The painting is being exhibited under stringent security measures, particularly temperaturecontrolled case. Nearly 10,000 people filed by mona lisa the first day, making her by far the most popular hostess in washington. Everybody wants to meet the new girl in town. Next, stephen hood discusses his book on the military career, personal life, and legacy of general John Bell Hood. The author is a distant relative of the general. He analyzes his actions at divingauga and antietam, into records recently released by hood descendents. He said many controversial acts are clarified or redeemed through examination of the documents. Atlantant is from the cyclorama museum. It is about an hour and ordered five minutes. 45 minutes. For coming. I was in atlanta in january. I am going to be able to vote down here if i keep showing up. In West Virginia you could, probably. To mention a couple of people that are here. My beloved cousin, barbara hopkins, and her husband, mark, are here. They are from hu
War, is the war in 1864. Good morning. If you could all take a seat, please. I am pete carmichael, professor of history here at gettysburg college. I am also the director of the civil war institute. It is my pleasure this morning to introduce brooks simpson, the Asu Foundation professor of history at Arizona State university. He is a historian of 19th century america. The american presidency as well as the civil war and reconstruction. He has written extensively about ulysses s. Grant. He is the author of let us have peace . S grant and the politics of reconstruction, released in 1991. He is also the author of u. S. Grant triumph over adversity. That earned distinction as a New York Times notable book of the year. Just recently, he has published and edited a boeing by the library of america a volume by the library of america, voices of the civil war. Sharesy brooks Stephen Brooks shares. He has given talks focusing on the war and the east and we know he is a superb battlefield guide. M
Was more than just a state of mind, although it seems to take up space rentfree in the minds of many union civil and military leaders. The majoria was obstacle facing Union Military strategy for two reasons. The state contended the confederate capital, richmond, virginia, which soon became an obsessive point of attack for union planters. And because that capital was defended by none other than robert e lee and his army of Northern Virginia, the largest fighting force the confederacy had to offer, led by its most brilliant commander. Richmond,ons, lee and transfixed Union Military planners. Therefore poses a problem, and poses a problem. Ilitarily for Union Planners it is, after all, the home field of lee and his army. The army of Northern Virginia won all the big ones in virginia. If they left virginia, they might encounter a little difficulty, but in their home ballpark, they acquitted themselves exceedingly well against numerically superior union forces. How do you change that . Patt
Minutes. Thank you all for coming. Will beny mentioned, i able to vote down here if i keep showing up. [laughter] in West Virginia, you could. Mention a couple people who were here. My beloved cousin, barbara hopkins, and her husband mark are here. They are from huntington and moved to atlanta about 10 years ago. And general hoods greatgranddaughter, mary hood perlman, and her husband skip from asheville, North Carolina are here. I will embarrass her and make her raise her hand. [applause] her grandfather was oswald could hoodod, one of the 11 children who we will talk about later. As anthony mentioned, i wrote a was on hood, and it originally to be titled history vs. John bell hood. what i did, and i will be talking about this in a few minutes, i was a little bit distressed at a lot of things that have been written about hood, especially around the 1970s on. I decided to write a book that would really expose a lot of the myth and legends about him that you read about, and actually use
In West Virginia you could, probably. [laughter] coupleto mention a people who are here. My beloved cousin, barbra markns and her husband park here. They are from huntington and moved down to atlanta about 10 years ago. And general hoods greatgranddaughter and her husband skip from asheville, North Carolina are here. I am going to embarrass her and make her raise her hand. So [applause] marys grandfather was oswald grbel, one of the 11 hood children we will talk about later. Wrote any mentioned, i hood, and it was originally to be titled history versus John Bell Hood. And what i did was and i will be talking about this here in a few minutes. I was a little bit distressed at a lot of the things that had been written about hood, especially from around the 1970s on. And i decided to write a book that would really expose a lot of the myths and the legends about him that you read about. And actually use primary Source Information to let the people, let the reader know exactly what that is a