John f. Marszalek discusses his process for writing in his relationship with Abraham Lincoln and what he mainly focused on with civil war and not his presidency. Held at the lincoln form symposium, this is one hour. So, let us begin with our last session for the 23rd form. I am Frank Williams your coach. We are delighted to have with us once again, every other year, we have the john and craig show. applause and that is much deserved, because they get high grades, high marks from you. Deservedly so. Im not even sure what it is there going to talk about this morning. But we will be entertained. I can tell you that. What can we say about two of our very loyal members who have served for a long time. A long time on our board of advisers. John john f. Marszalek is our dear friend from Mississippi State, university. Executive director of the Ulysses Grant association and president ial library where i served as president. He is recently the editor along with david mullin and louis gallows of
Test captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2008 so his mind is on several things, i think that would be fair to say. Actually, what grant does, grant basically takes a look at whats going on, he calls halak, the commanding general in washington, gets sherman, theyre fighting in north mississippi, and the idea is they are going to move and attack vicksburg before John Mcclaren can get there. These soldiers are coming down to memphis. Guess who is waiting for them. William t. Sherman, come on boys, were going to go down and attack vicksburg. When mcclaren shows up, he looks around, he says, where are my soldiers, where are all these people that i just theyre not around. Theyre with sherman. What happens, of course, the real problem, as grant sees it, is that mcclaren outranks sherman, so if he comes down, he can take over that army. So what does grant do . Grant becomes the person who controls that army in mississippi completely because grant outranks mcclaren. You have this
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