Score of subtle harmonies before a note is stirred. And the nature now is pondering the title symphony of spring as yet unheard. This is a poem by John Bannister , american poet buried in Hollywood Cemetery. Here at Hollywood Cemetery we are anticipating the coming of spring. Now many of the trees are dormant, but soon they will break forth with tremendous color and life. Hollywood cemetery was beyondshed in 1847, just the city limits of richmond, virginia. The founders of hollywood hired , a philadelphia landscape architect, to design and layout they grounds. Not rename the grounds, but the you name the grounds for the extensive growth of hollywood trees, and he transformed this wooded area into one of the most picturesque rural cemeteries in the United States. By the middle of the 19th century, American Cities and towns had grown due to immigration and industrialization. The city churchyards and bearing grounds had become overcrowded. The Rural Cemetery was created to provide safe, s
Youre making me think about this, and i love this. This is the thing you may not te audiences and although what ive said is a compilation of what all of the historians and this is a consensus to a large extent on much of this now, but you may not buy any of it, but what i hope is that you will never look at this man and this march in the same way. Before i step away from this podium its an honor to be here with so many distinguished historians and so many great people, Richard Murray and you started the day out with the best and you started the day out with bud robertson and you ended it with the least, as far as im concerned. So thank you very much. Donald trump and Hillary Clinton made the conventions a mustsee on tv. This morning we will show you the featured speeches from cleveland and philadelphia. You will see democratic speeches by michelle obama, bernie sanders, bill clinton, joe biden, michael bloomberg, tim kaine and the acceptance speech by Hillary Clinton and sunday morning
60 miles across from one end to the other as it goes out to the sea. She said in reality it was more like fingers of destruction. Stitches through the landscape. Because the army was advancing down roads. And most places they stayed a day. If that much. So the destruction, the destruction is limited to how far off the roads they can go. So she said there are vast areas in between those roads. That were untouched by it. And those people of course applied food and help to the other people who had lost so much during the march. Its interesting, because i had not even thought about this. We do have this image of tsunami of fire going across and if fact it really is more like fingers of destruction going across georgia. Yes, sir . People in the valley recognized that sheridan not only planned, organized and carried out zonal destruction, so this was an order of destruction. And it was very thorough, although theres many other phases to it. But thats different than what happened in georgia.
Becomes that, i think the term they use was the wind. This wire and wind that came through georgia. Sarah reuben made an interesting point about the destruction itself. I thought it was interesting, i left it out of my talk. She said we have the sense of the march to the sea as being the giant tidal wave this tsunami. 60 miles across from one end to the other as it goes out to the sea. She said in reality it was more like fingers of destruction. Stitches through the landscape. Because the army was advancing down roads. And most places they stayed a day. If that much. So the destruction, the destruction is limited to how far off the roads they can go. So she said there are vast areas in between those roads. That were untouched by it. And those people of course applied food and help to the other people who had lost so much during the march. Its interesting, because i had not even thought about this. We do have this image of tsunami of fire going across and if fact it really is more like
Coming up here is actually author of three books. He started out writing about a subject near and dear to him, the 1864 campaign in the shenandoah valley. The story is called bloody autumn. Most recently, calamity and carolina. Greenwalt started out as an intern. He has since joined the park service, has done a wonderful with George Washingtons birthplace, where he was an interpreter for several years, but most recently, he has decided to go into alligator land and has bowed down at the everglades, where he has been for just a month or so. Usis taking time to talk to about a subject that eric introduced us to just moments ago, and he talked about the foundational document of the lost cause. Talk to usng to about where that goes and how that legacy is with us today. Ladies and gentlemen, phillip greenwalt. [applause] phillip good morning. The good thing about the lost or remembering Southern Confederate history is that has not been in the public eye at all for the last few weeks, months