In the summer of 1864, general sherman marched south from chattanooga into georgia with the goal of capturing atlanta. After a series of battles andity siege of the city, atlanta fell to the yun i know on september 2nd, 1864. Setting up shermans march to the sea later in the year. This was part of the Gettysburg College civil war institutes annual summer conference. Its about an hour. Before we get started, the map you see up here is a campaign map on the left side insert there is are the smaller maps indicate the main battles. I know its probably difficult for those of you in the back of the room to see the small details and maybe read the print and so, what we did or actually what petes staff did was included in this your so hopefully, most of you have this. If you turn the page 9, youll see this map in there. You might waptd to refer to this. This is probably a little easier to read. But well be making frequent or ill be making frequent reference to the campaign map that will help u
You some flavor of this rather unusual bunch of american veterans. Then i will ask a few of these veterans to join me on the stage, and i will introduce them at that time. I will ask them a few questions to jumpstart the conversation, but at some point, i will just turn it over to you all and let you have a conversation with these pretty incredible guys. , is aok, project 9 result of a lot of research from around the country, and i will not go into that. But i was lucky enough to be able to interview several of the remaining veterans from that campaign of so long ago in burma. Pretty remarkable bunch. They were started by a guy named arnold. Ld happ some of you may have heard of him. A guy namedsted by churchill. Winston, i think, was his first name. Let me take you through some of these photos, and we will see what happens. I think i remember how to operate this. By the way, there were some of these flyers out there. I do not know if you all got any. If you did not, i do not know what
Succession. Actual soldiers had a delight in destroying the cradle of the confederacy. They use them as bringing the war upon them. I think we have one more question. Why did it stop . Citieswe not see further earned in the same kind of mercenary manner . Withdrew back into virginia and they were occupied. Did notticular strategy move forward from that point on. Did theire certainly fair share of burning throughout the war. They did not have the opportunity as much in the north. Burn parts of town. For a monetary reason . There were a lot of soldiers. Ofy took great joy in our revenge on both sides. Field or because these were the houses that a woman whose that at us or that kind of a vengeful action. That was more individually direct did. Screeria nigeria. Tenness that resulted in the almost total destruction of his army. Remind your children in this by centennial year, when we are the first generation of the americans who have experienced attacks on the continental United States, we
Two leaders. This event was part of the Gettysburg College Civil War Institute annual summer conference. It runs about an hour. Ok, good evening. I and peter carmichael, professor of history at Gettysburg College and also director of the Civil War Institute. My guest is noted historian gordon ray. He 20 years ago published the battle of the wilderness with lsu press. This would be the first of 4 volumes to cover the 1864 Overland Campaign. Gordon was the first historian to ever attempt to write a comprehensive history of those operations. Those operations, as you know, covered Central Virginia and 1 at cold harbor. It really is hard to imagine that anyone will ever again attempt to write such a comprehensive history because what gordon did is truly phenomenal. ,t is model tactical history well researched, beautifully written, and above all else, contextualized. As a microstudy of who did what and where. What is really remarkable is that gordon dived into the , and so much of tactical h
Wilderness. Is he going to go bushwhacking in the wilderness . Youre setting them on fire, g e nice, brooks. Brooks is going to speak to us contingencies and circumstances, u. S. Grant and the problem of virginia in 1864. Ks brooks simpson. S [ applause ] well, good morning, everyone. Id like to first thank the teas at the civil war institute. Especially alison and diane as well as peter. I must admit that i feel naked up here without a scarf on. Peters fashion attire will whie understand that reference. While peter recognizes that his adviser Gary Gallagher made d nc mistakes, my binder did no suchs thi thing. I also thought they would dwell on the Sexual Practices and fantasies of confederate generals and their historians. N i thoughtab id tell a little story of my own in this regard. Not about me. Thats a tmi moment, youll have to join me on facebook for that one. That several years ago, my wife, cheryle and i went to wife haven, which is the plantation where ulysses s. Grants inlaw