John f. Marszalek discusses his process for writing in his relationship with Abraham Lincoln and what he mainly focused on with civil war and not his presidency. Held at the lincoln form symposium, this is one hour. So, let us begin with our last session for the 23rd form. I am Frank Williams your coach. We are delighted to have with us once again, every other year, we have the john and craig show. applause and that is much deserved, because they get high grades, high marks from you. Deservedly so. Im not even sure what it is there going to talk about this morning. But we will be entertained. I can tell you that. What can we say about two of our very loyal members who have served for a long time. A long time on our board of advisers. John john f. Marszalek is our dear friend from Mississippi State, university. Executive director of the Ulysses Grant association and president ial library where i served as president. He is recently the editor along with david mullin and louis gallows of
Test captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2008 so his mind is on several things, i think that would be fair to say. Actually, what grant does, grant basically takes a look at whats going on, he calls halak, the commanding general in washington, gets sherman, theyre fighting in north mississippi, and the idea is they are going to move and attack vicksburg before John Mcclaren can get there. These soldiers are coming down to memphis. Guess who is waiting for them. William t. Sherman, come on boys, were going to go down and attack vicksburg. When mcclaren shows up, he looks around, he says, where are my soldiers, where are all these people that i just theyre not around. Theyre with sherman. What happens, of course, the real problem, as grant sees it, is that mcclaren outranks sherman, so if he comes down, he can take over that army. So what does grant do . Grant becomes the person who controls that army in mississippi completely because grant outranks mcclaren. You have this
I think a lot of people who complain about it they only had shared more information with each other, they do not have any idea of the difficulty of connecting many different departments and agencies many , different authorities and responsibilities and be able to move the information and pull data sets out there so you can move information and inform people at the speed of light. Something can happen, we can get intelligence in a different part of the world that would have importance. How do you move that very quickly through the system . You have national, state, local government, the cop on the street. I think americans would be impressed with what the country has done with americans like you that work in different publicsector areas, working around the clock to try to make sure that the bits of data that comes in, we are not being overwhelmed not just data , secretly but also that Data Available in open sources. How do you make sense of that . How do you interact together . Putting
Thank you to the rabbi for that remarkable introduction. I have to say that the subject of my lecture not only concerns a historic event, but actually put my academic career in jeopardy. In 1982, i was a young faculty member at the Hebrew Union College Jewish Institute of religion in cincinnati, and i was invited to deliver a talk before the institutions board of overseers. This was an important rite of passage for a new faculty member. And i was determined to prove myself. Since 1982 coincided with the 120th anniversary of ulysses s. Grants general orders number 11 expelling jews as a class from his war zone, i decided to take that infamous 1862 order as my subject. Grants order was the most notorious official act of antisemitism in American History. It is really the only time that jews as a class had been expelled from anywhere in the united states. And around 1982, new information concerning that order had become available from the association that published ulysses s. Grants papers
Rights exhibit which you would have passed on your way in tonight, marks an episode when president Abraham Lincoln directly independent interseeded for american jews. The document is general grants to ber 1862 general order expel jews from the department of tennessee. Grant blamed jews for smuggling and demanded their immediate removal. Jewish citizens of paducah, kentucky, appealed to lincoln, expressing their outrage and lincoln counter manneded grants order. History cannot be written without the primary sources that tell us august. Incident rik lir auth incidentically what authentically what happened at a particular time. Grants order to expel jews and lincolns later order testify to a moment in history that many in the wider public are not aware of, yet it cannot be forgotten, because the records exist to tell us so. By brathing together and publishing the documents in his volume, dr. Zola has given access to a large number of primary source documents that present and future schola