the conclusion of the savanna campaign had a couple questions questions,political which he did not want to deal with, and a couple of military, after it was agreed he would be permitted to move to the north and go straight into south carolina. there were repercussions for that on the confederate side and the folks on the southern side would begin to react to that. of course, even as sherman was leaving atlanta, there were folks on the confederate side that reacted to what was going on. one of them, something of an alert fellow, general beauregard, reacted and saw what was on the way. and of course, technology is always a curse in here. there we go. boss insses with his richmond, samuel cooper, reports of general wheeler indicate sherman is about to move. probably heading to charleston or savannah. there are a great many variables sherman can take when he begins to head north or south from atlanta. a junction may be formed with the enemy s fleet. i would advise all available f
first we are going to talk about general william t. sherman and what he did in 1865, at least the first stage of his campaign in 1865 when he left the state of georgia and began to move north into south carolina. he built up a little bit of a base at the conclusion of that campaign and began to talk about heading north. the conclusion of the savanna campaign had a couple questions behind it, political questions, which he did not want to deal with, and a couple of military, after it was agreed he would be permitted to move to the north and go straight into south carolina. there were repercussions for that on the confederate side and the folks on the southern side would begin to react to that. of course, even as sherman was leaving atlanta, there were folks on the confederate side that reacted to what was going on. one of them, something of an alert fellow, general beauregard, reacted and saw what was on the way. and of course, technology is always a curse in here. there we go.
person i am introducing today. i am here to talk about dan wells, who is a very long time seasonal ranger at gettysburg military park, where is a had the absolute pressure of meeting and working with him for a couple of years. he s also the co-author of the book on the gettysburg campaign, coauthor of the immediately coming out book, and the co-editor of the emerging civil war tent never surrey series, which has just recently come out, one on gettysburg, and one on tele-houma. with not much else to say, i want to introduce dan wells who is here to talk about the man we love to hate, john pope. so here is dan welch, the man with too many laps, and not enough free time. [applause] good evening everyone. you know, one of the things that i have not shared with a lot of you as my absolute love of the southern rock band leonard skinner. i have been very fortunate over the last several years, have visited all the graves of those who perished in october 1977. i have heard some wond
i m here to talk about dan welch who i ve had the pleasure of working with for a couple years. he is also on the gettysburg campaign, co-author of an immediately coming out book, and also co-author of the anniversary series that have recently come out, one on gettysburg. so with not too much else to say, i want to introduce dan welch who is here to talk about the man we love to hate, john pope, so here s dan welch, the man with too many lives and not enough free time. well, good evening, everyone. one of the things i ve not shared with a lot of you is my absolute love of the southern rock band lynyrd skynyrd. [ applause ] i ve been very fortunate over the last several years to meet some of the plane crash survivors. i ve visited all the graves of those that perished in october 1977. i ve heard some wonderful stories from some of their former managers and crew. and one of the stories i heard was, as lynyrd skynyrd was getting very popular as the 70s were wearing on and thei
road north, the ecw book on the gettysburg campaign, coauthor of an immediately coming out book on ohio and antietam. and also the co-editor of the emerging civil war tenth anniversary series that has just recently come out, one on gettysburg, another on tele-houma and vicksburg. with not too much else to say, i want to introduce dan welch, who will talk about the man we love to hate, john pope. so, here is dan welch, the man with not enough free time. [applause] good evening everyone. one of the things i ve not shared with a lot of you is my absolute love of the southern rock band leonard skin heard. i ve been very fortunate to me some of the plane crash survivors and meet those who perished in the raves of october 1977. one of the stories i ve heard is that as lynyrd skynyrd was getting popular and their fame was rising, a lot of the acts that they would open four would go to the tour manager and say, don t let them close with free bird, we can t talk that. [laughs]