Man, general William T Sherman and his progress in what he believes and hopes will be his final campaign of the war. Now sherman and grant are pursuing the grand strategy that they formulated in march of 1864 in cincinnati, ohio. The idea was to keep the armies in the east and in the west, the confederate armies so busy that they cannot reinforce each other. And not have a repeat fiasco in the battle of chickamauga. And now this strategy is working slopely but inex orablely. While grant keeps lees army bottled up around petersberg and richmond, sherman captured atlanta, georgia, in 1864. On december 16 the army of the cumberland under general george h. Thomas crushed tennessee the confederate second largest field army and one week later general sherman completes his march from atlanta to the sea by presented the city of Savannah Georgia to president Abraham Lincoln as a christmas gift. Now sherman is looking ahead to his next campaign. Hes going to make a march through the carolinas, m
Carolina during the last months of the civil war. This is about an hour. Thank you, david. Can everyone hear me okay . Yes. All right. Well, we have watched the armies of grant and lee moving across the virginia landscape from the siege of petersberg, to the surrender at appomattox courthouse, now im going to make a detour. Were going to make a sharp turn south and turn back the clock. Were going back to december of 1864. And were going to follow this man, general William T Sherman and his progress in what he believes and hopes will be his final campaign of the war. Now sherman and grant are pursuing the grand strategy that they formulated in march of 1864 in cincinnati, ohio. The idea was to keep the armies in the east and in the west, the confederate armies so busy that they cannot reinforce each other. And not have a repeat fiasco in the battle of chickamauga. And now this strategy is working slopely but inex orablely. While grant keeps lees army bottled up around petersberg and ric
Park. It is little under an hour. [applause] thank you david. Can everyone hear me ok . We have watched the armys of grant and lee moving across the virginia landscape from the siege of petersburg to the surrendered appomattox courthouse. Now im going to take a detour. We are going to make a sharp turn south, and were going to turn back the clock. South, and were going to turn back the clock. Were going to go back to december of 1864. And we are going to follow this man, general william t sherman. And his progress in what he believes in hopes will be his final campaign of the war. Sherman grant are pursuing the grand strategy that they formulated in march of 1864. In cincinnati, ohio. The idea was to keep the armys in the east and in the west, the confederate armys so busy that they cannot reinforce each other. And i have a repeat fiasco of the battle of chickamauga. The strategy is working. Slowly, but inexorably. While grant keeps lees army bottled up around the trenches of petersbur
Captures atlanta. Thomas crushes the army of tennessee, the confederacys secondlargest field army, and one week later, general sherman completes his march from atlanta to the sea by presenting the city of Savannah Georgia to president Abraham Lincoln as a christmas gift. Now, sherman is looking ahead to his next campaign. He is going to make a march through the carolinas, moving his army group northward to richmond, virginia. There he will join forces with general grant, and together, they will crush lees army and bring the war to a victorious conclusion. Sherman plans to launch his campaign and january of 1865. But torrential winter rain prevents that from happening. He is forced to delay his campaign to the following month. In the meantime, general grant decides to launch a second expedition to capture fort fisher, and close wilmington North Carolina, the last blockade running seaport the confederacy and in effect close the lifeline of the confederacy as it is called. The First Exped
Borough. Randy gyllenhaal joins usdozy live where the News Conference just wrapped up. What are the Police Telling you . Reporter they are not releasing the identity of this officer yet. They want to notify all his family first. But police do tell us this offduty darby borough officer was shot and killed in a bedroom in his own home and they want to interview a woman who was with him at the time. Detectives look for answers inside the home of a Darby Borough Police officer, the 26yearold cop was shot in the chest and killed. A woman was inside this home with him at the time. Neighbors say it was his girlfriend. But so far no charges have been filed. Police say they could be coming down tomorrow. There is no danger to the public with somebody being on the loose that shot this officer. Yeah hes a good neighbor. Well miss him. Reporter neighbors say the cop was liked on the block but they heard fighting next door and police were called to settle disputes. We are sad about it. Reporter the