C-SPAN Cities Tour - Fredericksburg: James Monroe Museum and Library
Learn about America's fifth President at the James Monroe Museum and Library. Museum Director Scott Harris takes us through the museum and talks about James Monroe's life from his time as a student at William and Mary, to his role as Secretary of War during the War of 1812, and finally as President of the United States. You'll see the spot where Monroe penned the Monroe Doctrine, which addressed America's stance on European colonization during the early 19th century.
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The Monroe Doctrine Explained and More The James Monroe Presidential Library and Museum
James Monroe was the 5th President of The United States of America and the author of the Monroe Doctrine which has shaped our foreign policy ever since. Today we visit his presidential library and museum in Fredericksburg, Va.
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Holiday Inn Express Fredericksburg - Southpoint in Fredericksburg VA
Website: . . .. .. ... . . . . . . .. .. .. Holiday Inn Express Fredericksburg - Southpoint 5422 Jefferson Davis Highway Fredericksburg VA 22407 Located just minutes from historic Fredericksburg, the Holiday Inn Express Fredericksburg - Southpoint is convenient to the University of Mary Washington, Germanna Community College, Fredericksburg and Spotsylvania National Military Park civil war battlefields, Mary Washington Hospital and Spotsylvania Regional Medical Center. Hazelwild Farm, Virginia Sports Complex, Fredericksburg Field House, Celebrate Virginia Live, Patriot Park and Fort A.P. Hill Army training center are also nearby. All spacious guest rooms include coffee makers, hair dryers, irons, ironing boards and cable television with ESPN, CNN, Fox News and free HBO. In addition, some rooms are also equipped with refrigerators and microwaves. This Fredericksburg, Virginia hotel has the following amenities and features: Free high-speed Internet access; Free local calls; Free weekday newspaper; Indoor heated pool; Exercise room. Business travelers are invited to enjoy conveniences like wireless Internet access in the lobby, and access to copy and fax services. The hotel has a meeting room that accommodates up to 12 people boardroom style or up to 35 people classroom style. Enjoy our free hot breakfast featuring eggs, meat, yogurt, fresh fruit, cereal and more, including cinnamon rolls and make-your-own pancakes. Additional attractions near this Fredericksburg, VA hotel include: Kings Dominion; Marine Corps Base Quantico; Lee's Hill Golf Club; Lake Anna State Park; Riverside Center dinner theater and conference facility. History buffs will enjoy visiting the nearby Civil War Life - The Soldier's Museum, Historic Kenmore plantation and gardens, George Washington's Ferry Farm, James Monroe Museum and Memorial Library and several Civil War battlefields. Shopping enthusiasts will like browsing the outlet shops at the Southpoint Center adjacent to this Fredericksburg, VA hotel. Central Park shopping area and Spotsylvania Towne Center are a short drive away. Be sure to stop by Cracker Barrel, located within walking distance.
Fredericksburg Battlefield, VA, US - Part 1
Please visit for full video and more free videos. Fredericksburg is an independent city in the Commonwealth of Virginia located 50 miles south of Washington, D.C., and 58 miles north of Richmond. It is a part of the Washington Metropolitan Area.
Located on the Rappahannock River near the head of navigation at the fall line, Fredericksburg developed as the frontier of colonial Virginia shifted west out of the coastal plain.
Named for Frederick, Prince of Wales, son of King George II, the colonial town's streets bore the names of members of the royal family.
The city has close associations with George Washington, whose family moved to Ferry Farm in Stafford County just off the Rappahannock opposite Fredericksburg in 1738.
Other significant early residents include the Revolutionary War generals Hugh Mercer and George Weedon, naval war hero John Paul Jones, and future U.S. president James Monroe.
During the American Civil War, Fredericksburg gained strategic importance due to its location midway between Washington and Richmond, the opposing capitals of the Union and the Confederacy.
During the battle of Fredericksburg, December 11 - 15, 1862, the town sustained significant damage due to bombardment and looting at the hands of Union forces.
A second battle was fought in and around the town on May 3, 1863, in connection with the Chancellorsville campaign (April 27, 1863 - May 6, 1863).
The battles of the Wilderness and Spotsylvania Court House were fought nearby in May 1864.
Today Fredericksburg is the commercial hub of a rapidly growing region in north central Virginia.
The national military park preserves portions of the battlefields of Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, the Wilderness, and Spotsylvania Court House. The Fredericksburg National Cemetery, also part of the park, is located on Maryes Heights on the Fredericksburg battlefield and contains more than 15,000 Union burials from the areas battlefields.
Battle of Fredericksburg
* The December 13, 1862 battle is known as General Robert E. Lees easiest victory
Battle of Chancellorsville
The May 1-5, 1863 battle is known as General Robert E. Lees greatest victory.
Battle of Wilderness
The May 5-6, 1864 battle began a six week campaign that began the bloodiest campaign in American history.
Battle of Spotsylvania
On May 8, 1864 the Union army seized initiative by moving from Wilderness to Spotsylvania Court House. That shift changed the course of the war as the armies began the road to Lees surrender at Appomattox Court House.
Chatham Manor is a historic building that served as a headquarters and hospital during the battle.
Driving Tour: There are two sections of the battlefield; Prospect Hill and Marye's Heights. A five-mile driving tour links the two sections beginning at the Fredericksburg Battlefield Visitor Center at the base of Marye's Heights.
Meade Pyramid on the Fredericksburg Battlefield
Points of interest
Kenmore Plantation
Monroe Hall at University of Mary Washington
* Carl's Ice Cream
* Central Park
* Fredericksburg Area Museum and Cultural Center
* Ferry Farm
* Fredericksburg (Amtrak station)
* Fredericksburg and Spotsylvania National Military Park
* Rising Sun Tavern
* Kenmore Plantation
* Mary Washington House
* James Monroe Museum and Memorial Library
* Old Mill Park
* Hugh Mercer Apothecary
* St. George's Church
* Alum Spring Park
* Spotsylvania Towne Centre
* University of Mary Washington
* United States National Slavery Museum (opening soon)
* Kalahari Resorts (opening around December 2010)
The Bloodiest Landscape in North America
Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, Wilderness, and Spotsylvania - more than 85,000 men wounded; 15,000 killed. No place more vividly reflects the Civil Wars tragic cost, in all its forms. These places reveal the trials of a community and nation at war.
Fredericksburg & Spotsylvania National Military Park is the second largest military park in the world. Chickamauga & Chattanooga is the largest and oldest.
Michelle Hamilton - Historian / Author - 'Civil War Ghosts' - Arcane Radio
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Join me as I welcome historian and author Michelle L. Hamilton to Arcane Radio. Michelle earned her master's degree in history from San Diego State University in 2013. Her work can be seen in the magazine 'The Citizens' Companion.' A lifelong student of history, Hamilton has worked as a docent at the Whaley House Museum in Old Town San Diego from 2001 until 2006. She has been a Civil War living historian for the past ten years participating in Civil War living history events. Michelle is currently the manager at the Mary Washington House and a tour guide at the James Monroe Museum and Memorial Library, both located in Fredericksburg, Virginia. Her most recent book is 'Civil War Ghosts.'
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Civil War 150th Anniversary: The Battle of Fredericksburg
The NPG's Warren Perry visits the Frederickburg National Military Park and discusses the Battle of Fredericksburg, which took placed on December 13, 1862. Part of our ongoing series commemorating the 150th anniversary of the Civil War.
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General George McClellan spent a lot of time fretting about how to get at the Confederate heart in Richmond in the spring and summer of 1862, but his campaign failed. Antietam, though not a setback, was certainly not the great victory for which President Abraham Lincoln had hoped. Lincoln, dissatisfied with the general's performance, bid goodbye to him in October of 1862 and replaced him with Ambrose Burnside; Burnside had no intention of his mission being misinterpreted. Burnside wanted to take Richmond.
Cooked into his notions of taking the Confederate capital was also some hope of recovering his reputation from a slippery performance at Antietam. Burnside planned to plow the distance between Washington and Richmond with his McClellan-trained Army of the Potomac. Halfway between these two cities Richmond lay embedded his one big obstacle—the Army of Northern Virginia, under the command of Robert E. Lee. With well over 100,000 men, Burnside had a head of steam and was prepared to confront Lee until he came to his first great challenge—the Rappahannock River, which ran west-to-east on the north side of Fredericksburg.
Although the Rappahannock was by no means a large river, it was sufficiently cold and sufficiently deep to heel the momentum of such a large force. The river cost Burnside time, and this would figure greatly into the outcome of the battle. While Burnside was compelled to fritter away valuable hours and days attempting to conduct his troops across the water, Lee had a surfeit of time to entrench his own men into what would be the best strategic defensive position he would ever enjoy.
Burnside, handpicked by Lincoln to conduct, and if possible, to close out the war, found himself stopped in the cold early December of 1862, waiting for his engineers to provide him with pontoons for crossing the Rappahannock. As Burnside waited, imagining a decisive victory at Richmond in the weeks to come, Lee's army, some 70,000 rebels, dug in behind stone walls, mounted artillery on hillsides, and prepared to sacrifice the growing trade town of Fredericksburg in order to prevent the loss of the Confederate capital.
As an aside to all this, a young officer in the Union army, George Washington Whitman, the brother of a poet from New York City, would play a tangential role in bringing that brother into the forefront of the war's service, the war's journals, and ultimately, into the way the United States would memorialize the war through poetry. This battle would also lead the young poet into the building that would later come to contain the collections of the Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery and the American Art Museum.
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James Monroe | Wikipedia audio article
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James Monroe (; April 28, 1758 – July 4, 1831) was an American statesman and Founding Father who served as the fifth President of the United States from 1817 to 1825. He is perhaps best known for his foreign policy principle, known as the Monroe Doctrine, disallowing further European colonization of the Americas beginning in 1823. Monroe was the last president of the Virginia dynasty, and his presidency ushered in what is known as the Era of Good Feelings. Born in Westmoreland County, Virginia, Monroe was of the planter class and fought in the American Revolutionary War. He was wounded in the Battle of Trenton with a musket ball to the shoulder. After studying law under Thomas Jefferson from 1780 to 1783, he served as a delegate in the Continental Congress.As an Anti-Federalist delegate to the Virginia convention that considered ratification of the United States Constitution, Monroe opposed, claiming it gave too much power to the central government. Nonetheless, he took an active part in the new government, and in 1790 was elected to the Senate of the first United States Congress, where he joined the Democratic-Republicans. He gained experience as an executive as the Governor of Virginia and rose to national prominence as a diplomat in France when he helped negotiate the Louisiana Purchase in 1803. During the War of 1812, Monroe served in critical roles as Secretary of State and the Secretary of War under President James Madison.Facing little opposition from the waning Federalist Party, Monroe was easily elected president in 1816, winning over eighty percent against Rufus King (who hadn't even been chosen by a convention since the Federalists were too weak to organize) of the electoral vote and becoming the last president during the First Party System era of American politics. As president, he sought to ease partisan tensions, embarking on a tour of the country that was well received. Monroe sought to appease the antagonisms and bridge the divisions that had marked American political life since the War of 1812, quietly using his influence as president to encourage compromises and endorsing a consensual form of American patriotism. This method of leadership led historian William E. Weeks to name him the first American hidden hand president in reference to Eisenhower's similar practices. With the ratification of the Treaty of 1818 under the successful diplomacy of his Secretary of State John Quincy Adams, the United States extended its reach from the Atlantic to the Pacific by acquiring harbor and fishing rights in the Pacific Northwest; the United States and Britain jointly occupied the Oregon Country. In addition to the acquisition of Florida, the 1819 Adams–Onís Treaty secured the westernmost section of the southern border of the United States along the 42nd Parallel to the Pacific Ocean and represented America's first determined attempt at creating an American global empire. As American patriotism surged, partisan acrimony subsided. This swell of national purpose and political harmony subsided somewhat when the Panic of 1819 struck and a dispute over the admission of Missouri roiled the country in 1820. Nonetheless, Monroe won near-unanimous reelection.
Monroe supported the founding of colonies in Africa for freed slaves that would eventually form the nation of Liberia, whose capital, Monrovia, is named in his honor. In 1823, he announced the United States' opposition to any European intervention in the recently independent countries of the Americas with the Monroe Doctrine, which became a landmark in American foreign policy. His presidency concluded the first period of American presidential history before the beginning of Jacksonian democracy and the Second Party System era. Following his retirement in 1825, Monroe was plagued by financial difficulties. He died in New York City on July 4, 1831. He has been generally ranked as an above-average president.
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Hear from the diary of Civil War Sergeant Samuel E. Grosvenor from author Timothy M. Jacobs. Almost Home is the transcription of Grosvenor's diary from his time with the 16th Regiment, Company B, as they were encamped at Plymouth, North Carolina, taken by the Confederate Army and then imprisoned at Andersonville Prison Camp. Throughout 1864 and his time as a POW, Grosvenor shares his thoughts on the war, the inhuman environment of the prison, and the weather. Grosvenor survives the Civil War, and his time in a prison camp to be killed in a boating incident shortly after the end of the Civil War.
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First Division Monument
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A video Poem highlighting Richmond Virginia's Monuments that we pass daily and may not pay attention to or know much about.
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This area, which is now called Fort San Carlos, was the site of one of the few American Revolution battles that happened outside of the 13 original colonies. The British called the area Fort New Richmond until it was seized by the Spanish in 1779. We hear from Baton Rouge historian John Sykes.
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Jubal Early | Wikipedia audio article
This is an audio version of the Wikipedia Article:
Jubal Early
00:01:18 1 Early and family life
00:05:26 2 Early military, legal and political careers
00:09:42 3 American Civil War
00:11:55 3.1 Serving under Stonewall Jackson
00:15:33 3.2 Gettysburg and the Overland Campaign
00:19:49 3.3 Shenandoah Valley, 1864-1865
00:28:35 4 Postbellum career
00:33:52 5 Death and legacy
00:36:57 5.1 Honors
00:37:57 5.2 Streets named after him
00:38:37 5.3 In popular culture
00:39:38 6 See also
Listening is a more natural way of learning, when compared to reading. Written language only began at around 3200 BC, but spoken language has existed long ago.
Learning by listening is a great way to:
- increases imagination and understanding
- improves your listening skills
- improves your own spoken accent
- learn while on the move
- reduce eye strain
Now learn the vast amount of general knowledge available on Wikipedia through audio (audio article). You could even learn subconsciously by playing the audio while you are sleeping! If you are planning to listen a lot, you could try using a bone conduction headphone, or a standard speaker instead of an earphone.
You can find other Wikipedia audio articles too at:
You can upload your own Wikipedia articles through:
The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
- Socrates
SUMMARY
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Jubal Anderson Early (November 3, 1816 – March 2, 1894) was a Virginia lawyer and politician who became a Confederate general during the American Civil War. Trained at the United States Military Academy, Early resigned his U.S. Army commission after the Second Seminole War and his Virginia military commission after the Mexican-American War, in both cases to practice law and participate in politics. Accepting a Virginia and later Confederate military commission as the American Civil War began, Early fought in the Eastern Theater throughout the conflict. He commanded a division under Generals Stonewall Jackson and Richard Ewell, and later commanded a corps. A key Confederate defender of the Shenandoah Valley, during the Valley Campaigns of 1864, Early made daring raids to the outskirts of Washington, D.C. as well as far as York, Pennsylvania, securing money and supplies which delayed the Confederate surrender for several months. After the war, Early fled to Mexico, then Cuba and Canada, and upon returning to the United States took pride as unrepentant rebel. Particularly after the death of Gen. Robert E. Lee in 1870, Early delivered speeches establishing the Lost Cause, as well as helped found the Southern Historical Society and memorial associations.