For nearly a century. Fort benning was established on macon road in columbus, georgia, on approximately 85 acres of land in october of 19 18th 1918. On that day the war came to a close and there was talk of closing fort denning. Many officers who had served in the American Expeditionary forces to france went before congress to testify that had our soldiers had better training they would not have suffer the casualties that they did in just 210 days of actual combat, so it was determined by congress that we would keep fort benning on a smaller scale and luckily for us, it survived. But first, go on board the css jackson, one of only four surviving ironclads dating back to the civil war. We are in the National Civil war naval museum on the banks of the chattahoochee river. The purpose of the naval museum is to tell the stories of the navys during the civil war. We are the only facility that focuses entirely on that particular story. We are in a unique place, right here inside the museum a
My book, at some point, you know, i call him a genius at one point. We always argue about whether the term is overused, but one of the pieces of that description is the enormous speed with which with which he worked. Enormous speed from which he went from zero to 60. From a blank landscape to this. This is not just a sketch. This is a rigorous exploration of the possibility of this made into a physical form. The second essential fact about this drawing is that we recognize that today, given that he worked on it for five months, given that he left the project after 11 months, given that almost nothing on this plan was put into place not just in the next decade after its creation but in the next six to seven decades after its creation, the fact that you and i can all sit in here and place ourselves on it. Place the capital. Place the white house. The fact that we recognize these avenues, those people who have lived in d. C. For quite a while you can recognize the streets in this plan ben