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Good effort but no true winner.
Both landed some good shots. Could easily be a draw. Janssen didn't look any worse for wear in the penalty box,no bruises or red marks on his face. Barch was leaking from a cut that was reopened.
Even scrap, and both showed real good balance. No such thing as a short fight for Janssen...
Now this is the lead candidate for FOTW. When I saw that these 2 would be at it, I was figuring the worst for Barch but he hung in there and landed some shots of his own. Take points away from Cam for that duesche bouncing around at the beginning. Once they started going though, no hugging here. Nice raw in my book.
ditto behn wilson's take, particularly "jannsen channels barnaby" ditto samtheman's take
Even bout!!the fall from janssen was juss a loss of balance,but it made barch,s punch look good at that particular moment
The fight was pretty good. Barch may have landed more shots but was bloodied up. I will give it a draw..NO clear winner unless Barch is your favorite player..
Cam hit harder.
Janssen channels Barnaby, while Barch channels...well, let's be nice, and say... a fighter smarter than his normal self. As both abandon all signs of defence, and relentlessly, start swinging for the fences in an all out, evenly matched war. Huge props to two guys that I don't, usually, care much for as fighters. Draw out of respect for the Herculean efforts of both Spartans. Just for the record, and the sake of ''hater clarity''... IMO...the cut(s) seemed to be evened up by the knockdown.
Great fight ! I have to call this one a draw and great to see Barch actually hang in there after getting pounded most of the time this year . I guess Belak woke him up the other night .
Excellent tilt. Barch early, Janssen late.
back and forth tie
Draw all the way. props to both for F.O.T.Y. candidate
Holy hell... Watching playing that clip bruised my lcd monitor. That was amazing. How there were no broken hands or faces is beyond me.
Gotta agree with the other guys here. Almost didn't click on this one, and...DAMN! Good bout. T-Rex Janssen has the heart and the schtick but no reach. He probably felt good about going with Barch, and SURPRISE! I thought it was a draw. I mean both guys landed and took almost the same. I think there is an anti-Janssen sentiment on the website. If Orr drew blood he would be the 99.7% winner (no, I got nothing against Orr. Relax). Just sayin' he did cut the guy. Oh, who cares anyway. That was a good one.
Great fight! Looks like a draw to me with a slight edge to Barch. It looked like they were talking in the beginning...maybe about giving the fans (or this site) a fight to remember. I've heard Barch in an interview with Brad May talking about giving encouragement to other fighters to make a good showing for fight of the year. Wow! This was definitely one to remember. Kudos to Janssen and Barch...Great job boys!
Great fight from two mediocre fighters ... gave it a draw and a 9. Lots of punching and swinging...
That fight makes up for every crappy hugfest, every lop-sided bout for the last 3 seasons - awesome. Draw.
I was lucky enough to see this one in person and told my buddy this would be a FOTY finalist...
Almost speechless, a shade less IMO than the Erskine/Boulton fight earlier in the year, but these guys both took shots and stood to them. A candidate for FOTY, hate both guys, but wow, props when they're due.
Good fight, my top pick.
two smaller guys that dont care how big you are,they will fight anyone.pretty good scrap.win lose or draw,when you drop the gloves with these two u better pack a lunch.
Great Fight
Great fight! Neither one seems to disappoint. I would give Barch the decision but if winning makes you look like that I'd rather lose. Draw!!!
Great toe to toe bout that is possible a FOTY candidate.
WOW Fight of the year candidate for sure i can it a draw
Both did supergreat job here, perfect bout in my book. NO WINNEr!!! Both landed many bombs.
couldn;t view this fight at work due to restricted access. afetr reading some of the comments, my anger grew and grew on the way home. all you 'experts' that have harshly criticized (sp???) both these guys over the years should go put you head in the sand and never make a comment here ever again. your license to convey utter ignorance should be suspended. better yet, go wax your dolphin in the bathroom ALONE. while mr janssen has had some interesting bouts, mr barch is known for epic battles with one mr may. what do you douche bags wanna see: a one punch affair or a struggle over who can outlast the other??? man, i feel sorry for your wives and or girl friends......come to think of it, it is likely 'your boy friends' look at the highest rated fights over the last 3 years and then comment here. otherwise, what you say has no more weight than the nonsense already offered........piss on the lot of you. let me explain something to you idiots: see that little number called voted rating??? there is a simply formula to keep in mind in assessing how the voters liked this fight: high number is good. low number bad. both these MEN have extremely high overall rated fights. regardless of your stupidity.
that was the definition of a great fight. it doesnt feel fair to give it anything but a Draw. definite FOTY nominee. On a side note, i wish someone would punch Steve Ott like that.
maybe the best fight of the year so far. boulton vs. erskine might be as good
Thank you. Best scrap I have seen in a while. Draw
one of the best of the year here! both guys wanted it....draw.
Great fight W Barch ... but can see a Draw
AMAZING! Draw, but I have a bias toward the boys in the double nickels..
Super great fight guys! They both gave it there all! I can't pick a winner here! They both deserve thumbs up here!
What a great scrap! They were back and forth! So awesome!!!
damn good fight
8.9 rating currently? get real. good scrap but about a 7.
Jassen was showboating again and got sat down.
Maybe i am missing something, but to me not too great a tilt
Someone please buy Janssen his straw that he will be eating through when he is 40. Yes he can take a punch not because he is tough because he is an idot. Look mama I can take a punch.
Just when I thought I was gonna tell Barch to stop fighting, he proves me wrong. Be careful what you wish for (Janssen), you just might get it. Good W for Barch. 7.5 tops.
Very good scrap...gotta love when two guys say "Defense? What the hell is defense?" Edge Barch for landing and throwing more quality shots.
Wild swings here not alot of solid connection. Slight edge to Barch despite a Cammer gouge early on. Had there been more solid landers this would have been the fight of the year for sure.
' At least, CJ did not wave the referees off(that's kind of hard when you are getting your butt handed to you). Win 13 '
win to Barch both were throwing Barch landed the better of the punched especially the one that put Janssen on his a$$. I am so sick of the way Janssen acts. Hacking up the sleeves bouncing around like and idiot, dancing, flapping his gums when fighting and chweing on his mouth piece or the famous I always wave off the refs and then take a big shot move. Man Jansen is so annoying and I hate him as a fighter. I give this a 7 and a spirited bout by both men.
Once again, Janssen's thick skull and rubber skin are his only endearing qualities. He can't fight, but because he's from the St. Loser area, the local fans cheer his wild flailing attempts at punches. Just proves that the 15% who have jobs in the STL area must not be eligible for optical insurance. Meanwhile, Barch repeatedly connects, and Dumb Stump Janssen keeps begging for more. If you're in a fight and you're going to call out the other guy, shouldn't you at least make a better attempt? As is the case in most of Barney Rubble's fights, the other guy - no matter who he is - wins the battle. Win to Barch.
Winner Barch! Good scrap but have to give this one to Barch.
Good scrap, but not quite a FOTY candidate. Barch got the better of Janssen this time, but an entertaining effort from both of them.
I don't know how this made the top it was more of a hug fest then fight. Good bout though and the only way Cam would have won that is if he knocked out Barch.
I find Janssen's act of talking/challenging/telling the linesmen to back off during fights is getting very old. Old like premium cheddar, none of that mild sh*t. Cracker Barrel, Black Diamond...n'aw mean?
Great fight ,,slight edge to Barch .
Very good tilt. Barch early and middle and Cam tries to come back but they were out of gas. Barch and an 8
That was worth the price of admission. CJ did very well against John Scott and it seemed to carry over into this one. Suprisingly, KB didn't lead with his chin again and get tagged. All in all an 8, with KB a 10-9.5 winner.
barch with the win janssen you suck go hawks lol
Janssen should shut his mouth and concentrate on fighting! Win Barch!
Great fight. win Barch.
Wow. Janssen got SMOKED by Barch..Cam landed maybe ONE solid punch..Domination victory for sad sack Barch..
Krys Barch making good on his New Year's resolution "I will not get my ass kicked in 2011." That was a terrific bout.
Gotta hand it to Janssen - he is a tough little bugger but I think Barch got the most and the last one in!
What's up with all of Janssen's punk moves during a fight? He dances like a little girl before the fight then he eggs all his opponents on during the fight and then they gladly proceed to punch his face in. Janssen is a goofball. I love watching him get his faced caved in night in night out.
Nice go, guys. I can do without Janssen's theatrics. This is hockey, not the NBA or NFL. Slight edge to Barch.
Great Scrap! Edge to Barch, better shots landed. Janssen ate a lot of fist this week!
Wow....can't stand either of these fighters, but you have to respect these undersized fellas standing back and throwing them hard...very back and forth tilly, but have to give the edge to barch with the hard lefts, despite the cut on the eye...
Even though Barch got cut he seemed to land more quality shots.
great bout-good old fashion hockey !!!
Does Janssen usually chirp like that when he's fighting? Great fight, slight edge to Barch. I can see someone KOing Janssen if he keeps talking instead of fighting, although have to give credit where it's due. Haven't seen anyone take more punishment than Janssen in a fight this year. Good stamina too
The fight was king of close, both show great show, but Barch had several really great hits and for him the best fight this seasson, for now. And look on Janssen, he sometimes looks like he is still little drunk from 31st December, because that moves what he doing:D(drunk Pirate)....Win and Thumbs UP for Barch
Good fight! Both guys throwing from their heels. First on one side, then switching to the other. Win to Barch for more effective punches. Barch's cut was just opening up stitches from a prior bout.
Barch was bloodied, but still won the fight. The more I see of Janssen the more I like him, unfortunately he loses more than he wins, he can certainly take a punch though.
Fight of the year in January the 2nd? Why not? Great challenge for other fighters to be better during the rest of the year.
Fistic Festoon? What the hell? What a bout, I love Cam Jansen, he is so animated and goes forever in these bouts, usually a win by attrition but not today, Barch really tagged him good several times and swung him in to some hard punches several times, a great bout! One of the best so far this year..
good tilt barch landed more, barch the win
great fight....win barch as he threw and landed much more than janssen
WOW! That is an old school rock'em sock'em type of bout there boys! I gotta give Barch the win here because of the apparent knockdown at the end. Don't really like the showboating from Janssen during the fight, but I am an old school kinda guy anyway. Best fight I have seen in some time!
Would have been a draw except for the knockdown by Barch on the last punch. W in a doozy for Barch and I still hate Janssen.
WOW.....i mean WOW full props to both men and i assume this could be a top 5 FOTY result when the dust settles thank you Cam and Krys
Good classic swings to finish. Wish more guys aired it out like that.
Proof that Janssen can be entertaining when he goes toe to toe
You know what, Barch actually beat Cam in this one. Bottome line this is a W albeit a close one for Barch.
Barch finally fights someone his own size and takes the narrow win. budwizeerr: I did watch in slo-mo and about 5 punches landed. (4) from Barch and (1) from Cam - put down the beer it is clouding your vision. Not sure how Barch's stiches opened but it was not from a punch. Side note: 4-0 in the season series, Stars own the Blues!
That was incredible! These guys both landed big shots and kept going. I gave this a 9 for quality, duration and effort. Barch wins a rare one against a serious fit and tough as shoe leather Janssen. As a side note - Janssen is not having a great year. He's been pounded by Scott twice, BizNasty and others. I will give him this though - his fights are always entertaining and score high.
Words I never thought I would type WIN Barch. Good tilt. Janssen got "cocky" and got socked.
Great way to start 2011. Both landed some huge bombs. Both switched up hands effectively. Giving edge to Barch. Although he got cut, he landed the last heavy shot.
Amazing fight...one to remember ! Talk about going toe to toe, punch per punch, right per right, left per left, all offence, no defence, last one standing... wins, Giving edge to Barch and scoring it a 9 ! Thank-you boys !
Barch landed more effectively and with the take down at the end. Janssen seemed tired though.
OMG, what was that. I got to give the slight edge to Barch and give it a nine. I am going to have to take back everything bad I have said about him this season. That was unbelievable. sore hands and sore faces, lots of ice needed for those two boys tonight. One of the top fights of the year for sure, never thought I would see the day Barch was in one of those. I apolgise Mr. Barch for all my bad comments, you are a true warrior!!!!!!!!!!!!
Wow, what a tilt. Barch with the win, but no one in the league takes a punch better than Janssen. Barch rocked him with some bombs but Janssen didn't even flinch. Between this fight and his bouts with Scott, Janssen leads the league in eating bombs.
The cut could be the result of a head butt at 1:13. Great fight. Barch impressed the most.
Yeah, I agree this was a great one with an Edge to Barch. He got a bloody eye, but landed more hits, including the last one that iced Cam. I'm proud to see Krys is no longer heavyweight fodder.
Too bad that blockhead Janssen talks better than he fights. Barch with the KNOCKOUT win.
Barch got cut, but he landed some really solid blows. He wins in a close one.
Barch with a narrow victory here. Janssen didn't seem to connect with much. Barch had more accuracy. Then Barch with the take down.
Nice to see Barch smash the crap out of Janssen. The cut on the eye of Barch was when the helmet reopened the previous cut he had there. Great fight and a knockdown by Barch. Janssen has done allot of talk lately from his ugly mug and not much in the results department. Barch with the win.
Maybe fight of the year.Late in the fight, I thought that Janssen threw a left and Barch a right, and they met fist to fist. The punch landed on Janssen's jaw, however! Barch with the flurry at the end to take it.
A great scrap. Have to give the edge to Barch. He handled himself well against one of he best and the last two shots gave him the win.
wow, slight edge to Barch, not sure how Cam's face wasnt disfigured...both true warriors and definitely a nomination for fight of the year.
slight edge to barch for landing the better shots. amazing fight. easily fight of the year canidate.
great battle of light heavies this is a draw both threw some great bombs gotta give slight edge to barch
...I give it to Barch for the strong ending, but this is not as important feature, the first thing - nice bout, nice showing from both of them.
gave barch the edge in this great fight.
Best scrap of the year for Barch! Doesnt matter if he wins or loses, Krys Barch will fight anyone.
FUUUUCKING AMAZING! Barch wins!
What a fight! Have to give Barch the slight win though. Rate: 9
What a great fight. I cant rag on cam again after this
Awesome fight, slight edge to Barch.
Barch got so many more good shots but the amount of cocaine Janssen does clearly keeps him in it.
Great fight
Barch got the better shots and the last one knocked janssen down. Win for barch but a good bout
Wow tough fight to call. I gotta give it to Janssen cause Barch got cut. Great fight though.
alot of big swings!
Super Cam!
jansen wins
Cam won...Oilers could use him....
I hate Janssen but in my opinion janssen clearly gets the edge in this one. I don't know what the rest of you were watching
Barch is busted up like a buffalo fan at the BLUE OYSTER BAR!!!! AHAhAHAhahahAHah
janssen better punches, announcer must have been watching different fight. barch's face tells story.
Saw this one live, and I think Janssen landed more solid, face breaking punches! I give him the win, even though they were both good.
This was a fun fight to watch and I give the edge to Janssen. Janssen threw the bigger punches and was switching hands. IF you give anything to Barch its for the take down at the end of the fight, when Janssen was off balance from one of the homerun punches he was throwing. I just dont see how people gave such a lopsided win to Barch. His punches didnt land at the rate of Janssen and his eye was dotted up at the end of the fight. To prove my point look at the slow motion replay at the end of the fight. Barch throws three jabs that hit air; it was like he was shadow boxing.
Wasn't even close say four rows off the ice and janssen dominated
How can anyone say Barch won? I know blood doesnt win a fight but Janssen landed bombs. and Janssen was not fazed by Barch's blows at all. I also think Janssen is the most entertaining fighter in the bigs. Janssen is BEAST
All out battle between 2 even scrappers. Give this tilt to Jansen as both guys took some shots, but Barch's face showed more damage.
great fight from both guys. loos like some bad blood there
Barch landed more shots, Janssen came on strong in the end and landed the shots that really counted.
Janssen did not go down at the end from a punch, he lost his balance(which is rare). I give it to Barch for swinging hard the whole time(thanking his lucky stars he's not having to pari up to King when he comes to STL). Janssen got Barch to bleed. Homer Dallas announcers.
god doesnt anyone have DVR rewind and watch in slow motion the knockdown in the end was not from a punch landing at all they both fell from being off balance, and did anyone see Barchs face he got hammered ,now he landed some in return but watch is in slow mo and you will see Jansen clearly , and I mean cleary won the fight, For Barch to have such a ONE SIDED vote is clearly because you guys dont like CAM. Jansen was the winner in this fight and if you watch it frame by frame you would see that. WINNER JANSEN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Fuckin Awesome!!!
As a lifelong Blues fan, I love this. Cam might not win very often, but his fights are as entertaining as they come. We were spoiled with Twister, Chaser & King for years and now Janssen is carrying on the torch just fine. I actually gave this fight to Cam, great even brawl but where I come from.....................if you're leakin', you lost.
Great fight.
what a fight. i thought janssen's last 2 shots were the best of the fight.
Jammer with the win
Nice fight, toe to toe.
Great fight -- Janssen landed the better blows but Barch was game throughout.
Cam is a BEAST!! For all of you morons who chose Barch, clearly watch at 1:29 into the video Cam was throwing left handed bombs that buckled Barch and lost his footing. Clear winner: JANSSEN!
for all of u that voted for barch idk what u were watchin or if ur just blind cuz i was there in person n barch got his ass dominated by janssen it was clearly a one sided fight n u would have to be retarded or blind no to see that. JANSSEN WINS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Great fight from both fighters. It was extremely close but I'd give the edge to Janssen. They both landed many haymakers but I thought Janssen had the bigger shots overall.
Janssen with the w landing more and better shots not to mention the good old hit me i dare you. barch pussy ed out and got cut open by cam janssen easy win goes to cam all who voted for barch is homers and barches last blow knocked janssen down LOL dont make me laugh janssens last blow but barch on his but.these announcers are homers also showing its not how you start its how you finish.
I was excited to watch this when I saw a rating of 9 but ended up being disappointed. Definitely a good fight but not FOTY candidate in my opinion. Some big punches thrown but I didn't see a good % landed. Calling it a draw and a solid 7.
Wow. Rock'em-Sock'em Robots. Janssen's got a granite chin. Barch had him locked out in the early rounds, but Janssen came back and administered decent face damage. Both fighters ate their share of bombs.
Hahaha!! All of a sudden you hear some idiot scream ... "IT'S ROCKEM SOCKEM ROBOTS!!!" Idiot! Draw... 8 very close.
great fight. both guys gave it all they had . thank you for the display gotta go with a draw. good effort by both
Barch started off with some good punches and was keeping Janssen out of reach, but Janssen got a different hopld and came back with some big haymakers. Barch pulled down Janssen to end it. More punches to Barch, but more damage to Janssen. Draw and a 9.
That was a good one. I gave it a draw. Both guys landed some big shots in this fight. Janssen proved that he can multi-task. He can talk and fight at the same time. This may have been the best Barch vs. Janssen fight they've had out of the 7 times they've fought each other.
We need more fights like this!
Draw two warriors just throwing, great fight.
Awesome bout...draw
Holy Sh*t! Who though the FOTY so far would come from Krys Barch and Cam Janssen?... Though Barch probably landed more and better shots I gave it a draw outta both guys' efforts
Awesome !!!
only five years ago e got treated to amazing fights like this...
great fight. really. great. fight.
Great fight!
Barch shut assclowns mouth up. Janssen should be a Leaf he is such a goof
as entertaining as janssen is i will never tire of watching him get punched in the face.
Wow. Second best fight of the year so far (behind Erskine vs Boulton.) Barch with the win in a close one.
Edge to Barch but I would not have thought that prior to seeing the fight.
Shut up and fight, Punching Bag. Razor calling it Rock 'em Sock 'em Robots! Clearly Barch for having the inside punching lane and landing.
WOW Have to give a surprising edge to Krys Barch in this absolute doozy.
Great brawl between these two, give the edge to Barch, but great effort from both guys.
Did we WIN in that one or what????? They wanted to dance and .......THEY DID!!!!!!!!!!!!! The Decision goes to Barch and THE WIN goes to US!!!!!! Nuff Said.........The talking was done on the ice!!!!! KUDO'S
Awesome fight, always love Cam going at it, but he lost this one.
Wow!!! F.O.Y. candidate for sure.
Solid win by Barch albeit his cut from a loss earlier did open back up. Janssen was doing more talking then fighting, and getting punched in the mouth a lot for it!
Very good fight from both players. Very fun to watch. Edge to Barch
Good fight but it looked to me, much to my chagrin, that Janssen landed more punches and did more damage. Takedowns don't count for much since they indicate nothing more than that a fighter is tired of fighting and so hauls the other guy down.
Janssen is a badass. Win Cam! Great Bout
solid scrap. Barch reminds me of some old time guys. where if you fight him once you know hes gunna want another bout haha. and edge to barch on this one
did everyone watch the same fight I did? Win Cam, close and exciting but he pulled it out.
The blood draw gets the win for Janssen - Strategic slugfest...punches thrown with thought behind them - Top Ten of the Year
i pick janssen just b/c tht was his best showing ALL year. great great fight
both landed some great shots. gotta love it when those 2 go at it. Giving it to Cammer seeing as he once again sent Barch to get stitched up. When those guys go at it, it's usually tight and Barch ends up bleeding.
Very good fight. Slight edge Janssen.
Awesome, give Janssen the edge cause I liked the lefty windmill haymakers


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Location of Sighting: Seven Springs, North Carolina
Date of Sighting: November 19, 2016
Time of Sighting: 1:45 AM EST
Description: I got home around 1:45 AM. I was outside unloading the car when something very peculiar happened. I looked up to see a bright orb probably no bigger than a large melon descending rather rapidly (maybe 15 MPH) towards the ground over yonder behind some trees, probably about 1,000 feet from where I was standing. I was terrified, ran inside and described the sighting to my family. They believed me, but thought it was funny being as freaked out as I was. I decided to step out on the back porch a few times later that morning. I saw what appeared to be light moving through the top of the trees vaguely before it finally disappeared and I finally lost visual. We have farm animals back there and nothing appeared to be bothered. Unfortunately I couldn't capture any footage.
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For their work in the community
Long-standing Putney High School PE teacher Maureen Hayes has been honoured with an Active Wandsworth Sports Award.
Headmistress Dr Denise Lodge said:
Jill Johnson, Teaching Resources Officer at Putney High School, has been rewarded for her 30 years' long service to the Girl Guides.
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tv Caroline Janney Ends of War CSPAN November 11, 2021 4:05am-5:07am EST
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c-span.org/history. >> now, our guest today which interest or guest right now professor caroline and her book ends of where the unfinished fight of lee's army after appomattox. let's take a quick look at it. we are going up some things to share with you. this is going to be a fun show. but, the unfinished fight lee's army after appomattox comes to from university of north carolina press whom we think forgetting professor on this program with us and for publishing this fine book. we are selling to you in the first edition. it is three to 31 pages, illustrations and maps are going to share some of those with you during the course of this conversation. we are send this first edition copy to you with a custom abraham lincoln bookshop
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signed bookplate too. i want to thank you, for signing this book plates sending them back to us. folks at home, let me tell you a little bit little bit about caroline e janie she's the professor and history of the american civil war and the director of the center for civil war history at the university of virginia. that is a lot, i know that job that is the job. >> it is a wonderful job pretty could not be better. >> the namesake on your job is really one of the unheralded heroes of civil war history. someone's collected years for years and years of priceless pieces of american history. and now most of them now reside with you at uva pre-
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>> a special collection we now have somewhere between 30 and 40000 letters and diaries that has collected. an invaluable resource we are just beginning to dig through these and figure out the many, many things he collected. i'll make a pitch here, we are going to be digitizing this collection and making it available worldwide for everyone. >> that is wonderful. let's was with their collection which was also the result of a collector going out and doing what they love to do. i will do a pitch for abraham lincoln bookshop. if you want to collect stuff, is a perfect example of what
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can happen with this obsession of yours. it is valuable, it is not just you. it is a really valuable thing. so anyway it is a great job congratulations. i know you love doing it and you have all this great stuff to work with pretty quickly for the folks at home, caroline is also the author of remembering the civil war, reunion and the limits of reconciliation. and burying the dead but not the past ladies memorial association the lost cause. when i see that book of course i think of having karen cox on this showed just a few months ago. of course there's the late robert e lee statue in richmond. but of course she'd already done dixie's daughters. this topic of women, southern
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women in the postwar is crucial to understanding the civil war. >> rate. the work that karen does it dovetails nicely, i think our work dovetails nicely together. the lee money or the former lee monument the daughters of confederacy rallied around affects the women i wrote about in that first book who are part of the initial plans to build that monument starting in 1870 and after lee's death. >> right, right. anyway that is a different book. someone wants to order caroline's one of her earlier books we might have them, contact us. but today were going to talk about ends of war. if you have been following my social media post while he been reading the book the last month or so you know i am crazy about it. so much about this book hits
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me dead center i love this book. so let's just jump in and start talking about ends of war so folks watching at home can get an idea of what they can get if they decide to order this book. now caroline it is september of 2021. in a war is ending. so, people of the united states and people around the world are watching something happen. they watch how war ends. if nothing else there probably understanding this is a complicated, messy and heartbreaking thing to happen, they just do not bring down the curtain and everything is fine. so, i think your story is a story about how war's end. it is one where the one you're talking about. the story about how war's
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end. just because we close your book does not mean the troubles of the people you talk about her over. why does the end of the civil war interest you so much? >> i think you have tapped on several really important themes there. one of those themes we are in the midst of the war ending it is not clearly ended yet. that was absolutely the case for americans, white, black, north, south, loyal, disloyal, however you chose to describe them in 1865. i was not quite clear to end a work militarily, socially, legally, all of these questions were very much up in the air. there is a reason there's an s in the title and of war. i don't think there's one particular moment that we can point too. for so long we have a short
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hint of a tummy tuck by the end of the civil war was a appomattox and we all seem to be on board with what that means. on one hand that is fair because people at the time currently hoped appomattox to be the end, or some people at the time. it is not entirely clear. i think we are living in that moment right that now what does it mean to end a war? but also the point i try to make in the end of the book is that all of these things that happen surrounding would have a long lasting effects, effects we are living with today in many instances. >> right, right. the next thing you do will be open your book, most of it as the investigation into what happened after lee's surrender.
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for those at home the book is not going to be that interested in palmetto ranch or confederates crossing the rio grande or something like that. although i know you recognize that is important. or talk about virginia. what made you want to look at that time at lee's army after appomattox? to keep that going when other had closed. >> a couple of ways in which this book came together. the first two books i wrote you mentioned memory of the war, i was well aware and kept bumping into things that are happening in the spring and summer of 1865 regarding how unionists are thinking about their former enemies, do they call them former enemies?
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are they enemies? the ideas were out there but my initial intention edited a volume that looked the appomattox campaign. i went to write one essay about what happens to lee's army after appomattox. we had a notion coming home and gone with the wind we have other cultural references of one or two soldiers drifting home. we have the notion a bunch of vagabonds terrorizing the countryside. i was not clear how a confederate army was disbanded or demobilized. and so i thought that is a great essay. i can delve into that. it did not take long getting into the research before i realized this story is so much more complicated than i had ever imagined and that blossomed into this book.
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>> indeed it is a complicated, complicated book. i think it ties in a lot of those complicated themes very well. during the course of our talk going to waive its many of those as i can. as soon as i open the book, they had me fascinated. i'm simply good to read the breakdown of these numbers you put right up front. right up front he had 60000 men when he left and 20000 or paroled. about 11500 became casualties including captured which is part of the story. that leaves about 20000 unaccounted for. so what did the future look like to these 20000 guys? who are they and what was the decision they made right
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then? >> just to be clear when it comes to numbers in the civil war we are doing the best that we can. it's really hard to nail down numbers those 20000 men were not formally surrendered at appomattox, that is the question, what does because of these men who were these men? there were its many stories as there were men. some were seeing the writing on the wall. they realized whether highbridge for many of the other battles along the way this was not going well and lee's army could very well be compelled they were fearful of what would happen to them if it captured confederates as a prisoner of war as they were held as prisoners of war. some refused to surrender and take off.
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others are foot sore and tired. they are physically unable to keep up with the relentless pace as it pushed west tried to move south not just avoid the humiliation but to continue the fight more so for the men who had horses as a simple logic behind this so artillery wrist and calvary men were the most likely to quite literally escape appomattox. they are able to write off from the various points of departure with the plans for what they can do next. connate rhonda rhonda view perhaps in a small town in the mountains may beat the hills and ham with the shenandoah valley and reorganize. many of these initially well
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into june. the fight is not over. they can get the work on another front brake. >> reporter tells us he had we can do this we can do that the guys can go to the state and the governors could decide if they could continue. then part of what your book i don't think you handle it directly, your book says doesn't say it led me too think lee never told his guys that. it wasn't until the order he told the 28000 that were still with him this legendary piece
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and directive. the other guys did not get that brake. >> that is a great point but is having that conversation he's telling members of his band this is what he wants. to my knowledge this was never directly communicated. at that point to it's also pretty late in the day. not that calvary and arturo c at the others have dropped out of the ranks it is too late for those men. >> for them to get an order and reply to it or comply with it. talking about appomattox itself as you know is a whole genre of literature. even talking to the details of that there's not been one book written about each detail there's a whole list of
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responses. what i think that sells about appomattox to me, which we are going to talk about what we could spend the rest of the interview talking about it, is that in my mind especially the guys in the men in the parler historical event and legendary. helps stops here i start saying stuff over here. that is easy for us. but if those guys in the parler knew something legendary was happening in this is something i think you like they start creating stuff the kind of stuff i like. they create the paroles get creative.
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because the men tear down this apple tree which turned out lee had not. there is this awareness in the parler that what is happening is eventful. and they are going 20 keep it. we are going to talk about a couple of things that we could spend the rest of the conversation talking about. one is, you share this scene painted by alonzo chaplin going to show it here. you seem to have liked it as a scene even though there are problems with it. i'm going to share it here so you can discuss it and i want to know why you thought this was a good representative seen of the surrender.
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>> so i love this image in part there so many different versions of what happens, who was there, who was in their debates about whether sheraton was there or not. there are some paintings that include pastor there we know custer was not there. the various tables and there has been a lot of discussion over the years whether there were two tables or perhaps three tables. i think it only makes sense that eli parker was sitting at a third table. how else would he have been taking notes and jotting down what grants, making copies asks them to make. who it wraps up being in the room.
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it's difficult to tell it's hard to tell who surrenders to it's clear in this image was the dates that alonzo chappell did this? >> i have 1885 prints. torches create strikingly different was 1870. i don't know whether this was an earlier painting it would make sense it was an earlier painting. >> i will also tell you this, i've been obsessing about 1885 lately it is the year of grant is the year grant dies, it is the year the memoirs are published. it would make sense whether chappell painted it and
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someone would say let's get another piece of grant out there. >> absolutely. >> let's talk about the tables i have particular interest in the tables and i know you do too. two of the three tables and chapels of painting and i agree chappell's painting is most accurate in terms of stuff. they have lee sitting at the table that grant sat at and both of those tables are counted for the marble top table work grant sitting in this picture is i believe right there in chicago, and i believe grant table that chappell has lee sitting at is at the smithsonian maybe? >> that is were i believe it is. this leaves colonels table which i think captain bauer set out for a while because i
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think bowers said think there's a story where he was supposed to write out and said my hand is shaking i can't do it. >> you are right. yes, yes, yes. i've seen bowers and artwork sitting at that table. that man with the strongest writing hand on grant's staff sat down at that table. you can see it in the background you see the legs you see there are two ledges. who would probably be easier for us to just go ahead and take a look at the table itself which does exist. it is the only table from the parler that day that is not in a public it is in private hands. at a time not too long ago a few years ago it was consigned for sale perhaps it was out on the market. we had the opportunity, the
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honor of representing that owner and so that table got to live in the abraham lincoln bookshop for some time. and so there it is, there is the table. do not come asking us for. like everything else it was taken because they knew this was a legendary moment. >> it is so phenomenal to see it even and a photograph and think about all of those connections whether be the lithograph or what actually happened there. thank you for sharing that. cocksure sure this was taken from by captain wells was the son of secretary of the navy gideon welles. it remained in the wells family for a long time. and the collector, who owns
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this it did belong to the wells family. it had been i thought at least once. one of those generations thought it would be a great idea to keep a fish tank on it. so at one point in the later part of the 20th century it got refurbished because it had fish tank stuff all over it. but like i said, i've got 30 minutes of our talk. >> real quickly i will add one more piece, in the book i also use a photograph when he is in richmond. and in that photograph used in the marble top table that has been taken from the parler. you are right held value, whatever you want to think of it as a relic or otherwise people knew that what happens
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in that place was going to be significant in some fashion or another. i believe even mcclain's daughter there is a dull that was taken or sold, whichever the case may be by a union soldier. here's evidence i was there. >> exactly recite the men that took on that apple tree and took it home. [laughter] so before we leave appomattox there's one more thing that's created there that is important to your story that revolves on the terms of surrender. grant famously generous terms of surrender, which creates a little bit of legal questionable legal standing. which of a practical effect on the standard itself is a try to get home. can you talk about the terms before he fell the confederates onto the road?
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>> the terms that grant offers which she will later say in his memoirs just came to him for he did not know what he was going to write with pen to paper the terms he offers are the men will surrender their weapons and their flags. and they will go home on parole. that is an important term we should maybe flush out a bit. but they are prisoners of war and other words. they are prisoners of war who were vowing not to take up arms again against the united states government. and the provision that grant ads is a new provision we do not see in other terms of surrender they will not be bothered they will not be arrested by union authorities so long as they observed the laws where they reside. that is a new part. we do not see that in vicksburg, we did not see that in other surrender terms. we also add a line and i think
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this is important to point out. we no longer have unconditional surrender grants. there are reasons for that i believe not suggesting he did wrong. there is a little bit of negotiation that is going on here. lee will add until they are exchanged. this might seemed like a throwaway line but i think it's important for two reasons. on one hand, lee believes a release he has this tiny bit of hope that perhaps joe johnston's army or kirby smith's army will be successful and there will be a need for his men once more. so maybe the war will continue it they will be exchanged. but the flip side of that is grant could strip that out and he doesn't. that is telling because he thanks this war is coming to an end. we can let that one go. but we can let that one go.
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it's a gesture it's really empty because of obvious that when lee capitulates the others will follow. grant very much has hope. >> that is going to create some legal wrangling later. what i want to do, boy, we just spent half. >> for the folks at home we just spent half of the interview talking about. >> the first chapter. [laughter] and i promise you, this is just when the book starts getting really good. that is stuff we kind of knew. so you follow those confederates away from appomattox that is when this book really starts to get good. what they take with them, let's share another image not
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from our stock but from the library of virginia. they are all issued a parole. a parole pass. and here is a parole pass captain james garnet of the ordinance officer gets. this is a parole, this is a pass. witnesses do for him? what is it do for him when he goes home with his servant? >> right. he shared this with me just a little bit ago. i have never seen that added line. i absolutely think this is fascinating and now i have something else fascinating to investigate. there is so much going on here we could talk about. i'll take up that bit of it does it say with horse and
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servant i believe it says? >> with horse and servant. >> lee had also asked grant if they could take home their horses. the officers supplied their own horses so grant agrees to that. but the more interesting part is servants here which of course means slaves insistent on the part of the story we knew a little bit about but i really tried too as much as possible. there were hundreds of black men that were still with the army of northern virginia appomattox. most of them have been so enslaved them are either serving as a body servants which is probably what was going on in this case. or they had been impressed by the confederate government to labor. so both freemen and
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enslavement were impressed by the federal government to labor as cooks, as teamsters and any other type of laboring event. some of these men were listed in the paroles we look at the parole list you'll find examples of african-american men who are listed. but in other accounts we have men that are writing home about bringing their body servant, there enslaved men home with them. and so i'd tried to tease the story out as much as possible. what did it mean to be an enslaved person? or you free it appomattox in the short version is known not necessarily. one of the really interesting things, grant says nothing about the enslaved men and to a lesser extent probably a handful of women who were with lee's army. he does address this at vicksburg. but the war still going on for
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the seem to be an assumption with the emancipation proclamation and the assuming victory slavery will come to an end. but all along the route home there are examples of confederates that are forcing enslavement in women to accompany them, to help them. they are hiding their slaves. there is one cavalryman who takes off immediately and the first thing he goes to do is hide the people that he owns to prevent them from making their way to the union army. so, i would love to investigate this, figure out who added with horse and servant. obviously that is not printed on the original passes given score has printing presses with them. this is something for me too tuck away to pursue this is fascinating. >> now you've got me thinking to try to compare the signature, that is going to
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have to be a project for another time. two to let me add one other we could talk about these. brian is one of the officers that i mentioned the notion of ashley wilkes in one or two soldiers kind of walking away. grimes and others, there are entire divisions that march away from appomattox. the surrender terms that are created by the commission on the morning of april 10, tell them they need to keep their organization to the extent possible. so divisions, brigades, regiments are marching away and grimes is one of the officers who leads his men away. and many of those groups do not hand out these parole passes until they decide to disband, usually a few days after appomattox when they realize they cannot stay in these large groups of thousand men marching away or even 200 minute marching away is not working well.
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and so i have to wonder. we know there were fake passes they had blank passes and filter their name. why not add just a little bit more here? >> maybe that is james garnet's hand. >> very well could be. [laughter] >> host: now you can start that investigation. >> need to make a note to myself. but then this leads us to the road and the road is a very important part of this story, with this book. i'm not going to make you talk about this i'm going to make a very quick observation. your story really is, the way i read it, narrative and storytelling and chronological. you could have chosen to write a somatic book a chapter about this, chapter about this, but really you discovered the
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story of the war was still going. and you are right about that. so for folks at home, this is a story book in the story is fascinating and it keeps moving. when the thing that keeps moving a little question i will let you talk about, or if you want to talk about the narrative choice you can do that. roads are a big part of this story. much of the story happens on the road. a few years ago yale sternal examined the meaning of roads and routes it's in the bibliography. so based on this new thinking, like what professor did or a few other scholars have been thinking about in environmental history, what is the importance of roads, roots, the place they are going and how they get there to the story of the
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demobilization of lee's army? >> what a beautiful question thank you. so it is the story of the roads are taken and the roads not taken. the times when roads are dangerous and confederates have not have been paroled will decide they need to avoid roads. i would also add though, it's passageways that marks the rivers, creeks and streams are also important. whether their avenues of invasion from flip into the james river and quietly try to make their way past union troops, these are men who have not yet been paroled or trying to get home. but there is a dispersal that happens from appomattox for appomattox. the dispersal begins when the
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armies, all of the armies leave petersburg. but the roads that take men south also take them west. they take them to other points of potential transportation. they take them to places like brookfield, junction which is small free for those people might be familiar with the southside, brooksville junction is not much of even a little village anymore. it was incredibly important railroad junction just east of appomattox. it is worthy working railroad line as far as the light is working in the immediate aftermath of appomattox. they're making their way there showing the parole passes you just gave us an example of, using that to get russians or hopefully to get passage on a
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train that will take them to someplace like a city point on the river at the junction of the appomattox and james rivers where they will hopefully either take a boat maybe to richmond to be the quickest way to get to richmond or perhaps i'll take a steamer and go all the way up to baltimore. maybe they need to get home to tennessee or kentucky. and so at their fastest route would be to take a ship that would take them to baltimore and they could take railroads from there. it is the movement away. but at times they are treacherous and there are times when being on the road itself could expose you. so here i am talking about paroled or un- paroled confederates there are lots of other folks out there who are less than savory who are thieves and everything else but the men talk about trying to stay together so they will camp away from the road so they are not just sitting
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ducks out there at night. all of these decisions are being made, or defiant friendly people who were willing to share some of their meager rations? when did they demand it when do officers come people like grimes pull out their sidearms they have been allowed to keep and demand provisions from either individuals or from stores from quartermaster stores and might still be available. >> host: making the point the road could be treacherous to the ex- confederates and it can also be treacherous to people living along those roads as confederates come by. >> absolutely. you do not know who these people are. as with any society as with any group of people there are certainly bad characters among all of these groups of people. there is so much danger and uncertainty. this will only become even more fraught rather than less
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so as the summer months unfold. more people are moving. and i'm glad you brought that up, she is cleaning out so many people are on the move. we have of course all the enslaved people whose status is really rather murky in this particular moment. but thousands and thousands are coming into places like richmond. cities are becoming very full. this is becoming an issue. soldiers are coming in. chaos is maybe too strong of a word but it is certainly chaotic. the uncertainty, the fears are wrapped up in all of these various groups. >> exactly. i am going to check on our comments real quick i have to page over there and see who is out there. let's take a minute to see who
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is out there and see if any of them have questions or comments for us. if you shout outs, you will like this we have two regulars, dave from the uk in dave from gurnee, illinois. they formed a little cohort that is always here. we do have an international show today. dave bradley in the uk is enjoying it and says hello. and also zachary is watching he says hello. we have an answer to one of the questions we did not quite know and that is john has chimed in and said the cable used by grant isn't definitely at the smithsonian national museum of american history it was a gift of libby custer and also let's associate chris i forgot the libby custer
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connection. >> didn't share it should give it took custer to give to libby? isn't that weird? >> custard was not in the room. right. or back in the parler. we've heard stories that sheraton did not want to sell his furniture and he threw it $20 on the ground that either keep the money or don't and taking your furniture. that is just one of the many stories i heard. let's keep going though with the shout outs. one is thanks for this program i enjoyed the book. what is up next in terms of book projects? we will get to that. after that that is from hampton's and lots of great stuff. [laughter] wrote that so we have here now
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i'll check it again before we sign off. i want to get back on the road because those confederates were having a good time in interesting times up there on the road. this is something that's really interesting in your perspective of the book. okay start from appomattox but the new look out and suddenly the story appomattox in the posted days starts to involve other places in the people there so no longer confederate soldiers. so what is happening in places like winchester, virginia talk about, lynchburg, this is a place where women come into the story and become protagonists in the story. what is their story of the end of the war, what are those questions? you asked me earlier there's approximate 20000 soldiers who were not paroled it appomattox. some of them have gone home to
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their homes. others, as i mentioned earlier have gone and are waiting in places like the shenandoah valley to be called by their officers to fight again. it becomes quickly apparent to grant that he needs to issue these paroles or this should be extended to all of the fragments of the army of northern virginia as he phrases it. so immediately even before the formal surrender ceremony has happened that appomattox, just to the east of appomattox are issuing paroles. some of those men are men convalescing in the hospitals there for the vast majority are men who should have been in appomattox and they have not surrendered there. they hear about these parole terms to which many did not expect to be so generous and magnanimous. so that your themselves that happens in lynchburg as well
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basis as far as winchester. i was really surprised at the number of men paroled in winchester. somewhere around 2000 i found so far. i'm sure there are more out there winfield scott hancock is there and he not only has the exchange of letters between lee and grant, he has that published, printed, nailed up throughout winchester and the lower valley. i think that's evidence of look this really did happen for any naysayers who might not believe we have surrendered, here is evidence. he issued stern, come in, get yourself paroled or be arrested and be in prison. this does happen in some instances he sends calvary up and down the shenandoah valley. those men who are willing to come in on their own will be
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paroled. those that aren't, or hold off two prisons and who knows when they will be paroled or they do not know in that moment. so throughout virginia the northern neck, that pencil of the shenandoah valley west virginia maryland even down to the carolinas men from lee's army are finding their way to other union officials and being paroled. >> host: surrenders happen everywhere hancock is a person a lot of people surrender to not granted appomattox. we have shown, or was i thinking about oh, brings us to not everybody gets, there is one confederate officer who men my name are excluded from the generous terms who does that imply?
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>> that will be colonel and he is on the list of people that grant and others despise the most and are most fearful of mosby and his partisan rangers or as the union high command would refer to them as gorillas. at first, very briefly excluded from this blanket paroles but there will be all of these negotiations hancock will play a role in this. mosby will meet with union officials twice kind of dangling in front of them the possibility he will come in and surrender his command that the 43rd battalion had been a pain in the neck for the union forces in and around northern virginia. they went back quelled in large part. this is another undercurrent throughout the book, that
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grant and also sherman are fearful of guerrilla warfare. we started talking about porter alexander and his question to lee. even though it might not have been the reality, there is a fear we cannot underestimate grant and others had of confederates refusing to seek parole and fighting the war by other means via some type of guerrilla warfare. so mosby is high on that list. so that's throughout the story. >> host: right, right. the sort of brings us north and west from appomattox. and so you do turn the perspective of a little but the dispersal of lee's army the end of the war, the loyal states. whether what are the decisions made in the loyal states to suddenly wait a minute the confederates are no longer one place there everywhere.
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in maryland and other places. >> that is really an important point i'm glad you brought up. this is not just the story of what happens in virginia or what happens in the former confederacy. all of this is spilling out and rippling out into other places. none more so than the slaveholding states that remained loyal to the union, the border states as we call them. the big question is going to be for hancock, for grants, ultimately for the attorney general of the united states, james speed, whether or not confederate soldiers from loyal state specific this is maryland, missouri, kentucky and delaware not west virginia, whether or not they can return to their homes. have they committed such a crime and lead leaving their loyal states and going to fight for the rebel army that they no longer have homes. i will offer this as a tease
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without getting into all of it. there is so much we could get into here. this is a problem. it is a problem local citizens will take into their own hands. if the united states and government is not going to effectively deal with this, then they will deal with this. west virginia becomes its own unique case because it grant and speed both say actually west virginia does not quite fit this mold it was part of virginia when virginia left, west virginia did not exist there is not a succession so people can go back there. loyal west virginians do not like the sound of this. they're about 18000 confederates are people from west virginia who fought for the confederacy. this is going to be really problematical. >> these men left and they are going return to a loyal state.
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>> guest: rights. what happens if they are paroled and perhaps pardon, granted their citizenship back and now they are a voting block? what is going to play out then? >> it why do we want these disloyal men back in our midst? it is one thing to send confederate some two states that succeeded with the vast majority of the population supported the confederacy. it's another to send them home to places they are not wanted and that becomes very clear in the summer of 65. >> host: i will tell you this, professor this happens all the time we should be getting used to it in a house divided. somewhere around the point of ten minutes left in the interview, everybody watching suddenly gets off now i have a question. [laughter]
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and so i have great questions i love to read my questions i will read them to myself later. let's leap back over to the folks watching on facebook live there are some great questions over here. i'm going to feed you a few. depends on how much time let me just ask how much time you have. i do not want to go along for five minutes if we go on customer part of it depends on how quickly you answer the question okay, lynn wants to know the question, how certifiable it really paroled the watermark? how does someone fill her looking at a genuine paroled path? >> i assume you mean paroled pastor. >> and just to clarify there are paroled lists that were cap there in all these lists
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were compiled. those are different than a floral pass the plural fast with each individual man they were half printed at appomattox, like the one you show there's three different designs another source for another time. >> i have it up to show we are. >> those were given blank to either the regiment or sometimes the brigade commander there the people fill them in. to be clear it's not union officers union soldiers filling in. confederates are filling them in. there's no way to certify this if you don't have an id to show this match is the you say it is. there are also lots of blank passes many are not filled out until the men leave. they have been marching away from appomattox say they
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headed south towards the carolinas and the officer decides you know what we cannot stay together let me fill these out. they are blank passes through a handful of instances i have found through letters and diaries were people recount i had a blank passes. i have a tale of two solar so good to marilyn get into hot water with the maryland congressman. one of them says he has a blank pass he filled it out himself. there is no way to certify it. there are paroles issues at places like winchester, there is more information on those paroles they include a description of the person, include their hair color, their eye color, their complexion. their physical descriptions that i think are meant in part to serve as a legitimacy test that is in fact.
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i should point out those parole passes that were not from appomattox were issued by union officials. let me see here, we have a question from doug in kentucky, hello doug. he has written a good question when we take a look at it quickly okay, good question doug. doug says i would imagine the surrender occurred -- i would imagine that when the surrender occurred the confederate currencies were crushed to zero. so particularly among confederate soldiers was there a great amount of theft, robbery, physical on the way home? >> that is one of the questions i was looking for. that is the flipside of the
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ashley wilkes image we have. i would say it certainly happened. but more often that not, at least in the accounts that are left, those on the homefront and by the soldiers themselves, many cap diaries on their way home. they weren't meticulous and recording with a got food from. who provided them shelter is not provide them shelter. they like to point out people who refuse them. but, there were also numerous instances in which they do talk about taking especially from african-americans. in particular there looking for quartermaster details they find several along the way outside of what is now at roanoke, virginia and danville, virginia, greensboro north carolina for there's a reason they're heading to some of these places they know their stores of food and other provisions. so if it did happen it
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happened less than i expected i might find. we went okay, okay. thank you very much doug. and finally david bradley from the uk to know, would you agree please admonishment against guerrilla warfare and grandson generous surrender terms greatly reduce the amount of x confederates becoming lawless? >> always hard. i think if i was a betting person, i would say yes it did reduce. this is part of the reason grant is so adamant the paroles be upheld which is something i really dig into in the second half of the book when many of johnson's cabinet are questioning whether they should be upheld. grant was even then saying look, if we do not uphold them this could evolve into something. : :
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have expected a lot more. >> okay, thank you very much. i have one more thing i want to share because it has something to do with parole versus past. it's also something we have here and i can share with you, here's a close-up. if you decide to get yourself in abraham lincoln signature, this is one of the most common
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abraham lincoln signatures that exist. it's an endorsement so most of the time cut off of the letter and the rest of the letter stornoway. there is very popular, i didn't do it. [laughter] people did a long time ago when they were collecting lincoln. i can probably wrote more than any other time but this man take the oath of december 8, 1863 and be discharged. in this case, he signed december 31, 1864. in this case, for those of you want to see it, i'll put a link in the comments so you can see it. it signed by lincoln and andrew johnson we were talking how many times were those men in the same room together but maybe three bucks this is a very interesting
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link but what it tells us, but this man taken out discharged. the law lincoln is talking about and how does it affect the confederates at the end of the work bucks. >> december 163, we can and should what became known as the plan that would part of any confederate to voluntarily surrender or put on their weapon and quit fighting the union. johnson, when he comes into office, is wondering to what extent lincoln more time rover part of policy and amnesty, is amnesty. it is difference between parking amnesty amnesty. a promise covers almost every line, you can up and take the oath at your current.
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the pardon is for those excluded under amnesty and they have to apply. the very short version of all of this, a pardon did imply complete protection from prosecution could not be profited if you are issue a part of the question is, at the paroles already served that function or was there going to be a next step, what you follow through with a pardon this becomes one of the contenders issues especially among andrew johnson and grant in the summer of 1865. >> all right. thank you very much, i'm going to have to get back to the issues at hand. there's so much we didn't cover, this was such a great book we didn't cover what congressman harris in maryland, they will have to read about it because it's great.
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you talked about the two confederate soldiers that testified but we didn't talk about, too much about virginia all of that and there's so much more to talk about but you need to get the book, the book is "ends of war", and finished work from university of north carolina, thank you for publishing this book and helping us set up this signing interview. 331 pages, illustrations and there are apps and i forgot to write down the price but you can
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Hello Everyone, from the lush rainforest in Australia, where once a month I sit in a circle of women studying meditation and Buddhism.
This month was the last meeting for the year, and our wise crone leader
Yoda Carol chose to reflect on friendship for her talk, or 'Admirable Camaraderie' as Buddha called it.
She's lived in the same intentional community hidden in the hills for nearly 50 years, having been one of the founding members. She's travelled the world, facilitating conflict resolution for all kinds of humans, from big corporations down to divorcing families… so her wisdoms come from plenty of lived experience as well as her decades of Buddhist meditation and study.
She asked us a simple question, which I'm going to ask you:
"Do you always call, or are you always being called?"
Buddha talked of cultivating friendships, to offer and receive full kinship, as one of the most effective paths to Loving Kindness.
So when did you last reach out to someone, in these strange times of lockdowns, travel restrictions, and general COVID weirdness?
Who would benefit from a call from you today?
I do often call friends for a chat; my Dad used to do the same. And I'm usually delighted when someone unexpectedly rings me; I can feel my heart glowing for ages afterwards.
Buddha also urged us to 'celebrate the good.' To really allow feelings of joy and connection to sink through our bodies, which is how I feel when I open the Zoom link to the monthly meetings.
So let's experiment: who can you reach out to? How did they react? And how did you feel afterwards? Pay attention to your body and its feedback, then comment below!
Thank YOU for being here, for reading and caring.
In gratitude for meditation, mobiles, & my circle of friends, G xO


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Here's an interesting little bit of information that I discovered today. I preordered Fannie Flagg's I Still Dream About You (out today from Random House!) back in July at the price of $17.55. As of this morning, I honestly couldn't remember if it came out today or next week, so went to the B&N website to check the release date and discovered #1) it did indeed come out today (yay!), and #2) that the price was dropped to $13.97 (double yay!). I was rather happy on both counts, since #1) my book should be shipping today, and #2) that I was getting it for a lesser price. Well, I was only right on one of those counts.
It turns out that you pay the price that was being offered at the time of preorder, regardless if the price goes down on day of release. You have the option of canceling the order and placing a new one, but that's only if you discover the price change before your item is shipped, which I didn't until I got the notice today that showed it had shipped, but at the higher price. I called their "help" line, and their suggestion was that I purchase the book again at the lower price and then return the original item to a store for a credit on the higher price.
Now, maybe I'm just irritable today, but that totally rubs me the wrong way. If you preorder an item from Amazon, for instance, "...the price we charge when we ship it to you will be the lowest price offered by Amazon.com between the time you place your order and the release date" (quoted from their Pricing help link) and I just assumed that everybody did that. I guess I was wrong. It seriously makes me want to reconsider ordering from B&N again in the future.
So, I don't know that this really makes all that big of a deal, but it's just something that I thought that I'd pass on to my readers, just as an FYI.


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I wonder how it would change me to live with the knowledge that I am God's beloved child, that we are all God's beloved children, that God is pleased and delighted by our presence.
From the cloud came a voice that said, "This is my beloved Son, with whom I am well pleased; listen to him." When the disciples heard this, they fell prostrate and were very much afraid. But Jesus came and touched them, saying, "Rise, and do not be afraid." Matthew 17:5b-8


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|Reference : Network Architecture, Barter Exchange and the Diffusion of Ideas
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|International Journal of Agricultural Resources, Governance & Ecology
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|[en] We model knowledge diffusion as agents exchanging ideas through a barter process. The model builds on empirical observations of informal knowledge trading among competing agents. The process takes place on a network substrate in which agents are nodes, and can trade only with those to whom they have direct links (edges). When two agents meet, they make a mutually profitable trade. This process repeats, and is the foundation on which knowledge diffuses through the economy. Our interest is in how the structure of the network affects diffusion performance. The extent of idea diffusion is affected both by the circumference of the graph and by local coherence: diffusion is most efficient when the network is a small world. The distribution of knowledge over agents is also most equal when networks are small worlds.
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European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018 – loss of control of Scottish food standards – Post Brexit
The UK Government decided that all powers currently exercised at the EU level would transfer from Brussels to Westminster and included control over fields of competence presently devolved to Scotland such as the environment, agriculture and fisheries. This prompted accusations from the Scottish government that the Bill was a "naked power grab".
In defence of its actions, the UK Government took the view that the current responsibilities of the devolved institutions were limited anyway by EU law and there would be no reduction in the powers of the devolved bodies if those issues were currently dealt with by the EU were handled at UK level.
The Bill also enabled Westminster to alter retained EU law in future, with the law as amended remaining outside the legislative competence of the Scottish Parliament and included a number of caveats stating that decision-making powers returning from the EU would be allocated within the UK "in a way that works ensuring that no new barriers to living and doing business in the UK are created".
The UK Government also gave notice of its intention to increase decision-making powers to devolved institutions in time, though the Bill was silent on when and how a further devolution of 'repatriated' powers would take place, or which powers would be repatriated but it did state that powers would not be devolved in a way that would hamper the UK's ability to enter into trade agreements.
The foregoing legislation included modifying the aims and outputs of Food Standards (Scotland) (FSS) a non-ministerial entity that was put in place by the Scottish government in 2015 to ensure that information and advice on food safety and standards, nutrition and labelling were independent, consistent, evidence-based and consumer-focused.
With its primary concern being consumer protection the agency was further tasked with making sure that food was safe to eat, ensuring consumers knew what they were eating and improving nutrition. With that in mind, its vision was to deliver food and drink environment in Scotland that benefitted and protected consumers. FSS did develop policies and was a trusted source of advice protecting consumers through the delivery of a robust regulatory and enforcement strategy.
The Bill amended the Scotland Act 1998 forbidding the Scottish Parliament from modifying "retained EU law". but empowered Westminster to alter retained EU laws in future.
Essentially, the effect was to ensure that powers currently outside the competence of the Scottish Parliament because of EU law constraints would remain outside its competence.
Comment: Food import contracts post-Brexit will be compiled negotiated and agreed upon by UK government ministers. Another example of Westminster's colonial control over Scotland.


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There are a lot of stories out there about cops doing wrong, but for every story you hear about an officer breaking the rules there are probably ten stories of police doing something great that you don't hear about. Here are some fun stories of police going above and beyond their duties in the best possible way.
1. The Cop Who Retired in the Best Possible Way
When you get pulled over by the police, you probably get nervous and worry about whether or not you'll get a ticket. But if you happened to be pulled over by Commander Brian Peters on his last day of work, you might have been delightfully surprised to not get a ticket but a gift card.
That's right, to celebrate his last day on the job, Peters sought out people he thought could use a little extra financial help and then gave them $50 gift cards for Target and Cub Foods. He ended up giving out gift cards worth the total of his last paycheck, saying, "The citizens and city have been wonderful to me. I am very blessed, so it feels good to give back."
2. The Officer Who Bought Groceries for a Mother Caught Shoplifting
Police Officer Mark Engravalle of Roeland Park was called to handle a shoplifting case in July of 2015. The shoplifter wasn't a teen looking for a thrill or someone trying to get a new pair of shoes way out of their price range, but a widowed, homeless mother of six who was trying to steal $300 worth of diapers, shoes and baby wipes.
"What she did was wrong and against the law, but her heart was in the right place with wanting to help to take care of her children," Engravalle said. So rather than arrest the mother, Sarah Robinson, he offered to pay for the items to help the suffering mother. "Walmart might see her as a criminal, but I just saw her as a mom going through a really difficult time," the officer explained, though he did still write the mother a ticket as was protocol.
This story has a particularly happy ending as Robinson ended up getting $6,000 in donations sent to the Roeland Park Police Department, which was more than enough to pay for her fine and help her take care of her kids for a while.
3. The Officer That Bought A Shoplifting Father Baby Formula
Like Officer Engravalle, Police Officer Justin Roby didn't want to punish a poor father who was caught shoplifting just to help feed his children. This accused thief tried to take only one item -baby formula, which he needed to help feed his 6 month-old son.
The store understood the father's plight and opted not to press charges and Roby opted to not take the matter any further either, explaining, "He's already short on money, can't afford formula, so me making him appear in court, he's still not going to have any food for that baby."
Of course, he didn't stop there. Roby also wanted to help the dad and ended up buying him several cans of baby formula, ensuring the dad could feed his son for a while before hopefully getting back on his feet.
4. The Cop Who Paid for a Homeless Mother's Hotel Room
When Corporal Che Atkinson of Prince George's County, Maryland heard that a homeless woman and her baby were in her lobby, he followed protocol and called a social worker before heading out on patrol. When she was still there after his shift though, he learned there was no progress in finding them shelter for the night. So Atkinson took matters into his own hands and brought the pair to a hotel and paid for the room using his own money.
When the story started going viral after his sergeant shared a picture of his kindness, Atkinson didn't understand why people were so excited, "I'm a little overwhelmed and shocked. And the reason why is it didn't seem like a big deal to me because I see other officers do stuff like this all the time," he said, "It's not a big deal."
5. The Patrolman Who Bought a Homeless Man Shoes
Most of us take for granted the old "No shirt. No shoes. No service." signs, but what about those who simply can't afford shoes? When officer Kenya Joyner of Lindenwold, New Jersey was called to usher a "disruptive man" off of a bus, he found out the homeless man was breaking the rules by riding the bus without shoes. When he asked the man why he was barefoot, he learned the man didn't have any shoes.
Joyner then took the man across the street to Payless shoes and spent $45 getting the man a pair of new boots. "You realized the situation was he just didn't have shoes. There was no need to make the situation worse than it needed to be. It was somebody who couldn't afford shoes," he later said of his actions.
A woman filmed the incident and put it online, but Joyner shied away from the attention, saying that his fellow officers did similar activities all time without getting attention.
6. The Officer That Saved A Dog From A Car Crash
Police don't just help people. Patrolman Nick Ague became an internet sensation when a picture of him carrying an injured German Shepherd went online. The dog ran away after it was in a vehicle that was hit by another car. The scared pooch ran so far that the skin on the feet of her pads was peeling off. By the time Ague caught up to her, the dog was simply unwilling to walk, so the officer carried her back to her owners.
7. The Policeman Who Pushed A Stranded Wheelchair User Home
Officer Gil Benitez was on patrol during a particularly bad lightning storm when he came across a man in a wheelchair who was stranded in the middle of the street after his electric wheelchair's battery died. Benitez offered to help the man and then proceeded to push the man all the way home before helping him to dry off and waiting for the man's family to arrive.
8. The Two Cops That Bought a Car Seat for a Family Instead of Issuing a Ticket
When officers Jason Pavlige and James Hodges of Fruitport Township, Michigan pulled over a couple in car last year and found the woman holding a 10-month old baby in her arms, they realized the parents simply couldn't afford a car seat. Rather than punishing the parents for their poverty, the cops took them to Walmart and bought them a car seat and even took the time to show them how to install it.
An employee from Walmart saw the officer's behavior and called the precinct to praise the officer's actions, which resulted in the story going public. "It was only brought to our attention by a clerk at Walmart who saw it and thought they should be recognized," said Police Lt. Bruce Morningstar , "they were doing it on their own without any recognition."
9. The Cop Who Fixed a Young Boy's Bicycle
Officer Michael Castillo of Shelton, Connecticut was called to Target to break up a fight between a few kids. When he arrived, he was surprised to discover there was no fight -just a few friends hanging out together. Castillo saw one of the boy's bikes was broken so he stepped in to fix it. That's when bystander Faith Taylor spotted him and took a picture that quickly went viral. The cop didn't even know the picture was online until he was already adored by internet users across the globe, but he was happy when he found out, "It feels great, it really does," Castillo told WTNH. "There's so much negativity in police work everywhere. Just to get this one thing — it's so small, I was just helping a kid out — but it's big to everyone else, and I think this shows a positive outlook on police work."
10. A Child's Christmas That Came Courtesy of Two Police Officers
Most of the stories here involve officers being called to handle some kind of crime, but officers Barry Ward and Terrence Paramore of the Boynton Beach Police Department had no idea what they were in for when they were called to deal with someone hanging up on 9-11. The police discovered the call was simply the result of a baby playing with a phone in the house and accidentally dialing the wrong three-digit number.
When the officers were at the house though, they discovered the family was having a hard time financially, learning that the single mother was having a hard time providing for her children. One of the children happened to say she was sad they couldn't afford a Christmas tree. So Ward and Paramore left -and then returned the next day with a tree, lights and ornaments. The video of their kind act went viral, but the officers weren't done yet. The girl's wonder at the tree inspired them to do more, promising to return to the house closer to Christmas with presents donated by caring community residents.
It's important to remember that for all the negativity out there, there's tons of positivity as well. Here's to all the good guys out there that we never hear about.