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I want to call this hearing to order. Good morning. I want to begin which welcoming our witnesses, s i want to call the hearing to order. Good morning. I want to begin by welcoming our witnesses. We appreciate your willingness to be in front of this committee. General milley, this be your last appearance before the subcommittee. I want to go off script here instead of it. You are the ultimate professional. You are somebody who has been very good for me and i think that i can say for the whole committee. You are a straight shooter and youve done a good job. I appreciate that. I just hope the se...

I want to call this hearing to order. Good morning. I want to begin which welcoming our witnesses, s i want to call the hearing to order. Good morning. I want to begin by welcoming our witnesses. We appreciate your willingness to be in front of this committee. General milley, this be your last appearance before the subcommittee. I want to go off script here instead of it. You are the ultimate professional. You are somebody who has been very good for me and i think that i can say for the whole committee. You are a straight shooter and youve done a good job. I appreciate that. I just hope the se...

History,n lectures in William Harris teaches a class about abraham lincoln, the civil war battle of antietam, and the issuing of the emancipation proclamation in 1862. His classes about an hour and 15 minutes. Today, we have pivotd in some ways the point of the war and the pivot point of the entire class. The months when a war to save the union also became a war to end slavery. That took lots of politics and it also took lots of fighting, including the bloodiest single day war, which was the battle of antietam. We will look at that in some depth, but also starting with what happenedof in the f...

Day of the war, which was the battle of antietam. We will look at that in some depth, but also starting with reminding you of what happened in the first year of the war. July 1861, lincoln and congress both say we are fighting a war for the union. We are not trying to revolutionize the south or end slavery. We want to restore the constitutional relationship between the states. And the union as they should be. And this is a conservative way to prevent the breakup of a country. But things happened. Contraband as they were called started running away. Here is a whole family that stole a wagon. So...

In the first year of the war. July 1861, lincoln and congress both say we are fighting a war for the union. We are not trying to revolutionize the south or end slavery. We want to restore the constitutional relationship between the states. And the union as they should be. And this is a conservative way to prevent the breakup of a country. But things happened. Contraband as they were called started running away. Here is a whole family that stole a wagon. Some were put to work. Contraband was still property, but it was property the union decided they would keep because it might be useful to the ...