In the spring of 1915, almost a year into world war i, american journalists world virulence cinematographer guy reads love chicago bound for berlin, germany. They traveled with the german army to the front lines, in east pressure and poland. They shot 25,000 feet a film, about five and a half hours. They returned to the United States in december of 1915, and in november released a 108 feature film on the firing line with the germans. The film received positive reviews and screened widely in the United States despite the fact that a presented a favorable view of the germans. Up next learn about how the once lost film was this discovered and restore by the labor of congress. Then watch the entire film. With commentary by two scholars who helped reassemble a movie that or become a jigsaw puzzle of fragments. This program is about two hours. My name is cooper graham. At the moment i am retired but i used to work at the library of congress and while i was here, among the fascinating things
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 enemys fleet. I would advise all available forces which
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. He discus
They shot 25,000 feet of film about 5 1 2 hours. They returned to the United States in september of 1915 and in november released a 108minute feature film on the firing line with the german. The film received positive reviews and screened widely in the United States despite the fact that it presented a favorable view of the germans. Up next learn about how the once lost film was rediscovered by the library of congress and then watch the film with commentary by two scholars. This program is about two hours. I at the moment am retired but i used to work at the library of congress. And while i was here among the fascinating things i found buried in the vaults, and theres a lot of stuff buried in the vaults here, is this film, on the firing line with the germans. And i looked at it and thought it was a fascinating bit of lost American History including the high mark maybe of the german army especially on the Eastern Front in 1915 as well as other stuff because it reflects very interestingl
Good morning, everyone. I am the csc a director, the associate director, and it is my pleasure to introduce to you john marszalek. John marszalek is the distinguished professor at Mississippi State university, where he taught courses on the civil war, jacksonian america, and race relations. He earned his phd at notre dame and joined the faculty at Mississippi State in 1973. During his time at Mississippi State, he also served as the director and mentor of distinguished scholars and as the executive director and managing editor of the ulysses s. Grant association. Grant papers are now housed at Mississippi State university. He is the author and editor of more than a dozen books and 250 articles. Thats impressive. Including his important work, sherman. A finalist for the lincoln prize. Dr. Marszalek received the Richard Wright literary award for Lifetime Achievement from a mississippi author and the Historical Society presented him the highest award for National Distinction in history. H