Troop of trained guerrillas, maybe i can do that. I will try to keep it moving along here. As you have just been told, and as i assume you know, the battle of nashville was the last major battle of 1864. It was a major victory, maybe the greatest victory for george h. Thomas and the greatest defeat for john bell hood. As you may be aware, the army with which George Thomas fox battle of nashville was composed of several contingents. You might even say, cobbled together almost on the field of battle there. Thomas was sent back with the fourth corps of his army of the cumberland back into tennessee to gather forces there and other reinforcements that would be sent to him and put them together into an army that would stop john bell hoods late fall incursion into the state of tennessee. The fourth corps that tomas had commanded throughout the Atlanta Campaign earlier that year, there was the 23rd quarter under 23rd core under schofield, which had also served under sherman alongside, sproul
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
see grant finally getting a serious evaluation from american intellectuals. rand, in the 50s, i felt she was much more she always saw herself as apart from the mainstream of american society that she fits in very well with the anti authoritarian pro individual strain you see from other writers like jack kerouac for j.d. salinger or on the left a number of intellectuals such as paul goodman, growing up absurd, and people like phil lowly crowd, david reichmann s book or the man in the gray flannel suit. rand has been doing extremely well over the past couple of months, partly because of things coming out of d.c.. a writer and a figure we should all study with care if we want to have a road map to why people are feeling the way that they are right now. .of .. so that s my summer of reading and i hope to get it all done we do by labor day weekend. to see more information visit our website at booktv.org. benson bobrick recounts the military career of union general george h