Will see this map in there. You might want to refer to this. It is probably a little easier to read. I will be making frequent reference to this map as it will help us understand the course of the campaign. As general in chief of all military forces in 1864, u. S. Grant devised accord mated offensive by a number of union army stretching from louisiana all the way to virginia. As you know already, the two most important of these offenses were those of the army of the potomac here in virginia, and that of william t sherman, who commanded what was called the military division of the mississippi. Grants orders to sherman for the campaign, dated april 4, 1864, were pretty straightforward. Grant told sherman to move against the confederate armies of tennessee commanded by general joseph e. Johnston, and to break it up, get into the interior of the enemies country as far as you can and inflict as much damage as you can. At the same time, sherman was supposed to prevent johnson from detaching
You can always find American History tv on the weekends, but with congress on recess throughout august, cspan3 is featuring highlights during the week. We continue our focus on the civil war, with a look at the Atlanta Campaign. In may 1864, Union General William Sherman marched into georgia, and after a series of battles on september 2nd, the union army seized the city. The march to the sea through georgia, and general Joseph E Johnston who led the confederates in atlanta during the spring and summer of 1864. And later, a look at confederate weapons manufacturing in Central Georgia during and after the fall of atlanta. Friday night on American History tv, slavery and the cinema. A look at the depiction of slavery in the films since the 1930s. The 2012 movie lincoln and the debate and passage of the 13th amendment. A discussion about the 1939 movie gone with the wind and its depiction of southern society, friday night, 8 00 eastern, here on cspan3. This weekend on American History tv,
So you will be able to get the spellings off there. We are going to start off the recht, which ended s war, and it ushered in a you of relative peace in europe and in the colonies. But war interrupted in late 70 39, and this was when britain 1739. Ed war on spain this was when britain declared war on spain. This is a listing that was saying, look, the spanish are seizing our ships on the high seas, this is an insult, there is an increasing clamor in britain, and we need to do something about it. The, the tension between british and the spanish is contract thate was a 30 year contract. Specific numbers on that. So the bottom line was there was tension between 10 and spain, and there was one incident in particular that later gave this conflict its name. An you will think, that is odd day. The war of jenkins ear, where did that come from . Shipsbecca was one of the that had been seized by the shipsh, a british merchant , and the captive of the captain of that ship was robert jenkins, and
That yesterday. In burlington yesterday, independent senator Bernie Sanders officially launched his 2016 president ial bid. Promising a revolution. We will begin there with your thoughts on the center for the campaign. Democrats, 202 7488000. Republicans, 202 7488001. And independents, 202 7488002. Send us a tweet cspanwj, facebook. Com cspan, or send us an email, journal cspan. Org. The Burlington Free press this morning, courtesy of the museum, has this on their front page. Bernie sanders launches his quest for the presidency quoting him, we began a Political Revolution turko cspan covered we begin a Political Revolution. Cspan covered that yesterday. Here is a little of what he had to say. Senator sanders host we will get to that in a second. We apologize for that. As we said, cspan cover the campaign the official launch of this event where the senator was in the hometown of burma. Here is a little bit of that speech. Senator sanders this Campaign Starting today, is going to send a
I know it is probably difficult for those of you in the back of the room to see the small details and maybe read the print, so what we did or actually, what petes staff did, was actually include this in your maps and handbooks book. If you turn to page nine, you will see this map in their. You might want to refer to this. It is probably a little easier to read. I will be making frequent reference to this map as it will help us understand the course of the campaign. As general in chief of all military forces in 1864, u. S. Grant devised accord mated offensive by a number of union army stretching from louisiana all the way to virginia. As you know already, the two most important of these offenses were those of the army of the potomac here in virginia, and that of william t sherman, who commanded what was called the military division of the mississippi. Grants orders to sherman for the campaign, dated april 4, 18 64, were pretty straightforward. Grant told sherman to move against the conf