Dierdorff is on the scene now working to get an update from firefighters. Thank you for joining us on this tuesday, im deiah riley. Im dan shaffer. In the last week we first told you about middle School Students sexting in highlands county. 20 middle school girls sending nude photos and videos. Abc action News Reporter Michael Paluska was in lake placid last night as the principal called an emergency meeting for parents. Reporter hundreds of parents showed up here to talk about the dangers of sexting. The principal saying the issues with this are because of cell phones and using video and pictures. He says students need to know it can change lives. This is against the law. Reporter this is a meeting Lake Placid Middle School Principal Chris dodi never wanted to hold but had to. One student says to me everyone does it. Its concerning to me. Reporter the Sheriffs Office started the month with one cell phone. The number jumped to 20 and full blown investigation for children ages 12 to 14.
Said that or not, but if he did, that alone should take his reputation down many notches. Because among other things, johnston almost never commanded troops in front of grants army. Only for a few weeks in january and february 1864 did johnston command troops in front of grant and those troops that time sat in their Winter Quarters and had snowball battles with each other. I dont know why grant was so worried. Johnstons men are attacking with snowballs. We have to worry about that. Johnston benefited from a lot of the early writing about the war. One of the early prolific historians was edward a. Pollard, a richmond journalist who absolutely hated Jefferson Davis and pollard was writing books almost by the month i mean almost as furiously as brian does here. Just books vomiting out of edward a. Pollard. In which he denounced Jefferson Davis in very harsh terms especially for his treatment of joe johnston and its interesting to sit down with pollards books because a lot of it sounds an
If the British Forces simply sailed up the potomac, everybody would know that washington was the ultimate party. Coburn recommends that the force be split up, one squadron sail up the Potomac River and threaten the capitol and the city of alexandria, the main force is going to go up the Pawtuxet River into southern maryland. The advantage was that it would shield the ultimate british intention it might mean an attack on washington, it could also mean the british were simply chasing after Commodore Joshua Barney who was the american commander of the chess peak flotilla, who had a flotilla of barges and the rivers flowing into it. He had been trapped in the Pawtuxet River, he was further up river than the british, and the british could use barneys presence. Its what the british commanders, general ross and admiral alexander dock run agree to do. This weekend a panel of historians as they discuss the bu burning of washington. Thats sunday at 6 00 and 10 00 p. M. Eastern, all right here on
Rebuild these huge wooden spans. So thats where the real mastery logistics comes into play. One more question over here. General hood has been undergoing a bit of a reevaluation recently. It seemed to me that his plans. Once he took over as commander of the army of tennessee were fairly good plans on paper, its just that his army couldnt execute them for one reason or another. Could you comment briefly on hoods generalship as the commander of the army of tennessee . Sure. Hood is doesnt certainly doesnt have the mastery of logistics that sherman does. That becomes painfully evident during the Tennessee Campaign in 1864. But hoods operating under some pretty severe handicaps. Not only his own physical handicaps, he also has the command structure with a lot of generals who are woefully inexperienced at their division and core level of command. They just they dont execute hoods orders, and dont carry out his plans the way he had envisioned them. I think the other important factor is that
In may 1864, had hundreds and hundreds of trains moving down a rail system through kentucky and tennessee stockpiling supplies in nashville and chattanooga. In chattanooga alone between the months of march and may of 1864, there are 145 rail cars unloading on a daily basis there. So hes Building Supply bases that hell need as he advances into georgia. During the campaign, he had about 5,000 wagons that were constantly on the move from the railroad to the army in the field. As Richard Mcmurray, who is one of the foremost scholars of the Atlanta Campaign writes in one whats one of the best overviews of the campaign, and like some of the other speakers youve heard, ill throw out some book titles. If youre like me, you love books about the civil war. Mcmurrays atlanta 1864 is a very, very, very good overview. If youre looking for one book that gives you an overview, decision in the west by Albert Castel is also an outstanding book. Mcmurray points out that sherman had a couple of big advan