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Abraham lincoln and his project on confederate general robert e. Lee. Mr. Guelzo spoke about lincolns intellect and emphasized the importance of religion in everyday life during the civil war era. The university of virginias center for Civil War History hosted this event. Allen guelzo is the third professor of Gettysburg College where he serves as civil war curator. He did his undergrad ate at the university of pennsylvania where he focused on the history of religion. He also holds a master of divinity degree. His roster of publications is so long that im not even going to try to read them all to you. Go to allenguelzo. Com and get a full accounting of not only his publications but other salient elements of his biography and doings. What im going to do here is mention five books that i think are especially pertinent to what well be doing this afternoon, and i will just ....
Atlanta. Both times he was greeted as a hero. Many atlantans said thank you for taking the torch to our Downtown Business area and getting rid of it. Weve been able to rebuild. The phoenix has risen. This is the symbol of atlanta is the phoenix rising. And so he was greeted as a hero by. People. It wasnt until the lost cause and the development of that narrative really kicks in in the late 19th century early 20th century that sherman becomes demonized to the extent he was. Theres a great book. I have my list of books and i figured somebody would ask me whats good to read. One of them that i would recommend to you is a book by Ann Sarah Ruben called through the heart of dixie, and looks at shermans march and the memory of how it develops on both sides. Another great book is called shermans march in myth and memory. They explore this is phenomenon of what sherman comes to r ....
Becomes that, i think the term they use was the wind. This wire and wind that came through georgia. Sarah reuben made an interesting point about the destruction itself. I thought it was interesting, i left it out of my talk. She said we have the sense of the march to the sea as being the giant tidal wave this tsunami. 60 miles across from one end to the other as it goes out to the sea. She said in reality it was more like fingers of destruction. Stitches through the landscape. Because the army was advancing down roads. And most places they stayed a day. If that much. So the destruction, the destruction is limited to how far off the roads they can go. So she said there are vast areas in between those roads. That were untouched by it. And those people of course applied food and help to the other people who had lost so much during the march. Its interesting, because i had not even thought about this. We do have this image of tsunami of fire going across and if fact it really is more like ....
Thanks to sheffield and members of the at lant at this history and lecture fund and making it possible to for me to come visit again in atlanta, this beautiful jewel of a city. What is pleasure it is to be here especially at the Atlanta History Center, so devoted as it is to the study of the history of this city, of the state of georgia and the United States. It is great to be back again. I wonder if we could have the lights down a bit because we have some pictures to see. Looking back, over 20 years, Alexander Stewart webb, declared, that the battle of gettysburg was, and is now throughout the world, known to be the waterloo of the rebellion certainly alex webb earned the right to speak with authority about gettysburg. He was 26 when the civil war broke out in 1861 and even though this grandson of a minuteman ....
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