Associates hosted this 90minute event. Good evening, everyone. Can everyone hear me well . Good. I am mary maclachlan, you the Program Coordinator with the Smithsonian Associates and i would like to welcome all of you tonight to what promises to be a stimulating program on the Union General, William T Shermans marched to the city. March to the sea. Before we begin and i announce our speaker, would like to remind everyone to check their cell phones and make sure they are turned off. And also remind everyone that photos are prohibited during these programs. Lastly, we are delighted to have cspan History Channel filming tonights program. Jeff shaara will take questions at the end of the program and we have microphones so we can capture your questions. When you raise your hand, we will have event reps in the aisles of the auditorium and in the balcony and we will wait until you have a microphone in your hands. It is a pleasure to welcome our speaker, jeff shaara, back to the smithsonian. H
Posted this 90 minute event. Good evening everyone. Can everyone carry while . Good. Im mary mclachlan. Id like to welcome all of you tonight to what promises to be a very stimulating program on the Union General william t sherman. For i begin and i introduce our speaker, id like to remind everyone to check their cell phones and make sure that they are turned off. And also remind everyone that photos are prohibited during Smithsonian Association programs. And lastly, we are delighted to have the cspan History Channel program filming tonight. Jeff shaara will be happy to stay questions at the end of the program. We have mike a mic so cspan can capture your questions. If you will raise your hands we will just wait, if you could, to hold off on asking your questions until you have that microphone in your hand. It is a pleasure to welcome our speaker jeff shaara to the smithsonian. Jeff was last year in 2013 when he presented an Outstanding Program on the battle of vicksburg. Prior to that
Have the cspan History Channel program filming tonight. Jeff shaara will be happy to take questions at the end of the program. We have microphones so cspan can capture your questions. If you will raise your hands we will just wait, if you could, to hold off on asking your questions until you have that microphone in your hand. It is a pleasure to welcome our speaker jeff shaara to the smithsonian. Jeff was last here with us in 2013 when he presented an Outstanding Program on the battle of vicksburg. Prior to that he was here in 2012 when he presented a program on the battle of shiloh. Jeff shaaras trajectory as one of the most acclaimed writers on it the civil war, the revolutionary war, and world war ii. He holds a degree in criminology from Florida State university. At age 15 he operated a rare coin business, first out of his home and then at a retail store. In 1974 he moved to tampa, florida, and eventually became one of the most widely known precious metal dealers in florida. But in
Good evening everyone. Can everyone hear me well . Good. Im mary mclachlan. Id like to welcome all of you tonight to what promises to be a very stimulating program on the Union General william t. Sherman. Before i begin and i introduce our speaker, id like to remind everyone to check their cell phones and make sure that they are turned off. And also remind everyone that photos are prohibited during Smithsonian Association programs. And lastly, we are delighted to have the cspan History Channel program filming tonight. Jeff shaara will be happy to take questions at the end of the program. We have a mic so cspan can capture your questions. If you will raise your hands we will just wait, if you could, to hold off on asking your questions until you have that microphone in your hand. It is a pleasure to welcome our speaker jeff shaara to the smithsonian. Jeff was last here in 2013 when he presented an Outstanding Program on the battle of vicksburg. Prior to that, he was here in 2012 when he
What a perfect introduction. Thank you. Thats great. John and i are delighted to be back here at the lincoln forum. Those of you who know us even a little bit will not be surprise today hear last night we had an opportunity to get together and consume some wine. And in the midst of that conversation, fueled by wine we were talking about how we were th terribly jealous of ron chernow whose biography of hamilton inspired a very lucrative musical on broadway. So we thought how appropriate it would be to have joseph e. Johnston the musical. [laughter] or william t. Sherman the musical or the one that really inspired us was henry wager halek the musical. As you see on the screen here and youll be delighted to hear, this is not going to be a musical presentation today. Instead, alas, it is a tragedy in three acts. Act one. On april 17, 1865, which is a full week after lee surrendered to grant at appomattox as we just heard a few moments ago, joseph e. Johnston and william t. Sherman met in t