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so my tie to gettysburg pretty significant. and now that i live there and you know, my wife is, a native born and raised in gettysburg, the tie, the full circle, plenty of sense and. you know, it's a wonderful place to be the home we live in is on the battlefield my attic is my office and head out the window of my attic. i have a perfect view of the round tops i can see little round top. my window right across the field will pick its to place. it's a pretty special place of so we don't forget it you when your your dad's estate and going through his files that. i don't know if you call it a novel or a novella that manuscript that baseball manuscript. don't you give him a quick oh, yeah. my father had written a baseball story, as i said, and he had given up on it. he couldn't sell it then publishers wouldn't buy after his death. my and i, going through his effects, found a manuscript. there was one manuscript that was all. he could very well have thrown it away. i took it to new york. baseball had gotten hot and so the book was p
so my tie to gettysburg pretty significant. and now that i live there and you know, my wife is, a native born and raised in gettysburg, the tie, the full circle, plenty of sense and. you know, it's a wonderful place to be the home we live in is on the battlefield my attic is my office and head out the window of my attic. i have a perfect view of the round tops i can see little round top. my window right across the field will pick its to place. it's a pretty special place of so we don't forget...
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have had to research gettysburg. but i didn't because they did not live that long. i got a very close up view of the war's first two years. after i'd written the book, i was reading about the later war, some books about the end of the war. i was struck by how absolutely hard and cruel and bitter and vengeful it was, compared to the first couple years of the war. not that war is a pretty place, people were dying from bullets in diseases like crazy in the early war. but there were something more innocent about it. at the end of the war, you had the rise of guerrilla warfare, which you never had before. 10% of the union army black troops, who were given no quarter by confederate soldiers. you have the rise of the hard war, people like will sheridan, basically conducting anti-civilian warfare, burning forms to the ground, burning crops to the ground. what sheridan did in the shenandoah valley was probably worse than what sherman did in georgia and the carolinas. just the desperation at the end of the war on the part of t
have had to research gettysburg. but i didn't because they did not live that long. i got a very close up view of the war's first two years. after i'd written the book, i was reading about the later war, some books about the end of the war. i was struck by how absolutely hard and cruel and bitter and vengeful it was, compared to the first couple years of the war. not that war is a pretty place, people were dying from bullets in diseases like crazy in the early war. but there were something more...
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now, as we've heard today, civil war battles like gettysburg, antietam produced thousands and thousands of war stories, just like chapels. and all too often, these cases, they ended in grisly deaths from infection or blood loss exposure. you name it, there's a million ways to die in the civil war. so judging by outward appearances, we might consider chapel to be one of the lucky ones, because after all, he somehow managed to survive long enough to actually tell his story. in 1886, in the letter that we see here on the scree but chapel didn't see it that way. he did not consider himself one of the luc ones because him survival in the long aftermath of the battle of gettysburg was a living hell. and that is because 23 years after gettysburg the unexpected consequences of chapel civil war wound still dominated the old soldier's day to day life as he explained in that tortured 1886 letter quote the put me on morphine and i stop that. in other words, chapel had become and remained hopelessly addicted to the morphine that surgeons had given him in that field hospital to treat the pain from hi
now, as we've heard today, civil war battles like gettysburg, antietam produced thousands and thousands of war stories, just like chapels. and all too often, these cases, they ended in grisly deaths from infection or blood loss exposure. you name it, there's a million ways to die in the civil war. so judging by outward appearances, we might consider chapel to be one of the lucky ones, because after all, he somehow managed to survive long enough to actually tell his story. in 1886, in the letter...
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the gettysburg address, one of the three most widely quoted statements by any writer. and, of course, adams could have anticipated that at a much later date it would become one of the most constant a virtual in its claims that all men are created equal. adams never got over it. never got over it. he's got -- about later in life. why didn't i do it? i didn't let him do it. yeah. jefferson was i was pressured to get, to get, get it written quickly. there wasn't much time we don't know very much about on what days actually wrote, how much at each sitting, how many days he spent revising, what papers or book and books. he had with him. that's partly known. he had a copy, of course, of richard henry lee's june six declaration resolution independence. he had his copy of the draft constitution he had written before leaving williamsburg to come to philadelphia in of which you are very with that draft he hoped to get as quickly as possible to williamsburg. so his draft could become the dominant draft he had that with him and that contained a lengthy forensic indictment of georg
the gettysburg address, one of the three most widely quoted statements by any writer. and, of course, adams could have anticipated that at a much later date it would become one of the most constant a virtual in its claims that all men are created equal. adams never got over it. never got over it. he's got -- about later in life. why didn't i do it? i didn't let him do it. yeah. jefferson was i was pressured to get, to get, get it written quickly. there wasn't much time we don't know very much...
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military academy at west point, the civil war institute at gettysburg college, the u.s. army heritage and education center, ulysses s grant presidential library, and the virginia historical society. we're happy to welcome here him here to the american battlefield trust 2023 annual conference drew. well, hello and thank you. thanks to the battlefield trust. thanks to all of you for being here. and thanks for allowing an academic historian to serve as a kind of interloper among you and i really appreciate the opportunity. i teach afternoon classes and i understand how difficult it can be to try to stay alert and awake after lunch when you had a long day. so i will try to keep us going and try to keep us engaged a little bit here as we as we talk about the battle of franklin. all right. the night of november 30th and december 1st, 1864, must have seemed endless for the union confederate soldiers on the field at franklin, tennessee, with widespread confederate failure to break the union line and with the onset of darkness, the fiercest of the fighting began to wind down by 7
military academy at west point, the civil war institute at gettysburg college, the u.s. army heritage and education center, ulysses s grant presidential library, and the virginia historical society. we're happy to welcome here him here to the american battlefield trust 2023 annual conference drew. well, hello and thank you. thanks to the battlefield trust. thanks to all of you for being here. and thanks for allowing an academic historian to serve as a kind of interloper among you and i really...
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i remember probably decade or so ago sitting on a bus going from gettysburg college to the shenandoah, talking about next projects, our next speaker has been a great friend of me and institute and a great supporter of our journal of the shenandoah valley during the civil era. so it gives me great pleasure to introduce brian matthew jordan. bryant is associate professor of civil war history and chair of the department of history at houston state university. he's the author or editor. six books on the civil war era, including marching home union veterans and their unending civil war, which was a finalist for the pulitzer prize in history in 2016. his more 100 reviews, articles and essays have appeared in scholarly journals edited volumes and popular magazines, so without further please join me in welcoming brian matthew jordan. well, thank you so much jonathan, for that introduction. thanks for the invitation to participate in this wonderful conference today. it's always a pleasure to be here at shenandoah university to support the work of the mccormick institute. the work that you do h
i remember probably decade or so ago sitting on a bus going from gettysburg college to the shenandoah, talking about next projects, our next speaker has been a great friend of me and institute and a great supporter of our journal of the shenandoah valley during the civil era. so it gives me great pleasure to introduce brian matthew jordan. bryant is associate professor of civil war history and chair of the department of history at houston state university. he's the author or editor. six books...
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. >> yes we have start to distract of the declaration of independence we have the gettysburg address. >> the library congress has three main buildings named after presidents, what are they each. >> jefferson first the library of congress really took over the copyright system for the united states and it was very helpful. >> the national washington d.c.? ... which ones? that is a great question. walking through lincoln's home in springfield bid the banister the ghostly first floor to the second floor as you walk down the same banister the president held going down but it's the closest i've ever gotten to touching a former president. >> i'm just getting excited because my family is from springfield, illinois. and that was such a thrill. i would spend the summers there and going to lincoln's home. >> you restore these homes? suppose the president said i grew up here and where to get the money to do that? >> well from congress. and we have a number of associations that help us across the united states were very generous. we get a number of private donations the american public that really
. >> yes we have start to distract of the declaration of independence we have the gettysburg address. >> the library congress has three main buildings named after presidents, what are they each. >> jefferson first the library of congress really took over the copyright system for the united states and it was very helpful. >> the national washington d.c.? ... which ones? that is a great question. walking through lincoln's home in springfield bid the banister the ghostly...
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but it wasn't long afterwards, in 1863, at a place called gettysburg, when abraham lincoln gave that speech and talked about government of the people, by the people and the new birth of freedom. he talked about living up to the promise that was made in the declaration of independence. i think you need to tell him that there is no nation and 247 years that has been able to achieve what it has achieved and in those short years from 1776 to 1863, sought to correct that. then you tell him basically, the party of systemic racism is the party of the jackass, that didn't support the 13th, 14th or 15th amendments, the party of jim crow and segregation and poll taxes and literacy tests and lynching. the only president that ever showed a screening of a kkk movie in the white house was a democrat, woodrow wilson. now they are they party of low expectations. the longest alabaster in senate history was democrats filibustering against the civil rights act of 1964. the civil rights act of 1964 passed because of senator edward dirksen and republicans. beat him about the head and shoulders with the t
but it wasn't long afterwards, in 1863, at a place called gettysburg, when abraham lincoln gave that speech and talked about government of the people, by the people and the new birth of freedom. he talked about living up to the promise that was made in the declaration of independence. i think you need to tell him that there is no nation and 247 years that has been able to achieve what it has achieved and in those short years from 1776 to 1863, sought to correct that. then you tell him...