You can always find American History tv on the weekends, but with congress on recess throughout august, cspan3 is featuring highlights during the week. We continue our focus on the civil war, with a look at the Atlanta Campaign. In may 1864, Union General William Sherman marched into georgia, and after a series of battles on september 2nd, the union army seized the city. The march to the sea through georgia, and general Joseph E Johnston who led the confederates in atlanta during the spring and summer of 1864. And later, a look at confederate weapons manufacturing in Central Georgia during and after the fall of atlanta. Friday night on American History tv, slavery and the cinema. A look at the depiction of slavery in the films since the 1930s. The 2012 movie lincoln and the debate and passage of the 13th amendment. A discussion about the 1939 movie gone with the wind and its depiction of southern society, friday night, 8 00 eastern, here on cspan3. This weekend on American History tv,
I know it is probably difficult for those of you in the back of the room to see the small details and maybe read the print, so what we did or actually, what petes staff did, was actually include this in your maps and handbooks book. If you turn to page nine, you will see this map in their. You might want to refer to this. It is probably a little easier to read. I will be making frequent reference to this map as it will help us understand the course of the campaign. As general in chief of all military forces in 1864, u. S. Grant devised accord mated offensive by a number of union army stretching from louisiana all the way to virginia. As you know already, the two most important of these offenses were those of the army of the potomac here in virginia, and that of william t sherman, who commanded what was called the military division of the mississippi. Grants orders to sherman for the campaign, dated april 4, 18 64, were pretty straightforward. Grant told sherman to move against the conf
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