Maudlin. Really kind of depressing, right . Has the feeling of the war. Early on, there was people who are wanting to fight. Now people are sick of it. This has been building up over time. Charles ok. That is a good point. They have been fighting for over three years and it is wearing on people in there is cash people. There is some much death. So much loss and destruction and people are getting tired of it. And wariness is gaining momentum in the summer and fall of 1864. And we begin to see during the election year, the campaigning starts in the summer and we begin to see the democrats step up their attacks on the lincoln administration. We see them come back, and the other says, boldly returning from canada. What are they going to exploit . What are they going to focus on in the election . I think they are going to focus on sort of the emancipation aspect of it. They are trying to get the more conservative republicans on their side in terms of saying, hey, we do not want to this eman
Military policy towards Southern Civilians. After he wrote that book, i first met him. He came to the chicago civil war roundtable, where i was a member, and talked about the book. He maintains the war historians website, focusing on military history and National Security affairs, winning the 2015 cleopatra award for the best individual blog, for his wonderfully titled blog then out of the stone age. In other words, grimsley is an awardwinning historian in three media. His books ono civil war topics which are listed in your program, mark has written an taught more generally on military history. An sae wrote for his coedited book, civilians in the path of war, is his talk today. Im sured redskins, you can get your answer answer by dr. Grimsley. Military conduct, a comparative perspective. He is no stranger to the museum programs. He spoke in this auditorium, as a matter of fact, 12 years ago as a part of the evening series lectures on hard war. We are very pleased to welcome back to the
We are very pleased to welcome back to this stage dr. Mark grimsley. [applause] it is a pleasure to be here this afternoon. I am looking forward to talking with you. Lets get this up on the screen. We are talking today about the and about the final wars on native americans. I am neither a civil war historian or a military historian. I still know a lot about the civil war. [laughter] but i dont identify as a military historian. And the way i actually came to the subject of my first book, which i will be talking about some today, actually was by way of the interest in moral judgment in war. The kind of moral judgments that we often make in wartime. And as an historian, the kind of judgments that we do make. And that was the genesis of the book that became interesting in the moral judgments that Union Officers and soldiers made towards Southern Civilians in the path of war during the American Civil War. So that is where that came from. However, having written that book, i have formed an a
I want to thank quail ridge books for inviting me back and all you people coming out to hear about general Phil Sheridan, who, of the leaders at the war, he i the least know, the others being uhis see s. Grant and william, tecumseh, sherman. These generals appeared on postage stamps honoring great commanders. Sheridan is on grants left. This is appropriate because, by the time the civil war ended, sheridan was sometimes referred as to the left hand of grant. He was ten years younger than grant and sherman. He was a dynamo. Inspired his men with his intensity and by his personal leadership. He led from the front but he was also a careful planner. Yet he was the one who promptly acted on a plan, and once it was made, and was willing to change it if the conditions changed on the battlefield. But during the war, sheridan became a household name because of his great victories in the Shenandoah Valley, especially at cedar creek, and for waging what was called a total war there he was one of