Captures atlanta. Thomas crushes the army of tennessee, the confederacys secondlargest field army, and one week later, general sherman completes his march from atlanta to the sea by presenting the city of Savannah Georgia to president Abraham Lincoln as a christmas gift. Now, sherman is looking ahead to his next campaign. He is going to make a march through the carolinas, moving his army group northward to richmond, virginia. There he will join forces with general grant, and together, they will crush lees army and bring the war to a victorious conclusion. Sherman plans to launch his campaign and january of 1865. But torrential winter rain prevents that from happening. He is forced to delay his campaign to the following month. In the meantime, general grant decides to launch a second expedition to capture fort fisher, and close wilmington North Carolina, the last blockade running seaport the confederacy and in effect close the lifeline of the confederacy as it is called. The First Exped
Today. Two books i think we have them for sale in the bookstore. The most recent 1 i grabbed the wrong one. What is the title of the most recent one . To the bitter in. To the bitter end. And the second one, the final days of the army of tennessee. It is the transmississippi and indian territory. It was one of the florida regiments, the last surrendered group. Robert dunkerly. [applause] mr. Dunkerly good morning. I want to thank the organizers for having me. I really appreciate the invitation. Its great to be here with so many people interested in this topic. What i would like to do is talk about all of these surrenders. I do want to compare these surrenders. Talk about how different they are, because each of them unfolded in its own way. And each of these surrenders happens independently and they each have a fascinating story and talk about how the civil war will set the stage for reconstruction. All right. Im not going to spend a lot of time on appomattox. A couple points i do want
It is about an hour. I want to introduce our speaker for the morning, Robert Dunkley is a historian awardwinning author, he has a degree in history from st. Vincent. He has worked at nine different historic sites, most recently on Richmond National battlefield park. He has written two books that are specifically listed. Im sure he will be talking about them today. I think we have at least one of them in the bookstore, the most recent one. To be bitter end, and the other one is the confederate of greensboro. His talk today will be on the forgotten territories. I hope he might mention florida a little once or twice. It was one of the regimens that was one of the last surrendered groups. Bert dunkley. [applause] bert good morning. I want to thank the organizers for having me. I appreciate the invitation. It is great to be here with so many people interested in the topic. What i would like to do was talk about all of the surrenders, not so much on appomattox, i think you have covered that
The hour. Those stories and much more coming up on the kudlow report beginning right now. Good evening, everyone. Im larry kudlow. This is the kudlow report. We are live at cnbc headquarters. The house is voting this hour on the gop spending plan d. This is a piece meal approach to reopen small portions of the federal government. Their plan, separate bills to fund the National Park service, part of the departments of veterans affairs, and operations for the district of columbia. So far Senate Democrats have rebuffed the house four times and have been unwilling to negotiate. So even if somebody wants to appeal obama care, and i do, and you know i want to appeal it, i must say to the gop, you fought the good fight. More people now know that the economic and Health Dangers of the Central Planning obama care which cannot work, youre right, but now is the time to back off. Now is the time to move on. Even powerhouse Football Team university of alabama punts once in a while to get better fie
Republican lawmakers now take their own legislative agenda straight from the conservative media talking point of the day. Its a legislative perfected during the shutdown. When republicans voted based bose nothing could be a more clear example of how the modern gop works. In the past, lawmakers came up with policy and then tried to sell the policy in the media, but now world saw been completely reversed. Republican lawmakers now take their own medicine and agenda street from the media talking point of the day. Its a legislative message perfected during the shutdown. When republicans voted based solely on whatever was on fox the previous day. Remember, it was the right wing media that flogged the scandal. According to the daily caller, they say this is the first time in history that things have been totally off limits to visitors during shutdown. Then House Republicans quickly wrote a bill. Put up barricades to keep them away from their greater accomplishments is an absolute sin. How to