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The conclusion of the savanna campaign had a couple questions questions,political which he did not want to deal with, and a couple of military, after it was agreed he would be permitted to move to the north and go straight into South Carolina. There were repercussions for that on the confederate side and the folks on the Southern Side would begin to react to that. Of course, even as sherman was leaving atlanta, there were folks on the confederate side that reacted to what was going on. One of them, something of an alert fellow, general beauregard, reacted and saw what was on the way. And of course, technology is always a curse in here. There we go. Boss insses with his richmond, samuel cooper, reports of general wheeler indicate sherman is about to move. Probably heading to charleston or savannah. There are a great many variables sherman can take when he begins to head north o ....
First we are going to talk about general william t. Sherman and what he did in 1865, at least the first stage of his campaign in 1865 when he left the state of georgia and began to move north into South Carolina. He built up a little bit of a base at the conclusion of that campaign and began to talk about heading north. The conclusion of the savanna campaign had a couple questions behind it, political questions, which he did not want to deal with, and a couple of military, after it was agreed he would be permitted to move to the north and go straight into South Carolina. There were repercussions for that on the confederate side and the folks on the Southern Side would begin to react to that. Of course, even as sherman was leaving atlanta, there were folks on the confederate side that reacted to what was going on. One of t ....
If you will take your seat please. Good afternoon i am peter carmichael. I am the director of the Civil War Institute and its my pleasure to welcome vienna dean fiona dean halloran. Arrival she spent four years teaching 19thcentury American History at Eastern Kentucky university, as well as several years in the history departments of ucla. She finished her phd at ucla and studied under joan law. Many of us are familiar with joan. She has spoken here on a number of occasions and the author of a superb biography of ulysses s. Grant. An, fionas dissertation became thomas nast the father of modern political cartoons published in 2013. It is my pleasure to welcome fiona. [applause] fiona hi. I want to thank you for inviting me here and actually for all the help she provided as i prepared to come and spend this hour w ....
River every morning. He did nothing to kid would do it. Nast went down for days. Every day he would observe the background. What time the whistle blew that everybody got on the ferry and how it looked and decided what he wanted to be in the illustration. Having sketched in the background and decided on the framing, do when one morning and produced a very attractive sketch that he presented to frank leslie, who of course was trapped by his own hubris and head off for the young man a job. From that moment nast work for the rest of his life steadily. Though not always for steady people. You may already know that one of the problems with frank leslie was he often did not pay people who worked for him, which they did not like very much. He works pretty steadily. First for frank leslie in the for the new york illustrated news, harpers weekly. It was at harpers weekly he built his career. That was the thing that catapulted him into fame. And for a while fortune, though that is a sad story. Yo ....
Introduction for this gentleman. Chris makowski, dr. Chris makowski, is the editor in chief of the emerging civil war. One of the cofounders, along with myself and another friend of ours. Emerging civil war started six years ago. We celebrated our 6th anniversary. And we have put together a great group of young historians, old historians, emerging voices. A large part of that has to do with chris michalski. Chris is the author of more than a dozen books. Author and coauthor of more than a dozen books. He takes up the entire backside of the book sale area, so make sure you go see his son jackson who is counting all the cash from the books you are buying. Chris has been my coauthor. He has been the editor in chief of emergence of a war. He is the face of emerging civil war and without him we would not be here. We were not have the great cast of characters that have come up here. And i would not be where i am professionally without chris. And for those of you who know me i love what i do ....