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Transcripts For CSPAN3 The Civil War National Museum Of The Civil War Soldier -1865 Battle Of... 20230215



it s my pleasure to introduce j. mccarthy. dr. mccarthy. returned to his first love of american history at the end of a long career in public administration for york state and the commonwealth of massachusetts since and went on to earn his ph.d. from the university of albany. he is the author of confederate waterloo the battle of five forks. april 1st 1865. and the controversy that brought down a general let s a warm welcome welcome for dr. mccarthy mccarthy. thank you all thank you all. i want to just start by noting something that we ve had speakers talking about tennessee georgia, north carolina and so on. and i m going to talk about across the street. so let me start most many of you over from virginia. you know a little bit about battle, the battle of five forks. the gentleman at the top here gives us our first quotation. and this is what he wrote after the battle and what his perceptions were being one of the soldiers for the army of northern virginia, it was at t ....

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