As a US Army and Vietnam veteran, I too know the taste of combat - After service I worked for the Hagerstown Police Department for a number of years and would, after work, go to down to Antietam Battle field and walk 'the lane' and the 'corn field' - often thinking about Nam and those days I would like to forget - but always thinking 'and you think you had a bad day'. Gettysburg is but a short trip from Hagerstown, MD - just across the State line a few miles. As a kid in the '50s we learn a lot about civil war in school and about the area, Williamsport, Funkstown, Boonsboro, South Mountain, Chambersburg, etc. The City of Hagerstown had several days of fighting within its limits right after Gettysburg, but it seems to had taken the late 1980s or 90s for the City to even put up a marker or two about those battles. While the City as 'tours' in the summer now, Kids seem to have little or no interest in the past, local or national. Thanks, I think, in part to our education system. At 80 years of age I see kids getting off the 'big yellow bus' - back packs on, and I ask how was school, I get a look of 'oh well', or 'Its okay' - ask what they are taking and 'the same old stuff', but if I ask about history - 'what's history'? - Who knew? But then at 10, 11, 12 or older, it's school. I really MUST thank Threads from the National Tapestry, a fine weave I might add - Thank you and yours for a very fine effort on this and the other material you present - WELL DONE!

Thank you for your excellent and extraordinarily well researched presentation. In 2009, I was teaching in an inner city Catholic grade school whose students were almost all children recently arrived from Sub-Saharan Africa. Being the bicentennial year of Mr. Lincoln's birth, the history classes were focused on him. I arrived early to take the class and discovered the teacher already had them at their assignment, which was the boys and girls standing and reciting the Gettysburg Address from memory. What astounded me was not simply their flawless recall but the reverence and gravity with which these young folk recited the words, almost as if it was sacred text and they had grasped something in the words. Something that we who were born here and grew up with the Address had missed.

Thank you. I’m at Little Round Top at this very moment as the sun is rising over the hill. It’s very sobering.

I live in Gettysburg. The town still celebrates Remembrance Day every November. Evergreen Cemetery is a beautiful and peaceful place to walk. So often, tourists assume that the battle of Gettysburg just took place on the battlefields that surround the town. They don't realize that a lot of the battle took place in the town itself and that there are still buildings marked by bullet holes and embedded shrapnel. It is a wonderful, historic place to live.

Great oratory all of stories from this series are wonderful keep up the great work

I thank you for reciting The Gettysburg Address.

History is absolutely more than dates and places , it is the story of people and their lives.

How anyone could call that poignant speech “silly remarks” is beyond me. I get chills every time I hear it.

This video is excellent. Thank you

I live in Gettysburg, such an awesome place for lovers of history. The irony - my ancestors were plantation owners in Alabama, and I came up in Richmond. Nevertheless, I love my country, and I love even more going for runs along the Gettysburg battlefields. And yes, this is a VERY haunted place. Seems like everyone who lives here has a story.

Thank you.

Very moving.

Thanks so much

Weekly Patriot and Union (Harrisburg, Pa.)'s reappraisal of its earlier opinion, at 33:53, is most impressive!

My Great Grandfather survived Gettysburg. Fought at calvary field for the south. 1834-1901.

POWERFUL 🎉

Between 1-2 million horses and mules died in the civil war. The average life span of horse on the battle fields was 7 months

I truly believe president Lincoln wrested with the conflict between federal power and state right but even more than that he was president of all the people in the United States and that had to be preserved at all costs I've often thought of him as a loving father that had a rebellious child that he would not give up on I truly believe if he had not been killed the restruction in the south would have been totally different may God bless America

that audio level bar is disruptive to the narrative.

There's something about saying numbers have no soul that bothers me. God uses numbers to announce his existence. Numbers are the building blocks of all things not void.