[inaudible question] you might look at the website before you go. But no, if any of the volcanos good actors, they do issue warnings. It was active for two months before this big eruption. If i am there it is safe to go. Two more questions. I am surprised to hear. I would have assumed. There are pockets. They are not easy to find but they do exist. You will come across. National organic monument. They are just little bits and pieces. It is amazing there is not more. I guess they are just so valuable. One last question. Its astonishing. The fact of the matter is that it is unusual in the united states. This kind of corruption devastates the landscape. This just a matter of time. Thanks everybody. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] applied to the university of North Carolina graduate school. Within weeks of replication the present went to the campus to speak. And his address shortly after the midterm elections, widely anticipated address. People were excited. Arrangement
Theyve left a large train of munitions in the Eastern Central portion of atlanta that obviously cant get out. And so they set it on fire. This is 18 boxcars full of explosives. And you can imagine the sound that was heard 15, 20 miles away. This is the scene incidentally thats depicted in gone with the wind when red is in the wagon trying to get scarlet and the baby out, and theres all the sets burning in the background. I told my kids some of those sets were from the wizard of oz, which was true. They dont care anything about gone with the wind, but they were upset that the sets from the wizard of oz burned in this movie. Its worth pointing out here that the destruction of atlanta cannot be attributed solely to uncle billy sherman, that hoods army in fact began the process with the evacuation and the destruction of the firing of this train. And sherman took it a good bit further just before the march to the sea. On september second, the mayor of atlanta surrendered the city. Sherman a
If the British Forces simply sailed up the potomac, everybody would know that washington was the ultimate party. Coburn recommends that the force be split up, one squadron sail up the Potomac River and threaten the capitol and the city of alexandria, the main force is going to go up the Pawtuxet River into southern maryland. The advantage was that it would shield the ultimate british intention it might mean an attack on washington, it could also mean the british were simply chasing after Commodore Joshua Barney who was the american commander of the chess peak flotilla, who had a flotilla of barges and the rivers flowing into it. He had been trapped in the Pawtuxet River, he was further up river than the british, and the british could use barneys presence. Its what the british commanders, general ross and admiral alexander dock run agree to do. This weekend a panel of historians as they discuss the bu burning of washington. Thats sunday at 6 00 and 10 00 p. M. Eastern, all right here on
Rebuild these huge wooden spans. So thats where the real mastery logistics comes into play. One more question over here. General hood has been undergoing a bit of a reevaluation recently. It seemed to me that his plans. Once he took over as commander of the army of tennessee were fairly good plans on paper, its just that his army couldnt execute them for one reason or another. Could you comment briefly on hoods generalship as the commander of the army of tennessee . Sure. Hood is doesnt certainly doesnt have the mastery of logistics that sherman does. That becomes painfully evident during the Tennessee Campaign in 1864. But hoods operating under some pretty severe handicaps. Not only his own physical handicaps, he also has the command structure with a lot of generals who are woefully inexperienced at their division and core level of command. They just they dont execute hoods orders, and dont carry out his plans the way he had envisioned them. I think the other important factor is that
Libraries, and there are lots of things that you can dig out of that volume. But by the spring of 1862, the powder works quickly constructed by incorporating the industrial capacity of much of the south by having the individual parts of the factory produced in different places, including some of the incorporating wheels, the big what you can kind of think of as grinding wheels in nashville, the drive shaft in the incorporating House Building which was in segments, which is almost 300 feet long, was cast in segments in chattanooga, and then shipped by rail to augusta and assembled in the complex. There was a refinery for refining, removing impurities from the principal component of gunpowder at that time, potassium nitrate. And then large cooling magazines, and also storage magazines. And the complex was laid out essentially so that all the materiel progressed from downstream to upstream, and the finished product, and also the most dangerous part of the product was also located furthest