another month, even march of 1862, this would have been a busy location. pittsburg landing in the tennessee river, hardin county. the area was being used as a base of operations by the united states army. the army that disembarked here was under the command of ulysses s. grant. the reason the army was in the area was western confederate railroads, princically the memphis charleston line that linked chattanooga eastward, extremely important railroad to the confederate states of america. it intersectioned with the north/south route known as the mobile-ohio, ran from kentucky, the ohio river basin to the gulf of mexico at mobile. secretary of war, leroy pope walker of the confederate states, called these two railroads the vertebrae of the confederacy. and they intersected, they junctioned just 22 landward miles to the west of pittsburg landing. hence, the revival s military targets for the u.s. forces now attempting to put together a rebellion and we were less than a year into t
the calf valley, one of the horses is falling and the rider is being thrown to the ground and is going to be tramped to death. shady used his own face for the fallen rider, which was somewhat symbolic. doing these magnificent bronzes took years and the toll on him. they were going to dedicate the monument in 1922, about the same time that the lincoln memorial was dedicated. it was going to be us grant s 100th birthday and shradey died two weeks before it s 100th birthday. he literally was tram believed by that statue. the civil war battle of shiloh took place april 6th and 7th, 1862 in hardin county, tennessee and resulted in a union victory over con federal forces servicing the strategically important mississippi valley region. nearly 110,000 troops took part in the fighting which produced almost 24 thousand casualties making it the bloodiest battle to that point in u.s. history. american history tv visited shiloh park where the ranger gave us a tour of the battlefield.
history to die in combat. a full ranked four star general. his generalship debated to this day. his qualities are debated to this day. but as a motivator of men, he had few equals in his time frame of american history. harris will leave this ravine and ride west and tell general beauregard that he now is in full command of the army. we ve moved just roughly, say, a half mile to the northwest from the carabell peach orchard location to the center of the union line astride the eastern corinth road into a position that s iconic with shiloh, known forever after the battle as the hornet s nest. they mark the center of the brigade s participating in the assaults. you think of the story of the fighting in the sector, you know, you have a deployment portion. that s when the federal troops occupy the position and then you have an assault phase where the confederates are attempting to attack the federals here. they re doing so in piecemeal fashion, primarily lone brigades making these
almost 24 thousand casualties making it the bloodiest battle to that point in u.s. history. american history tv visited shiloh park where the ranger gave us a tour of the battlefield. if you had been standing here in april of 1862, take you back another month, ever march of 1862, this would have been a busy location. pittsburg landing in the tennessee river, hardin county. the area was being used as a base of operations by the united states army. the army that disembarked here was under the command of ulysses s. grant. the reason the army was in the area was western confederate railroads, the fem fis charleston line that linked chattanooga eastward, extremely important railroad to the confederate states. the mobile-ohio, one from kentucky, the ohio river basin to the gulf of mexico at mobile. secretary of war, lee row pope walker of the confederate states, called these two railroads the vertebrae of the confederacy. and they intersected, they junctioned just 22 land ward mi
minutes. thank you for inviting me here tonight, and i am astounded how many people have shown up for this event. it all has to do with george thomas, i am sure, and his comments yet on hold the appreciated virtues, and i will talk a great deal about them tonight. .. is certain in this he was always reluctant to do it, and so am i. if but i trust, if i channeled his marshall courage and falso trammel george corrade haifa the i will do okay tonight, so trammel i will. i was thinking on my way over here tonight, that it is some 43 years ago when i was just out of high-school that i helped organize the first i believe it was the first community teach men against the war in vietnam. [applause] it was held about a mile from here in chelsea ps11 on july 30, 1965. i recently came upon the hand littered flier that i did put out of that event and a framed it. why do i think of that now? because it was a way of speaking truth to power. and there was another kind of power that scholar