1863. the we have to start with two leading protagonists at the battle of missionary ridge in chattanooga. of course, ulysses grant. iram ulysses grant actually. a rising star as a general. had not really lost a battle yet during the war, and eventually he goes on to further greatness. on the other side you have braxton bragg. although the story might be a little bit apocryphal, apparently as lieutenant in, wars, hee seminole became the acting commissary officer. requesty is he wrote a to the commissary officer himself for supplies. as a commissary officer, he turned them down. he sent another request that was turned down again, so went to the captain of the regiment and said, i reached an impasse, what should i do? youcaptain said, bragg, have argued with every officer in the army, and now you are arguing with yourself. request denied. so, braxton bragg, we had a symposium two years ago, of generals you love to hate. it was very interesting to me he was not picked. there co
so i ve got a quote from woodrow wilson who s president in 1913 talking about just how healing right the post period after the civil war had been essentially saying everybody was united that s 1913. that s 50 years after the end of the civil war. so like i said, i want to step back and see how we ended up there with wilson saying such a thing. the lost cause is a term. i know you all have heard and we ve talked about and karen cox talks about in her book, that will be discussing next week and we rewriting your papers on it s a word that came from a book. so, you know it s today. used widely but the man who s credited with coining it was a journalist a virginian, edward pollard. edited the richmond examiner during the civil war. he was a native virginian. and very in the post-war period and looking back at the end of the war. he saw himself as sort of self self-style himself as the first historian of the confederacy. he wanted to write what he believed to be is the most accura
how the memory began to take shape. what we re going to see is that the people involved in writing the history of the civil war initially were the people that experienced it and they had their own views and beliefs and that had heavily left an imprint even on our current memory of the war. so i ve got a quote from woodrow wilson who s president in 1913 talking about just how healing right the post period after the civil war had been essentially saying everybody was united that s 1913. that s 50 years after the end of the civil war. so like i said, i want to step back and see how we ended up there with wilson saying such a thing. the lost cause is a term. i know you all have heard and we ve talked about and karen cox talks about in her book, that will be discussing next week and we rewriting your papers on it s a word that came from a book. so, you know it s today. used widely but the man who s credited with coining it was a journalist a virginian, edward pollard. edited the r
complicated topic, but i want you i want us to kind of go through. the end of the war itself and how the memory began to take shape. what we re going to see is that the people involved in writing the history of the civil war initially were the people that experienced it and they had their own views and beliefs and that had heavily left an imprint even on our current memory of the war. so i ve got a quote from woodrow wilson who s president in 1913 talking about just how healing right the post period after the civil war had been essentially saying everybody was united that s 1913. that s 50 years after the end of the civil war. so like i said, i want to step back and see how we ended up there with wilson saying such a thing. the lost cause is a term. i know you all have heard and we ve talked about and karen cox talks about in her book, that will be discussing next week and we rewriting your papers on it s a word that came from a book. so, you know it s today. used widely but
we are going to jump a little bit ahead today from reconstruction and get into the memory of the war. it s a very relevant topic and a complicated topic, but i want you i want us to kind of go through. the end of the war itself and how the memory began to take shape. what we re going to see is that the people involved in writing the history of the civil war initially were the people that experienced it and they had their own views and beliefs and that had heavily left an imprint even on our current memory of the war. so i ve got a quote from woodrow wilson who s president in 1913 talking about just how healing right the post period after the civil war had been essentially saying everybody was united that s 1913. that s 50 years after the end of the civil war. so like i said, i want to step back and see how we ended up there with wilson saying such a thing. the lost cause is a term. i know you all have heard and we ve talked about and karen cox talks about in her book, that wi