Screeria nigeria. The tenhour drive, frankly was definitely worth it. According to your program, what were supposed to do today is first offer some insights speak briefly on a portion of the campaign they believed to be particularly illuminating. Two things ill do real quickly, if i can, the first one deals with spring hill. Spring hill was the day before the battle of franklin and what it represented was a lost opportunity to attack some union troops either at spring hill itself or some who were in colombia and would come up to Franklin Pike that night. Essentially what happened is a profound mystery in many ways. Hood planned a flanking movement which was extremely successful. In fact there were federal troops still at columbia who were going to come up the pike that night. They failed to do two things. They could have launched an attack on the yankees who were in spring hill. They did not do that. There was a fight but it was not the larger fight that i think the generals had contem
Screeria nigeria. The tenhour drive, frankly was definitely worth it. According to your program, what were supposed to do today is first offer some insights speak briefly on a portion of the campaign they believed to be particularly illuminating. Two things ill do real quickly, if i can, the first one deals with spring hill. Spring hill was the day before the battle of franklin and what it represented was a lost opportunity to attack some union troops either at spring hill itself or some who were in colombia and would come up to Franklin Pike that night. Essentially what happened is a profound mystery in many ways. Hood planned a flanking movement which was extremely successful. In fact there were federal troops still at columbia who were going to come up the pike that night. They failed to do two things. They could have launched an attack on the yankees who were in spring hill. They did not do that. There was a fight but it was not the larger fight that i think the generals had contem
Okay. The question was, how forrest and hood related to each other at the springhill situation, is that what i understand . And nashville. And nashville. Well, in regard to franklin, certainly, forrest did not agree with hoods decision to attack there. Back at springhill, it seems to me that forrest was never fully clear about hood allegedly wanting to block the pike, and instead was coming in and attacking the union troops that were marshaled there, maybe some 6500, rather than trying to concentrate on blocking the pike. I think theres misunderstanding certainly between hood and forrest at springhill. I dont know that that particularly affected what happened the next day at franklin. I think that probably forrest just disagreed totally with the idea of a frontal attack, a frontal assault at franklin and, of course, wanted to try and blank the federals out of their position. I think another interesting point is that what happened in the nashville circumstances, forrest was detached and
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Civil war symposium, hosted by the u. S. Capitol historical society. Your nest speaker is me your next speaker is me. Having just introduced myself, i will not do it again. I will just say that because of the vagaries of the world of the u. S. Senate, we are going to try to get out of here at 4 30 rather than 4 45. Im going to speak in a truncated version of my talk. So that michael can have the four the full allotted time he has been promised. Both of us are going to be talking about andersonville and the trial of henry wirz. During the civil war, this set of photographs was published. As you can see, all of them are soldiers who have just come back from prisoners of war camps. Looking really like nothing americans had ever seen, and in fact, looking like people that americans or the world with mostly not see again until the end of world war ii when people came out of places like buchenwald and auschwitz. These were truly frightening pictures. After the war, we began to get other pict