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Also, dont try this at home. Is this for real . If it is, poor guy. Now fox 29 news at 10 00. Startling wakeup call in the middle of the night. A son finds an intruder in his mothers home but he doesnt wait for police. Thanks for joining us tonight. Im iain page. Im lucy noland. Invader tried to hide next to the better but this game of hide and seek did not end well for him. Fox 29s Shawnette Wilson live in wilmington right now. Shawnette. Reporter lucy, it took us awhile to track down this family im so grad we did. Boy do they have a story to tell. The family believes that the suspect targeted this woman because of her age and they say they took no chances. They caught him right away. Im her only son thats what my job is. So i wasnt afraid. Reporter Anthony Selby will always be his mothers he hero. Especially after what he did when he woke up to find a teenager hiding on th ....
A portion of coxs forces, capturing 800 federals and one canon. Things look pretty good for the confederates on the first day but then the second day cox brings up reinforcement. The federals dig in. Bragg attempts an attack on the tense, but hes repulsed. Receiving words that cox is receiving still more reinforcements, bragg decides to fall back towards goldsboro ending the battle of lysis forks. In the meantime, sherman plots the course of his army group from fayetteville. Goldsboro is his objective, but he wants to keep johnston guessing as to what his objective is. Hes going to send the left wing under slocum northward on the old raleigh stage road, as if hes heading towards the North Carolina state capital. They will be marching in light marching order, all the unnecessary wagons will be with the right wing under howard. They will be taking direct roads to goldsboro. The idea is to keep johnston up in the air as to where sher ....
Finally, in april of 1862 northern troops began bombarding for polaski. The amazing thing was, they could hit everything they were aiming at from a distance they laid outside of the ability of the confederates to land a telling blow in return. The closer they got to the magazine, the more quickly commander olmsted was able to fly the flag of surrender and give for polaski over to the union. And in effect, inform robbery lee that the blockade of southern ports was going to work, because the union had technology that was going to overcome anything the confederates could do to answer it. They couldnt counter the parent rifles that the union army had. We hope to be doing a lot of digitizing and scanning of the correspondence because it contains a lot of genealogical information that will be of interest families. A lot of the families who did not return, of soldiers to maine, but whose family members would now like to know, what did there great, great, grandfather do during the war. We look ....
He launches an attack on forces a few miles east of kinston on march 8 and succeeds in routing a portion of coxs forces, capturing 800 federals and one canon. Things look pretty good for the confederates on the first day but then the second day cox brings up reinforcement. The federals dig in. Bragg attempts an attack on the tense, but hes repulsed. Receiving words that cox is receiving still more reinforcements, bragg decides to fall back towards goldsboro ending the battle of lysis forks. In the meantime, sherman plots the course of his army group from fayetteville. Goldsboro is his objective, but he wants to keep johnston guessing as to what his objective is. Hes going to send the left wing under slocum northward on the old raleigh stage road, as if hes heading towards the North Carolina state capital. They will be marching in light marching order, all the unnecessary wagons will be with the right wing under howard. They will b ....
Now, im going to make a detour. Were going to make a sharp turn south and were going to turn back the clock. Were going to go back to december of 1864. And were going to follow this man, general william t. Sherman and his progress in what he believes and hopes will be his final campaign of the war. Now sherman and grant are pursuing the grand strategy that they form lated in march of 1864 in cincinnati, ohio. The idea was to keep the armies in the east and in the west confederate armies so busy that they could not reinforce each other. And not have a repeat fiasco in the battle in september of 1863. Well this strategy is working. Slowly, but working. While grant keeps lees army bottled up around the trenches of petersburg and richmond, sherman captures atlanta georgia, in september of 1864. On december 16 the army of the cumberland under george h. Thomas crushes the army of tennessee, the confederacy second largest field army and one week later general sherman completes his march from ....