intangible resources. so this is i i feel where the speakers got really creative and we re gonna hear talks on information love and memory so three things that you might not immediately think of as wartime resources, but when you think a little harder, i think it s obvious that these are the kinds of things that americans whether they re soldiers or civilians in the union or the confederacy black and white americans alike needed in order to cope with the tremendous crisis of the civil war. so we ll have three talks each of them will last about 15 minutes and then after that we ll move into a period of discussion and the discussion by the way is going to be moderated jointly by me and dr. caroline newhall, my colleague. she s the postdoctoral fellow here at the center and you can type your questions into the q&a box at any time now if you already have a question, but any certainly anytime during the lectures are at the end during the discussion session and i really want to let
the way is going to be moderated jointly by me and dr. caroline newhall, my colleague. she s the postdoctoral fellow here at the center and you can type your questions into the q&a box at any time now if you already have a question, but any certainly anytime during the lectures are at the end during the discussion session and i really want to let you know how much we appreciate your responses and questions that come in through the q&a box, you know, sometimes people just type a little note saying i really enjoyed this talk and that s great. of course for the speakers to hear and whatever your response or question. we re really glad to have it and of course especially over zoom if we don t get any questions or responses, it really makes us question whether there s anyone out there at all. so please do keep those. some responses coming. we really look forward to the conversation after the lectures. so our first speaker is going to be extremely familiar to anyone who s attended
war. so we ll have three talks each of them will last about 15 minutes and then after that we ll move into a period of discussion and the discussion by the way is going to be moderated jointly by me and dr. caroline newhall, my colleague. she s the postdoctoral fellow here at the center and you can type your questions into the q&a box at any time now if you already have a question, but any certainly anytime during the lectures are at the end during the discussion session and i really want to let you know how much we appreciate your responses and questions that come in through the q&a box, you know, sometimes people just type a little note saying i really enjoyed this talk and that s great. of course for the speakers to hear and whatever your response or question. we re really glad to have it and of course especially over zoom if we don t get any questions or responses, it really makes us question whether there s anyone out there at all. so please do keep those. some responses
intangible resources. so this is i i feel where the speakers got really creative and we re gonna hear talks on information love and memory so three things that you might not immediately think of as wartime resources, but when you think a little harder, i think it s obvious that these are the kinds of things that americans whether they re soldiers or civilians in the union or the confederacy black and white americans alike needed in order to cope with the tremendous crisis of the civil war. so we ll have three talks each of them will last about 15 minutes and then after that we ll move into a period of discussion and the discussion by the way is going to be moderated jointly by me and dr. caroline newhall, my colleague. she s the postdoctoral fellow here at the center and you can type your questions into the q&a box at any time now if you already have a question, but any certainly anytime during the lectures are at the end during the discussion session and i really want to let
in the summer of 1864, general sherman marched south from chattanooga into georgia with the goal of capturing atlanta. after a series of battles andity siege of the city, atlanta fell to the yun i know on september 2nd, 1864. setting up sherman s march to the sea later in the year. this was part of the gettysburg college civil war institute s annual summer conference. it s about an hour. before we get started, the map you see up here is a campaign map on the left side insert there is are the smaller maps indicate the main battles. i know it s probably difficult for those of you in the back of the room to see the small details and maybe read the print and so, what we did or actually what pete s staff did was included in this your so hopefully, most of you have this. if you turn the page 9, you ll see this map in there. you might waptd to refer to this. this is probably a little easier to read. but we ll be making frequent or i ll be making frequent reference to the campaig