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Lincolns popularity was so low, no one thought hed win that election. This would have killed any chances that lincoln could have gotten reelected. And think about this, too, the confederate the english and the french were sort of looking for an excuse to come in on the side of the confederacy. They didnt have cnn or cspan back then, but they had newspapers and this got covered. Just wouldnt have been very good for the union cause had headlines been splashed around the country and around the world that confederate troops were loose in the streets of washington, d. C. , so number one, i do believe that what lew wallace did at monacacy did save this from happening. Wallace was relieved of his command after he lost that battle, but within two weeks, grant had reinstated him and grant writes in his memoirs and just about everyone else who knows about this agrees, had wallace not on his own blocked early for an entire day, early very well, very well could have caused havoc in washington, d. ....
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 virginia succeeded from the union. The troops moved over one night across the potomac over into arlington and alexandria and started building fortifications. After the first battle of manassas in july of 1861 in which the union was actually defeated, the men came streaming back into the city an ....
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, of course, the chain, or whatever, would could mow town a number of men. So this became a very this type of gun became a good antipersonnel weapon. With this platforms, you can get up and take a look at the fort without actually walking on the walls. As we get up here, you can see the ditch and the embracers as they come out of the fort whic ....
Iety of an a vareit full and parttime learning. Digital learning and the future of the Education System with Tom Vander Ark monday night on the communicators, on cspan 3. Week, america artifex takes viewers into archives and Historic Sites around the country. At the outbreak of the civil war in the spring, 18 61, washington, dc was a lightly defended city and vulnerable with only one for located 12 miles south of the city and the confederate state of virginia just across the potomac. By 1865 the Nations Capital had become the most fortified city in the world, with a ring of 70 armed forts encircling the city. We visited three of us arriving with the surviving forsts dale floyd. Right now we are in the museum of fort ward, which has a variety of different artifact ....
Each week, american artifacts takes viewers into archives, museums, and Historic Sites around the country. At the outbreak of the civil war washington dc was a lightly defended city and vulnerable to attack. By 1865, the Nations Capital arguably had become the most fortified city in the world with the ring of about 70 arm ports and batteries circling the city. We visited three of the surviving forts with the arthur of the study on the civil war defenses of washington for the National Park service. Right now we are in the museum which has override it different artifacts in it. One of the nice ones is we have a map of the defenses that gives you a good idea of where they are today. Woodard fort ward, which is here , and today were also going to foote, which is down here. And all the way up to fort stevens which is up there ....