Greensboro on to unc were laura and i spent some time for year before i moved on to West Virginia university. Andcompleted her masters has had a very her first job was at stratford and hall, the birthplace of robert e lee. Recently, she is the deputy education director at the Hampton Roads naval museum. She works as an educator and does special event. She also worked at fort munro museum. Today, she will be speaking to shipwreck. Vil war in my seven years here, i dont think we have done any naval operations. She will be talking about shipwrecks of the uss cumberland before she comes on page. Note that laura and her husband have recently published a book. You can see a copy of it just in front of the podium. The title of the book is never. All me a hero me introduce laura lawfer. [applause] afternoon. How is everybody . Good. They went after lunch. I have to start out with a matter of disclosure. At the United States naval museum, everything here is my opinion. It is not endorsed by the
U. S. Troops recognize the sacrifice of the cumberland crew and they paid homage to the dead, recognizing that section of the james river as hollowed ground. Two years and eight months later, another important worship joined at the bottom of the james river. First of the foreign built raters, css florida. Check it in the current in a liverpool shipyard. Using a british gun bill for the model of the whole time of vessel was designed for speed and maneuverability. 1862, sent to the hes where john mack christened the css florida. Rater, florida was incredibly successful. During one of its first cruise, it captured 25 merchant ships. The carter values on these ships 1. 5 million in this was civil war money so think of how huge it would be today. They counted for an additional 22 ship seizures. After an accident layover in france, they captured 13 more merchant ships in 1864. That year, the New York Times printed an editorial, accusing diligencend lack of in catching this radar. Without cal
Series, reel america featuring films from the 1930s through the 1970s. Cspan3 created by the cabletv industry and funded by your local provider. Like us on facebook and follow us on twitter. Announcer each week, american artifacts takes viewers into Historic Sites around the country. Next, we visit the National Museum of health and medicine just outside washington, d. C. , to look at items in their civil war collection. Please note, some viewers may find images in this program disturbing. Mr. Clarke welcome. Im tim clarke and im the museums Deputy Director and we are spending time on the civil war medicine exhibit and special other things to show you. The National Museum of health and medicine was founded in 1862. We were known then as the Army Medical Museum and the mission was to collect specimens of morbid anatomy and send them to washington to study to improve the care of the soldier. At the time of the civil war the museums staff were doing the business of Lessons Learned. They we
The National Museum of health and medicine was founded in 1862 and known as the Army Medical Museum and the mission was to collect specimens of morbid anatomy and send them to washington to study to improve the care of the soldier. At the time of the civil war the museums staff were doing the business of Lessons Learned. They were trying to understand the nature of Battlefield Medicine, and trauma and share it with their counterparts on the battlefield. This museum and its collection started during the war and in the early days, the museum was housed in the Surgeon Generals office. The first artifacts were on a shelf and in a building that we know as the Riggs Bank Building near the white house. But wasnt until after the tragic events of the assassination of president lincoln that the museum moved into its first longterm residence and moved into fords theater before moving to what became the National Mall in a building built in the 1880 that we family call the old red brick in a buildi
Medicine, and trauma and share it with their counterparts on the battlefield. This museum and its collection started during the war and in the early days, the museum was housed in the Surgeon Generals office. The first artifacts were on a shelf and in a building that we know as the Riggs Bank Building near the white house. But wasnt until after the tragic events of the assassination of president lincoln that the museum moved into its first longterm residence and moved into fords theater before moving to what became the National Mall in a building built in the 1880 that that we familiarly call the old red brick. A building that is no longer there, but was in the location where the gallery is today. And the museum moved in 1968 from its now former location on the National Mall to Walter Reed Army Medical Center in washington, d. C. , where it was housed for years before moving to silver spring, where we are today. The museum today is a museum of 25 million objects. Most of those are in f