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Up next, mark maloy describes the events of 1861 when federal guns opened fire on ft. Sumpter. Welcome back to the emerging civilian virtual symposium. Our next speaker today comes to us from our sister site, emerging revolutionary war. Mark is a historian with the National Park service and hes, like, what can i do thats revolutionary war . Im like, this is the civil war. Hes like whoa. We decided we would let him talk about ft. Sumpter because its as close we can get to the war. Mark is a delightful historian. I wish i could get him to laugh on queue. His most distinctive feature is his laugh. Were delighted to have him to come here today to speak about the first shots of the civil war at ft. Sumpter. Mark . Thank you very much for that introduction, chris. And its a pleasure to be able to speak at this symposium for the emerging civil war. We love to have had done it in person, but being able to do it digitally like this is a won ....
Defense Contract Group. Good morning and thank you everyone for being here today. It is my pleasure to introduce Territorial Defense lloyd austin roman 3rd, and general of the joint chiefs of staff general charles brown, jr. We will have time to dig a few questions. I will moderate these questions and, and journalists and due to time constraints, we ask that the site, plan to limit their questions to give your call is a chance to answer questions. My first question for you is, who pulled the fire alarm . [laughter] ok. [laughs] well, i didnt. But, thanks for joining us everybody. General brown and i have just come from the 21st meeting of the Ukraine DefenseContract Group. We were joined by a great team from ukraine led ministry of defense. I convened what wo ....
Powered by cable. U. S. Defense secretary general lloyd austin announced an additional 6 million security assistant package through the Ukraine SecurityAssistance Initiative and called it the largest security assistant package the u. S. Has committed today. He made that announcement to reporters at the pentagon after he and the joint chiefs of staff tarek met privately with ukrainian president zelenskiy and members of the Ukraine DefenseContract Group. Good morning and thank you everyone for being here today. It is my pleasure to introduce Territorial Defense lloyd austin roman 3rd, and general of the joint chiefs of staff general charles brown, jr. We will have time to dig a few questions. I w ....
excitement actually at that point on both sides because people have anticipated this for so long. some people were itching for a fight. they think war is a glorious thing and let s go and do it. but in the spring lincoln s overeager young friend from springfield, elmer ellsworth, a short but very dashing commander of a drill team, would go with the lincoln boys to the roof of the white house and look out with a telescope. and over the river they saw a confederate flag flying from the top of a hotel. and ellsworth, for one, was offended. ellsworth led a band across the river to tear down the confederate flag. as he was walking down the stairs, the owner of the inn took his shotgun and shot him in the chest. he fell down the last few steps, clutching and wrapped in this increasingly blood-soaked flag. lincoln loved this young man, so the war came home really fast for lincoln. with the first cannon fired at ft. sumter in april 1861, the country is thrust into civ ....