Captioning performed by vitac seeds that bear ill fruit. Because on january 11th, against the advice of his staff, he sends a message to his core commanders and basically says you advised me to retreat. Please publicly say so. Put it in writing. We had a conference about it. You told me about it. Put it in writing and let us stand together against the news coming from the press. But he also says something else. He says if i find that i have lost the good faith and confidence of my generals, i will retire without a murmur. And please talk to your division and brigade commanders as well and get their opinions as well. If you are a ceo and you put yourself in front of your subordinates for a referendum on your fitness for leadership, even if you win, that vote of confidence you can never command the same respect, okay . This is a capital error on the part of brag. The replies are very quickly coming. Polk is on leave. Hes got a couple of lawyers and they take a look at this and say is bra
Its spectacular. Its my real pleasure to introduce the next speaker. He is somebody you already know. You have heard him speak somewhere or on tv. He was born and raised in fredericksburg. He spent his career interpreting and preserving American Military history with the National Park service, the new york state government, Rensselaer County historical society, the Civil War Preservation trust, kentucky state parks and the u. S. Army. Do you think he is qualified to speak . He has written and spoken on various aspects of military history and leadership from 1775 to the present. He has published two books with the history press, the civil war at perryville and the Tullahoma Campaigns, and contributing to the emerging civil war bulldog and studied the 19411942 campaign released in late 2016. In september 2016, the u. S. Army published his volumes on the 1862 virginia campaigns as part of its series on the civil war. Last year at this event on friday night, i bought this book and by satur
Someone, tom petty, recently, only then do i go back and appreciate and dig into the history of someone i love listening to. I think because of time, we will have a lot more these days were some of the legends will pass and we will honor them by listening to the music. Its our duty to pass along, we recently did a road trip with my family, playing songs from decades ago. Nice. You were at the beach for the past couple days, and what a couple of days to be there. It was beautiful, i think steve said it was 90 along the california coast. I wasnt really expecting it, but there it was. It was in the 90s all the way down to monterey and even hotter in la. It was 1042105. Today will be cooler around 15 to 20 degrees cooler for some. Half moon bay was in the 60s and in the 50s now. San jose one yesterday, Half Moon Bay was at 92. Canfield tied at 88 degrees. Sunshine and warm temperatures, not as warm or hot as it was. We are still way above average. We should be around 68 to 74 and we arent
Yesterday. Upper 80s inland. A few still near 90 degrees. San jose, 89. After yesterdays 94. That was a record. Redwood city, 98 down to 88. Napa down five 93 to 88 degrees. Were slowly cooling off. 58 Half Moon Bay compared to 80 at this time yesterday. Berkeley is down considerably. Other locations are down one to ten. There is an easterly or northeasterly breeze. East at Half Moon Bay. Northeast at sfo. East at oakland. Even though it is less than 5 Miles Per Hour, it is still there. On the peninsula, low 50s. Half moon bay, monetra and moss beach are upper 50s to low 60s. We have High Pressure losing its grip slightly. But it will give us warm temps into friday and cooling over the weekend. Temperatures should be 68 to 74. They are way above that for everybody. 70s and 80sand near 90s degrees. Sal, anything new on the screens. Just a lot of slow traffic, steve. Okay. This is the heart of the commute. I would say between 6 00 and 8 00 or so. Not that the other parts arent bad or are
If youve had the chance to walk around particularly out at the mule shoe, you know what a beautiful landscape it is, easily one of the best preserved civil war landscapes that we have available to us. Its pristine. There are a few monuments out there, but youre seeing what the soldiers saw in 1864 when they first arrived. The tree lines are pretty accurate. The fields are pretty accurate. Then over course of two years like a swarm of locusts they transformed that landscape so dramatically that the traces of it are still there today. If you want to after our program this afternoon, ill be happy to show you some of those traces here at stevenson ridge. But i hope over the course of my talk, ill be able to help you understand some of those traces that still exist so the next time you go out there, you can see for yourself the story still written on had most beautiful of landscapes. To understand how the armies got here, we pick up where chris left off where theyre fighting in the wilderne