Good evening everyone. Im so excited to see such a full house. Before i start i want to give a few housekeeping items. We are more than happy to have you taking photos but please turn the flash off. If you will put your cell phones on silent. If you want to post on social media we would love for you to tag at at politics pros and oevent. I first want to thank all all of you for coming out on friday night for tonights event. We are pleased to bring you jen maddest in conversation with david brooks tonight. Before we get to the next program i want to tell you a few other Exciting Events we have coming up with partnership with gw. Next week september 11 we have an event with Malcolm Gladwell at lismore for his new book talking with strangers. Which will be part of a live recording sam sanders podcasting mpr. September 12 here at betz we have Samantha Power as well as Josh Campbell with james comey on september 16. September 24 patty smith will be at lisbon for a memoir. The year of the yo
We know they are buried in secret. We know that in the summer of 2014 one of the most popular organizations in russia was the mother of russian soldiers. Because some of those mothers we are talking about russian soldiers dying and dead boss they were made an illegal organization, they were allowed. We know that family members to talk about their sons or brothers or whatever it is dying as onduty soldiers in ukraine they are threatened, we know the reporters who written about this have faced unpleasant circumstances. So its real. Its real. We also know that first of all the fighting in done boss has not gone away scores of fire incidents every day. There are ukrainian casualties most weeks and certainly every month several or more ukrainian deaths including very recently. We dont have very good information on deaths on our side for obvious reasons. But it is true that there been no major of essence. We know that that offensive a whirl as the offense in the airport of fall of 2014 were
Sort of caught up with him the river was why it was made into a movie. So ive been back to savannah few times it is kind of sentimental being here. So what happened is my publicist told me almost a year ago Something Like that and just as we were making preparations for my book on the oregon trail that there is this think of the savannah book festival. I did not pay much attention at the time because theres so many other things going on but i just assumed it would be the kind of venue like most of my talks were. I go to give a Powerpoint Presentation and i have a nice one, ill show them what the oregon trail actually looks like today and explain how we became the first, my brother and i became the first to cross the trail. After that i do somebody readings from my book and everything is great. So i do not think much about it and then back in november i called out and i said i wouldnt make sure you have a power play presentation ready, my reading, my talk, and they said oh you dont have
In the summer of 1864, general sherman marched south from chattanooga into georgia with the goal of capturing atlanta. After a series of battles andity siege of the city, atlanta fell to the yun i know on september 2nd, 1864. Setting up shermans march to the sea later in the year. This was part of the Gettysburg College civil war institutes annual summer conference. Its about an hour. Before we get started, the map you see up here is a campaign map on the left side insert there is are the smaller maps indicate the main battles. I know its probably difficult for those of you in the back of the room to see the small details and maybe read the print and so, what we did or actually what petes staff did was included in this your so hopefully, most of you have this. If you turn the page 9, youll see this map in there. You might waptd to refer to this. This is probably a little easier to read. But well be making frequent or ill be making frequent reference to the campaign map that will help u
And while atlanta had some Key Facilities itself, like the rolling mill depicted here as a result of the abandonment of the city of atlanta in Early September of 1864 in ruins, atlanta was primarily an Administrative Center for the Confederate Military production. Offices here in atlanta contracted with firms large and small throughout the region. And then receive the product of those operations, and then distributed them to the armies in the field as needed. But one of the most important facilities in all of the atlanta complex was the quartermaster clothing depot, run by that tennessee now confederate quartermaster George Washington cunningham. Which had been sherman headquarters in nashville in late 1863, and early 1864. Cunningham operated a facility in atlanta that was capable of producing 130,000 complete suits of uniforms in a 12month time period. And the he did this mostly by piecework. He had male tailors and other staff cutting out fabric in warehouses in atlanta, and then al