Through middletown and then shared an arrived on the late that morning. Inspired his troops reorganize the army and that Afternoon Lunch to counterattack. Sneeze sneezing a great victory toward the end of the conversation after they were done recounting everything that had transpired. Since the earliest hours of that Day Sheridan turned to his dear Friend George Crook and he said simply. Crook i am going to get much more credit for this than i deserve. I think the reality is that Philip Sheridan could have never ever dreamed. How his ride from winchester . To north of middletown late that morning of the 19th. And his subsequent snatching a victory from the jaws of defeat. Would become his defining legacy at least in the popular consciousness of american society. Now on the evening before the battle of Cedar Creek. Philip sheridan was not with his army. Better down for the night at the logan house in winchester and if you are familiar with winchester, the logan house is now what is know
Thanks to everyone for being here and special thanks, of course, to dr. Jones. Lets give him a warm welcome to this online forum sponsored by the Virginia Center for civil war studies. Thanks for being here. But lets start with sort of the big picture. The u. S. Is as we all know in the grip of a massive opioid Addiction Crisis. Since the late 1990s millions of americans have struggled with addiction to opioids. More americans have actually died of opioid overdoses annually since 2017 than the total number of american soldiers who died in the Vietnam War and thats every year since 2017. So this is a massive public Health Crisis Today and it shows no signs of slowing. In fact, its likely that this year the Covid Pandemic has only exacerbated the Overdose Rate and made problems of opioid addiction worse. As a historian im i continually find myself struck by the wakt that the opioid crisis that the u. S. Is experiencing today is framed and talked about in the news as if its something new,
University talks about widespread Opiate Addiction among civil war vet advance. He explains how spribing Opium And Morphine, common treatments used for lifelong histories grew into drug dependencies for many. The civil war studies hosted this event and they provided the video. Tonights event. Our speaker is dr. Jonathan jones, and hes spending this year at Penn State civil War Era Center so thats this year hes a postdoctoral scholar at Penn State. Next year in the fall hes going to take up a new system as a System Professor of history at the Virginia Military of institute so im really looking forward to it. Its not too far away for Virginia Tech to have a beginning next fall. Hes an expert in civil War History and civil War Struggle Awith Opiate Addiction and this was the subject of this Phd Dissertation and also published a recent article in the journal of the civil War Era and working on a bok on this topic. This is his topic and knows it better than anyone and were really fortunate
Virginia, and they were remarking on the events of that day. A Surprise Attack that swept the army from theyre camps, through middletown, and he arrived on the scene late that morning, inspired his troops, and reorganized the army. That afternoon, launched a counterattack, seizing a great victory. Toward the end of the conversation, after they were done recounting everything that had transpired since the earliest hours of that day, sheridan turned to his dear friend, george crook, and he said, simply, crook, i am going to get much more credit for this than i deserve. I think the reality is that Phillip Sheridan could have never, ever dreamed how his rise from winchester to north of middletown late that morning of the 19th, and his subsequent snatching of victory from the jaws of defeat would become his defining legacy, at least in the popular consciousness of american society. On the evening before the battle of Cedar Creek, sheridan was not with his army. He had bedded down for the ni
Not want Philip Sheridan the prematurely engaged confederates under general jubal early. Because they were not only concerned about battlefield defeat and i think again its important here to sort of step back for a moment. You know you think about everything that the confederates had achieved in the Shenandoah Valley aside from you know Union Successes at first. Kernstown rutherfords farm battle of piedmont. It was a scene of incessant disaster. And so they werent worried about just another in a string of battlefield defeats. They were concerned about the timing. Because everything thats happening in the summer and into the autumn of 1864 has that president ial election looming over it . So that trio of lincoln grant and stanton they understood. That have shared and went out and fought jubal early in the Shenandoah Valley and lost it would not only be militarily detrimental but politically detrimental giving the election potentially to lincolns challenger in george b. Mcclellan. And Ph