I have been paying back through my writing, throughout the work that i do. So i want to see that happen for them. Host and we have been talking with reyna grande, the distance between us a memoir, a Simon Schuster title. You are watching booktv on cspan 2. Joseph wheelan recounts the life of general sure didnt who forced the surrender of robert e. Lee at appomattox courthouse. The author recalls general sure didnt postwar career, which included command of the u. S. Army. Its about 45 minutes. I want to thank quiller ridge books for inviting me back and all of you people for coming out to hear about general Bill Sheridan, who out of the triumvirate of Union Generals credited with winning Civil War Companies probably the least known of them. The others being ulysses s. Grant and William Tecumseh sherman. 1937, the three generals appear together in a commemorative postage stamp. As part of a series with great u. S. Military commanders. And to his right is sherman and sheridan is on grants
The big showdown between in each case the best general that each side had i think this campaign has been more misunderstood and misinterpreted than maybe any other campaign in the civil war. I think the reason reason is because of expectations. You know today in politics you would see say theres a president ial campaign. The primary campaign is going on and several candidates are seeking the nomination of one of the parties and theyre coming up on one of the nominating the primers the state primary and youll typically youll hear some politicians say oh if i finish in the top three, that will be a win that if i to finish in the top three, ill be very happy or Something Like that. And of course, hes trying to manage expectations. Because if he does that successfully and if people and the press and so forth buy it, yeah Top Three Finishes a win for him and he finishes number two, you know. Oh wow, thats great. You know he exceeded expectations. But on the other hand if he doesnt bother to
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One of the great ones. It is so wonderful to see if thriving under bradley end and i hope will continue to thrive for many years to come. One per cent in the audience my friend pat ferguson who wrote a wonderful book called freedom rising and a book that i really relied on writing this book if you dont know the book, you should. I hope it is for sale here somewhere. [laughter] it occurred to me to write about Matthew Brady eight years ago after the civil war he led one of the great scientific surveys of the west where the people he has to who was becoming the airport and important american photographer the first Time Photography had been used this way as part of a scientific expedition. Zero sullivan was a protege of brady there probably met on Staten Island where brady had a home in the 1850s. Well he was running his duty studio where Timothy Osullivan grew up, i realized there was not a firstrate book about mathew brady that astonished me and all of us know about the name of mathew b
Ok, good evening. I and peter carmichael, professor of history at Gettysburg College and also director of the civil war institute. My guest is noted historian gordon ray. He 20 years ago published the battle of the wilderness with lsu press. This would be the first of 4 volumes to cover the 1864 Overland Campaign. Gordon was the first historian to ever attempt to write a comprehensive history of those operations. Those operations, as you know, covered Central Virginia and ended on june 1 at cold harbor. It really is hard to imagine that anyone will ever again attempt to write such a comprehensive history because what gordon did is truly phenomenal. It is model tactical history, well researched, beautifully written, and above all else, contextualized. As a microstudy of who did what and where. What is really remarkable is that gordon dived into the archives, and so much of tactical history, much about gettysburg, never draws from original manuscript material, which in my estimation, is