Juneteenth in Petersburg, Virginia
On Friday, June 14 from 1:00pm to 2:00pm, a ceremony will take place in Old Towne Petersburg at the corner of Bank and Sycamore Streets, which historically is known as Corling's Corner. Park Ranger Robert Webster will discuss how human beings were bought, sold, and rented as domestics and laborers to both private citizens and businesses at the end of each year. The event is held in conjunction with Juneteenth, an annual event which commemorates the day in June of 1865 when all slaves in the United States were set free.
About Juneteenth
Also known as Freedom Day or Emancipation Day, Juneteenth is the oldest nationally celebrated commemoration to mark the partial end of slavery in the United States. Celebrated in over 200 cities, Juneteenth's origins are in Galveston, Texas where on June 19, 1865, slaves were informed of their freedom by Union troops including the United States Colored Troops. The commemoration, in modern times, celebrates the continued quest for freedom while also acknowledging the achievements of African Americans. Another goal of Juneteenth is to promote mutual respect among diverse cultures in our community.
Contact: Robert Webster (804) 732-3531 x223.
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The Hermitage was the plantation home of Andrew Jackson, seventh president of the United States, from 1804 until his death in 1845. Completed in 1819, the main house is a two-story Greek Revival, brick mansion. Frontier-born, Jackson was the first chief executive elected from west of the Allegheny Mountains, the first from other than Virginia or Massachusetts, and the first non-aristocrat. The charisma of Old Hickory, his renown as a military hero and Indian fighter, and his astuteness in politics assured his election as president. Although he was a wealthy, slave-holding planter and served in both Houses of Congress, he saw himself and both his supporters and opponents saw him as representing the common man. He not only expanded the powers of the office of president but also virtually redefined them.
Born in 1767 in the British colony of South Carolina, Andrew Jackson joined the American forces during the Revolutionary War. Captured by the British, he suffered great privations. After the Revolutionary War, he moved to Tennessee, where he became a lawyer and entered politics, becoming Tennessee's first congressman, and later a senator and a judge on the Supreme Court of the State.
In 1804, Andrew Jackson purchased a 425-acre tract of land that he named The Hermitage. For the next 15 years, Jackson and his wife, Rachel, lived in a cluster of log buildings on the property. Here they entertained notable visitors including President James Monroe and Aaron Burr. Jackson led the life of a gentleman farmer at The Hermitage until 1813, when the Tennessee militia called him to active service. His military conduct during the Creek War brought him a commission as a major general in the regular United States Army. After the Battle of New Orleans in the War of 1812, he returned to The Hermitage a national hero.
Jackson built the central portion of the present Hermitage mansion between 1818 and 1819 on a site chosen by his wife. The square, two-story brick building followed a four-room, center-hall plan with parlor, dining, and two bedrooms on the first floor and four additional bedrooms on the second.
In 1823, the Tennessee legislature elected Jackson to the United States Senate, but the following year he was an unsuccessful candidate for the presidency. Even though he won the greatest number of popular and electoral votes, he did not have a necessary majority in the Electoral College. This threw the election into the House of Representatives. The House selected John Quincy Adams as president in what Jackson considered a corrupt bargain. Jackson immediately resigned from the Senate to begin planning his next campaign. In the extraordinarily bitter campaign of 1828, he defeated Adams with a majority of 178 electoral votes to 83. His election was in many ways the first modern one, because by this time most States chose their electors by popular vote. His victory was clouded by the death of his wife. She died in January 1829, only a short time before he departed from The Hermitage for the inauguration.
Jackson achieved three major political victories during his two terms as president. He closed the Second Bank of the United States. This action contributed to a nationwide depression and created difficulties during his successor's term. In spite of threats of secession, he disallowed South Carolina to refuse to enforce Federal tariffs, thus nullifying a law with which they disagreed. In his third victory, Jackson, a famous Indian fighter, defied the Supreme Court and launched the removal of the Cherokee, Choctaw, Chickasaw, Creek, and Seminole Tribes from their homelands in the Southeast to Indian Territory in what is now Oklahoma. His successor completed the removal with the tragic Cherokee Trail of Tears.
At the end of his second term as president in 1837, Jackson returned to a vastly changed house. In 1831, he arranged from Washington, DC for an expansion of the original 1819 building. He added one-story to both sides of the house, a dining room, pantry, and storage area on the west and a library and plantation office on the east. In 1834, fire gutted the central and eastern sections of the mansion, leaving only the foundation and exterior walls intact. By May 1835, the reconstruction transformed the front entrance and increased the ceiling heights of both floors. The front elevation was painted white to hide smoke damage. Decorative interior features in the fashionable Greek Revival style included carved marble mantels, classical door and window surrounds, and an apparently unsupported circular staircase. Scenic wallpaper imported from France was installed in the main hall. Dufour made the paper in Paris c. 1825, using 3,500 wooden blocks to handprint and color brush to complete the process.
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10 Of The Most Bizarre And Unexplained Disappearances
10 Of The Most Bizarre And Unexplained Disappearances
The most unsettling thing about disappearances is that, until evidence of the victim's fate comes to light, the story never truly has closure. If a person is missing in a movie, he or she will be found somewhere in the third act, but that's not necessarily how it works in real life.
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I början av 1900-talet har anarkismen blivit en global rörelse. För arbetarna är förhållandena tuffa och behovet av förändring är stor. Anarkisterna förespråkar ett förkastande av borgerliga värderingar och skapar kollektiv där de kan leva som de vill. Statsmakterna har svårt att acceptera det och våldsamma motattacker drar igång.
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Benjamin Butler (politician) | Wikipedia audio article
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Benjamin Butler (politician)
00:02:16 1 Early years
00:04:44 2 Law and early business dealings
00:05:44 3 Entry into politics
00:07:53 4 Civil War
00:08:46 4.1 1860
00:09:41 4.2 Petitioning for military leadership appointment
00:10:50 4.3 1861: Baltimore and Virginia operations
00:13:08 4.4 Fort Monroe, Virginia
00:17:13 4.5 New Orleans
00:18:03 4.5.1 Public health management
00:18:30 4.5.2 Civil administration difficulties
00:21:04 4.5.3 Cotton seizures
00:22:25 4.5.4 Censorship of newspapers
00:23:42 4.5.5 Execution of William Mumford
00:25:06 4.5.6 Actions against foreign consuls
00:26:06 4.5.7 Handling of escaped slaves
00:27:07 4.5.8 Recall
00:27:57 4.6 Army of the James
00:28:47 4.6.1 United States Colored Troops
00:29:34 4.6.2 Petersburg assault
00:31:05 4.7 Fort Fisher and final recall
00:33:07 4.8 Financial dealings
00:38:16 5 Postbellum career
00:38:58 5.1 Congressman
00:42:43 5.2 Business and charitable dealings
00:44:57 5.3 Governor of Massachusetts and run for President
00:48:05 6 Later years and legacy
00:49:30 7 See also
00:49:52 8 Notes
00:50:01 9 Bibliography
00:50:10 10 Further reading
00:50:19 11 External links
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Benjamin Franklin Butler (November 5, 1818 – January 11, 1893) was a major general of the Union Army, politician, lawyer and businessman from Massachusetts. Born in New Hampshire and raised in Lowell, Massachusetts, Butler is best known as a political major general of the Union Army during the American Civil War, and for his leadership role in the impeachment of President Andrew Johnson. He was a colorful and often controversial figure on the national stage and in the Massachusetts political scene, during his one term as Governor.
Butler, a successful trial lawyer, served in the Massachusetts legislature as an antiwar Democrat and as an officer in the state militia. Early in the Civil War he joined the Union Army, where he was noted for his lack of military skill, and his controversial command of New Orleans, which brought him wide dislike in the South and the Beast epithet. He helped create the legal idea of effectively freeing fugitive slaves by designating them as contraband of war in service of military objectives, which led to a political groundswell in the North which included general emancipation and the end of slavery as official war goals. His commands were marred by financial and logistical dealings across enemy lines, some of which probably took place with his knowledge and to his financial benefit.
Butler was dismissed from the Union Army after his failures in the First Battle of Fort Fisher, but soon won election to the United States House of Representatives from Massachusetts. As a Radical Republican he opposed President Johnson's Reconstruction agenda, and was the House's lead manager in the Johnson impeachment proceedings. As Chairman of the House Committee on Reconstruction, Butler authored the Ku Klux Klan Act of 1871 and coauthored the landmark Civil Rights Act of 1875.
In Massachusetts, Butler was often at odds with more conservative members of the political establishment over matters of both style and substance. Feuds with Republican politicians led to his being denied several nominations for the governorship between 1858 and 1880. Returning to the Democratic fold, he won the governship in the 1882 election with Democratic and Greenback Party support. He ran for President on the Greenback ticket in 1884.
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Welcome to THE MAKING OF A NATION -- American history in VOA Special English.
Abraham Lincoln did not live to see the final surrender of the armies of the Confederacy. A Confederate sympathizer shot the president at Ford's Theatre in Washington on April fourteenth, eighteen sixty-five.
By that time, however, the American Civil War really was over.
General Robert E. Lee surrendered in early April, bringing an end to four years of fighting. Several other Confederate armies were still in the field. But they were too small and too weak to continue the fight.
One army was in North Carolina, commanded by General Joe Johnston. Five days after Lee's surrender, Johnston asked for a meeting with General William Sherman, the commander of Union forces in North Carolina.
Sherman met with Johnston a few days later. He offered him the same surrender terms that General Lee had accepted. He said the Confederates must give up their weapons and promise to fight no more. Then they would be free to return to their homes.
Johnston said he could not accept these terms. Johnston said he had the power to surrender all the Confederate armies everywhere in the South he said he would do so if Sherman agreed on a political settlement.
The two generals met again the next day. Sherman listened as Johnston explained his demands. Most of them, Sherman accepted. He believed that President Lincoln wanted to help the South as much as possible. He had heard Lincoln say that he wanted to make it easy for the southern states to return to the Union.
When the agreement was completed, Sherman sent it immediately to Washington for approval by the new president, Andrew Johnson. The agreement seemed to give the South everything it wanted.
President Johnson rejected the agreement. He said Johnston's army must surrender within forty-eight hours or be destroyed. He said the surrender terms could be no better than those given General Lee.
Johnston decided to surrender. On April twenty-sixth, his army laid down its weapons. One by one, the remaining armies surrendered. The soldiers began returning home.
Many of them were bitter. They wanted to continue to fight. They spoke of guerrilla war against the Yankees. But most of the Confederate commanders opposed this. Many, like cavalry General Nathan Bedford Forrest, urged their men to accept defeat.
Confederate President Jefferson Davis fled south after the fall of his government.
On May tenth, Union forces found the Confederate president's camp in southern Georgia. They seized him and took him to Fort Monroe, Virginia. He remained there for many months under close guard. His trial was never held. And finally, in eighteen sixty-seven, he was freed.
Late in May, one hundred fifty thousand Union soldiers, representing every one of the Union armies, came to Washington. They came to take part in a big parade -- a victory march through the city.
For two days, the soldiers marched past the White House. Many of the marching men had fought at Bull Run, at Fredericksburg, Antietam, Gettysburg, Petersburg, and Appomattox. Sherman's western army was there from battles at Shiloh, Vicksburg, Murfreesboro, Chickamauga and Atlanta.
The soldiers marched proudly past the president and other government leaders.
All along the way, from the Capitol building to the White House, were huge crowds of cheering people. Hour after hour, the soldiers passed. Never had the city seen such a celebration. Each group of soldiers had its band and carried its own battle flags. Some proudly carried flags that had been torn in fierce fighting.
Finally, late on the second day, the final group of soldiers passed the White House. The grand parade was over. The battle flags were put away, and the marching bands fell silent. The war was ended. Now, men could look about them and count the cost of the war.
Four years of bloody fighting had saved the Union of states. The northern victory had settled for all time the question of whether states could leave the Union. And it had put to rest the great problem of slavery, which had troubled the nation for so many years.
But the costs were great
Hundreds of cities and towns suffered damage. Some -- like Atlanta -- were completely destroyed by Union forces. The damage outside the populated areas was almost as great. Union armies had marched across the South leaving behind them widespread destruction.
The South had no money to rebuild. Businessmen and rich landowners had put their money in Confederate bonds, now completely worthless. Confederate war debts would never be paid.
There was also the question of the four million former slaves. They were free now. But few could take care of themselves. They needed jobs and training.
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07:29 - HF1235 (Kresha) Investment in rural jobs tax credit created.
11:24 - HF1354 (Swedzinski) Unused section 179 and bonus depreciation subtraction carryover allowed.
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Speaker Biography: Ron Chernow is the prize-winning author of six previous books and the recipient of the 2015 National Humanities Medal. His first book, The House of Morgan, won the National Book Award. Washington: A Life won the Pulitzer Prize for Biography, and Alexander Hamilton—the inspiration for the megahit Broadway musical—won the American History Book Prize. A past president of PEN America, Chernow has been the recipient of eight honorary doctorates. His recent book is Grant (Penguin), a biography of the 18th president. He resides in Brooklyn, New York.
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