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to wage war. and watchrtifacts more american history tv next week while congress is in recess. be an primetime monday through friday at 8:00 p.m.. featuring watergate, 40 years. war,xt on the civil emmanuel dabney of petersburg national battlefield discusses u.s. colored troops. ing, unions of tunnel forces blew up a mine to create a gap in the defenses. he discusses while the attack ended in a failure and why the colored troops were unjustly blamed. this part of the gettysburg college civil war institute annual conference. it is about one hour. [applause] a good morning. you, we willrn hear language that we think it s repulsive. i will not cut it out and stop we will get started. in june 1860 four, after failing to defeat robert e lee s army, ulysses as grant ulysses s. grant and a portion of the army of . petersburg in 1850 was the second largest city with a population of 18,266 folks. thead been referred to as rockies city. forur railroads radiated. the petersbur ....
providers and the people trying to deliver that media to the consumer. whene in 11 playing field it comes to those kind of negotiations. senators, monday night at 8:00 eastern on the communicators. next on the civil war, emmanuel dabney of petersburg national battlefield discusses the role of u.s. colored troops. after weeks of tunneling, union forces blew up a mine to create a gap in the defenses. he discusses why the attack ended in a failure and why the colored troops were unjustly blamed. this event was part of the gettysburg college civil war institute annual conference. it is about one hour. [applause] good morning. i will pre-warn you, we will hear language that we find repulsive. i will not cut it out. we will get started. in june 1864, after failing to defeat robert e lee s army, ulysses s. grant and a portion of the army of james pulled away and began the movement toward petersburg to begin the attack, petersburg in 1850 was the second largest city with ....
god the inkarnate. the god who lived as one of us. god who is with us. god who looks like us, god who frees us, god bless you now, may god the life giver, god the devine breath, doed the hogod t maker, the community creator, may the peace revealer, god the comforter of all. may god who moves among us all, god who lifts us into eternal life, god lead us forward today. may god the earth maker, the pain barer, the life giver, bless you and keep you now and always. amen. just from me personally i want to thank you all for being here today with us today on 150th anniversary of the battle of crater. once again superintendent rogers. just want to be very short and thank you all for coming. i learn when it s time for things to be over it s time for them to be over. i want to thank fort lee for coming us. people don t realize that people e petersberg used to be a part of fort lee. we were actually cut out of fort lee to be created as a battlefield created by one union and on ....
the line in defense of our nation is the 1% i want to be apart of. that s the 1% i m proud to be apart of so the next time you see that brand new private or lieutenant, no that they were among that our society had to offer. they had more ability and potential than most of their peers and they still chose to put that uniform on and to help the sacrifices that come with it. they are tomorrow s generals and command sergeant majors. they are the future of our nation. i thank you again for the honor of being here to stand in this hollow ground with all of you and to remember this chapter in our history and the people who lived in it and people who died in it. have a great day. god bless america. [ applause ] our benediction this morning will be given by reverend rick gre greenwood. i fail to mention with pastor lions are gillfield. both churches represented here this morning were war time congregations here in petersberg. again, this morning our benediction reverend greenwoo ....
the lieutenant and commanded the first nato training mission in afghanistan before retiring. he was a very animated and energetic speaker. he always made it interesting. he was first person who ever actually make history something that i wanted to go sit down and talk to because he didn t really teach history nearly as much as he told stories. isn t that what history really is? it s a story. it s our story. it s the story of what got us here today. so we commemorate the battle crater which is just one story of our nation. now as i said earlier i m not a great story teller so i will leave the details of the battle up to more qualify personnel than myself. and liewis oecpening and introduction of comments thanks for setting the bar so high. very powerful words. it was awesome so i m not going to attempt to tell the story or amplify it or offer any insightful details on how it unfolded but what i would like to talk about is the people. the soldiers who played the parts of ....