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Military history professor Christopher Gabel discusses the importance of railroads and Steam Powered locomotives to the union and confederate armies and explains how railroads made the scale of the civil war possible and describes how and why the confederacys powerful Railroad System broke down as the war progressed. The Kansas City Public Library hosted this hourlong event. Thank you very much for the kind introduction and for being here. Folks, you know when we look back at the onset of the am...

Advantage for the north, maybe that statistic is not really important either. Its whether or not the railroads actually were that significant in the conduct and outcome of the civil war. And if the answer to that question is no, we can save a lot of time here tonight. Ok. Well, this is the game changer right here. Water turns to steam and expands 1600 well so what . People have known this for thousands of years. Ok . Well, in the 1820s somebody figured out how to take that expansion and turn it ...

Will see this map in there. You might want to refer to this. It is probably a little easier to read. I will be making frequent reference to this map as it will help us understand the course of the campaign. As general in chief of all military forces in 1864, u. S. Grant devised accord mated offensive by a number of union army stretching from louisiana all the way to virginia. As you know already, the two most important of these offenses were those of the army of the potomac here in virginia, and...

War it self. That shapes what we are looking at. If you view the onset of civil instead oftively, seeing all of the differences between north and south, you tend to spot the similarities. Think about it. , a two sides in the conflict war of rather against brother in some cases, literally so. The two sides shared a common language. They had similar cultures and religion. They shared a similar political philosophy. The north and south employed virtually the same weapons, used the same tactics, the...

The guys . Number one the American People are right and number two, yeah, we should declare war because there has never been a better time. The burning of this jordanian pilot has galvanized the world including many people in the middle east. Weve never had more economic bench to work behind the scenes to pressure saudi arabia and qatar to stop funding groups like this we now have the upper hand on oil and gas. If we dont do it and god forbid these guys get their hand on a weapon of mass destruc...

Pilot coming back into the cockpit. Melissa police swarming his house earlier today. Meanwhile the ceo of lufthansa saying that there is no indication this was an act of terrorism. Here now to discuss you will of it our own Charlie Gasparino, steve forbes, chairman around editorinchief of forbes media. We also have rich lowery of the national review. He is a Fox News Contributor steve forbes, let me go to you first. This new information overwhelming devastating. It is. You will see a real push n...

The guys . Number one the American People are right and number two, yeah, we should declare war because there has never been a better time. The burning of this jordanian pilot has galvanized the world including many people in the middle east. Weve never had more economic bench to work behind the scenes to pressure saudi arabia and qatar to stop funding groups like this we now have the upper hand on oil and gas. If we dont do it and god forbid these guys get their hand on a weapon of mass destruc...

High . Party and Company Stores right now. Tom the Amtrak Service resumes today traveling from philadelphia slowly rounded the corner where the dead the derailment took place spending the weekend installing a new speed controllers on that section of track. Although the engineers says he still doesnt remember anything about the crash and investigators say he is cooperating meanwhile the investigators are saying the trade was struck by an object shirley before the crash. Asking for with a 50,000 i...

Russian president. We have your sports and the african cup nations finals with bids from ghana and algeria. World Health Organization is warning that the situation in yemen is critical, and that a lack of access into one of the countrys Biggest Challenges that aid organizations face. The u. N. Body is say that 643 people have died in more than 202 have been injured. After a week of trying to get aid, in, and supplies have made it to some of the hospital there is. Ships have arrived to the gulf o...

Arrives in the capitol sanaa. Hello, nepal has been shaken by another big earthquake and at least 16 people have been killed. Police say another 600 injured people are in hospital. The epicenter of the magnitude 7. 3 tremor was near a popular stop for climbers on the track to mt. Everest and sent people running from buildings and felt as far away as indonesia and two weeks since nepal was devastated by another quake which killed 8,000 people and injured 17,000. Andrew simmons is live for us in k...