day battles. he reviews that union general george mcclellan s failed attempt to take the confederate capital in richmond virginia and how disease and terrain and attrition impacted both sides. today we will pick off where we left it last time, we were in the western theater in the last battle we covered was, thank you, shiloh. 1860 two 1862 and how grant thought before this battle it was over. they would defeat the battle and the rebellion and it would end and then after this grant thought nothing but absolute conquest would end it and it was to be much longer. now we will talk about a campaign in the eastern theater happening at the same exact moment of the shiloh battle. the peninsula and seven days campaign today starting in late march early april 1862 going into july 1862. it was lee s campaign which could have ended the war in the summer of 62. the union strategy was this time if you could knock the confederate capital out of the war, which was richmond only 90 miles
july of 1862. it was the campaign that could have ended the war in the summer of 1862. the union strategy this time was if you can knock the confederate capitol out of the war, richmond, only 90 miles from washington, d.c., if the union general george mcclellan can capture the confederate capital at richmond by the summer of 1862 the confederacy may throw in the towel. we can t know for sure. it is speculation. it could be the confederacy decides ok. they took our capital but we ll keep on fighting. the war has been going on about a year. if the confederacy loses their national capital within a year it very well could be the southern nationalism sentiment wasn t strong enough to survive that. a lot was riding on this campaign if he can take richmond in the summer of 62 the war may end. if the war ends what hasn t happened by the summer of 1862? right. emancipation has not happened yet. if the war ends in the summer of 1862 we don t have the emancipation proclamation. we may h
battle was shiloh, april 6 and 7, 1862. we talked about how grant thought the war was going to be over, one more battle and this thing will end and then after shiloh grant learns the war is going to last a lot longer and nothing short of absolute conquest of the south will end it. today we ll talk about a campaign going on at the exact same moment over in the eastern theatre or virginia in this case. we will talk about the peninsula and the seven days campaign today. it starts in late march, early april, 1862 and is going to go until july of 1862. and it was the campaign that could have ended the war in the summer of 1862. the union strategy this time was if you can knock the confederate capitol out of the war, richmond, only 90 miles from washington, d.c., if the union general george mcclellan can capture the confederate capital at richmond by the summer of 1862 the confederacy may throw in the towel. we can t know for sure. it is speculation. it could very well be that the
going to last a lot longer and nothing short of absolute conquest of the south will end it. today we ll talk about a campaign going on at the exact same moment over in the eastern theatre or virginia in this case. we will talk about the peninsula and the seven days campaign today. it starts in late march, early april, 1862 and is going to go until july of 1862. and it was the campaign that could have ended the war in the summer of 1862. the union strategy this time was if you can knock the confederate capitol out of the war, richmond, only 90 miles from washington, d.c., if the union general george mcclellan can capture the confederate capital at richmond by the summer of 1862 the confederacy may throw in the towel. we can t know for sure. it is speculation. it could very well be that the confederacy decides, ok, they took our capital but we ll keep on fighting. the war has been going on about a year. if the confederacy loses their national capital within a year it very well
we re going to have a nice time talking about george washington s 10 tonight. we have an engineer, a structural engineer here and a textile conservator who are part of a larger team. as a very smart woman once said, it takes a village and was a large village involved in the project you are going to hear about tonight. freeu have questions, feel to grab any of us. this evening, we are going to divide comments into three sections. i m going to talk about the history of the object itself and when we contemplated beginning putting it on display and alice will talk about the engineering challenges of trying to take what is the most historic and object sinceextile the star-spangled banner that has been placed on display in a new museum. so to face the unique challenges of this unique textile object, we will talk about the challenges of conserving that object and preparing it for display and how we knitted together the history of the engineering and conservation science to enginee