Today's American Minute

JEFFERSON & ADAMS —50 years after the Declaration of Independence - they died the SAME DAY, July 4, 1826 - American Minute with Bill Federer

July 05, 2023 • 1826 • JEFFERSON & ADAMS — 50 years after the Declaration of Independence - they died the SAME DAY • July 4

John Quincy Adams wrote in an Executive Order, July 11, 1826: "A coincidence ... so wonderful gives confidence ... that the patriotic efforts of these ... men were Heaven directed, and furnishes a new ... hope that the prosperity of these States is under the special protection of a kind Providence."

Lincoln's Gettysburg Address: "Government OF the PEOPLE, BY the PEOPLE, FOR the PEOPLE" ... Will it "perish from the earth"? - American Minute with Bill Federer

July 02, 2023 • BY the PEOPLE • FOR the PEOPLE" ... Will it "perish from the earth"? • Lincoln's Gettysburg Address: "Government OF the PEOPLE

" ... 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."

Battle of San Juan Hill, Teddy Roosevelt & the Rough Riders "Resolved ... the people of the island of Cuba ... ought to be free!" - American Minute with Bill Federer

July 01, 2023 • Battle of San Juan Hill • Teddy Roosevelt & the Rough Riders "Resolved ... the people of the island of Cuba ... ought to be free!"

President McKinley approved a Resolution of Congress, April 20, 1898:

"Whereas the abhorrent conditions which have existed for more than three years in the island of Cuba, so near our own borders,

have shocked the moral sense of the people of the United States, have been a disgrace to Christian civilization,

Victory at Battle of Saratoga -One of History's Most Important Battles, & Contributions of Spanish General Galvez - American Minute with Bill Federer

June 30, 2023 • & Contributions of Spanish General Galvez • Victory at Battle of Saratoga - One of History's Most Important Battles

Galvez not only kept the British from attacking Washington's army from the west, but allowed army supplies, weapons, uniforms, and medicine to flow up the Mississippi River to the Ohio River, then across Pennsylvania to the American troops.

How Lee's Lost Order No. 191 altered the Civil War - American Minute with Bill Federer

June 30, 2023 • How Lee's Lost Order No. 191 changed the Civil War

The same day, September 13, 1862, Union Private Barton W. Mitchell was drinking coffee and inadvertently noticed three cigars on the ground wrapped with a piece of paper. The paper was a copy of Lee's Special Orders No. 191 addressed to Confederate General D.H. Hill revealing his plan to divide the Confederate Army.