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I am professor of history at gettysburg college. My guess is gordon ray. This would be the first of 4 volumes to cover the 1864 Overland Campaign. Gordon was the first historian to ever attempt to write a comprehensive history of those operations. Those operations, as you know, covered Central Virginia and ended on june 1 at cold harbor. It really is hard to imagine that anyone will ever again attempt to write such a comprehensive history because what gordon did is truly phenomenal. It is model tactical history, well researched, beautifully written, and above all else, contextualized. As a mic...

Focus, moving back to the individual soldiers. Lets start with an image we have seen here for a couple times. This is an artist rendition of one of the charges made by the army of the potomac at the 1862 battle of fredericksburg. Wall, top, that low stone and a density of confederate soldiers because the frontage is so limited, they are stacked 6, 7, 8 deep. People in the back are low handing up loaded weapons. They are able to generate a volume of fire comparable to a gun. War i machine more than 10 separate charges try to go up the hill. Remember, by the seventh or eighth charge, the Wounded...

Good fellow polish boy a lot of man love between the two of us, let me tell you. [laughter] though,good thing because a lot of people have been coming up to me saying i love your perryville book and thanks so much for having me. Polish kris deserves another. At one time, he worked here at the Spotsylvania National Military Park but has since gone on to do amazing things. Some of his career highlights, he served as supervisor out of perryville battlefield, the state park in connecticut kentucky, excuse me. Currently he is now with the , General Macarthur memorial in norfolk. He spends most of h...

I begin with a word of invitation. Father in heaven, we, to this place tonight not to celebrate war, but to celebrate sacrifice, loyalty, bravery, and the things that have happened in our history to make as the great nation we are today. Lessons ofn from the history. May we not repeat the lessons that divide us, but may we repeat those lessons that make us strong. Tonight, dear lord, i thank you for the National Parks service and their hard work in bringing this event to our community, our state, and our nation. Do in this place this evening, and we humbly ask, dear father, that you bless our ...

Mean for 2016 . Abcs david kerley is at the white house this morning. David, good morning. Reporter good morning, dan. If you were on a Desert Island for the past four years, and turned on the tv, you wouldnt believe it. Bitter rivals now fawning over each other as their working relationship comes to an end. Its been a great collaboration. Reporter it is a first. The first time the president has agreed to a dual interview with anyone other than his wife. He tells cbs 60 minutes why. I wanted to have a chance to publicly say thank you. I think hilly will go down as one of the finest secretary o...