Recently shes presented her research at civil war roundtables and historical groups in california and across the nation including the National Museum of civil war medicine. Her first nonfiction history book released in spring 2019 call out the cadets takes a fresh look at the battle of new mark. In previous years shes published three historical Fiction Books in order to make details more accessible to audiences outside the history field, currently working on several Civil War Research projects including the citizens and armies in the virginia Shenandoah Valley. As you heard last night shes a crucial part of our team. She manages our website, she provides a lot of the content, she edits our work, edits some of our box and she has a fulltime job and she lives in california. We are grateful to sarah. [ applause ] good morning. I just want to say thank you to rob and dee an for inviting me to share this presentation. We kind of had a back room discussion about a year ago in how does new ma
Military history professor Christopher Gabel discusses the importance of railroads and Steam Powered locomotives to the union and confederate armies and explains how railroads made the scale of the civil war possible and describes how and why the confederacys powerful Railroad System broke down as the war progressed. The Kansas City Public Library hosted this hourlong event. Thank you very much for the kind introduction and for being here. Folks, you know when we look back at the onset of the american civil war, we view it through the lens of the war, itself. That shapes what were looking at. If you view the onset of the civil war a little more objectively instead of being all seeing all of the differences between north and south, youll tend to spot all the similarities. Think about it. The two sides in this conflict. It was a war of brother against brother and in some cases literally so. The two sides shared a common language. They had similar cultures and religions. They shared a ver
Advantage for the north, maybe that statistic is not really important either. Its whether or not the railroads actually were that significant in the conduct and outcome of the civil war. And if the answer to that question is no, we can save a lot of time here tonight. Ok. Well, this is the game changer right here. Water turns to steam and expands 1600 well so what . People have known this for thousands of years. Ok . Well, in the 1820s somebody figured out how to take that expansion and turn it into forward motion. You collect excuse me you collect the steam. You send it down to a piston. The piston drives the rod back and forth. The wheels go around and around and it goes forward. All right. So what . Well, here is the so what. With a Steam Powered locomotive pulling a train, you can carry more cargo farther on the same amount of fuel than you can by muscle power. A sixmule wagon carrying 1 1 2 tons of cargo can go roughly 333 miles on one ton of mule fuel. So you multiply 1. 5 tons t
In December 1863, in desperate need to relieve Knoxville from the pressure of the surrounding Confederate troops, the Union high command planned a daring raid.
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