Battle was shiloh, april 6 and 7, 1862. We talked about how grant thought the war was going to be over, one more battle and this thing will end and then after shiloh grant learns the war is going to last a lot longer and nothing short of absolute conquest of the south will end it. Today well talk about a Campaign Going on at the exact same moment over in the eastern theatre or virginia in this case. We will talk about the peninsula and the seven Days Campaign today. It starts in late march, early april, 1862 and is going to go until july of 1862. And it was the campaign that could have ended the war in the summer of 1862. The Union Strategy this time was if you can knock the confederate capitol out of the war, richmond, only 90 miles from washington, d. C. , if the Union General George Mcclellan can capture the confederate capital at richmond by the summer of 1862 the confederacy may throw in the towel. We cant know for sure. It is speculation. It could very well be that the confederac
Battle was shiloh, april 6 and 7, 1862. We talked about how grant thought the war was going to be over, one more battle and this thing will end and then after shiloh grant learns the war is going to last a lot longer and nothing short of absolute conquest of the south will end it. Today well talk about a Campaign Going on at the exact same moment over in the eastern theatre or virginia in this case. We will talk about the peninsula and the seven Days Campaign today. It starts in late march, early april, 1862 and is going to go until july of 1862. And it was the campaign that could have ended the war in the summer of 1862. The Union Strategy this time was if you can knock the confederate capitol out of the war, richmond, only 90 miles from washington, d. C. , if the Union General George Mcclellan can capture the confederate capital at richmond by the summer of 1862 the confederacy may throw in the towel. We cant know for sure. It is speculation. It could very well be that the confederac
Going to last a lot longer and nothing short of absolute conquest of the south will end it. Today well talk about a Campaign Going on at the exact same moment over in the eastern theatre or virginia in this case. We will talk about the peninsula and the seven Days Campaign today. It starts in late march, early april, 1862 and is going to go until july of 1862. And it was the campaign that could have ended the war in the summer of 1862. The Union Strategy this time was if you can knock the confederate capitol out of the war, richmond, only 90 miles from washington, d. C. , if the Union General George Mcclellan can capture the confederate capital at richmond by the summer of 1862 the confederacy may throw in the towel. We cant know for sure. It is speculation. It could very well be that the confederacy decides, ok, they took our capital but well keep on fighting. The war has been going on about a year. If the confederacy loses their National Capital within a year it very well could be th
Kevin is a licensed battlefield guide at the Antietam Battlefield. And hes coauthor of an upcoming book for the emerging civil war series about the maryland campaign. Hes going to talk to us a little bit about what he considers to be a great defense, robert e. Lee at antietam. Its my pleasure to introduce one of the great emerging voices in the field, kevin pollock. Good morning, everyone, thank you to chris for that humbling introduction and thank you all for being here at my Bachelor Party. I think we might set Virginia State record for the largest Bachelor Party in all of state history. Its about to get a little crazy in here. Talking about robert e. Lee at the battle of antietam. Even before last years symposium when a letter was sent out asking for topic ideas for great defenses of the civil war there was a caveat left in the email that allowed us to quote think outside of the box. And the topic that i propose is the one that im proposing or presenting to you now, robert e. Lee at
Lbe subcontracting goals. As needed contracts fell 2 below but we expect that to increase as the different scopes of work come online. This slide compares the awards and paymentses over the six months of the past three fiscal years. We awarded six contracts in the first half of each of the last three fiscal years. This time weve gone down a bit with 41 going to lbe firms but we did well in the last two fiscal years and were exceeding the mayors citywide aspirational lbe participation goal of 40 . In terms of local hire these are Construction Projects that are over a Million Dollars. Theyre subject to the local hire ordinance which is implemented by the office of economic and workforce development. Since the inception of the ordinance back in 2011 there have been 15 contracts at the port that have fallen under the ordinance and its requirements. They have all met the ordinance requirements. Currently we have one contract that falls under the threshold and that is the pier 31 roof repair