Panel, the will make their way to the authors ten next door to that and will be happy to personalize and sign the books for you. Our moderator is timis bell. During his 30plus years as a journalist his has serve as writer, photographer, photo editor, pain designer, and shreddographyer. He researches and writes and photographs books on the civil war, civil rights history, and the gulf coast in 2007 he want inducted be usm communication and journalism hall of fame. Id like to thank all of you for coming. I was going to start the session off with the quote from another mississippi author, shelby foote. Any understand offering this nation has to be based on an noning of the civil war. The civil war deoffendded us as what we are and it opened us to what we game, good and bad. Its necessary if youre going to understand the american character of the 20th century to learn about this enormous catastrophe of the 19th 19th century. The crossroads of our being and a hell of a crossroads. Id like t
Because there werent as many men around to chase them and that sort of thing, what happens to cotton production immediately that had made the south of rich and in one sense made the war start. Correct me on this stuff, but with slaves gone im assuming and with a lot of the white men owners gone, im im assuming the cotton production couldnt do very well and im wondering how what ever happened on the plantation during the civil war, of course a lot of people didnt come back and certainly slaves didnt, not that they all left even during emancipation and 63 but then cotton production and any other kind of economic thing in the south seems like it took 40 years to get started again. Im wondering about that. On that plantation during the civil war, anything, anything you could say about that. To questions there, the first one dealing with the slaves on the plantation. They didnt all leave at the beginning of the war because basically when slaves leave is the point when union armies get close
For civil war history. Its just under 40 minutes. See if there is something from the audience first, and if there was not, we will pick it up from up here. If anyone has questions, just raise your hand. Here come the mike bearers. My question is really for anyone who feels compelled to answer it. Used theus sherman. Abor code and confiscation act im curious if sheridan did the same. Did he use any sort of legal justifications, or was it simply a soldier obeying orders from grant . And im curious if residents of chambersburg and western maryland have a sort of popular collective memory about their sort of tragedy. Ill talk about that part later. After my colleagues and the first question. One of the interesting things i think the significance of the lieber code is more postcivil war. Theres no reference in anything grant wrote or in any of the papers of ulysses s. Grant to the lieber code. Nothing. And i assure you, sherman did not care about it at all either. I think there was a kind o
University of Virginia Center or civil war history. Its just under 40 minutes. See if there is something from the audience first, and if there was not, we will pick it up from up here. If anyone has questions, just raise your hand. Here come the mike bearers. My question is really for anyone who feels compelled to answer it. Im curious sherman used the labor code and confiscation act. Im curious if sheridan did the same. Did he use any sort of legal justifications, or was it simply a soldier obeying orders from grant . And im curious if residents of chambersburg and western maryland have a sort of popular collective memory about their sort of tragedy. Ill talk about that part later. After my colleagues and he first question. One of the interesting hings i think the significance of the lieber code is more postcivil war. Theres no reference in anything grant wrote or in any of the papers of ulysses s. Grant to the lieber code. Nothing. And i assure you, sherman did not care about it at a
Doctor davis drew on his experience this morning when he spoke to 450 High Schoolers ever so effectively. Hes taken it upon himself to attend virtually all of the eight lectures weve had thus far in this series. And hes been so very conscientious in communicating with us about what he wanted to say to you tonight and to our students earlier today. Im not sure i can do justice to his passion for the civil war in the Atlanta Campaign. His pieces have appeared in a number of scholarly and popular publications, including the civil war times illustrated and the georgia historical quarterly. He was the book review editor for blue and gray magazine for 11 years. His 2001 book, atlanta will fall, is highly respected. And his most recent book, what the excuse me what the yankees did to us, shermans bombardment and wrecking of atlanta, has been described as one expert as the most wellresearched and detailed account ever written about the fall of atlanta. In 2013, the Georgia Writers Association