To partner with the bryant park coordination so its always great to come out and see our members and sometime wes have members from the museum as well as members in our Chairmans Council to come out and support us. Jonathan white is a fellow at the where he also serves as the universitys pre and treason in the civil war. He is currently at work on three books, including lincolns advice for lawyers, the final voyage of the uss monitor during the civil war. Please join me in welcoming jonathan w. White. Thank you so much for having me. Can you all hear me okay in the bleacher seats back there . Okay. I love having an opportunity to come to new york city. This is actually only my third trip here. I spent two weeks here, though, about eight years ago, i had a fellowship and i spent two weeks at the New York Historical society. I love going there to do research, in fact i stopped by there this afternoon with my daughter, shes 14 months old and we had to get a picture of her next to lincolns
Following his death, the movement seemed like it died a little bit. But anyway, they have his funeral at the masonic temple. After that, he was buried at Arlington National cemetery. After a. Of time, the house has gotten in bad shape. There are other exhibits about med. In other museums, but we knew we wanted to do something with the house. We may not have known exactly what we were going to do. At first, we just opened it up. People wanted to see where med your evers lived. We let people flow in and fill out. It got to the point where we said we have to Say Something dgar. There are people in mississippi my age or older who do not know who me evars was. I learned later, not only in mississippi, but throughout the world. Is, i the things he said like mississippi. This is home. I like fishing here come i like hunting, and mississippi is a wonderful place to grow up. He said, why should i leave . I love mississippi. When you look at it like this, mississippi,ft others could not leave it
General thank you to the museum of the confederacy. And thank you to cspan. I want to start by reading from an introductory chapter of my book. Just to kind of set things up. A group of veterans gathered in chattanooga, tennessee, in one of the key moments of the american civil war, they were in chattanooga for their 33rd annual meeting of the society of the army of the cumberland. That army had fought in march across middle tennessee in 1863, climbing mountains and reversing rivers before fighting confederate armies at chickamauga creek, in the greatest battle in the western theater of the war. In the minds of these veterans, chickamauga was not a union defeat, but rather the battle for the capture and permanent possession of the city where they were meeting, chattanooga. That capture of chattanooga eventually led to the capture of atlanta and the Union Victory in the war. At the Third Session of the meeting, an unexpected topic came up. A statue for the man who led the army of the cu
A group of veterans gathered in chattanooga, tennessee, and one of the key moments of the american civil war, they were in chattanooga for their 33rd annual meeting of the society of the army of the cumberland. That army had fought in march across middle tennessee in 1863, climbing mountains and reversing rivers before fighting confederate armies at chickamauga creek, in the greatest battle in the western theater of the war. In the minds of these veterans, chickamauga was not a union defeat, but rather the battle for the capture and permanent possession of the city where they were meeting, chattanooga. That capture of chattanooga eventually led to the capture of atlanta and the Union Victory in the war. At the Third Session of the meeting, an unexpected topic came up. A statue for the man who led the army of the cumberland during its most important battles in the campaign. Major general William Stark rosecrans. The men began to express themselves. I worship the memory of general willia
good evening. the subjects tonight are abraham lincoln and jefferson davis. i think it is fair to say by any measure of military or government experience, by bearing and background, by any remotely reliable crystal ball, any american, northern or southern, asked let s say in the spring of 1861 who was more likely to be a superior commander in chief in a full scale war, would have given the same answer. jefferson davis. he graduated from west point, lincoln had emerged from let s say the school of hard knocks. davis served two stints in the army, led forces in the american mexican war and lincoln s only military experience came in a rag tag militia company raised to battle an indian invasion in illinois where the only blood shed lincoln later admitted was lost to mosquitos. davis served as a secretary of war. and the united states senator, lincoln is a one term congressman who opposed the war with mexico and opponents whispered at the time and even voted against supplying th