Be sure to watch cspans washington journal beginning at 7 00 eastern on friday morning. Join the discussion. Next on American History tv, historians discuss general shermans march flew georgia. After that, historian dennis fry talks about the impact of john browns raid in the 1860 goals. The New York Historical society hosted this hour long event. Welcome, its great to be back in the same seats as we always occupy. For those of you who have come to a number of our sessions. We are promised and we are promising each other that well do more in the coming seasons. We have a topic today that we think is one of the best that weve come up with, its a neglected civil war story. Because of the focus on shermans march through georgia. Theres a little less attention on shermans other march, which followed the march through georgia. Take a look at this scowling man in a fantastic coat, as we begin talking about him. Im going to start with john who as you heard has written two wonderful books abou
To go back against her moral and religious principles to avoid being abused by him and she went and had relations with the other man, mr. Sands. Mr. Sands, right. So yeah. There was the sexual abuse that really threatened her religious principles. So shes trying to kind of balance or deal with this issue of theres sort of the whole question of the morality, the christianity thats connected to it, and this constant threat that shes facing in terms of sexual abuse and how shes going to manage that. So she says, just to kind of refer you to a couple of places, shes sort of very conscious that she has particular concerns that confront her as a slave whos a woman. She says on page 58, for example, this is the bottom of that first paragraph. She says the influence of slavery had had the same effect on me that they had on other young girls. They made me prematurely knowing concerning the evil ways of the world. I knew what i did and i did it with deliberate calculation. Then she says again on
Previous year. They compare shermans goals. The New York Historical society hosted this hour long event. Welcome, its great to be back in the same seats as we always occupy. For those of you who have come to a number of our sessions. We are promised and we are promising each other that well do more in the coming seasons. We have a topic today that we think is one of the best that weve come up with, its a neglected civil war story. Because of the focus on shermans march through georgia. Theres a little less attention on shermans other march, which followed the march through georgia. Take a look at this scowling man in a fantastic coat, as we begin talking about him. Im going to start with john who as you heard has written two wonderful books about william sherman, and i think we need to know how you can do it in a few minutes his family, his psyche, tell us something about this fellow in the double breasted uniform coat. This picture that you see was taken of sherman and he didnt want t
I would like to echo what bud said about events. He came up to where i live in dalton. I told since that since i am a georgia tech fan. He was still coaching and george i was going to push him off the ridge. He had retired by then. Although i dont know that as much help. I was also interested in what kevin said this morning. The old lady came out she heard the pearl harbor and said to the end hes going to be with us this time . December 8, 1941. A reporter for the local newspaper went out to interview them about what they thought about the events of the previous day pearl harbor was the old fellas to himself up and said this never wouldve happened if Albert Sidney johnston had been killed at shiloh. Maybe its not just some of the College Students today who dont know its going on. It seems to run through. Of time. Aboutoffer some remarks the Atlanta Campaign of 1864. I want to put into context with you. Itt is what i think makes very important. Three mosttwo or important operations of t
Doctor davis drew on his experience this morning when he spoke to 450 High Schoolers ever so effectively. Hes taken it upon himself to attend virtually all of the eight lectures weve had thus far in this series. And hes been so very conscientious in communicating with us about what he wanted to say to you tonight and to our students earlier today. Im not sure i can do justice to his passion for the civil war in the Atlanta Campaign. His pieces have appeared in a number of scholarly and popular publications, including the civil war times illustrated and the georgia historical quarterly. He was the book review editor for blue and gray magazine for 11 years. His 2001 book, atlanta will fall, is highly respected. And his most recent book, what the excuse me what the yankees did to us, shermans bombardment and wrecking of atlanta, has been described as one expert as the most wellresearched and detailed account ever written about the fall of atlanta. In 2013, the Georgia Writers Association