Talks on generals robert e. Lee and ulysses s. Grant. American history tv in prime time begins at 8 00 p. M. Eastern. Matt atkinson is a former park ranger with the Vicksburg National military park. Next he talks about the 1863 siege of vicksburg and the confederate defense of the city. This 50minute talk was part of a symposium on great defenses of the civil war, host by the emerging civil war blog. Our next speaker today comes to us from gettysburg National Military park. Weve just heard from gettysburg and were going to have the get ea gettysburg talk about vicksburg. Matt is a nate irof mississippi. He is everything you hope to find when you walk to the desk at the park and you want to talk to the Great Southern gentleman with the great accent. He is going to tell you about southern charm. Ironically, this is a man i i heard has been told that hes not southern enough. Is that right . Yeah, it is. Wait until he opens his mouth. I just wish you would stop with the gentleman part. I w
Opening day of the new congress. Watch the official swearing in of the new and reelected members of the house and senate. Members he election of the sena all day live coverage of todays coverage of capital hill begins with 7 00 a. M. Eastern onzv csp or you can listen to it on the cspan radio app. Up next on americanko histor tv, a conversation with candace shy hooper about her book lincolns generals lives, four women who influenced they y 1 war for better and for worse. The women profiled in the book are Jessie Fremont, nelly mcclellan, andc julia grant. President lincolns cottage in washington, d. C. Hosted this hour long cevent. Joining us tonight is president lincolns cottage board member shy cooper and cspan to discussym candys new book, lincolns general lives, four women who influence the course of the civil war, for better and for worst. Candacezv shy cooper served as press secretary and legislative assistant Charlie Wilson before becoming Vice President of in National Energy
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What a perfect introduction. Thank you. Thats great. John and i are delighted to be back here at the lincoln forum. Those of you who know us even a little bit will not be surprise today hear last night we had an opportunity to get together and consume some wine. And in the midst of that conversation, fueled by wine we were talking about how we were th terribly jealous of ron chernow whose biography of hamilton inspired a very lucrative musical on broadway. So we thought how appropriate it would be to have joseph e. Johnston the musical. [laughter] or william t. Sherman the musical or the one that really inspired us was henry wager halek the musical. As you see on the screen here and youll be delighted to hear, this is not going to be a musical presentation today. Instead, alas, it is a tragedy in three acts. Act one. On april 17, 1865, which is a full week after lee surrendered to grant at appomattox as we just heard a few moments ago, joseph e. Johnston and william t. Sherman met in t
The end of the civil war. Their april 1865 meeting happened two days after president lincolns assassination and a week after robert e lee surrendered at appomattox. This is part of the annually conform symposium and is just under an hour. Welcome to session one of the 21st annual lincoln for him symposiumincoln forum. Professor craig simons is Professor Emeritus of the United States Naval Academy and a member of the executive committee of the board of advisors of the lincoln forum. Newlythe author or editor 2000 two dozen books, including neptune, the allied invasion of europe and the dday andings that book won the Samuel Eliot Morrison award for literature. The author of lincoln and his admirals, which won the lincoln prize in 2009. In recognition of his extraordinary contributions, the noble the Naval Historical Foundation awarded him the navalore deadly w knox history award for a lifetime achievement. John marszalak came out of retirement in 2008 and accepted the executiveing direct