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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...

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...

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...

Surviving forts with dale floyd from the National Park service. Right now were in the museum which has a variety of different artifacts. One of the nice things is we have a map of the fences of washington and gives you a good idea of where they are today. Fences of washington and gives you a good idea of where they are today. And today we are also going to go to fort foot which is down here. And all the way up to fort stephens which is up there. The reason that the forts were built was basically...

Guns within the fort. They started building it very early and kept working on it and changing it to the place where it was eventually the fifth largest. You had basically during the war green guns and black guns with bronze and the iron. Usually the bronze was smooth ore and the black guns were rifled guns. And the rifled guns, of course, had a better range and actually fired better. But a gun like this was a good antipersonnel weapon. There were various types of ammunition you could use in this...

Vulnerable to attack. With only one fort located south of the city. And the confederate state of virginia just across the potomac river. By the end of the war, however, the Nations Capital had become one of the most fortified cities in the world. With a ring of about 70 armed force and batteries encircling the city. Next as part of our tour, some of the surviving forts we visit fort stevens which came under direct attack by Confederate Forces in july 1864. This is fort stevens. Which is one of t...

Damian shields is an engaging young scholar. Hes an archaeologist by trade. Hes an historian by emotion and2y he gets the way you have to do those things. Lets not decide objects and places dont matter, only the words someone wrote on a piece of oh paper. It all matters. Its all evidence of how history unfolded and its impact on us today. Yesterday was a great pleasure of mean. I picked pupup mr. Clay and we went over to Stones River National battlefield and i managed not to lose him totally in ...

Im David Carroll from chicago. Hi, david. Hi. In the last year published in the journal of the Abraham Lincoln association there has been great speculation on mary lincoln purchasing penny royal at dill lards drugstore in springfield when she was pregnant with tad who was born with a cleft palate. Penny royal is used to rid dogs of fleas or induce abortion. Do you have insight on this recent scholarship . Im sorry. I cant comment on that. My recent move and dislocation of many of my books and pi...

Days, more weeks, continue on support the king of jordan as he exercises his military leadership and makes sure that we knock these people back and get rid of them once and for all. Lou what i worry about hes going full throttle and commending and applauding that we might give weapons to keep doing what hes doing no one else is. Theyre jawbone about it in that neighborhood can, jordan do this alone . Jordan can make a big and decisive difference, and were seeing that they are. With American Lead...

And now im outside waiting for there not to be a gas leak. Fire hovlz believe the gas leak spent teams into their basement. The Fire Department meter readers saying theres a natural gas leak in the air. We want to evacuate as a precaution. After two hours they located the problem with 4 gas main and shut it off and there were no more injuries and the tlaep was evident. If you never know, fire purposes you wants to take every precaution arie measure we have to get out of this scene here. Slowly a...