i m david carroll from chicago. hi, david. hi. in the last year published in the journal of the abraham lincoln association there has been great speculation on mary lincoln purchasing penny royal at dill lard s drugstore in springfield when she was pregnant with tad who was born with a cleft palate. penny royal is used to rid dogs of fleas or induce abortion. do you have insight on this recent scholarship? i m sorry. i can t comment on that. my recent move and dislocation of many of my books and pieces meant that i don t have the 41 of oh mary lincoln but moving from ireland was difficult. i would say from my reading i have no evidence from her letters or otherwise that there would be any way i could comment or believe she was trying to not have a fourth child. the lincolns were besoted by their children. they were very proud and devoted that when she suffered family tragedies and the death of oh little eddie she was pregnant within a month. indeed the idea of having
screeria nigeria. - . the ten-hour drive, frankly was definitely worth it. according to your program, what we re supposed to do today is first offer some insights speak briefly on a portion of the campaign they believed to be particularly illuminating. two things i ll do real quickly, if i can, the first one deals with spring hill. spring hill was the day before the battle of franklin and what it represented was a lost opportunity to attack some union troops either at spring hill itself or some who were in colombia and would come up to franklin pike that night. essentially what happened is a profound mystery in many ways. hood planned a flanking movement which was extremely successful. in fact there were federal troops still at columbia who were going to come up the pike that night. they failed to do two things. they could have launched an attack on the yankees who were in spring hill. they did not do that. there was a fight but it was not the larger fight that i think
in west virginia you could, probably. [laughter] coupleto mention a people who are here. my beloved cousin, barbra markns and her husband park here. they are from huntington and moved down to atlanta about 10 years ago. and general hood s great-granddaughter and her husband skip from asheville, north carolina are here. i am going to embarrass her and make her raise her hand. so [applause] mary s grandfather was oswald grbel, one of the 11 hood children we will talk about later. wrote any mentioned, i hood, and it was originally to be titled history versus john bell hood. and what i did was and i will be talking about this here in a few minutes. i was a little bit distressed at a lot of the things that had been written about hood, especially from around the 1970 s on. and i decided to write a book that would really expose a lot of the myths and the legends about him that you read about. and actually use primary source information to let the people, let the reader know exac
i know it is probably difficult for those of you in the back of the room to see the small details and maybe read the print, so what we did or actually, what pete s staff did, was actually include this in your maps and handbooks book. if you turn to page nine, you will see this map in their. you might want to refer to this. it is probably a little easier to read. i will be making frequent reference to this map as it will help us understand the course of the campaign. as general in chief of all military forces in 1864, u.s. grant devised accord mated offensive by a number of union army stretching from louisiana all the way to virginia. as you know already, the two most important of these offenses were those of the army of the potomac here in virginia, and that of william t sherman, who commanded what was called the military division of the mississippi. grants orders to sherman for the campaign, dated april 4, 18 64, were pretty straightforward. grant told sherman to move agai
scranton, pennsylvania. good morning, i m sandra smith. hi, trace. trace: i m trace gallagher. coronavirus pandemic was the focus for both candidates yesterday. mr. president said a vaccine could be ready as soon as october. disputing a longer timeline from the director of the cdc. our chief white house correspondent john roberts live on the north lawn. what are we expecting from the candidates today? you can probably expect to hear more about coronavirus and vaccines and mask wearing and everything. the president heading to mosinee, wisconsin. the president believes he can bring the numbers in. joe biden will be in scranton, pennsylvania, the president likes to remind is no longer his home for a cnn town hall. the president was there for an abc town hall tuesday. pushing back about redfield where he said vaccines not being available to the general public until next summer. i asked the president about the timeline. he said the vaccine for the general public likely wil