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Adjacent to the cemetery location is eric leonard, the chief of the historical site. He will be with us for the next hour to talk about the history of andersonville and why does consider the most notorious site of the civil war. We are joining our phone line so you can join the conversation. If you want to join the conversation, 2027488900. That is for eastern and central time zones. If in the pacific or Mountain Time zones, 2027488901. You can also post questions and comments on our facebook pa...

Brotherhood. I know that with his persistence without his persistence, we would have never known this tale , nor how his existence on this earth created a family of future soldiers. Being o invention of the anon did researchmillers through the National Archives to uncover archives to pay a portrait of his ancestor. Like a puzzle, piece after piece, perfectly placed, these facts and figures help contribute to our now intimate, and personal, glimpse into a shared National History that comes direct...

Different. It is a valor and honor. Those concepts take a different form here. And many respects, in a standard guess, they are prisoners of war, and then you move right back to the battles. Often, and addressing the story, there is an and knowledge of that, and then no detail, and you move on. Andersonville has a name brand recognition. The public often doesnt know any of the details beyond the name and that something unusual took place there. Host lets start with the basics. When was it built ...

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...

In the San Francisco bay area and graduated from the university of california at davis. His sophomore year, he took a semester off and travel to europe. There, he developed a lifelong passion for history which took him to Northwestern University where he earned his phd. He spent much of his career at Vanderbilt University in tennessee, where he developed a strong interest in the civil war. The professorame of history at the university of South Carolina. He enjoyed numerous years of overseas teac...

Tarts the armed group. Major operations have been launched across france and belgium as part of an International Investigation into fridays attacks in paris. In brussels, heavily armed police raided an address in the district which has had links to armed groups. 21 people have been arrested. Weapons were found. We are mobilizing all means of investigation to expel the 19 radical imams in the mosques which promote hate or place under house arrest those who need to be. Ladies and gentlemen, faced ...

Officials from the state an Energy Department where i capitol hill today to testify on the nuclear deal with iran. The hearing held by the Senate Foreign Relations Committee focused on october 2015 testing of two Ballistic Missile by iran and the u. S. Ability to enforce keeper visions of the agreement. This is two and half hour. Would like to thank our witnesses for being here. We know senators that are here at the moment, others will be joining. This hearing is the first Public Meeting the com...

To join us as quickly as possible so we can begin this event im in the center in washington, d. C. The center is a oneyearold Nonpartisan Organization located in the District Of Columbia dedicated to providing basically insight on Foreign Policy in the middle east as well as furthering general unking of democracy, plit and social understanding of the arab world particularly at this time when the arab world is going through unprecedented wave of wage omission put at the center is to serve as Auth...