To maintain tight control and lipity explains defined foraging parties and centralized distribution systems, chaos could ensue, and the army could really descend into a sort of armed mob engaging in pillage and so forth. So whats interesting is that you would have expected lipity to use shermans march as his examples as hes making this complicated case. He doesnt. He actually goes back to napoleons russian campaign. In fact, though, he doesnt ignore the march when hes talking about how an army can descend into chaos. Thats where he uses napoleon. He actually defends shermans march and he claims at first that when seizing Household Goods the men carefully discriminated between and this is actually the language from shermans orders, discriminated between the rich who were generally hostile to us meaning the union, and the poor and industrious who were usually friendly or at least neutral, and he describes sherman as having this very organized system with rules and receipts, and he explai
And had the federal authorities not arrested him, put him in a cell at fort monroe, clamped him in irons and made a martyr out of him, he would have been denounced through much of southern history. But they turned him into the man who was persecuted for the white south but made him a hero. Even so, postwar confederates did not like to air their dirty linen in public and most of them did not do so. Johnston was also praised in the writings of his federal opponents. William t. Sherman had good things to say about johnston in his memoirs published in 1875. U. S. Grant had good things to say about johnston. I mean, after all, grant said i worried more when joe johnston was in command in front of my army than when robert e. Lee was. I dont know if grant actually 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
For the First Time Ever on speculation of a bailout extension for greece. According to reports, that country will ask for an extension of the countrys alone agreement tomorrow. But there is no official word no confirmation just yet. The extension according to multiple reports would prevent the countrys current agreement from expiring at the end of the month. That prospect worried investors for months since it could lead to a spiral of events from a default to greek exit of the euro. Dow jones industrial average up 28 points to finish at 18,047. Close to an alltime high there. Nasdaq up 5 and s p 500 closed 3 points higher but that was good enough for the fresh recordthe button. A lot of action it did today was in the bond market as the yield on the ten year approached a 2015 high. Here too, analysts pointed to the pressospect of a debt extension for greece. Michelle carusocabrera reports theres one major difference now that stands between greece and its creditors. Reporter the differen
Ceasefire. Im very proud of every single moment i spent in prison for the sake of freedom of expression. And back home, al jazeera journalists Baher Mohamed and Mohamed Fahmy are freed on bail. A prosecutor in argentina has ordered a fcial investigation into allegations that the president tried to cover up iranian involvement in a 1994 bomb attack on a Jewish Community center. The allegations were first made by another prosecutor who was found dead with a gunshot wound to the head last month. Daniel schwindler reports. Prosecutors have determined that the case against president kirchner and her minister timerman will not go away. The 1994 are bombing that killed 84 people. The government has always vehemently denied those allegations but the latest revelation has rocked the political establishment. One thing that is distinguished, the judicial aspect is highly questionable. While we tend to deny it is having an extraordinary political impact. The allegations were initially made by pros
For the First Time Ever on speculation of a bailout extension for greece. According to reports, that country will ask for an extension of the countrys alone agreement tomorrow. But there is no official word no confirmation just yet. The extension according to multiple reports would prevent the countrys current agreement from expiring at the end of the month. That prospect worried investors for months since it could lead to a spiral of events from a default to greek exit of the euro. Dow jones industrial average up 28 points to finish at 18,047. Close to an alltime high there. Nasdaq up 5 and s p 500 closed 3 points higher but that was good enough for the fresh recordthe button. A lot of action it did today was in the bond market as the yield on the ten year approached a 2015 high. Here too, analysts pointed to the pressospect of a debt extension for greece. Michelle carusocabrera reports theres one major difference now that stands between greece and its creditors. Reporter the differen