a tremendous amount of force and violence. to is youhis points see these various experiences in different stories that have to be recovered in some way. i thought she said it beautifully about why these and deserve our attention. within that, you can understand and appreciate why men and women during the war and in the immediate aftermath why it was thissy for them to make sacred. dismiss that out of hand as a historian is problematic. i think it is also problematic even today. sometimes do that with a lost cause. we have engaged in a range of visitors who have had these views. that this quickly on understanding was important. to see that a frontal attack was not going to work with them. is that going to work you had ancestors of the confederate side area. i am not. you just might get conversation. i think his book on the confederate battle is excellent on dealing with this issue. it is a very good book. we have answered this question with the first doctor and we will set
in 1861. it started in these refugee camp s. i m going to start with two stories. the first one might be familiar. the story of how the contraband decision got handed down. it happened important role virginia. baker,ownsend, james shepherd mallory get a boat where the union just arrived. there are confederates all around and these gentlemen had been building confederate fortifications for their master. they knew they were about to go to north carolina and would be leaving their families and they decided to chance it. next morning, a confederate soldier comes under flag of truce and says, please return the slaves. were rebels really entitled? weren t they foreign country? you say you are a foreign country. said, i m confiscating these three men as contraband property of war. he even gave the confederate soldier a receipt. this spreads incredibly quickly. it is an in between status. property likee of smuggled goods but you are a person. but whatever the ambiguities of contraban
along with their large family. there have been 21 families who have called the blaine house their home from the millikins in 1920 to currently governor paul lepage and his wife first lady ann lepage beginning in 2011. today when we think of james g. blaine in maine, i think we think primarily of the blaine house. it really is a symbol of both the maine governorship. and also of the state of maine as a whole. i think it is probably as well known a house as any in the state, and thus the equating of the name blaine with the governor s mansion really keeps his name alive and in the public today. the c-span radio app makes it easy to follow the 2016 election wherever you are. it is free to download from the apple app store or google play. get audio coverage and up to the minute schedule information for c-span radio and c-span television, plus podcast times for our popular public affairs, book and history programs. stay up to date on all the election coverage. c-span s radio app m
we re now in the billiard room which is one of the rooms that was built as part of the addition that the blaines made to the house in 1872. this is also a room which has been a place to hang photographs and in some cases the christmas cards of the previous first families. the first family was the millikens, and this is a large family, carl milliken and his wife are shown in the photograph along with their large family. there have been 21 families who have called the blaine house their home from the millikins in 1920 to currently governor paul lepage and his wife first lady ann lepage beginning in 2011. today when we think of james g. blaine in maine, i think we think primarily of the blaine house. it really is a symbol of both the maine governorship. thus the equating of the name blaine with the governor s mansion really keeps his name alive and in the public today. the c-span radio app makes it easy to continue to follow the 2016 election wherever you are. it s free to dow
i know exactly the year, with then congressman dick gephardt who was running for president. and i knew dick quite well and i was chatting with him and i asked him, do you know the last member of the house who was elected from the house to become president? and he said no. i said, well, let me give you a hint. do you know who the only member of the house who was elected straight from the house to be president? and he still said no. and i said garfield. and he said they shot him. and i said you re running for the job, i m not. but garfield, as we ll see, in a brief period was president-elect, senator-elect from ohio and sitting congressman all at the same time. fascinating, fascinating guy. at the time he was elected president, he was by far the youngest president we had had in american history to that date. only two american presidents in our history died before reaching the age of 50, kennedy and garfield. obviously both for sad reasons. but he s the only house member, and i
harriet blaine beal donated the house and grounds to the state of maine for the purpose of a governor s home. sadly harriet blaine beal had lost her son, walker blaine beal, in world war i and he had actually owned the house and then upon his death the house reverted back to her and she, recognizing it probably wasn t going to go on in the family and negotiation that recognizing the need that maine had and the close proximity of the blaine house to our statehouse across the street she donated the house for the purpose of the governor s home. this is the state reception room. when the house was built in 1833 this was two rooms and then when the blaines acquired the house in 1862, in 69 and again in 1872 they made some major changes to the house which included opening up both these two rooms into one big reception room. this really reflects the fact that in the blaine period of ownership from 1862 into the early 1900s that there was a lot of entertaining that went on in the ho
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minds of each commanding general. he argues that the siege was unique in military history and discusses how the conflict brought about the end of the war. this talk is about an hour. ladies and gentlemen, on behalf of the director of the u.s. army educational center and the entire staff of the u.s. army heritage and educational center, and the u.s. army war college, welcome to the third lecture of our series. the u.s. army war college sponsors the series to provide an historical dimension to the exercise of generalship, strategic leadership, and war fighting institutions of power. we would like to extend a warm thank you to the army heritage center foundation for their support and everything we do. please be aware that the book for tonight is on sale in the gift shop, and we will have a book signing directly after the lecture. all proceeds go to the foundation to support the growth of the army the army heritage and education center. our speaker is dr. richard somers. he i
u.s. army educational center and the entire staff of the u.s. army heritage and educational center, and the u.s. army war college, welcome to the third lecture of our series. the u.s. army war college sponsors the series to provide an historical dimension to the exercise of generalship, strategic leadership, and war fighting institutions of power. we would like to extend a warm thank you to the army heritage center foundation for their support and everything we do. please be aware that the book for tonight is on sale in the gift shop, and we will have a book signing directly after the lecture. all proceeds go to the foundation to support the growth of the army heritage and education center. our speaker is dr. richard somers. he is a native of indiana and obtained his bachelor s degree in history from the carleton college in northfield, minnesota. he earned his doctorate in history at rice university in 1970. the u.s. army employed him right here at carlisle barracks, making h
strategic leadership, and war fighting institutions of power. we would like to extend a warm thank you to the army heritage center foundation for their support and everything we do. please be aware that the book for tonight is on sale in the gift shop, and we will have a book signing directly after the lecture. all proceeds go to the foundation to support the growth of the army heritage and education center. our speaker is dr. richard somers. he is a native of indiana and obtained his bachelor s degree in history from the carleton college in northfield, minnesota. he earned his doctorate in history at rice university in 1970. the u.s. army employed him right here at carlisle barracks, making him the last chartered member of the organization to be hired. he held the position until 1997 and served in various capacities until his retirement in 2014. the doctor was a professor of military history in 2007 and 2008 and continues to teach courses at the u.s. army war college. he has