Okay. The question was, how forrest and hood related to each other at the springhill situation, is that what i understand . And nashville. And nashville. Well, in regard to franklin, certainly, forrest did not agree with hoods decision to attack there. Back at springhill, it seems to me that forrest was never fully clear about hood allegedly wanting to block the pike, and instead was coming in and attacking the union troops that were marshaled there, maybe some 6500, rather than trying to concentrate on blocking the pike. I think theres misunderstanding certainly between hood and forrest at springhill. I dont know that that particularly affected what happened the next day at franklin. I think that probably forrest just disagreed totally with the idea of a frontal attack, a frontal assault at franklin and, of course, wanted to try and blank the federals out of their position. I think another interesting point is that what happened in the nashville circumstances, forrest was detached and
I will give an abbreviated version of the bios we have in the programs. Tracy is a native of appomattox. He has worked for the National Park service. He has been at Petersburg National battlefield since 1997. He is the author of one of the volumes and the howard, virginia regimental history series. He is also passed president of the lynchburg civil war roundtable. And the appomattox county historical society. His talk today will be on the fall of petersburg. Please welcome Tracy Chernault. [applause] Tracy Chernault good evening. Im a big baseball guy. When he asked me to speak as the leadoff man, that was a first for me. Most of you can tell by my size, i never hit leadoff because i require somebody speeding. Being the leadoff man is something new for me. I was surprised when pat pointed out that the magazine contains his article, because you get to this article, you have to read through my article. Which i think should have been the end of the magazine. [laughter] please pick up one