Park. It is little under an hour. [applause] thank you david. Can everyone hear me ok . We have watched the armys of grant and lee moving across the virginia landscape from the siege of petersburg to the surrendered appomattox courthouse. Now im going to take a detour. We are going to make a sharp turn south, and were going to turn back the clock. South, and were going to turn back the clock. Were going to go back to december of 1864. And we are going to follow this man, general william t sherman. And his progress in what he believes in hopes will be his final campaign of the war. Sherman grant are pursuing the grand strategy that they formulated in march of 1864. In cincinnati, ohio. The idea was to keep the armys in the east and in the west, the confederate armys so busy that they cannot reinforce each other. And i have a repeat fiasco of the battle of chickamauga. The strategy is working. Slowly, but inexorably. While grant keeps lees army bottled up around the trenches of petersbur
Captures atlanta. Thomas crushes the army of tennessee, the confederacys secondlargest field army, and one week later, general sherman completes his march from atlanta to the sea by presenting the city of Savannah Georgia to president Abraham Lincoln as a christmas gift. Now, sherman is looking ahead to his next campaign. He is going to make a march through the carolinas, moving his army group northward to richmond, virginia. There he will join forces with general grant, and together, they will crush lees army and bring the war to a victorious conclusion. Sherman plans to launch his campaign and january of 1865. But torrential winter rain prevents that from happening. He is forced to delay his campaign to the following month. In the meantime, general grant decides to launch a second expedition to capture fort fisher, and close wilmington North Carolina, the last blockade running seaport the confederacy and in effect close the lifeline of the confederacy as it is called. The First Exped
and there s actually a lot of overlap between those who groups, so politicians are down there. but lincoln devoted his life to politics, he was a prominent member of the illinois whig party and served in the legislature as many of you know in this state in the early 1830s and 40s, and he had one term in congress as a whig from illinois. during that early part of his career, he department say very much he didn t say very much about slavery. his main interests was economic questions, the tariff, banking issues, etc., etc. but at one point in if his legislative career he did take a stand about slavery which really set the stage for much of his later career. that was in 1837, the year in the which elijah lovejoy, the abolitionist editor, was killed by a mob in the state of illinois defending his printing press against a mob that watched to destroy it. illinois at that time was largely settled from the south. chicago department even exist in didn t even exist in 1837 really
worst hard time happened. similarly in the fire that korda lanes, the native people in the spokane s and the kalispell and the flatheads had all lived in silver valley in the country and western montana, so they were not consulted. it is interesting, if i had a treat in my backyard that was invested with something i could go to my neighbor and say, how do you treat this? he would have somebody who knew what it was like. these were brand-new towns, so the indians to lasky was lassie was close to the natives. .. anyway, thanks for your question. i think i ll have to close it out. i appreciate it, folks. [applause] thanks for attending this session. we hope you enjoyed it, we can tell that you did. timothy egan will be autographing books immediately following this session many the madden media signing area 1, tent b, that s located south and just west of the student union along the mall walkway. books are available at the signing area. last but not least, if you are enjoyin