that bar relief and thats their monument to the remembrance of lincoln on enemy fire. We dont know that the Justice Supreme Court really uttered one of those immortal words, get that damn fool down. The records suggest ther...

President will say, mary would not make a very good soldier, as she swooned. So while the president has been under fire, a man has been shot near him, and by 4 00, the 6th corps is ready to take the offensive. And they will move out from in front of fort stevens, moving across the ground that slopes down to where walter reid is now, beyond battleground cemetery, where 40odd men of the Union Soldiers who were killed here are buried and the union troops and the confederates pulled back. Lincoln wi...

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 ...

American history on cspan3. Follow us on twitter for information on a schedule, upcoming programs, and to keep up with the latest history news. Coming up next on American History tv, meg thompson discusses the 1864 election between president Abraham Lincoln and general George Mcclellan. He claims that lincoln was so unsure about his reflection chances that he had his cabinet member sign what is known as the blind memorandum. This pledge for cooperation was link ones lincolns then unknown challen...

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...

Considered felicityious when the two went together. Three outer rungs applied social steady pressure, jockeying for pressure, the diplomats the army and navy crowd and the politicos, but clearly it was the cave dwellers particularly women like mary klemmer and Laura Holloway who influenced the pecking order among the capitols society. Fanny eams mrs. Charles, maintained an eclectic sunday salon at her 14th and 8th street home while her sister Marian Campbell governeur of new york was in several ...