To have actual images of when i give a talk. This is something of a departure for me. Heres how the structure is going to work. Im going to give very brief introductions for the four people who are sitting here at the table with me and ill do all of them at once. And then im going to go in the order in which these images are going to appear and have each of our Panel Members talk about why they decided to be part of this project. And why they selected the image that they selected. Theyll talk for a little while about the image and then well see where the conversation goes after that. Youll be able to have questions. Let me introduce everybody up here. Ill start with carol riordan, the professor of American History at penn state university. Carol and i taught together there for a long time. Shes the author of a very important book on civil war memory, the military side of it. With a sword in one hand, the problem of military thought in the civil war north. And shes a coauthor with tom v
Say, its one of the first books to explore social motivation, its an outstanding book is then vinny many others that include pickens charge, the rightful musket in the civil war, a book on field fortifications, and a lot of people dont know Braxton Bragg , im not sure you love them after you read the book but its a fair and very well researched analytical work at the controversial general. He is one a number of awards for his book on civil war tactic and i should know that this book fighting for atlanta was published by the university of North Carolina and will be his topic. We welcome earl hess. [ applause ] thank you for the generous introduction. Fighting for atlanta to tactics during entrenches in the civil war is the topic. The purpose is to understand one of the more important elements the influences the course of up rations during the Atlanta Campaign which is the role of field operations. Its a followup to a trilogy that i did several years ago for the eastern campaigns, volume
Point counterpoint. But i expect that to happen. At any moment. So i have all the questions here. Theyre really good ones. And not surprisingly, there are about four of them that are basically the same, but with a little bit of a twist. And it was a question that i was planning to ask anyway. So what i would like to do is just start over here and one at a time tell me who you think was the most hated general of the war. I think we all pretty much know this answer already. But and well go down the panel with that, and then start back here and say who do you think was the most loved general of the war. Okay . So lets start over here. The most hated general of the war. I get not only that question, but i getting to first. [ laughter ] can you start on that end . So i can kind of deal with the rest of us . Youre on the spot. Okay. Im not seriously i am not dodging when i answer this. I dont hate any of them. I really dont. Anybody of any rank from private to general, any of these guys who
Movement of the armies to cover a lot of ground. There are several bottles only way. By the time the armies battles on the way. By the time the army gets to appomattox they have been in constant contact. When they arrived at the courthouse, there is a final battle on the day of the surrender because nobody knew there would be a surrender that day on the morning of april. April 9. Here we have sailors creek, the largest battle of the campaign with eight thousand confederate 8000 confederate soldiers captured on one day. As the army of Northern Virginia drifts into the courthouse, the Union Cavalry under general custer has gotten in front of the Confederate Army, blocking the road they intend to use. The goal all along for robert ulees to get robert lee is to get the army down. Lee cap makes the terms to the south because union forces keep blocking the way but the union armies cant make the turn to the south because union forces keep blocking the way. This map shows the final battle whic
Print parole passes for the confederates. This is the pattern that they use, it is called a check pattern, i think you can see why. They are important for a few other things as well. General grant indicated that they could be used for transportation on Union Military railroads and ships. For a lot of the men who lived near working railroads or can get home by ship, the Union Military will transport them. A lot of the men who lived in the deep south went to norfolk on ships, and got home that way. The parole passes will be important for a lot of reasons. They allow the soldiers to get food, they can stop at union supply bases and draw rations. Over the next three days the surrender is put in motion. The first branch that will surrender is the cavalry on april 10. If you are wondering why the cavalry goes first, think about how much food a horse eats everyday and think about the state of these Confederate Forces and think about appomattox is a small county and does not have a lot of reso