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The battlefields are quiet and even alluring today. It is the notion that the men who fought here believed in something truly worth suffering and dying for. That draws us to this place. For each of us has we leave from here this evening we depart with the sacred responsibility to remember those who fell here and to ponder each for ourselves how we can properly honor those sack river ices and the legacy of what happened here. To them we owe a great debt. Two years ago we concluded each of our sevenqru days battle commemorations with a solution to the soldiers. We will do so tonight. It is movin...

Beneath to United States. The civil war did not permanently shatter you are nag nation. Yet it was a supreme test for a country that now stands in blessed unit, you are north and south. You are here together tonight here is evening we look back with learn from the greatest teacher anyone can have, history. Armed with an understanding of the time. Private maddux would like that. Thank you. [ applause ] the Overland Campaign was the largest and the bloodiest campaign of the entire civil war. Both armies lost half of their original fighting forces. The casualties were astounding. Astounding to so...

Can take petersburg, cut the supply line to the army in Northern Virginia, and finally defeat lee. The union plan works like clock work. Sheridan heads off on his raid. It will end disastrously at the battle of torrian station, but it serves its purpose for the time. And on the morning of the 13th of june, lee and his men look across and discover that the union earth works are empty. Grant once again has managed to pull his army away without lee figuring out what had happened. The union army swings south, down to the james river. Grant intends to cross. But lee does not understand what grant m...

Land. Our success in this Campaign Must ensure the integrity of the United States by the final overthrow of the rebellion. Success will give a new life to our country, and a new faith to the stability of free government to the world. It will also determine the next presidency as certainly as if the votes were counted. But if we fail in this campaign, that failure will be the greatest disaster in modern history. Upon general grant there now concentrates the deepest interest with which the world ever watched the actions of a single soldier. He is the foremost man in the greatest contest of the a...

It on booktv. Org. To mark the start of the christmas season, the fifth book is the elf on the shelf, a christmas tradition put together by a mother and daughter duo. Fixed on the bestseller lists is the bully pulpit written by historian doris kearns goodwin, focusing on the relationship between roosevelt and taft. Booktv covered an event you can watch online. Number seven is human miracles and the author provides advice for spiritual healing and empowerment. And the Guinness World records 2014, it is number eight. The latest book from malcolm gladwell. You can see the book at booktv. Org. Fin...