Studying it, i have a lot of questions as to where these events took place and how the armys got from here to there. This book set up my quest to learn more about these sites. When i worked at appomattox, i worked with a gem in a lot of you may know. His name was harold howard. He was the role of a former confederate soldier. I took the role of the union soldier. He and i were companions in trying to learn more about the events that took place on the retreat. One of the areas that i was interested in was the battle of Sailors Creek. Sailors creek became a state park in 1936. Efforts were made to purchase more land for the park and have it become a National Park. Something happened, world war ii came along and the impetus was lost. After the war when things started looking up, there was a congressman who was from appomattox county and guess who got the National Park . Appomattox. Sailors creek languished for the next couple of decades. Finally in 2008, Sailors Creek which had been a sat
I brought some of our brochures. I had no idea how many people would be here. If you are planning to go to the park this afternoon, if you hold off taking one of these, they are in the back. We will get you some. Its on park row. My talk is referred to as black thursday, the battle for Sailors Creek. One of the Union Generals who was involved in the battle, he wrote in his book about the fighting 5 of the intelligent people of the united states, north or south ever heard of the battle of Sailors Creek. They dont know anything of its magnitude or importance. This is not strange. It was fought in virginia. This was three days before the surrender under general robert e lee. Events were happening so rapidly that no note was made of the battle. In the next few minutes, you will be part of that part of our nation. Just some point before we talk about the battle, there are three separate engagements referred to as the battles of Sailors Creek. As you enter the museum, it refers to it as batt
House that is doing all that we can to ensure that our veterans get timely care and the best care that we can provide them. This is cynical and its shameful and i believe, i believe that the American People can see straight through it. So i hope again, madam chair, that the president will reconsider this position. Because there is no place, no place here in this bill for political gamesmanship when it comes to our military families and our veterans. Thank you. I yield back. The chair the gentleman from pennsylvania reserves. The gentleman from georgia is recognized. At this time i yield three minutes to the gentlewoman from california, ms. Lee, a member of the subcommittee on military construction and Veterans Affairs. The chair the gentlelady from california is recognized for three minutes. Ms. Lee thank you very much, madam chairman. Let me thank the Ranking Member for yielding, for his unwavering leadership for our veterans on this committee and for your friendship. Thank you very m
He discusses his involvement in the fall of richmond in 1865. The museum of the confederacy hosted this event. [applause] mr. Quatman mr. Quatman a thank you for joining me. It is a visiting story the story that very few civil war buffs know. Ive given this talk all over the country and people are surprised, they have not heard of him before. Over the next hour i will tell you why he was chosen to enter richmond 150 years ago today. You may remember his name when you walk out of here. The book is actually on sale upstairs in the gift shop. I will be doing a book signing upstairs. If you have a copy of the book there is time to get one. Richmond was captured april 3, 1865. What an understatement that is to capture the historic event that happened 150 years ago today. I got interested in this project 12 years ago when i was going through my grandfathers Family Archive and memoirs and came across this entry. My fathers uncle was a general in the civil war. My grandfather was born in the U
I wrote it and i will be happy to field your questions. It is great to have something to refer to give in the corporate takeover and id like to begin with we did not have so much time and that you try to control the people who are supplying the commodity of the supply and demand. And we dont spend enough time on these resources on the demandside strategy. I am actually hoping young people make healthy choices and we are talking about minimizing the harms of marijuana and what we need it to be about with this initiation. Because that is what we need to do. If we can protect children and help them make smarter decisions, we want to do that. That is a major battle. Once children get to be 21, 25 years old, preferably in age, the risks are diminished demonstrably. So in this powerpoint, most of us would agree, we do have some questions. First, what are the egg increases in heavy use. We have to consider the factors. Alcohol use has actually fallen since 1970. And its then that in the absen