Hes author of jacksons sword and peacekeepers and conquerors about the u. S. Armys Officers Corps on the borders and frontiers between the war of 1812 and the war with mexico. Which together won the distinguished book award from the society for military history. Incidentally cited military history of which we are a part. Professor watson is coeddy tore of the history of warfare which won the society for military history george c. Marshall Foundation Prize for the use of Digital Technology teaching military history. He is coeditor of the west point history of the civil war which won the distinguished writing award. And he is also a coauthor of the west point history of the american revolution. Forthcoming from simon shuster, this autumn. Professor watson teaches courses at westpoint on 19th century warfare and 19th Century America and about the american frontier. Ladies and gentlemen, tonight, sam watson. [ applause ] thank you. Bob. Thanks to all of you. Bob noted ive been teaching wes
And peacekeepers and conquerors about the u. S. Armys Officers Corps on the borders and frontiers between the war of 1812 and the war with mexico. Which together won the distinguished book award from the society for military history. Incidentally cited military history of which we are a part. Professor watson is coeddy tore of the history of warfare which won the society for military history george c. Marshall Foundation Prize for the use of Digital Technology teaching military history. He is coeditor of the west point history of the civil war which won the distinguished writing award. And he is also a coauthor of the west point history of the american revolution. Forthcoming from simon shuster, this autumn. Professor watson teaches courses at westpoint on 19th century warfare and 19th Century America and about the american frontier. Ladies and gentlemen, tonight, sam watson. [ applause ] thank you. Bob. Thanks to all of you. Bob noted ive been teaching west point for 18 years and gave
Going to last a lot longer and nothing short of absolute conquest of the south will end it. Today well talk about a Campaign Going on at the exact same moment over in the eastern theatre or virginia in this case. We will talk about the peninsula and the seven Days Campaign today. It starts in late march, early april, 1862 and is going to go until july of 1862. And it was the campaign that could have ended the war in the summer of 1862. The Union Strategy this time was if you can knock the confederate capitol out of the war, richmond, only 90 miles from washington, d. C. , if the Union General George Mcclellan can capture the confederate capital at richmond by the summer of 1862 the confederacy may throw in the towel. We cant know for sure. It is speculation. It could very well be that the confederacy decides, ok, they took our capital but well keep on fighting. The war has been going on about a year. If the confederacy loses their National Capital within a year it very well could be th
Refuse to go along with the most routine conventions every day conversation. To say if anything was different or even an accident had not happened. But to instantly kill the conversation. He would not say anything bad about anyone else. That meant he could not participate even the most rudimentary forms of gossip. He refused to talk about himself and could be mattingly liberal is someone would say you know, he would point out that he did not. He was even worse in large groups. In a public forum he would stammer and would force to sit down and then would rise again and try again and then even failed more miserably and sit down again redfaced and embarrassed royal everyone looked away. Wherever he was a precisely 9 00 p. M. He would excuse himself and go home even if someone was in the middle of a sentence. These were the mild cases. He was obsessed drinking and smoking in the Healing Waters often ate nothing more than cold water or stale bread or buttermilk. To bring his own spoon to a