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CSPAN3 June 10, 2012



organization, and reward it rather than, of course, this was a technique of grant s. the campaign the army of the potomac s campaign, according to one grant biographer was quote, a hideous disaster in every respect save one. it worked. it was in the military strategy, in the wilderness, an affair of nightmarish inhumanity, an inept military strategy that ranks one of the worst such episodes in our history of national warfare. to soldiers of the two next generations when they were searching for comparisons of the agony of war and the argon forest in 1918, and in the hertgen forest in the fall and winter of 44/ 45, they thought immediately of the wilderness. you must permit me to say also to this audience, because look so many of our fellow americans, we are drawn to the civil war and to the second world war. but we forget what the country was up to in 1917, 1918. think abut these numbers just for a moment. in the seven weeks of the battle in the argon, we lost 26,500 ....

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CSPAN3 June 10, 2012



commander far more suited before them than the relationship between his great rival and jefferson davis. each man senses the other s confidence in him. their exchanges are easy and direct. though lincoln is capable of a kind of harmless disingenuousness when he writes things to grant such as your plans i neither know nor seek to know. he doesn t really mean that. and grant extremely subordinate by nature knows it. the army of the potomac, under grant s own subordinate. george meade, will continue. will continue to be led by mead. he is both touched and reassured by grant any display of confidence in him. i am reminded because i have been looking recently at the second world war and its aftermath of harry truman s expectation that george marshall will quote, clean up, unquote, the state department. marshall like grant does nothing of the kind. his instinct is to walk in, find out what its good in the organization, and reward it rather than, of course, this was a tk tech ....

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CSPAN3 April 1, 2012



and that these two wings were about 15 miles apart. one was in cross hollows. the other was, approximately, where the northwest arkansas airport is today. a little bit southwest of modern bentonville. right there, then and there, on the spot, galvanized by this amazing information, vandorn practically leapt off the bed and announced that the next morning, the army of the west would march north and drive the federals out of the way and return to missouri. the next morning. okay. the plan to the degree that he had a plan was that the confederates would march straight north and reach the town square in bentonville. precisely where sam walton has his wal-mart memorial museum today. complete with pickup truck. why? the only east-west road that linked the two wings of the union army passed through the town square of bentonville. if vandorn could march north, seize bentonville, the town square, and the road, the two halves of the union army would be separated, he could swing w ....

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CSPAN3 April 1, 2012



town square in bentonville. precisely where sam walton has his wal-mart memorial museum today. complete with pickup truck. why? the only east-west road that linked the two wings of the union army passed through the town square of bentonville. if vandorn could march north, seize bentonville, the town square, and the road, the two halves of the union army would be separated, he could swing west, crush one half commanded by general franz siegel, the non-english speaking half, and then swing back and crush general curtis half at cross hollows. see, nothing to it. easy. you can almost imagine vandorn bubbling over with enthusiasm. facesand mcculluck sitting thinking it s not going to be that simple. okay. from vandorn s perspective, everything was suddenly clarified. with the union army out of the way, the road to missouri would be wide open. and with the road to missouri wide open, it was only a matter of time before st. louis and then haza. vandorn was a cavalry man in ....

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