Podcasts about union general

As the future of the Cook Strait ferries becomes clearer, some are lamenting how long it's taken. Two new road and rail-enabled ferries and port-side infrastructure will be ready by late 2029. Rail and Maritime Transport Union General Secretary Todd Valster says while the cost isn't public yet, he's happy they will be rail-enabled. He told Andrew Dickens the delays haven't given people confidence. Valster says the previous Government's plan took ages to put together and there's been more delays as this Government's plan has emerged. LISTEN ABOVE See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

There are fresh developments in the Government's Cook Strait ferry headache. Hyundai is back in the running to land a deal after the coalition canned its original contract in 2023, blaming ballooning costs. Documents show the Government's set aside $300 million to cover that broken deal, which must be paid regardless of whether a new deal is struck. Rail and Maritime Transport Union General Secretary Todd Valster told Andrew Dickens the Government rushed to cancel the original deal. He reckons the amount of money lost is far higher, saying the $300 million doesn't recognise costs of procurement – with estimations up to a billion dollars could have been spent. Although, he says, it's good to see Rail Minister Winston Peters has made a trip to Korea to speak with the ship builders. LISTEN ABOVE See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

There's hopes a ruling against Uber could help empower other contractors. The Court of Appeal has ruled four Uber drivers are employees, not contractors. Uber says it will appeal and claims the move will increase uncertainty for workers who enjoy the flexibility of contract work. First Union General Secretary Dennis Maga says it could have wider implications. He says while likely limited to other Uber drivers at the moment, the ruling could help other contractors make their case. LISTEN ABOVESee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

There's hopes a ruling against Uber could help empower other contractors. The Court of Appeal has ruled four Uber drivers are employees, not contractors. Uber says it will appeal and claims the move will increase uncertainty for workers who enjoy the flexibility of contract work. First Union General Secretary Dennis Maga says it could have wider implications. He says while likely limited to other Uber drivers at the moment, the ruling could help other contractors make their case. LISTEN ABOVESee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Desperate to redeem his family name, Porter soon joined the ranks of West Point.

Many people regard Ulysses S. Grant as a great Union General but lackluster President. But isn't there more to this American hero's story? Dr. Anne Marshall, Executive Director of the Ulysses S. Grant Presidential Library, shares more about the successes and imperfections of our 18th President and the mission and vision of this unique presidential library located at Mississippi State University in Starkville, MS.Learn more about the presidential library before your visit at usgrantlibrary.org!Support the showNEW! Visit georgewashingtoninstitute.org for the one-stop shop of all things Friends & Fellow Citizens and George Washington Institute!JOIN as a Patreon supporter and receive a FREE Friends & Fellow Citizens mug at the $10 membership level or higher!SUBSCRIBE to our e-mail list for the latest news and updates from Friends & Fellow Citizens!NOTE: All views expressed by the host are presented in his personal capacity and do not officially represent the views of any affiliated organizations. All guests on interview episodes are solely those of the interviewees and may or may not reflect the views of the host or Friends & Fellow Citizens.

Questions over how fog cannons and body cameras in Woolworths stores will mitigate the rising abuse of staff.  The supermarket giant is reporting a 131% rise in physical assaults on staff in the past six months, compared to the same time last year.  It's also launching an in-store campaign to encourage customers to respect workers as they head into the busiest time of year.  First Union General Secretary Dennis Maga told Kate Hawkesby that those security measures could work short-term.  He says intervention is needed in the long run, particularly as the rate of unruly behaviour increases.  LISTEN ABOVE See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Sherman's March to the Sea is remembered for brutal tactics that confiscated or destroyed food, livestock, and supplies. Railroads were dismantled, and industry disrupted. The devastation was widespread, and not only limited to military targets. Homes, farms, and civilian infrastructure became casualties of the ...

 The first time I didn't see the Mississippi Delta was in 1997. My friend John and I were on the first of what became multiple tours of the southeast. We had very little in the way of a plan of where we were going, except we knew that we wanted to make it to New Orleans. We weren't sure how we were going to get there, but when we did get there, we headed due south on Louisiana Highway 23.We launch The DETOURIST from Vicksburg, Mississippi. And the first thing we do is—that's right—take a detour. On the way we encounter the rarely-told story of how a racial massacre in 1874 brought a former Union General back to center stage, and the story of an unlikely experiment in Black self-government in antebellum Mississippi. Get full access to The DETOURIST at adeepersouth.substack.com/subscribe

Dark Windows Podcast ep. 252: Oh dear friends, come with us this week on a voyage into murder and mayhem being carried out by the US Cavalry against a tribe of Native Americans. I know that's pretty vague because it happened A LOT, but look at the title. That's the one we are talking about. It all started with a stolen horse and it ended a Union General (and a damn good one by the way) giving a bad order... https://pdcn.co/e/traffic.megaphone.fm/AOR4326335088.mp3?updated=1693529468 If you want more you can go over to https://www.patreon.com/darkwindowspodcast and become a Patron for just $5 a month and get a bonus episode every week! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

532. Part 2 of our conversation with Eli Langley, a member of the Coushatta Tribe and a graduate of Harvard. “Eli Langley '21 grew up in a family devoted to safeguarding the culture, history, and language of the Coushatta Tribe. His father, a tribal cultural adviser, and his mother, an anthropologist and tribal historian, nourished him with Native folktales and inspired him early on to take pride in his roots. At 12, he asked his parents to send him to a boarding school to challenge himself academically. At 18, he learned Koasati, the language of his tribe, becoming its youngest speaker, and in 2016, he became the first member of the Coushatta Tribe to be admitted to Harvard. Now, upon his graduation this month, he will become the first tribal member to use their Native language to fulfill the College's second language requirement.... 'My story is a continuation of my people's story,' said Langley. 'I'm a cog in the wheel, and I stand on the shoulders of giants. I know that I'm only able to undertake these things with the strength and the knowledge of my culture.'” (Harvard Gazette) This week in Louisiana history. July 21 1861 William T Sherman (former head of LSU) was the Union General to lead forces at the battle of Manassas, Va. This week in New Orleans history. The Carondelet streetcar began its run on July 29, 1866.  This uptown line ran on its namesake street from Canal Street to Napoleon Ave. At its most extensive, it also ran on Freret Street from Napoleon to Broadway, on trackage that eventually became part of the Freret line, and it crossed Canal Street into the French Quarter, pioneering the route of the later Desire line. It ceased on September 7, 1924. This week in Louisiana. Sabine National Wildlife Refuge 3000 Holly Beach Highway Hackberry, LA 70645 Email sabine@fws.gov Sabine National Wildlife Refuge ,about 8 miles south of Hackberry, on State Highway 27, was established in 1937 to provide habitat for migratory waterfowl and other birds. The refuge consists of a basin of wetlands located between the Gulf's beach cheniers (oak ridges)and the coastal prairie, which is one of the most productive and fertile areas of North America. It encompasses 124,511 acres of fresh,intermediate and brackish marshes and is one of the largest estuarine-dependent marine species nurseries in southwest Louisiana. It has also been designated as an "Internationally Important Bird Area" due to the numerous wading, water and marsh birds that utilize it throughout the year. Over 280,000 people visit the refuge annually. The exhibits in the refuge visitor center and the Wetland Walkway are considered two of the principal tourist attractions in southwest Louisiana. The refuge is an integral part of the Creole Nature Trail All American Road Postcards from Louisiana. Single Malt Please with Maude Caillat at the BMC Bar on Decatur St. in New Orleans.Listen on Google Play. Listen on Google Podcasts. Listen on Spotify. Listen on Stitcher. Listen on TuneIn. The Louisiana Anthology Home Page. Like us on Facebook. 

About this episode:  In the first days of the American Civil War, Winfield Scott, the then 74-year-old Union General-in-Chief, advised a strategy that he believed was key in putting down the Southern rebellion.  Derisively tabbed the “Anaconda” Plan, Scott believed: one, the Border States had to be held and used as avenues for invasion; two, Southern ports should be blockaded and, third, to split the Confederacy, the Mississippi River should become a Union highway.  This is the story of the incredible campaign that made Scott's third element reality.  This is the story of Ulysses S. Grant's campaign and siege of Vicksburg.                          ----more---- Some Characters Mentioned In This Episode: David G. Farragut John Alexander McClernand John C. Pemberton Earl Van Dorn Nathan Bedford Forrest Stephen D. Lee   Additional Resources: Assaults on Vicksburg - May 22nd, 1863   Operations against Vicksburg and Grant's Bayou Operations - November 1862 through April 1863   Get The Guide: Want to learn more about the Civil War? A great place to start is Fred's guide, The Civil War: A History of the War between the States from Workman Publishing. The guide is in its 9th printing.   Subscribe to the Threads from the National Tapestry YouTube Channel here   Thank you to our sponsor, The Badge Maker - proudly carrying affordable Civil War Corps Badges and other hand-made historical reproductions for reenactors, living history interpreters, and lovers of history. Check out The Badge Maker and place your orders here   Producer: Dan Irving

Jordan Rich filled in on NightSide:On June 19, 1865, in Galveston, Texas, Major General Gordon Granger, a US Army officer and Union General during the Civil War, announced that all slaves were free. This news came two years after President Abraham Lincoln had issued the Emancipation Proclamation which declared "that all persons held as slaves" within the rebellious states "are, and henceforward shall be free." Jordan welcomed Peter Drummey, Chief Historian and Stephen T. Riley Librarian for the Massachusetts Historical Society, to expand upon the history of Juneteenth.

Today the United States celebrates Juneteenth, the commemoration of the emancipation of slaves in America. Two years after President Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation, and nearly 90 years after the signing of the Declaration of Independence, Union Army troops deployed to Texas, the only state of the Confederacy still with institutional slavery, on June 19, 1865. “The people of Texas are informed,” ordered a Union General, “that in accordance with a proclamation from the Executive of the United States, all slaves are free.”There's no question—that military order deserves celebration.This idea of fighting for freedom, of asserting one's rightful dignity in a cruel or unjust world, is the journey of Epictetus, which we tell in The Girl Who Would Be Free. In the beautifully illustrated, all-ages fable we learn how Epictetus went from a slave to one of the most influential philosophers of all time.This month we are celebrating the 1-year anniversary of the release. If you purchase The Girl Who Would Be Free, we are giving you 75% OFF of The Boy Who Would Be King! We have signed and personalized copies available, so don't miss out on this fantastic deal!---And in today's Daily Stoic Journal excerpt, Ryan discusses why the Stoics preach the values of stepping away from work to take a walk outside.✉️ Sign up for the Daily Stoic email: https://dailystoic.com/dailyemail

A call for employers to take more precautionary action, as supermarket crime soars. Since 2020, Foodstuffs says there's been a 246 percent rise in serious crime. The company has confirmed 29 of its supermarkets in the North Island are using facial recognition technology, prompting concern Foodstuffs is collecting sensitive information about shoppers without their knowledge. First Union General Secretary Dennis Maga told Kate Hawkesby facial recognition may help, but won't be enough to deter offenders. He says they'd like employers to hire loss prevention officers, train staff how to de-escalate a situation - and make sure there is enough staffing in the workplace.  LISTEN ABOVE  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

A call for employers to take more precautionary action, as supermarket crime soars. Since 2020, Foodstuffs says there's been a 246 percent rise in serious crime. The company has confirmed 29 of its supermarkets in the North Island are using facial recognition technology, prompting concern Foodstuffs is collecting sensitive information about shoppers without their knowledge. First Union General Secretary Dennis Maga told Kate Hawkesby facial recognition may help, but won't be enough to deter offenders. He says they'd like employers to hire loss prevention officers, train staff how to de-escalate a situation - and make sure there is enough staffing in the workplace.  LISTEN ABOVE  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Part 1 of our Red River Campaign episode explores the dichotomy between political generals and hard-nosed professional soldiers before surveying American Civil War action in Louisiana. We also get to meet Union General (and former Speaker of the House) Nathaniel Banks and U.S. Navy hero Admiral David Dixon Porter--along with Rebel Generals Richard Taylor and Kirby Smith. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

First Union isn't happy that the Government didn't talk to them before announcing it would allow skilled workers in on pay rates lower than the median wage. The Government yesterday announced they are allowing an extra 12,000 migrant workers to help businesses that were hardest hit by job shortages. First Union represents workers in three industries included in the agreement — construction, meat and seafood. First Union General Secretary Dennis Maga joined Heather du Plessis-Allan. LISTEN ABOVESee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This episode features Evalyn Ormond, CEO of Union General Hospital, joined the podcast to talk about the urgent need for rural healthcare organizations and how she's inspiring her teams for the future.

Public Services Association union's media team informed 2GB Drive that General Secretary Stewart Little couldn't come on the show because the union is "exhausted" after today's public sector workers strike. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In this episode you'll hear the story of a Union General who was very well respected but died in an incredibly stupid way (Major General John Sedgwick), and Lev and Derek look into the ludicrously extravagant and over-the-top life of one of Britain's first Gay Icons (Henry Paget, 5th Marquess of Anglesey) Now in Video Podcast format Support us on Patreon Visit our Instagram Or our Twitter Hosts: Lev & Derek https://linktr.ee/Lev_Myskin https://linktr.ee/ThatEffnGuy Artist: Sarah Chey https://www.fiverr.com/sarahchey Circus Man by Jeris (c) copyright 2012 Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (3.0) license. http://dig.ccmixter.org/files/VJ_Memes/37243 Ft: A.M. mews by MommaLuv SKyTower --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/historysgreatestidiots/support

In this episode you'll hear the story of a Union General who was very well respected but died in an incredibly stupid way (Major General John Sedgwick), and Lev and Derek look into the ludicrously extravagant and over-the-top life of one of Britain's first Gay Icons (Henry Paget, 5th Marquess of Anglesey) Now in Video Podcast format Support us on Patreon Visit our Instagram Or our Twitter Hosts: Lev & Derek https://linktr.ee/Lev_Myskin https://linktr.ee/ThatEffnGuy Artist: Sarah Chey https://www.fiverr.com/sarahchey Circus Man by Jeris (c) copyright 2012 Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (3.0) license. http://dig.ccmixter.org/files/VJ_Memes/37243 Ft: A.M. mews by MommaLuv SKyTower --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/historysgreatestidiots/support

On January 21, 1863, Union General Ambrose Burnside's Army of the Potomac began an offensive against General Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia that quickly bogged down as several days of heavy rain turned the roads of Virginia into a muddy quagmire. The campaign was abandoned a few days later. The Union army was still reeling from the disastrous Battle of Fredericksburg, Virginia, on December 13, 1862. Burnside's force suffered more than 13,000 casualties as it assaulted Lee's troops along hills above Fredericksburg. Lee suffered around 5,000 casualties, making Fredericksburg one of the most one-sided engagements in the Eastern theater of operations. Morale was low among the Yankees that winter. In mid-January, Burnside sought to raise morale and seize the initiative from Lee. His plan was to swing around Lee's left flank and draw the Confederates away from their defenses and into the open. Speed was essential to the operation. January had been a dry month to that point, but as soon as the Federals began to move, a drizzle turned into a downpour that lasted for four days. Logistical problems delayed the laying of a pontoon bridge across the Rappahannock River, and a huge traffic jam snarled the army's progress. In one day, the 5th New York moved only a mile and a half. The roads became unnavigable, and conflicting orders caused two corps to march across each other's paths. Horses, wagons, and cannons were stuck in mud, and the element of surprise was lost. Jeering Confederates taunted the Yankees with shouts and signs that read “Burnside's Army Stuck in the Mud.” Burnside turned his Army around and abandoned the fight due primarily because of the weather. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In 1862, after struggling for over a year to join the war effort dozen of men from the Seneca and Tuscarora nation were finally given a chance to showcase their prowess and courage.  Notes Armstrong, William H. Warrior in Two Camps: Ely S. Parker, Union General, and Seneca. Syracuse University Press, 1978. Federal Publishing Company. The Union Army A History of Military Affairs in the Loyal States 1861-65 — Records of the Regiments in the Union Army — Cyclopedia of Battles — Memoirs of Commanders and Soldiers Volumn VI Cyclopedia of Battles — Helena Road to Z. United States Army Reports.  Madison, Wisconsin: Federal Publishing Company, 1908. Gibson, Arrell Morgan. "Native Americans and the Civil War." American Indian Quarterly (Oct. 1985): 385–410. Hauptman, Laurence M “A Seneca Indian in the Union Army: The Civil War Letters of Sergeant Isaac Newton Parker”, 1861-1865” 1995 Hauptman, Laurence M. The Iroquois in the Civil War: From Battlefield to Reservation. Syracuse University Press, 1992. https://www.americanindianmagazine.org/story/army-logic-tuscarora-company-civil-war https://web.archive.org/web/20101224094712/http://civilwarreference.com/battles/detail.php?battlesID=1271 Images of America Tuscarora Nation Bryan Printup and Neiil Patterson Jr. Arcadia Publishing 2007

After killing US District Attorney Barton and getting off on the first-ever use of a temporary insanity defense, Dan Sickles keeps up the shenanigans for the rest of his life, becoming one of the most senior politically appointed generals in the Union, one of the most controversial figures of the battle of Gettysburg, military governor after the war, and a US ambassador. He also managed to get fired nearly every step of the way, too.This week's Ghost of Arlington is:Army Major General Daniel Sickles (Section 3, Grave 1908) As always, a very special thanks to Mountain Up Cap Company for its continued help to spread the word about the podcast on Facebook at: https://www.facebook.com/MountainUpCapCompany Climb to Glory!For more information about the podcast visit: ·       The GoA website: https://www.ghostsofarlingtonpodcast.com    ·       Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ghostsofarlingtonpodcast·       Twitter: https://twitter.com/ArlingtonGhosts·       Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ghostsofarlington/

Dan Sickles might be best known as the US Representative from New York who shot and killed the unarmed US District Attorney Philip Barton Key in Lafayette Square. The murder of the son of Star-Spangled Banner author Francis Scott Key just steps from the White House drew the attention of the entire nation and was the first trial watched nationwide with real-time updates thanks to the telegraph.Sickles admitted to killing key and several people saw the murder take place in broad daylight, so how did his legal dream team get him acquitted? Listen to part I of the Dan Sickles story to find out. You'll also get to hear about the time he presented an American brothel owner, who happened to be his plus one, to Queen Victoria at a royal reception in London and the time he had an affair with his future mother-in-law while his future wife was an infant. And yes, you read that last sentence correctly. This mad lad lead such a crazy life that we're going to have to wait until next week to talk about how he became the highest-ranking non-West Pointer of the Army of the Potomac, his absolutely terrible decision-making skills at the Battle of Gettysburg, his affair with the Queen of Spain, and which museum has his leg bones on display. We'll also mention where in Arlington he is buried next week as well.As always, a very special thanks to Mountain Up Cap Company for its continued help to spread the word about the podcast on Facebook at: https://www.facebook.com/MountainUpCapCompany Climb to Glory!For more information about the podcast visit: ·       The GoA website: https://www.ghostsofarlingtonpodcast.com    ·       Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ghostsofarlingtonpodcast·       Twitter: https://twitter.com/ArlingtonGhostsInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/ghostsofarlington/ 

The second part of the man, the legend Dan Sickles. With the country torn apart Dan decides, "Fck it, I killed a man, I can be a Union General!" We explore his controversial actions at the infamous Battle of Gettysburg, his continued fascination with Cuba and his life long search for poon.

This episode is sponsored by Zondervan's new book Person of Interest: Why Jesus still matters in a world that rejects the Bible by J. Warner Wallace.Meet Our Guests Nigel Biggar: Regius Professor of Moral & Pastoral Theology, and Director of the McDonald Centre for Theology, Ethics, & Public Life, University of Oxford. Andrew Hastie: Australian Federal Member for Canning and Assistant Minister for Defence. Former Officer, Australian Defence Force. Links “There is no flag large enough to cover the shame of killing innocent people," is a quote from Howard Zinn's 2011 book On War. We quote statistics from the Armed Conflict Location and Event Data Project. The Effect of War on Economic Growth, report from Cato Institute. Listen to Winston Churchill's full speech, We Will Never Surrender, from 1940. Read Nigel Biggar's book, In Defence of War.  Find out more about Augustine's City of God.  You can read more of the letters between Augustine and his Christian military officers,Marcellinus and Boniface, here. Australian war casualty statistics are from the Australian War Memorial. Read Romans 13 for yourself. Mike Bird was one of our 'phone a friend' guests for this episode. He wrote The Story of God commentary for the Book of Romans for Zondervan and is a lecturer at Ridley College. Henry Chadwick is the great Augustine biographer. He wrote the Oxford Very Short Introduction to Augustine which you can find here. Read the Australian Broadcasting Corporation reporting on the alleged war crimes committed by Australian soldiers in Afghanistan. You can find the full Inspector-General of the Australian Defence Force Afghanistan Inquiry report (commonly known as the Brereton Report), here. More on Thomas Aquinas and Just War. If you're using Apple Podcasts, go to undeceptions.com for the full show notes, which cut off after 4000 characters here. We did a big, two-part episode on the Crusades in Season 4 - called 'God's War I and II'. Learn more about General William Tecumseh Sherman, the Union General who said, "War is hell".  Jarrod McKenna was another of our lovely 'phone a friend' guests for this episode. He is an advocate for non-violence direct action. Christianity Today profiled a series of 'Christian soldiers' back in 2015 for a series called Ponder Christian Soldiers.  We featured a clip from The West Wing, Season 1 Episode 3: A Proportional Response. Find out more about Carl von Clauswitz and his 1832 tome, On War. Here's the Australian Defence Force Philosophical Doctrine we quote from towards the end of the episode. Here's the plot of Shakespeare's Henry V. Watch The Hollow Crown: Henry V. 

Brad Asher, author of "The Most Hated Man in Kentucky: The Lost Cause and the Legacy of Union General Stephen Burbridge"

Brad Asher, author of "The Most Hated Man in Kentucky: The Lost Cause and the Legacy of Union General Stephen Burbridge"

Brad Asher, author of "The Most Hated Man in Kentucky: The Lost Cause and the Legacy of Union General Stephen Burbridge"

Brad Asher, author of "The Most Hated Man in Kentucky: The Lost Cause and the Legacy of Union General Stephen Burbridge"

For the last third of the nineteenth century, Union General Stephen Gano Burbridge, also known as the “Butcher of Kentucky,” enjoyed the unenviable distinction of being the most hated man in Kentucky. From mid-1864, just months into his reign as the military commander of the state, until his death in December 1894, the mere mention of his name triggered a firestorm of curses from editorialists and politicians. By the end of Burbridge's tenure, Governor Thomas E. Bramlette concluded that he was an “imbecile commander” whose actions represented nothing but the “blundering of a weak intellect and an overwhelming vanity.”Part of what earned him this reputation was his heavy handedness to suppress attacks on Union citizens. On July 16, 1864, Burbridge issued Order No. 59 which declared: "Whenever an unarmed Union citizen is murdered, four guerrillas will be selected from the prison and publicly shot to death at the most convenient place near the scene of the outrages." He was also hated for extreme measures to ensure re-election of Lincoln by suppressing support in Kentucky for Democratic candidate George McClellan. His actions included arresting prominent persons favoring the candidate, including the Lieutenant Governor, whom he deported.Today's guest is Brad Asher, author of a new biography on Burbridge. We discuss how he earned his infamous reputation and adds an important new layer to the ongoing reexamination of Kentucky during and after the Civil War. As both a Kentuckian and the local architect of the destruction of slavery, he became the scapegoat for white Kentuckians, including many in the Unionist political elite, who were unshakably opposed to emancipation. Beyond successfully recalibrating history's understanding of Burbridge, Asher's biography adds administrative and military context to the state's reaction to emancipation and sheds new light on its postwar pro-Confederacy shift.

David Dixon on "The American Civil War: A Radical, International Revolution" For more info: WWW.ChicagoCWRT.org On October 8th historian David Dixon will talk about an aspect of the Civil War not often discussed--”the role of foreign, German transplants”--based on the life of one of those immigrants, August Willich. Dixon's latest book, Radical Warrior: August Willich's Journey from German Revolutionary to Union General (on which this talk is based) is the biography of a Prussian army officer who renounced his nobility and joined in the failed European revolutions of 1848. He emigrated to America, edited a daily labor newspaper in Cincinnati, and became one of the most accomplished generals in the Union Army. This story sheds new light on the contributions of 200,000 German-Americans who fought for the Union in the Civil War. In an age of global social, economic, and political upheaval, transatlantic radicals helped affect America's second great revolution. For many recent immigrants, the nature and implications of that revolution turned not on Lincoln's relatively conservative goal of maintaining the national Union, but on issues of social justice, including slavery, free labor, and popular self-government. The Civil War was not simply a war to end sectional divides, but to restore the soul of the nation, revive the hopes of democrats worldwide, and defend human rights. David Dixon earned his M.A. in history from the University of Massachusetts in 2003. His first book, The Lost Gettysburg Address, told the unusual life story of Texas slaveholder Charles Anderson, whose speech followed Lincoln's at Gettysburg, but was never published. It turned up 140 years later in a cardboard box in Wyoming. David has presented to more than sixty Civil War Round Tables from coast to coast. He hosts B-List History, a website that features obscure characters and their compelling stories at www.davidtdixon.com. David's latest book, published by the University of Tennessee Press, is the biography of German revolutionary and Union General August Willich. His current project is a biography that highlights the role of emotions in Southern allegiance in the Civil War.

Iain Dale is joined by candidates for the position of General Secretary for Unite the Union Sharon Graham and Gerard Coyne. Candidate Steve Turner declined to appear.

Iain Dale is joined by candidates for the position of General Secretary for Unite the Union Sharon Graham and Gerard Coyne. Candidate Steve Turner declined to appear.

ON THIS EPISODE On June 17, 2021 Juneteenth became an official federal holiday, just 38 years after Martin Luther King Jr. Day was deemed an official federal holiday as well. On June 19, 1865, a Union General rode into Galveston, Texas to announce that the Civil War had ended, and slaves had been freed. For this episode hosts Jonathan Rapping and Ilham Askia dive into the discussion of emancipation, and what emancipation truly means in the 21st century. This week's featured guest is Alejo Rodriguez, the Chief of Curriculum and Storytelling at Zealous. Listen in as they speak about what emancipation means to them, how we can change our system with human-centered policies, and how to truly celebrate Juneteenth.

Today I talked to Edward G. Longacre about his new book Unsung Hero of Gettysburg: The Story of Union General David McMurtrie Gregg (University of Nebraska Press, 2021). On the 3rd day of the Battle of Gettysburg, Union cavalry officer David Gregg ensured that Jeb Stuart's Confederate cavalry troops didn't succeed. Stuart's orders were to attack the right flank of the Army of the Potomac and create a pincer movement by attacking from behind while Pickett's forces made their disastrous frontal attack known as Pickett's charge. Outnumbered by probably 2 to 1, Gregg's men and the commandeered cavalry led by George Custer held off the Confederate horsemen, helping to seal the military victory. Gregg and Custer got along well but could hardly have been more different. One was reserved, the other flamboyant. And it would of course be Custer who went down in the history books for being impulsive, while the levelheaded Gregg provided solid leadership whether at Gettysburg or elsewhere during the war. This episode goes into all of that and more, including what type of person tended to be most attracted to the cavalry (independent, hell-for-leather types). Ed Longacre is a retired historian for the U.S. Department of Defense and the award-winning author of numerous books on the Civil War in addition to writing top-secret documents for the U.S. Airforce. One of his ancestors took part in the torching of part of William and Mary College during the Civil War as an act of revenge following the Confederate seizure of some of his comrades in arms. Dan Hill, PhD, is the author of eight books and leads Sensory Logic, Inc. (https://www.sensorylogic.com). To check out his related blog, visit https://emotionswizard.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network

Today I talked to Edward G. Longacre about his new book Unsung Hero of Gettysburg: The Story of Union General David McMurtrie Gregg (University of Nebraska Press, 2021). On the 3rd day of the Battle of Gettysburg, Union cavalry officer David Gregg ensured that Jeb Stuart's Confederate cavalry troops didn't succeed. Stuart's orders were to attack the right flank of the Army of the Potomac and create a pincer movement by attacking from behind while Pickett's forces made their disastrous frontal attack known as Pickett's charge. Outnumbered by probably 2 to 1, Gregg's men and the commandeered cavalry led by George Custer held off the Confederate horsemen, helping to seal the military victory. Gregg and Custer got along well but could hardly have been more different. One was reserved, the other flamboyant. And it would of course be Custer who went down in the history books for being impulsive, while the levelheaded Gregg provided solid leadership whether at Gettysburg or elsewhere during the war. This episode goes into all of that and more, including what type of person tended to be most attracted to the cavalry (independent, hell-for-leather types). Ed Longacre is a retired historian for the U.S. Department of Defense and the award-winning author of numerous books on the Civil War in addition to writing top-secret documents for the U.S. Airforce. One of his ancestors took part in the torching of part of William and Mary College during the Civil War as an act of revenge following the Confederate seizure of some of his comrades in arms. Dan Hill, PhD, is the author of eight books and leads Sensory Logic, Inc. (https://www.sensorylogic.com). To check out his related blog, visit https://emotionswizard.com. Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/american-south

Today I talked to Edward G. Longacre about his new book Unsung Hero of Gettysburg: The Story of Union General David McMurtrie Gregg (University of Nebraska Press, 2021). On the 3rd day of the Battle of Gettysburg, Union cavalry officer David Gregg ensured that Jeb Stuart's Confederate cavalry troops didn't succeed. Stuart's orders were to attack the right flank of the Army of the Potomac and create a pincer movement by attacking from behind while Pickett's forces made their disastrous frontal attack known as Pickett's charge. Outnumbered by probably 2 to 1, Gregg's men and the commandeered cavalry led by George Custer held off the Confederate horsemen, helping to seal the military victory. Gregg and Custer got along well but could hardly have been more different. One was reserved, the other flamboyant. And it would of course be Custer who went down in the history books for being impulsive, while the levelheaded Gregg provided solid leadership whether at Gettysburg or elsewhere during the war. This episode goes into all of that and more, including what type of person tended to be most attracted to the cavalry (independent, hell-for-leather types). Ed Longacre is a retired historian for the U.S. Department of Defense and the award-winning author of numerous books on the Civil War in addition to writing top-secret documents for the U.S. Airforce. One of his ancestors took part in the torching of part of William and Mary College during the Civil War as an act of revenge following the Confederate seizure of some of his comrades in arms. Dan Hill, PhD, is the author of eight books and leads Sensory Logic, Inc. (https://www.sensorylogic.com). To check out his related blog, visit https://emotionswizard.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/military-history

Today I talked to Edward G. Longacre about his new book Unsung Hero of Gettysburg: The Story of Union General David McMurtrie Gregg (University of Nebraska Press, 2021). On the 3rd day of the Battle of Gettysburg, Union cavalry officer David Gregg ensured that Jeb Stuart's Confederate cavalry troops didn't succeed. Stuart's orders were to attack the right flank of the Army of the Potomac and create a pincer movement by attacking from behind while Pickett's forces made their disastrous frontal attack known as Pickett's charge. Outnumbered by probably 2 to 1, Gregg's men and the commandeered cavalry led by George Custer held off the Confederate horsemen, helping to seal the military victory. Gregg and Custer got along well but could hardly have been more different. One was reserved, the other flamboyant. And it would of course be Custer who went down in the history books for being impulsive, while the levelheaded Gregg provided solid leadership whether at Gettysburg or elsewhere during the war. This episode goes into all of that and more, including what type of person tended to be most attracted to the cavalry (independent, hell-for-leather types). Ed Longacre is a retired historian for the U.S. Department of Defense and the award-winning author of numerous books on the Civil War in addition to writing top-secret documents for the U.S. Airforce. One of his ancestors took part in the torching of part of William and Mary College during the Civil War as an act of revenge following the Confederate seizure of some of his comrades in arms. Dan Hill, PhD, is the author of eight books and leads Sensory Logic, Inc. (https://www.sensorylogic.com). To check out his related blog, visit https://emotionswizard.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/history

Today I talked to Edward G. Longacre about his new book Unsung Hero of Gettysburg: The Story of Union General David McMurtrie Gregg (University of Nebraska Press, 2021). On the 3rd day of the Battle of Gettysburg, Union cavalry officer David Gregg ensured that Jeb Stuart's Confederate cavalry troops didn't succeed. Stuart's orders were to attack the right flank of the Army of the Potomac and create a pincer movement by attacking from behind while Pickett's forces made their disastrous frontal attack known as Pickett's charge. Outnumbered by probably 2 to 1, Gregg's men and the commandeered cavalry led by George Custer held off the Confederate horsemen, helping to seal the military victory. Gregg and Custer got along well but could hardly have been more different. One was reserved, the other flamboyant. And it would of course be Custer who went down in the history books for being impulsive, while the levelheaded Gregg provided solid leadership whether at Gettysburg or elsewhere during the war. This episode goes into all of that and more, including what type of person tended to be most attracted to the cavalry (independent, hell-for-leather types). Ed Longacre is a retired historian for the U.S. Department of Defense and the award-winning author of numerous books on the Civil War in addition to writing top-secret documents for the U.S. Airforce. One of his ancestors took part in the torching of part of William and Mary College during the Civil War as an act of revenge following the Confederate seizure of some of his comrades in arms. Dan Hill, PhD, is the author of eight books and leads Sensory Logic, Inc. (https://www.sensorylogic.com). To check out his related blog, visit https://emotionswizard.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/biography

Today I talked to Edward G. Longacre about his new book Unsung Hero of Gettysburg: The Story of Union General David McMurtrie Gregg (University of Nebraska Press, 2021). On the 3rd day of the Battle of Gettysburg, Union cavalry officer David Gregg ensured that Jeb Stuart's Confederate cavalry troops didn't succeed. Stuart's orders were to attack the right flank of the Army of the Potomac and create a pincer movement by attacking from behind while Pickett's forces made their disastrous frontal attack known as Pickett's charge. Outnumbered by probably 2 to 1, Gregg's men and the commandeered cavalry led by George Custer held off the Confederate horsemen, helping to seal the military victory. Gregg and Custer got along well but could hardly have been more different. One was reserved, the other flamboyant. And it would of course be Custer who went down in the history books for being impulsive, while the levelheaded Gregg provided solid leadership whether at Gettysburg or elsewhere during the war. This episode goes into all of that and more, including what type of person tended to be most attracted to the cavalry (independent, hell-for-leather types). Ed Longacre is a retired historian for the U.S. Department of Defense and the award-winning author of numerous books on the Civil War in addition to writing top-secret documents for the U.S. Airforce. One of his ancestors took part in the torching of part of William and Mary College during the Civil War as an act of revenge following the Confederate seizure of some of his comrades in arms. Dan Hill, PhD, is the author of eight books and leads Sensory Logic, Inc. (https://www.sensorylogic.com). To check out his related blog, visit https://emotionswizard.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/american-studies

On this episode of Battles & Banter, Avery, Codie & Tony dive into a multi-episode analysis of the extremely significant Petersburg Campaign of the American Civil War. In June 1864, Union General-in-Chief Ulysses S. Grant began to shift his focus toward the city of Petersburg, Virginia. Acting as the supply hub south of Richmond, Petersburg's railroad lines kept men and material flowing to the Confederate capital of Richmond and Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia still entrenched in their Cold Harbor defenses. Due to it's strategic value, Petersburg would become the setting of the major climax of the eastern theater of the war. The guys talk about the Union crossing of the Chickahominy and James Rivers, and the first initial assaults on Petersburg that resulted in the beginning of a ten-month siege of the city. The guys also discuss what constitutes as a success in relation to the Union failures to take the city while it was at it's most vulnerable. Enjoy!

Edward Longacre, author of "Unsung Hero of Gettysburg: The Story of Union General David McMurtrie Gregg"

Edward Longacre, author of "Unsung Hero of Gettysburg: The Story of Union General David McMurtrie Gregg"

Edward Longacre, author of "Unsung Hero of Gettysburg: The Story of Union General David McMurtrie Gregg"

Edward Longacre, author of "Unsung Hero of Gettysburg: The Story of Union General David McMurtrie Gregg"

This week we discuss the upcoming BCA Connect and WBU General Assembly events. Jane Britt, acting general manager of Projects and Engagement with BCA, discusses the BCA Connect, coming up on the 29th of May. Sally Aurisch, acting CEO of BCA discusses the expressions of interest call-out for new representatives to the World Blind Union's Asia-Pacific regional committee. Please contact BCA on 1800-033-660, E-mail bca@bca.org.au, or check the BCA website, http://www.bca.org.au, for more information. Find out more at https://new-horizons.pinecast.co

In 1861 a group of Seneca-Cayuga Iroquois who had relocated to Oklahoma in search of peace find themselves right in the middle of the American Civil War. Learn about the war in the west. This episode has everything, Cherokee Confederates fighting against Free Black Soldiers and Union allied Iroquois. Maurading desperados, tears, betrayals, death, and of course many battles. Notes: Armstrong, William H. Warrior in Two Camps: Ely S. Parker, Union General, and Seneca. Syracuse University Press, 1978. Gibson, Arrell Morgan. "Native Americans and the Civil War." American Indian Quarterly (Oct. 1985): 385–410. Hauptman, Laurence M. The Iroquois in the Civil War: From Battlefield to Reservation. Syracuse University Press, 1992.  https://web.archive.org/web/20101224094712/http://civilwarreference.com/battles/detail.php?battlesID=1271

In this episode of Why Whiskey we are talking about the infamous Union General who contributed to the definition of "Total War" and helped bring an end to the Civil War through means that are seen to be barbaric. Come join me as I sip whiskey and share stories about this incredible military leader. https://archive.org/details/governarmies00unitrich/page/4/mode/2up http://civilwar-sherman.blogspot.com/ https://teachinghistory.org/history-content/ask-a-historian/19530 https://www.buymeacoffee.com/Whywhiskey https://www.historynet.com/general-william-tecumseh-sherman https://archive.org/details/whitetecumsehbio00hirs/page/20/mode/2up https://www.loc.gov/resource/rbpe.2040610a/?st=text https://www.loc.gov/rr/frd/Military_Law/Lieber_Collection/pdf/Instructions-gov-armies.pdf?loclr=bloglawhttps://www.loc.gov/exhibits/civil-war-in-america/biographies/william-t-sherman.html --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/why-whiskey/support

sermon transcript So I ask that you turn in your Bibles to the text you just heard, read by Andy, 1 Corinthians 16. We look at five closing commands. Right now, I'm listening to an audiobook, a biography of General Ulysses S. Grant, the Union General. I love listening to audiobooks. I love biographies, and this one's on General Grant. And one of the author's themes is what made him such a great general, was his ability to give sharp, clear, decisive commands that brought order out of chaos. Especially in the heat of battle, Grant was an amazingly cool commander, he was clear-headed in the malestream of wheezing bullets and exploding shells and screaming men and the undulating frenzied action of a battle, he was clear-minded at times like that. He was able to size up the need of the moment and of the position and give decisive commands that would position his army for victory. He could do this again and again. For example, at the Battle of Shiloh, after General Grant's Army was caught by surprise and they were running, basically pell-mell, from the battlefield, Grant arrived just in time and rode all over the battlefield, assessing the need of the hour, and gave critical commands to bring order out of chaos. He did the same thing when he arrived in a different circumstance, at Chattanooga. Where the army of the Cumberland, the Union Army, was surrounded with the Confederate Army on the heights and they were being starved to death, there was no food supply. And Grant arrived, evaluated the situation, immediately sat down at a rudimentary table, a little desk there. And started writing orders on pieces of paper and letting them fall to the ground, pell-mell and just would write more commands and they'd fall to the ground, and more commands. And when he needed something from another table, he wouldn't stand up, he would just move over in the same seated crouch and get the stuff from the other table and go back and continue to write. And when he was done, the floor was covered with these commands. He got done, he collected them, read them over, arranged them, and handed them each to the appropriate person. Laser-focused, and the ability to give clear commands that brought order out of chaos. All the great commanders have been able to do this. Napoleon was known for this, he was keeping four secretaries going at once, just the ability to give sharp, decisive, even detailed commands. But none of these men can come close to the clarity of the Holy Spirit. Operating through the Apostle Paul, to give clear commands to God's people that are trans-cultural, that lasts in every generation all over the world, bringing order out of chaos, for us. The commands of God, these five, short, clear, sharp commands to every generation of Christian. Look at them again, Verse 13-14, "Be watchful, stand firm in the faith, act like men, be strong and let all that you do be done in love." So these commands somewhat sum up what Paul wants to say to this dysfunctional, messed up Corinthian church. And I feel like with so many sermons I preach here in Corinthians. I think we've earned the right to say that, this was a dysfunctional messed-up church, not trying to be insulted and not trying to say we're any better, I hope we're better. But it was dysfunctional and messed up, as we've seen across these chapters, it was written with factions and divisions. It was immature, worldly, and carnal, acting like babies, spiritually. They were yearning for the approval of the world in very inappropriate ways, they were rife with sexual immorality and even of a kind that doesn't occur among pagans. And they were unwilling to perform church discipline in those cases. They struggled with temple prostitution or dealing with going to temple prostitutes. Christians were taking other Christians to court. Because those Christians had defrauded them in business. Terrible, all around. They had improper views of marriage and of singleness. They had problems with meat sacrificed to idols at every level. They had problems with the Lord's Supper. Even the Lord's supper. They had problems with spiritual gifts, they gave primacy to certain gifts and denigrated others, and they had a fundamental problem loving each other, they didn't love each other as they should have. Some were even saying that resurrection from the dead cannot occur, does not occur. And in all of this, they were forgetting the two reasons why God leaves all Christians on earth. The internal journey of holiness and the external journey of witnessing to a lost world, they weren't doing those things as they should have done. What a terrible mess. That's why I call them a dysfunctional church, and yet, I think in a very wholesome way, I'm glad that they were dysfunctional. And that God the Holy Spirit addressed their dysfunctionality in a timeless way through 1 Corinthians. And it's gonna take a second epistle, 2 Corinthians, to continue to address the problems in this church. As Paul the apostle, speaking under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit addresses these problems, he gives these five sharp clear commands, and we're gonna study them, each one of them in time. "Be watchful, stand firm in the faith, act like men, be strong and let all that you do be done in love." Let's take them one at a time. First, be watchful. This is a call to be vigilant in the Christian life. It implies danger, even a danger that comes unawares or perhaps by stealth. It implies danger but implies other things that call for watchfulness as well. It implies waiting, persevering, and waiting. Watchfulness. The contrast, perhaps, could be sleepiness or slumber. So, a century standing watch throughout the night, during wartime, can be executed for falling asleep at his post. Why is that? Because really, the fate of the whole army is in the hands of the centuries at night, the soldiers are vulnerable, they can be killed in their beds by an enemy that comes up by stealth, and so the centuries have to stay awake through the night, vital. So, spiritual drowsiness is a severe problem in the Christian life. A kind of fog, a spiritual fog can fill our minds and cause us to underestimate the circumstances that we're in, spiritually, and even physically. We don't really see what's happening, the circumstances right around us or in our age. A fog can come in and we can get sleepy or drowsy. And I see that I see it in my own life many times. And I see that in Christians in this church and in our time, a spiritual drowsiness that underestimates the dangers of the day. The worldliness, the encroaching worldliness that I see more and more happening in the church, in our generation, in American Christianity. It has the effect of dulling our senses, we become not sharp anymore. And hardening our hearts, and then we can gradually tolerate, become okay with things that the Bible screams out against. So there becomes a gap between the language of sharp warning in the Bible and the way we're living and thinking about those topics. We are sleepy, drowsy. So the Bible calls on us, not just here, but in many places, to being watchful and vigilant, not drowsy. So what are we supposed to watch for? Well, watch for Satan and his demonic cohorts. 1Peter 5:8 says, "Be self-controlled and alert. Your enemy, the devil, prowls around like a roaring lion seeking someone to devour." A number of years ago, I went on my first mission trip, 1986, to Kenya, and we went out on safari and it was pretty exciting. We were out in those cool-looking Jeeps and out there, and... We saw some exciting things. Imagine going on safari, out in a lion country, maybe in Tanzania, not that place I was at, near Nairobi. But I mean further out, out into lion country. And you're out there and you decide you wanna sleep under the stars, you're gonna take a ground cloth and you just love... You're just away from all the light pollution, and you just love how the stars look here in Africa. Do you realize what a fool you are? Do you understand that lions are nocturnal? Do you have a sense that they might be interested in you, putting it mildly? Well, that's a picture of how some Christians are spiritual, they're not self-controlled and alert, they don't understand that their enemy, the devil, is prowling after them, looking for someone to devour. 600-pound beast, devour, that's the image. So Paul says we ought to be... Says, "Not unaware," but I'll just say, aware of Satan's schemes. He says that in 2Corinthians 2:11, we are... "In order that Satan might not outwit us, for we are not unaware of his schemes." Think of a scheme. It's an evil plot, an evil plan, there's an intelligence, a dark intelligence to it, a combination of things that led to your demise, to your sin, they're schemes. We need to be aware of it. So watch, in reference to Satan and his demons. Jesus said to his disciples, to watch and pray. Do you remember how he was praying in Gethsemane? Jesus was pouring out his heart in prayer, getting ready to die for us. And then, Peter, James, and John were with him, and then the other disciples were a little further off. And in Matthew 26:41, he says, "Watch and pray so that you'll not fall into temptation. The spirit is willing, but the body is weak." Satan's coming at you. He's speaking specifically to Peter who was about to go through the worst night of his life. Definitely the worst night of his life, and he was unprepared. He was not prayed up, he wasn't watching and praying. What about you? Are you watching and praying? Or are you just assuming Satan's not gonna come after you? Paul said to Timothy, "Watch your life and your doctrine closely," 1Timothy 4:16. What does that mean? Watch your lifestyle. What habits are you in? What are your patterns? What are your habits? What are you doing now, consistently? There are good habits and bad habits, are you into some bad habits? Watch it. What's happening in your life? Watch it closely and watch your doctrine closely. Are you morphing, doctrinally, in a very bad way? Are you letting worldliness affect the way you see Christian doctrine? Watch your life and your doctrine closely. Are you drifting away from Christ? That's another image. Hebrews 2:1 says, "We must pay more careful attention, therefore, to what we have heard, so that we do not drift away." Is there a process of drifting going on in your life where you're further away from Jesus than you were... As he said to the church of Ephesus in Revelation, "You have forsaken your first love." Do you love Jesus a little less now than you did a year ago, or five years ago? Are you drifting away? Watch yourself. And we're supposed to watch over one another too, we're supposed to watch each other. Not just, "Am I drifting away? But, "Is he or she drifting away?" my Christian brother or sister. We're called on to do that for each other. In Hebrews 3:12 and 13, it says, "See to it, brothers, that none of you has a sinful, unbelieving heart that turns away from the living God. But encourage one another daily, as long as it is called today, so that none of you may be hardened by sin's deceitfulness." Sin is deceitful, sin is lying to you, and it's taking you where you don't wanna go. And the remedy there, in those verses, are the brothers and sisters that watch over one another and speak into your lives. That's why you need to be a covenant member of a healthy church with people who care enough to talk to you when they see you drifting, and they see that sin is encroaching and it's hardening your heart. You're less soft and responsive to Jesus than you used to be because sin has been lying to you, and there's that hardening process going on. Watch. We will watch over one another in brotherly love. And then, ultimately and finally, we're supposed to watch for the second coming of Christ, we're supposed to be looking ahead to Jesus coming. There's a watchfulness in the Christian life, forward-looking. And Jesus said very plainly in Mark 13:33-37, he said, "Be on guard, be alert. You do not know when that time will come. It's like a man going away, he leaves his house and puts his servants in charge, each with his assigned task. And he tells the one at the door to keep watch, and therefore keep watch because you do not know when the owner of the house will come back. Whether in the evening or at midnight, or when the rooster crows, or at dawn. And if he comes suddenly, do not let him find you sleeping. What I say to you, I say to everyone, "Watch." That's a sense of intense expectancy, ready at any moment for the Lord to come to you. Now, he's either gonna come and take you out of this world by death. And you do not know when that will be. Or he's going to come in the clouds and end human history, and you do not know when that will be. And you need to watch and be ready. Secondly, stand firm in the faith. So, be watchful, the first command. Second command, stand firm in the faith. Now, this phrase, The faith, is doctrine. It's not just, stand firm in your faith or in faith, but it's stand firm in the faith, in this set of doctrines, these set of teachings that come from scripture, from the Holy Spirit, through the Bible. Stand firm on doctrine. Now, the centerpiece of Christian doctrine is Christ and Him crucified and resurrected, that's the center of everything. Paul said, "I resolved to know nothing while I was with you, except Jesus Christ and him crucified," and he definitely would add, "And resurrected." Christ crucified, Christ resurrected, that's the centerpiece of the gospel. Stand firm in that. Now, the Greek word, "Stand," here, I like, is "Stasi." So it's like driving a stake into the ground. This is a solid pillar on which you can build your life, it's not going anywhere. It's solid and secure. I remember years ago when I was a student at MIT, and they're just building all the time, and Cambridge in the Back Bay of Boston, and they're still buildings, still going on, they're just always developing that area. And what's interesting is that that part of Boston is landfill. Back Bay, it was just water during the revolutionary war era. And so they need to drive pillars down, foundational pillars deep into the Earth, and they do this with these repetitive hydraulic hammer bangs, just bang, bang, bang. You're just hearing this all the time, a little bit annoying. But anyway, just, again and again, you're just hearing it. And why are they doing... Driving pillars down, because they're building a tall building up. So they might need to go down as far as 100 feet, down into... So picture that. So as one of the parables says, "Dug down deep," and take the word of God and let it dig deep into your soul. Stand firm in the faith. You settle matters of Christian doctrine and you just never move from them. Not going anywhere. And you build your entire life on them. Jesus said, "Everyone who hears these words of mine and puts them into practice is like a wise man who built his house on the rock. And the rains came down and the streams rose, and the winds blew and beat against that house, but it did not fall because it had its foundation on the rock." And the opposite is building on sand, and it's going to be destroyed. So building on Christ and on His word, and he's telling you, "Stay put here on this. Don't drift off of this." As Ephesians 4:14 says, "We will no longer be infants tossed back and forth by the waves and blown here and there by every wind of teaching, and then by the cunning and craftiness of men and their deceitful scheming." So we're not gonna be blown around like children, doctrinally. We're solid, we're secure, we're standing firm in the faith. I remember when I was a kid, one of my... Or a younger teenager, I think, at that point, one of my favorite movie was the Karate Kid. Some of you have seen that movie, some of you are like, "Boy, pastor, are you dating yourself?" I'm dated, it's who I am. But anyway, Karate Kid. Now some of you have seen, it's this Japanese man, Mr. Miyagi, who takes a little... A young teenage boy, Daniel, Daniel Son, under his wing, to teach him karate. And one of the most important lessons he teaches him, is the lesson of stability, of being stable on your feet. And he does this by bringing him to the California coastline and he has him stand in way steep surf water, and then it's just... Surf is just pounding him while he does his karate kicks. And the idea is just, learn how to be balanced and strong on your feet. He also takes him out to a little pond, I guess, in some little dingy, and has him stand up on the prow of that little boat, and it's kind of wobbly, and he has to learn balance, he has to learn how to be stable and balanced. And then, at one point, you see him up on a pillar, like a pier kind of pillar, a little short thing, but he's upon it, and he's standing on one foot and learning this kick. Plot spoiler, by which he wins the competition. But at any rate, he's there. I can't spoil a movie that's that old. If you haven't seen it, it's your problem. But he's up on a pillar, balanced on one foot, and then he kicks with it. So the idea here is that we need stability. Satan is going to be just wave upon wave of attacks on your doctrinal life. New concepts coming in that challenge your doctrinal life, your Christianity, your understanding of doctrine. So be strong in the Word. You need to drink in the Word every day, be in the Word. Feed your soul in the word of God. So stand firm in the faith. Third command, act like men. Act like men. Now, this is a fascinating Greek word. This is a literalistic translation of the Greek word. Many modern English translations go with something more like, be courageous. And in the end, I'm pretty much going to get there, but I wanna stay close to what the Greek actually says. And it's an interesting word here. There is a word, a Greek word often translated man, but less so now as we have more inclusive language on gender, but Anthropos, from which we get anthropology. And that would be just generally, usually just generally human being, human being. But then there's another word translated man, which means man as opposed to woman, male as opposed to female, Andros. And this is that word turned into a verb. So, act like that. Act like a man. So, the KJV fascinating it says quit you like men. Isn't that great? What does that mean? Quit you like men. Well, it's in the imperatible form in Elizabethan English. So, you must acquit yourself like a man would. That's the idea, quit you like men. So, one incredible story from church history in the year '81, '85, the 86-year-old Christian hero, Polycarp, the Bishop in Smyrna was seized, arrested, and brought in as the leader of the church at Smyrna to face trial for being Christian. And he was brought into this seething amphitheater of enemies of the population, and they were... They wanted him dead, and he was going to be questioned for his faith. And as he came in, the account says that he heard a voice from Heaven saying this, Be strong Polycarp and play the man. Be strong Polycarp and play the man. I think that would be a similar concept here. So we need some background. We need to understand Paul's context, and then we need to understand our context to bring it across. So back then, especially in some key areas there were clearly gender-based roles. Gender-defined roles. In our age, gender itself is under direct attack, savage attack by Satan. It's remarkable in our lifetime in the last few years. The very concept of the reality of gender and what it is is being brought into question. It started earlier in the 20th century, as I traced out in Chapter 11, when I was preaching on it with feminism and then moved on into the LGBTQ range. And now we're beyond that into the issue of transgenderism, the transgender issue. Even within the last number of weeks or maybe a month or two ago, the New England Journal of Medicine questioned the validity of identifying a newborn baby's gender. It's just bizarre, the level that we're at. Joe Biden has made opening America up more and more to transgenderism a major plank of his early presidency with his presidential edicts. Transgenderism, I believe should be seen as a form of mental illness similar to anorexia nervosa, where you have a faulty self-image that leads to devastating consequences. So, with anorexia, you've got an individual who thinks that they're overweight and therefore they just stop eating. And everyone knows what to do with anorexia, is you don't feed the delusion. You try to heal them to have a healthy view of their bodies and of themselves. But when it comes to gender dysphoria, all of society's feeding it and with devastating consequences. And so, Biden has opened up high school athletics and the military to transgender. We're in a very weird place. And Christians, I would say, Let's look on it as an opportunity, we are uniquely positioned to tell the truth, the Biblical truth about gender. It actually does matter. It's one of the first things that it says about the human race is that we're created male and female, but the government now, it's men who identify as women and women who identify as men is a protected category, like race, worthy of intervention by the Federal Government. That's where we're at. Now, even for some Christians sadly, there's been seepage in this area and questioning in this area, and we need to stand firm on the faith. We need to be able to say what the Bible actually says gender is. We need to be able to answer, as I've said many times before, that critical question that a 12-year-old boy would ask his dad, “Dad, what does it mean for me to be a man and not a woman?” Or for a 12-year-old girl to say to her mom, “What does it mean for me to be a woman and not a man?” What does that mean? Is there any Biblical answer to that? And yes, there is. There are some things, the overwhelming majority of the most important things about us that are not gender-based at all, is that we're human beings, both male and female, created in the image of God, fallen into sin, redeemed through faith in the blood of Christ, and going to the same heaven and able to do amazing gifts for the glory of God. All of those things are true of both men and women. But there are differences too. Alright, now what did Paul mean by act like a man? Act like men. What did he mean? Well, there's two possibilities, the first is that he's talking about act like a man and not like a child. So this would be basically, grow up you children, and he openly says that in Chapter 14, they are acting like children, and he tells them, and they are to stop acting like children. And he uses the same Greek word in 1 Corinthians 13, when he says, “When I was a child, I thought like a child, I talked like a child, I reasoned like a child, when I became a man, I put childish ways behind me.” So it's the same thing when I became a man as opposed to a child. So the idea is, grow up and be mature. I think that's possible, but I actually think that option two is the more likely. And act like men would be more like, act like a man in a warrior sense. In a sense of fighting battles, and that's... There are actually multiple scripture Verses that head in that direction. Men were back then warriors, who would go out to meet an invading army and meet a military threat, they would put on armor, they would go out with edged weapons, swords, and axes, and they would go out and they would stand firm on the battlefield and fight. That's what battles were like back then, it was hand-to-hand, and pure physical strength was needed. And if you got pushed to the ground by your enemy, you're probably done for. So you needed to maintain your feet, you needed to be strong, you needed to be skillful with the sword and all that, that's what it was like. And generally thought of as cruel to put women on the battlefield. When Paul Revere rode through the sleeping Massachusetts countryside on April 15, 1775, saying, the British are coming, the British are coming in the wee hours of the morning, he was expecting men to get up out of their beds, get their rifles from over the fireplace hearth and go out and take a stand and defend their freedom. And so, they're called Minute Men. They were called unto man up, I guess, or act like men to go out and meet the enemy with valor and defend those who couldn't defend themselves, this required manly strength and manly courage. Now, in our military context, things are very different, aren't they? With the development of military technology. I mean, just starting with guns, a child can pull the trigger and kill a man, a warrior, much bigger and stronger. Anybody could do that. If you can fly a drone and push a button, you can destroy a whole village. If you can push the right button with the right code, you can take out a whole city with an ICBM, it doesn't take any strength to do that. And so, women fighting in the military makes more sense to our age. Although it still has certain issues and a lot of pushback, but more sense than it did back in those days, in Paul's days. So the question that's in front of me in the series of five commands, is this a command for everyone? Or is everybody needing to act like a man? Or is this just a command for men to act like men? Well, is it for everyone? Home base, no. Women aren't being told, act like a man. You could say, But my Bible says, Be courageous and women are called on to be courageous. I'll get there dear friends. Yes. But home base, it's calling on men to rise up and be men, to be leaders, and to be strong in the leadership of the church and the family. And Biblical Manhood, if you ask, “Alright, Pastor, tell me what to say to my 12-year-old son, or what should I say to my 12-year-old daughter, what is the difference?” I would bring you from manhood and womanhood to Ephesians 5, though not everyone's married to everyone, I know that, but home base for me, thinking about Biblical Manhood is Christ as a man laying down His life for the church. And the wife responding to that Godly male leadership. And we need men that will stand up and be Christ-like servant leaders in that sense. We need a clear display of Biblical manhood. We need fathers to train their sons to lay down their lives, to lay down their lives. And have patterned after Christ. One author put it this way, for men, a man must have a battle to fight, a great mission to his life that involves and yet transcends even home and family. He must have a cause to which he is devoted even unto death, for this is written into the very fabric of his being. "That is why God created you to be his intimate ally and to join him in the great battle." So, we could see his home base as a command to men, to act like men. There is, I think, a secondary sense that I think is worth mentioning and preaching, which comes across in most of the English translations, though not all of them, which is to be strong and courageous. And this is a command to every Christian in that regard. We are all of us soldiers in Christ's army, all of us have to Ephesians 6, Put on the full armor of God, and take our stand against the devil and his power. Every Christian has to do that male or female. That image is very strongly masculine, but no one would say that only men are to put on spiritual armor and fight, no way. All of us have to take up the shield of faith, we have to take up the sword of the spirit and we have to fight. We have spiritual battles to fight, so that we are holy and fight temptation, and that we can courageously advance the Gospel. Some of the most courageous human beings in history have been women, sisters in Christ, who have stood for Christ at the tribunal, and were willing and did lay down their lives for the Gospel. And we're gonna meet these dear sisters in Christ when we get to heaven. And so, God is commanding all of us to show that level of courage. Act like men. The fourth command, be strengthened. The verb is passive, not be strong, so much as receive strengthening, that might be a way to look at it, be strengthened. Not something that we generate in and of ourselves, but something that we are commanded to receive. And the implication is from God, receive this strengthening. Fundamental to this is a sense of the need for ongoing strength in the Christian life. Daily life saps us. It saps our strength, it drains us. We feel less strong at the end of the day than we did at the beginning, even spiritually. Living in this world, constantly assaulted by the world, the flesh and the devil drains us. We feel weary, it's draining. And dealing with the sorrows of this life, the afflictions, the diseases, the disappointments, the pain, the emotion, saps our strength. And so, we need ongoing strength for personal holiness and for witness. And so, it's be strengthened here. I think about Isaiah 40. Even youths grow tired and stumble, and young men stumble and fall, but those who wait on the Lord will renew their strength, they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not be faint. I think that's the idea. As it says in Psalm 23, “The Lord makes me lie down in green pastures, he leads me beside quiet waters, He restores my soul.” So you just need to get quiet before the Lord, you need to meditate on some strengthening promises of God. You need to be in his presence in prayer and feel your spiritual battery get recharged. I really think that's what Sunday should be about. I'm not a Sabbatarian, but there's some restful-ness that comes on Sundays where you worship, and then you might spend this afternoon just doing that, in the presence of God through the scripture, reading your favorite Psalms or some account of the life of Jesus. And you find your battery getting recharged. You find yourself renewed in your strength. Ephesians 6:10, as I've alluded to this just a moment ago, says, “Be strong in the Lord and His mighty power.” And part of that strengthening is recognizing your weakness. Paul said, when I'm weak, then I'm strong. Well, that's not a complete statement. I think what he meant was when I'm weak, I'm strong when I take it to the Lord in prayer. When I realize I can't do this, God, I'm coming to you, would you please strengthen me? Then I'm the strongest I can be. So that's what I think of, I think of be strengthened. And fifth, do everything in love, do everything in love. The final of all these five commands, it just to some degree sums up everything. It literally says, Let all your things be in love, everything you do, be in love. Now, I went back and counted, I devoted 10 sermons to 1 Corinthians 13. I'm not doing that again this morning, but 1 Corinthians 13 is just a vital, a vital analysis of the Christian... Of love in the Christian life. If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but if I have not love, I'm a resounding gong or clanging cymbal. If I do any spiritual gift ministry, but I'm not a loving man or a loving woman, a loving person, it's nothing, it actually is detrimental. And then those sweet Verses, oh, I would commend them to your meditation, convicting, but powerful. 1 Corinthians 13:4-8, “Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud, it is not rude. It is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres, love never fails.” Oh, just take those Verses and just pray them into your soul, pray them into your marriage. I've read them, I was just convicted with how I was being as a husband. I just... I wanna be patient and kind and humble. And so it is with all of us, just let everything you do be characterized by these kinds of words. Let all your things be done in love. It's the capstone. And I think even if you did all these other commands, if you didn't have love, it would be worthless. If you were extremely vigilant, and if you stood rock-solid in the faith, and if you were a bold and courageous warrior for Christ, and if you were amazingly, strong, having been strengthened, but you were an unloving person, you would do damage to the Church of Christ. Love is the capstone. Alright, applications. Five straightforward commands. Be watchful. Stand firm in the faith. Act like men. Be strengthened, and do everything in love. Now, these are commands. One of the most helpful insights I've ever had about Christian law or law in the Christian life is whenever we have commands, turn them around as promises. Just make them promises. This is what you've commanded me to do, now do it in me, Lord. Do these things in me. Take them up to God in prayer and ask Him to fulfill all of these things in you. Now, which of them is speaking to you particularly? Do you feel yourself sluggish or sleepy or drowsy in the Christian life? Ask the Lord to wake you up. Ask the Lord to make you aware of what's going on in your life and in your world. I remember years ago, I went skiing with some friends in New Hampshire, and I was living in Massachusetts. Drove up three hours to the ski resort area, just spent the day there, all day skiing. At the end, they very kindly treated me into a very big dinner. Nice dinner. Got in my car in the dark at 8:15 for my three-hour-plus drive back. You know what happened? Within 20 minutes, I was almost asleep at the wheel, straight out asleep. I'm like, I'm going to die tonight. I'm gonna literally die, not met... I mean, I'm gonna die tonight if I don't stay awake. So I pulled over, and that car had rolling down windows. Now, I'm really dating myself. Some of you rolled down windows years ago, none of... Obviously, you don't even know what I'm talking about. It's also 'cause you've never hung up a phone either. [laughter] You think you have, but you never have. [laughter] You've clicked off, but you didn't hang up. But I pulled over, rolled down the four windows in northern New Hampshire in January, and drove home. [chuckle] I was sick two days later. [laughter] But I was alive. And the wind that blew in was chilly and terrible and very effective. So, I would just say, if you need to pull over and roll down the windows and let the cold blast in, whatever you need to do, do it. Are you standing firm in the faith? Are you strong doctrinally? Or do you feel yourself flickering? Do you find yourself... Like, take transgenderism, do you say, Oh, maybe who knows. If you're flickering, just go back and say, There's no doubt about this in the Bible. God's not flickering on this, why am I? What's going on with me? Make me God rock solid in my faith. So are you reading the Bible regularly? Are you strengthening your soul with sound theology? What about your boldness and courage as a warrior? If you are a man, are you acting like a man as Jesus would have you, are you acting like a Christ-like man? And if you're raising young men, are you raising them to be Christ-like men? Whether they are ever husbands or not,o just be Christ-like leaders. And concerning all of you, are you fighting courageously? Are you fighting your lusts? Are you putting on the spiritual armor and fighting for holiness? What about evangelism? You know, are you being courageous? Are you bold as a lion? What about being strengthened? Do you feel weak? Do you feel like you just need... Well, then, if I could just urge you, spend this afternoon well, spend it wisely. Go into your week tomorrow morning much stronger than you feel right now. Be strengthened today through the ministry of the word in prayer. And finally, do everything in love. The simple application I give you is just read over 1 Corinthians 13 again, and take Verses 4-8 and just press them and say, Am I patient? Am I kind? Just those two are powerful in a marriage, patient and kind. Do I keep a record of wrongs? Am I a bitter person? Just go over those things and say, Oh God, make me tender-hearted. Now finally, I just wanna... I began the sermon this way, I wanna end this way. I wanna plead with any of you that are outside of Christ, you came in here today and you weren't a Christian, I wanna plead with you. I just believe that God draws people for times like this. John 6:44, “No one Jesus said, can come to me unless the Father sent me draws them.” Before you ever come to Christ, there's a drawing. Is God drawing you to Christ? All you need to do is repent of your sins and say, Jesus, I'm a sinner, you died for sinners, I trust in you, forgive me, and He will. These commands won't save your soul, faith in Christ, this is what you must do, this is the work of God for you, believe in the one he's sent. And if you do believe, you'll receive forgiveness of sins. Close with me in prayer. Father, thank you for the clarity of these commands, I thank you that we have a commanding officer through the Holy Spirit who gives clear, sharp, understandable commands to us in the Christian life. We know we're not saved by obeying these commands, we're saved, Lord Jesus, by your obedience to all the commands, by your righteousness, Lord, we're saved. But Lord, having been saved, justified by faith, we ask, how shall we live? And these commands tell us how to live, so I pray that you would strengthen each one of us based on these words in Jesus’ name, amen.

David Dixon is the author of Radical Warrior: August Willich's Journey from German Revolutionary to Union General. Surprisingly, it is the first major biography of General Willich, whose life was the stuff of Hollywood movies. Willich was an aristocrat, born into a prominent family in Prussia. After growing up in the household of the philosopher Friedrich Schleiermacher, Willich pursued a military education before joining the army. Thus began his interesting and unconventional military career. Willich took part in a rebellion in Germany amid the revolutions running through Europe in the late 1840s. He could have been executed for treason, but he managed to escape to England. There, he continued fighting with others, including Karl Marx. In the 1850s, Willich moved to the U.S. and later joined the Union army. He proved a reliable and creative general, one of the best the North had in the western theater. He survived most of the major battles until a sharpshooter ended his military career in May of 1864. Willich survived and moved back home to Ohio after the war. However, his postwar career was not as exalted as his campaigns in Tennessee and Kentucky had been.   David's previous book was The Lost Gettysburg Address, about Charles Anderson, a Civil War colonel and the governor of Ohio after the war. David talks about the challenges of working on a German subject as well his journey from a long career in marketing to becoming a full-time historian.

David Dixon, author of "Radical Warrior: August Willichs Journey from German Revolutionary to Union General"

David Dixon, author of "Radical Warrior: August Willichs Journey from German Revolutionary to Union General"

David Dixon, author of "Radical Warrior: August Willichs Journey from German Revolutionary to Union General"

David Dixon, author of "Radical Warrior: August Willichs Journey from German Revolutionary to Union General"

Emerging Civil War's David Dixon talks about his new biography, Radical Warrior: August Willich's Journey from German Revolutionary to Union General.

Throughout his Presidency, Hayes battles with Congress became legendary. He believed that an attempt by the Bourbon Democrats to add “riders” to funding bills for the Army, the executive and Judiciary that further eroded voting rights for Black Americans was “revolutionary,” a flat out attempt to undermine the Constitution and the rob the Republican Party of it's most treasured legacy – ending slavery. Among the Congressmen who stood by him were two of particular note. Though he had long before fallen out with the President, now-Senator Roscoe Conklin (R-NY) was bombastic about what the Bourbon Democrats were attempting to do. In the House of Representatives, a thoughtful measured and decorated Union General from Illinois galvanized opposition to the Democrat's efforts. In a speech which garnered national attention, James A. Garfield (R-IL) said: “… if the President, in the discharge of his duty, shall exercise his plain constitutional right to refuse his consent to this proposed legislation, the Congress will so use its voluntary powers as to destroy the government. This is the proposition… we confront; and we denounce it as revolution.” His stand with the President brought him to the attention of Republicans, who in 1880, on the 36th ballot nominated him for President. In another very close election, Garfield would take the popular vote by a mere 0.11%, although things were a bit more lopsided (214-155) in the Electoral College. Garfield wanted to continue the stalled reformation of the Civil Service, and eliminate the “Spoils System” which had corrupted the government's Civil Service system. Senator Conklin nearly came unglued over Garfield's refusal to continue to the system and there as much speculation that his handpicked Vice-President, Chester A. Arthur, would be more agreeable to the old ways. The problem was, Arthur wasn't the President, Garfield was. Until a disgruntled Republican Office seeker decided to change things…

Throughout his Presidency, Hayes battles with Congress became legendary. He believed that an attempt by the Bourbon Democrats to add “riders” to funding bills for the Army, the executive and Judiciary that further eroded voting rights for Black Americans was “revolutionary,” a flat out attempt to undermine the Constitution and the rob the Republican Party of it’s most treasured legacy – ending slavery. Among the Congressmen who stood by him were two of particular note. Though he had long before fallen out with the President, now-Senator roscoe Conklin (R-NY) was bombastic about what the Bourbon Democrats were attempting to do. In the House of Representatives, a thoughtful measured and decorated Union General from Illinois galvanized opposition to the Democrat’s efforts. In a speech which garnered national attention, James A. Garfield (R-IL) said: “… if the President, in the discharge of his duty, shall exercise his plain constitutional right to refuse his consent to this proposed legislation, the Congress will so use its voluntary powers as to destroy the government. This is the proposition… we confront; and we denounce it as revolution.” His stand with the President brought him to the attention of Republicans, who in 1880, on the 36th ballot nominated him for President.

Welcome back, Spotify listeners and Jubilee fans. Before we board the train to go on our virtual journey along the route of the Underground Railroad, and ultimately around the world, we invite you to meet the administrators: Abolitionist and Union General, the Honorable General Clinton B. Fisk, Pastor Henry Stanley Bennett, the university's clergy and Professor George White, the students's Music Director. These are the pioneers that set the stage for what was to come for this small group of first-generation freed slaves. All aboard... --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/the-story-of-jubilee/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/the-story-of-jubilee/support

For Monday: Local news around town including the latest Coronavirus numbers according to the state. Plus: The New York Times reports that Detroit was a center of Federal aerial surveillance during the protests. More: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/19/us/politics/george-floyd-protests-surveillance.html You now need a pass to get into Michigan state parks. An update on Shelby Townships' new Chick-Fil-A in progress which township officials want to get done soon. The chain is controversial and popular. More: https://www.macombdaily.com/news/local/work-begins-on-chick-fil-as-hall-road-location/article_ed0d7bcc-b412-11ea-b238-4313643f0561.html Shinola is offering essential workers a cheap stay at their hotel.  And Sandra Clark joins us to talk about the progress of the move of one of Detroit's oldest buildings. It's a home Union General and U.S. President Ulysses S. Grant lived in while he served here. It's moving from the State Fairgrounds to Eastern Market.  A reminder that we're people powered. Membership: http://www.patreon.com/dailydetroit  

As COVID cases remain plateaued, health officials worry about putting stress on the system.Then, what the Supreme Court decision means for a Mississippi DACA recipient.Plus, today is Juneteenth. We look at how Mississippi's black community is celebrating.Segment 1:Mississippi's healthcare system is under growing stress by the coronavirus causing concern in the healthcare community. A new cluster of COVID-19 cases has been identified in Oxford, and State Health Officer Dr. Thomas Dobbs says the community could be in the middle of a significant outbreak. He says they have linked several of these cases to fraternity rush parties. Dobbs also says there are other worrisome indicators coming out of the department's surveillance data.Segment 2:Advocates for immigrant rights in Mississippi are responding to the Supreme Court's decision to block President Trump's attempt to end the DACA Program. Jesus Roman, a DACA recipient, was born in Mexico but has been in the United States since he was one. He was at his job in Flowood when he heard the news about the Supreme Court's decision to keep the DACA program. Segment 3:The Emancipation Proclamation - an act of executive authority by President Abraham Lincoln freeing slaves in the confederate states - became official on January 1st, 1863. But it would take over two years for word to reach enslaved people west of the Mississippi River. When a Union General reached Galveston, Texas on June 19th, 1865 with news the Civil war had ended and slaves were freed, a holiday was born. Brad Franklin, an organizer of Juneteen on Farish Street, joins us to share how central Mississippi is celebrating Juneteenth. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

I’ve always been fascinated by people’s last words.  I heard last week about a Union General during the Civil War.  His name was John Sedgwick.  He was a respected and high-ranking general.  In 1864 he led his troops to Spotsylvania, Virginia for one of the last battles of the war.    Confederate sharpshooters had been peppering the area all morning on May 9, wounding, among others, General William Morris. Staff officers cautioned Sedgwick not to approach the road, but he disregarded their warnings in his desire to encourage his men to face the enemy.  When his men warned him to take cover, Sedgwick responded by joking, "They couldn’t hit an elephant at that distance." Just then, a sharpshooter’s bullet crashed into his skull, right below his left eye, killing him instantly.    He was the highest ranking Union officer to be killed during the war.   It’s dangerous to underestimate your enemy.  Don’t do it.    Jesus did not do that.  He understood full well the spiritual battle in which we are engaged.  Because of it he turned to a vital piece of our spiritual arsenal—prayer.   We have a record of his prayer offered the night of his greatest battle—just as he faced arrest, trial, and execution.  This prayer opens our eyes as nothing else to the deepest longings of Jesus’ heart.  It teaches us what He values and how we, too, can overcome the world.     The Final Word “The Real ‘Lord’s Prayer’” John 17:1-26   Timing of Jesus’ prayer Reinforces a pattern Releases a power Targets of Jesus’ prayer I pray for me I pray for mine I pray for missions Triumph of Jesus’ prayer

The Battle of Fredericksburg was perhaps the worst defeat for the Union Army in the Virginia Theater of the Civil War, which is saying quite a bit. Certainly, it was one of the worst performances by a Union General, as the day saw a series of odd strategic choices from General Ambrose Burnside. Burnside had been named commander of the Army of Northern Virginia after General George B. McClellan refused to follow-up his victory at Antietam with a pursuit of General Robert E. Lee's Confederate Forces. So Burnside began his command by trying to outmarch Lee and cross the Rappahannock River at Fredericksburg, Virginia. Instead, he was stalled out waiting for pontoon bridges to make his crossing, and Lee fortified on heights above the town. In a series of charges, the Union continually faced an army on superior ground, with heavy guns, and in position to fire on them. The Union troops stood little chance, and most of the Battle of Fredericksburg was a slaughter. Although it was an embarrassing and overwhelming defeat for the Union, it would also prove the lowpoint from which the Union would begin to move on from to eventual victory.

The World Blind Union has just concluded its quadrennial General Assembly, this time held in Orlando, Florida, USA. Dan Frye was there. We speak with Dan about some of the issues occupying the WBU's attention, as well as the challenges of meeting the needs of such a diverse group of blind people.Fred Schroeder was elected WBU President for the next four years. We hear an address given by Dr Schroeder at the General Assembly in which he talks about his background, and some of the philosophy underpinning his approach to blindness.

The World Blind Union has just concluded its quadrennial General Assembly, this time held in Orlando, Florida, USA. Dan Frye was there. We speak with Dan about some of the issues occupying the WBU’s attention, as well as the challenges of meeting the needs of such a diverse group of blind people. Fred Schroeder was elected WBU President for the next four years. We hear an address given by Dr Schroeder at the General Assembly in which he talks about his background, and some of the philosophy underpinning his approach to blindness.

This archive contains WBU General Assembly sessions 5 through 8.

The first 4 WBU General Assembly sessions are in this particular archive.

The staff of Tri-State of Mind Baseball is incredibly thrilled to be talking to the general manager of the Erie SeaWolves, Greg Coleman! Greg returns to the podcast to fill us in on the 2016 SeaWolves and lets us know about the new long-term lease with Erie Events, working under the new ownership of Fernando Aguirre and how that changes expectations and performance, fan experiences and COWBOY MONKEYS COMING TO JERRY UHT PARK, new food at the stadium, how the SeaWolves are involved in the community, how awesome SeaWolves manager Lance Parrish is on and off the field, and finishes up the episode by telling his story of how he ended up in Erie, Pennsylvania. This is definitely a must-listen podcast for all fans of Minor League Baseball!

Presented and produced by Seán Delaney. On this week's programme I speak to the general secretaries of the three teaching unions to preview their respective conferences which take place this week. I spoke to Pat King of the Association of Secondary Teachers in Ireland, Sheila Nunan of the Irish National Teachers' Organisation and John MacGabhann of the Teachers' Union of Ireland.

American Civil War Firsthand Account 5 of 5"...In a truly remarkable personal diary, this singular Union General details his commission, the formation of the army he commanded, and battles he fought. So compellingly vivid, you'll almost smell the pungent aroma of black powder drifting over the battlefield...." oldtimeradiodvd.com

American Civil War Firsthand Account 4 of 5"...In a truly remarkable personal diary, this singular Union General details his commission, the formation of the army he commanded, and battles he fought. So compellingly vivid, you'll almost smell the pungent aroma of black powder drifting over the battlefield...." oldtimeradiodvd.com

American Civil War Firsthand Account 3 of 5"...In a truly remarkable personal diary, this singular Union General details his commission, the formation of the army he commanded, and battles he fought. So compellingly vivid, you'll almost smell the pungent aroma of black powder drifting over the battlefield...." oldtimeradiodvd.com

American Civil War Firsthand Account 2 of 5"...In a truly remarkable personal diary, this singular Union General details his commission, the formation of the army he commanded, and battles he fought. So compellingly vivid, you'll almost smell the pungent aroma of black powder drifting over the battlefield...." oldtimeradiodvd.com

American Civil War Firsthand Account 1 of 5"...In a truly remarkable personal diary, this singular Union General details his commission, the formation of the army he commanded, and battles he fought. So compellingly vivid, you'll almost smell the pungent aroma of black powder drifting over the battlefield...." oldtimeradiodvd.com

Christopher J. Einolf, author of 'George Thomas: Virginian for the Union.'

Christopher J. Einolf, author of 'George Thomas: Virginian for the Union.'

Christopher J. Einolf, author of 'George Thomas: Virginian for the Union.'

Christopher J. Einolf, author of 'George Thomas: Virginian for the Union.'