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Mcclaine house to discuss terms of surrender. University of richmond president ed airs provides the key note address and other speakers include decedents of key grant and lee aides who took part in that historic meeting. Also part of the program reenactments of grants arrival at the mcclaine house as well as lees departure following the surrender. This is about an hour and 45 minutes. My name is robin snyder and i am currently the acting superintendent at Appomattox Courthouse National Historica...

Chemical or biological attack, a few recommendations for ensuring effectiveness would be, one, that the federal government must provide accurate and timely thread information to local . ; First Responders. 3o . Jrering the multitude of potential threats and certainly we still see budgetary constraints of local government, local First Responders need to know which threats they should prepare for. If groups are promoting violent extremism and publishing training materials on the internet or social...

Americas meandering Journey Towards freedom justice and equality. Its the foundation from which our nation emerged on to the world stage as a world power. Its the greatest demonstration of both the failure and durability of democracy. It is perhaps the vivid reflection of our virtues, successes and failures all wrapped up into one. These are all things that have shaped the lives of every american and millions and millions of people beyond our nations boundaries have lasted 150 years. In our rele...

Gary is it fine not to put on a blue uniform . [laughter] i dont want everyone to talk at once. In the first rush to the colors, there is no conscription, of course, on either side. The absolute majority of all men on both sides were true volunteers. They went in before there was conscription. The Confederate States have been established. The nation is raising armies to repress the rebellion. Can you be a loyal male citizen and not offer military service . Joan the answer is yes. I am still thin...

Our final speaker tonight is christopher calkins. He a proud graduate of longwood university. You were one of the first male graduates of longwood. Chris has had a long career with the National Park service. He worked at appomattox, spotsylvania, and was chief of interpretation at petersburg for many years. In 2008 he took over the position of park manager for battlefield state park. It is only 15 minutes from here. He has done an amazing job in revising Sailors Creek. As a mentioned in the begi...

When he asked me to speak as the leadoff man, that was a first for me. Most of you can tell by my size, i have always been rather large i never hit leadoff because i that requires somebody speedy. Being the leadoff man is something new for me. I was surprised when pat pointed out that the magazine contains his article, because you get to this article, you have to read through my article. Which i think should have been the end of the magazine. [laughter] we could have avoided a lot of history tha...

Voters. Gary i want to move to Something Else here. And that is how did proponents of what we will call the union memory of the war, the war that did this and did that, how did that play out the rest of the 19th century . While the wartime generation lived . Everyone knows about lost cause monuments in the former confederacy. We have four of them in silence filled in charlottesville. We have a confederate statue in the University Library in the University Cemetery not in the library. Joan just i...

We have a confederate statue in the University Library in the University Cemetery not in the library. Joan just in your office. [laughter] gary i will be sending my resume around beginning on monday. [laughter] gary in the cemetery. John i think you succeeded more jokes. Gary they talked about the decoration day, confederate memorial day and so forth. What is going on in the way of commemorating the union cause while the wartime generation still lives . What are some of the things that went on ....

Presentation about how the concept of fleeing slaves coming into union lines came to be known as contraband of war. She is now a member of our historians advisory committee. Shes helping us create the exhibits for the new Civil War Museum. This is cassandras first time to address an American Civil War museum audience. And we are very pleased to have her with us. Ladies and gentlemen, dr. Cassandra newbyalexander. [ applause ] good morning. As we commemorate the person of the year 1865 i offer my...

See her remarks live at 1 45 p. M. Eastern. And later the gop field grows by one, when former pennsylvania senator and 2012 prognosis candidate Rick Santorum joins the race. He will announce his accountsy in butler pennsylvania. See that live at 5 00 eastern, also on cspan. President ial candidates often release books to introduce themselves to voters. Here is a look at some books written by declared and potential candidates for president. Former secretary of state Hillary Clinton looks back on ...