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CSPAN2 Book Discussion September 28, 2014

Reporter and an editor for the associated press. His writings have received critical acclaim. His most recent book is bloody spring forty days that sealed the confederacys fate. Its getting rave the hebrews rave reviews already. A test that civil war scholars and boss will like. Please jokplease, please welcomh wheelan. [applause] thank you for inviting me. I really appreciate it. I hope youre all doing well tonight, and thank you for coming. Im here to talk about my latest book, bloody spring, which i say that it is the campaign that sealed the fate of the confederacy. The Union Campaign in virginia that i described in bloody spring spans six weeks, and may to june of 1864, exactly 150 years ago. In my book i make the case that the chain of battles fought by ulysses s. Grants army with the civil war major turning point. Are excellent books about the campaigns major battles, but usually this campaign is presented as part of a larg ....

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CSPAN3 The Civil War August 19, 2014

Casualties in getting to the same place. They maintain great hope lee would triumph. Certain that lee and his men would somehow inflict a fatal blow to the norths willingness to fight. In the union army that june, soldiers saw the spires of richmond just eight miles away. Union soldiers, too, gained hope from that. But recognized, too, how hard those last eight miles would be. A pennsylvania soldier wrote of the moment, in the prospects, theres a magic influence in the expression as it passes from lip to lip. Eight miles from richmond, boys. Only eight miles from richmond. What treasure, what a restored peaceful happy in the United Country and the a free government can pay for the precious blood that must be shed in the inexpressible sufferings that must be endured before this short distance can be accomplished. That pennsylvanian could not likely have imagined just how painful the answer to that question would be. We hope that yo ....

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CSPAN3 Politics Public Policy Today August 20, 2014

Who writes his memoir 40 years after the fact, writes it in a flowery 19th century flowery style. When wallace says they arrived here in the morning and lit their camp fires, hell Say Something like, you know, the ste ste steely ska gave way to the orange sun and which was great. You have to balance what wallace says in his memoir with his telegrams from the battlefield. His after reaction report two weeks later because wallace had a way of making himself sound really good. And, you know, he did a very brave thing here. Cant get away from that. And as i say in the book, i believe and i think the judgment of history is that what wallace did here did safe washington, d. C. So this battle took place on july 9th, 1864 and right now its november 2nd, 2007. Its a beautiful day. But one thing to keep in mind about this battle is it was very, very hot. They didnt have thermometers, at least no one referred to a thermometer in their memoirs ....

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CSPAN3 The Civil War August 19, 2014

Richmond National Battlefield park. Id like to take just a moment to introduce to you all tonight, our participants in this evens program. Dr. James i. Robertson, paul levengood, david adams, a close personal friend and steward of a large portion of the cold harbor battlefield. Our readers, ashley and michael, and i want to send a special thanks to our chorus from the lee davis high school. Thank you all very much for being with us in this program tonight. [ applause ] for the last week and a half, many of you have followed in the foot steps of union and confederate armies across the north anna and the pom onky rivers, to potmy creek, Bethesda Church and near here at the cold harbor across roads. Tonight, we will pause to ponder the significance of these stories and what they meant to the veterans of both armies and generations of americans who came after. As we do tha ....

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CSPAN3 The Civil War August 19, 2014

Been going on for some three years. Massive casualties and losses. Tremendous disaffection in the north with the war. It looked like it would go on forever. Abraham lincoln, of course, is up for reelection. Its important to have battlefield victories for the north and its important to win battles in virginia. Virginia is still the preserve of robert e. Lee and the storied army of Northern Virginia. So lincoln brings east his best general, thats going to be ulysses s. Grant, the general who won all the battles in the west. And he gives grant a basically a twopart requirement. First, to bring organization, to bring continuity to the union war effort. And secondly, to defeat the army of Northern Virginia. And grant goes about making it possible to carry out that charge with a vengeance. First he puts together a program, unlike any that the war has yet seen. He realized tha ....

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