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You know the voice from kyw news radio, remember we had him in a month ago . He said bob so you know all philadelphia public and parochial schools are. Closed. Closed. So this is is this is the first snowfall for kyw news radio has been doing reports . Yes. Wow. Not doing numbers any more. Good day, february the 29th, 2017. No longer blinded, new color. First thought candy cane, cotton candy blue, too brought for the television. Oh,. So the second color they chose last night on my Instagram Post was for purple, this purple. No. Magenta. Because look, im wearing purple. And youre purple. And im not. Like a light purple and dark purple. Has more red in it. I think magenta is inbetween purple. Here we go again, just get on twitter and figure out what ive got on. Meanwhile it is snowing. True. Right . So look at radar, to show you whats going on. We have some rain, some snow, and some thunderstorm activity, earlier, at the shore. But ....
We have a topic today that, we think, is one of the best we have come up with. It is a neglected civil war story because of the neglected march on georgia. There is little bit less attention on his other march, which followed that march. Take a look at this scowling man in that fantastic coke, as we begin talking about him. So, i am going to talk to john. Who, as you heard, has written two wonderful books about william sherman. And i think we need to know, i dont know how you can do in a few minutes, we need to know who this guy was . His family, psyche. Tell us something about this fellow in the doublebreasted uniform. John this picture that you see was taken of sherman. He did not want to have it taken. He is not a happy camper. This is not the best picture of him. But its very briefly, sherman has a very difficult childhood. His father dies and he is nine years all. He goes to live with a neighbor, while his mother is living just up the street because she simply cannot afford to tak ....
Hood a fighter as commander of the army of tennessee. Hood repeatedly attacks sherman, trying to drive him back from atlanta and hood gets a series of bloody noses. Finally, sherman undertakes the last of his flanking moments at the end of august cuts the last railroad into atlanta coming in from the south forces hood to evacuate atlanta on september 2nd. And that has a huge political impact in the north, northern people have become wary of the war and the slaughter, especially in virginia, during the summer of 1864, with nothing to show for it. Or apparently nothing to show for it. And now comes the message from atlanta, from sherman. Atlanta is ours. And fairly won. People in the north go upset at this news. Its one of the major turning points of the war the nina turning point toward Union Victory is the6f4i fall of atl at the beginning of september 1864, it ensures lincolns reelection. It ensures the north is going to prosecute ....
Be sure to watch cspans washington journal beginning at 7 00 eastern on friday morning. Join the discussion. Next on American History tv, historians discuss general shermans march flew georgia. After that, historian dennis fry talks about the impact of john browns raid in the 1860 goals. The New York Historical society hosted this hour long event. Welcome, its great to be back in the same seats as we always occupy. For those of you who have come to a number of our sessions. We are promised and we are promising each other that well do more in the coming seasons. We have a topic today that we think is one of the best that weve come up with, its a neglected civil war story. Because of the focus on shermans march through georgia. Theres a little less attention on shermans other march, which followed the march through georgia. Take a look at this scowling man in a fantastic ....