Friends Are Like 4-Leaf Clovers, Hard to Find but Lucky to Have

US History Fort Burrows “Friends are like 4-leaf clovers, Hard to find but lucky to have.” Chandler Webb, 7th, 2009

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Topic Love Story – Part 3-4-5

It was the Saturday before, that I found out that the Jackson 5 was gonna be on TV. Jackson 5 was scheduled to be on TV December 14, 1969, a Sunday. And they would be singing - ‘I Want You Back’. My whole family was so excited, including my father, that he took us to Wyatt’s Grocery store on Saturday to pick out a ‘special’ TV Dinner.

On Sunday after church, Ed and I began moving the furniture around in our living room to make it as big as possible. They day took forever to reach 7:00pm and the Ed Sullivan Variety Show. Mom started cooking those TV Dinners around 6:30. By 7:00, we were ALL in front of the 13” Black and White TV set enjoying our food. When the Jackson 5 sang their song, I got up and started dancing with Michael. My mother told me later that I danced for almost 1 hour that night. This was the moment that Music Hooked me. By issuing the Emancipation Proclamation, Lincoln expanded the goals of the war to include the ending of slavery.

Lincoln’s Goal  When South left – the goal was to restore the Union, not to end slavery  Lincoln tried to make this clear in a letter he wrote, “If I could save the union without freeing any slave, I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves , I would do it; and if I could do it by freeing some and leaving the others alone, I would also do that.” Abraham Lincoln, August 22, 1862 quoted in Carl Sandburg, Abraham Lincoln

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In 1864, President Lincoln had appointed Ulysses S. Grant Commander in Chief of the Union Army. Grant said, “The art of war is simple, find out where your enemy is, get at him as soon as you can and strike him as hard as you can, and keep moving on.” To Gen Ulysses S. Grant, every problem had a solution. Under the leadership of General Ulysses S. Grant, Union armies used their resources and manpower to defeat the Confederacy. It seemed the President had finally found the general who could lead the Union to victory.

Appomattox Court House – Virginia town that was the site of the Confederate surrender on April 9, 1865 Gettysburg Address ≥ November 19, 1863 a ceremony was held to dedicate a cemetery in memory of the soldiers that died at the Battle of Gettysburg ≥ In his speech, Lincoln said the Civil War would test if a democratic nation could survive; he also reminded Americans that their nation was founded on beliefs that “all men are created equal”

“Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.

2 of Class Notes 0.5 US History Fort Burrows But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate -- we can not consecrate -- we can not hallow -- this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us – that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain – that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom -- and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.” Abraham Lincoln, Gettysburg Address, November 19, 1863

≥ Lincoln’s entire speech was only ten sentences long and took three minutes to deliver

Civil War Ends – South Starts Coming Home !!! ≥ Grant offered generous terms of surrender: 1 – Soldiers must turn over their rifles, officers could keep their pistols 2 – Soldiers that rode in on a horse, could keep his horse (Grant knew the men would need animals for spring-time planting ) 3 – Each man would return to his state and not be disturbed by the United States authorities ≥ As the Confederates surrendered, Union soldiers began to cheer ≥ Grant ordered them to be silent, “The war is over, the rebels are our countrymen again”

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Union Soldiers at Appomattox Court House, April 9, 1865

Leon was an Observer that Day

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