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Our final speaker tonight is christopher calkins. He a proud graduate of longwood university. You were one of the first male graduates of longwood. Chris has had a long career with the National Park service. He worked at appomattox, spotsylvania, and was chief of interpretation at petersburg for many years. In 2008 he took over the position of park manager for battlefield state park. It is only 15 minutes from here. He has done an amazing job in revising Sailors Creek. As a mentioned in the beginning he will be available tomorrow for some tors of their cash for some tors out there for some tou...

Confederate armies were still active in the field, the surrender of the souths most put remaining fighting force effectively ended the civil war. Next, we tour the National Historical park to learn more about the events surrounding that day. This is the oldest building in the village. It was called clover hill before it became Appomattox Courthouse. This was one of the later counties formed. They took price of the four surrounding counties and formed appomattox county in 1845. This county had 18,000 people in it. More than half were slaves working on the tobacco farms. As of 1860, 120 people l...

The reality is they opened up but it was to be an outreach to our kind of people there. Thank you. I just had a quick question. Do you think the majority of the people, do you have any information on this, left for political reasons, not wanting to live under yankee rule or was it more economics hoping to reestablish a Slave Institution in brazil or elsewhere . And also, do you have any information perhaps about the states that they were more likely to have left were deep south states like alabama, mississippi or upper south states, which i would think it would be deep south states but im just...

Trail, that they have these popular tendency. This is a populist movement against banks, big government, and against elites. What scott walker has been trying to do is say that hes is a guy from a small town in wisconsin, does not have a college degree, he is one of you. He is raging against the elites in washington. A couple of weeks ago, marco rubio said if you have a problem of this dynamic against wall street against main street consider Hillary Clinton that would probably raise more money from wall street than any other candidate ever. That may be true. If it is just few days, we can have...

Last night, the president attending the grid iron dinner. He joked about how the presidency has aged them. In two years, he will join the presence club. Involving former president s, first ladies, and their staff. We will get to your cause and comments on cspans washington journal. Should taxpayers continue to support former president s . 202 7488000 democrats. 202 7488001 republicans. If youre an independent, 202 7458002. By the way, we will also take your comments on our twitter page, cspanwj. On facebook, facebook. Com cspan. Or send us an email, journal cspan. Org. For some background on w...