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President will say, mary would not make a very good soldier, as she swooned. So while the president has been under fire, a man has been shot near him, and by 4 00, the 6th corps is ready to take the offensive. And they will move out from in front of fort stevens, moving across the ground that slopes down to where walter reid is now, beyond battleground cemetery, where 40odd men of the Union Soldiers who were killed here are buried and the union troops and the confederates pulled back. Lincoln will not take his eye off the big picture. Tuesday is the 12th. On the 14th, he is back out at the tak...

We will close the benediction, but we do hope each of you will come over and join us. Just across the street youll get some instructions. Its the moment to join us for the first fine of the civil war here in the District Of Columbia since 1864, 150 years ago today. Fire a canon, yes. Please welcome again reverend louis as he leads us through the benediction. Please stand. Now lord we ask for our blessings that as we leave this place, that the street fellowship of the Holy Communion will rest, rule and abide with us now and forever more and all gods people said amen. American history tv in prim...

Men took up their stand against the confederate troops, who came straight down that way from where the tracks are, and this is where they held them. This is the actual junction. It says frederick junction, but its known as the monacacy junction then. The old train station was right behind us over here. And, in fact, these are the tracks that the troops came down from baltimore. Anyway, after their vermonters finally couldnt take it anymore, they fled down the tracks, around the bentd, and the old railroad bridge over there, the ones they had to flee for their lives over while they were being s...

Surviving forts with dale floyd from the National Park service. Right now were in the museum which has a variety of different artifacts. One of the nice things is we have a map of the fences of washington and gives you a good idea of where they are today. Fences of washington and gives you a good idea of where they are today. And today we are also going to go to fort foot which is down here. And all the way up to fort stephens which is up there. The reason that the forts were built was basically to protect the capital of the United States. It first started in may, may of 1861. Soon after virgi...

Guns within the fort. They started building it very early and kept working on it and changing it to the place where it was eventually the fifth largest. You had basically during the war green guns and black guns with bronze and the iron. Usually the bronze was smooth ore and the black guns were rifled guns. And the rifled guns, of course, had a better range and actually fired better. But a gun like this was a good antipersonnel weapon. There were various types of ammunition you could use in this, plus even at times you could put chains and Everything Else in here and fire it at an enemy. And, ...