Annual civil weekend. Im really pleased to introduce our first speaker of the day, dr. Lauren thompson, who is the samuel heading damien and charles samuel, professor of Early American History at Mckendree University near saint louis. She also serves as the director of ethnic and gender studies as shes the author of a terrific book, which is what prompted me to invite her for this weekend for our theme the information war the book is called friendly enemies soldier throughout the american civil war. I wanted to make sure we had that experience of the everyday soldier the way they received and shared consume information during the war and dr. Thompson is the perfect person to that part of the story. With us. And her lecture title today is holding correspondence with and giving intelligence to the enemy. How soldiers chad information across the lines lets give her a warm welcome to the podium. Thank you. Good good morning. Im so excited to go first today so and it looks like rain is on t
Annual civil weekend. Im really pleased to introduce our first speaker of the day, dr. Lauren thompson, who is the samuel heading damien and charles samuel, professor of Early American History at Mckendree University near saint louis. She also serves as the director of ethnic and gender studies as shes the author of a terrific book, which is what prompted me to invite her for this weekend for our theme the information war the book is called friendly enemies soldier throughout the american civil war. I wanted to make sure we had that experience of the everyday soldier the way they received and shared consume information during the war and dr. Thompson is the perfect person to that part of the story. With us. And her lecture title today is holding correspondence with and giving intelligence to the enemy. How soldiers chad information across the lines lets give her a warm welcome to the podium. Thank you. Good good morning. Im so excited to go first today so and it looks like rain is on t
Welcome to virginia techs annual civil weekend. Im really pleased to introduce our first speaker of the day, dr. Lauren thompson, who is the samuel heading damien and charles samuel, professor of Early American History at Mckendree University near saint louis. She also serves as the director of ethnic and gender studies as shes the author of a terrific book, which is what prompted me to invite her for this weekend for our theme the information war the book is called friendly enemies soldier throughout the american civil war. I wanted to make sure we had that experience of the everyday soldier the way they received and shared consume information during the war and dr. Thompson is the perfect person to that part of the story. With us. And her lecture title today is holding correspondence with and giving intelligence to the enemy. How soldiers chad information across the lines lets give her a warm welcome to the podium. Thank you. Good good morning. Im so excited to go first today so and
At the unite naval academy, but he told me that his retirement failed, that he was no good at it at all. So he is now the distinguished professor at the United States Naval War College in new port, rhode island. He has written several books about the civil war. His books received the lincoln prize and the Abraham Lincoln book award. He also has just or actually done a biography of joe john so. Thats what his was about today. Lets walk joe simons. He was the a man who lacked the moral will to commit troops to battle unless he could be absolutely certain of victory unless the circumstances never obtained he seldom if ever sought battle at all. Johnston does have his defenders. It made it impossible to defend it any where and the confederate president s tendency to promote and protect personal favorites and therefore also made a contribution to confederate. Because johnson favored acting on the defensive and concentrating on a few vital points. His vurks that view was the more realistic o
Sufferage d that surprise you . It particularly surprised me that Jesse Fremont opposed women sufferage, opposed women getting to vote. She seemed the one to be most obvious to it. But i think she didnt want to be public about that because it would reflect poorly on her husband later running for president in an era when that was not a popular political position. When you did the first first lady series, we discovered by course of doing our call ins and the like that there was a real hunger for womens history. And we have so many moms and daughters watching the series together. And they were calling us, even three generations and the like. So what we realized, we tapped into a vain of not enough told in this country. And theyre not understanding the role of the civil war. Thank you very much. Well have more American History tv tomorrow night from our american artifacts series. Well look at artists of the American Revolution and visit the andy warhol museum. Later, a conversation on the