Captioning performed by vitac seeds that bear ill fruit. Because on january 11th, against the advice of his staff, he sends a message to his core commanders and basically says you advised me to retreat. Please publicly say so. Put it in writing. We had a conference about it. You told me about it. Put it in writing and let us stand together against the news coming from the press. But he also says something else. He says if i find that i have lost the good faith and confidence of my generals, i will retire without a murmur. And please talk to your division and brigade commanders as well and get their opinions as well. If you are a ceo and you put yourself in front of your subordinates for a referendum on your fitness for leadership, even if you win, that vote of confidence you can never command the same respect, okay . This is a capital error on the part of brag. The replies are very quickly coming. Polk is on leave. Hes got a couple of lawyers and they take a look at this and say is bra
Its spectacular. Its my real pleasure to introduce the next speaker. He is somebody you already know. You have heard him speak somewhere or on tv. He was born and raised in fredericksburg. He spent his career interpreting and preserving American Military history with the National Park service, the new york state government, Rensselaer County historical society, the Civil War Preservation trust, kentucky state parks and the u. S. Army. Do you think he is qualified to speak . He has written and spoken on various aspects of military history and leadership from 1775 to the present. He has published two books with the history press, the civil war at perryville and the Tullahoma Campaigns, and contributing to the emerging civil war bulldog and studied the 19411942 campaign released in late 2016. In september 2016, the u. S. Army published his volumes on the 1862 virginia campaigns as part of its series on the civil war. Last year at this event on friday night, i bought this book and by satur
Guide to harrisburg. You can do this and all other programs at our website cspan. Org history. Cspans washington journal, live every day with news and policy issues that impact you. Morning, fromay the Heritage Foundation discussing the recent testimony of warmer fbi director james comey in his discussion with president trump. And an author will talk about his new article, the great democratic divide. And the middle east institute Gerald Fierstein talk about gulf states. Be sure to watch cspans washington journal live at 7 00 eastern sunday morning. From the discussion. Joined the discussion. Cspan is that they frank Teddy Roosevelt library and museum were we go inside for a room look at fdrs personal office and collection of artifacts with the museums director. This library open in june of 1941. He was the president of the United States. This became the northern oval office. Fdr had an incredibly inquisitive mind. There are 914 books in his room alone. Every book was selected by fdr t
Prof. Hess thank you for that generous introduction. I was thinking about it this morning, what made me to this book . Whenever you go to a civil war roundtable and mention the name Braxton Bragg, there is laughter coming up the audience because in some ways, it is almost a joke in some ways. In other ways, as pete says, a cheap joke. And also the question this morning as someone asked of holeck theragg or most divided person of the civil war . And never dawned on me to say the most hated men of the civil war, but maybe i should have said that . Let me start out with a story, and i know many of you know this story. I overheard at least two people this morning telling this story to somebody else, but they did not know i was sitting next to them. Grant memoirs, ulysses as enlisted a story. Even though grant himself admitted he did not know if it was true or not, but he said, it is kind of emblematic. The story is before the civil war, Braxton Bragg in the u. S. Army commanded a company h
Chris Kolakowski will be the guest speaker at the Cumberland Mountain Civil War Roundtable meeting on Wednesday, May 15, at Christ Lutheran Church, 481 Snead Dr. at 6 p.m. in