Good afternoon. Im bob jepsen, chairman of the Georgia Historical Society and id like to welcome you all to Madison Square on this warm and balmy day. Im taking a big risk, we believe that the bells are finished for awhile, so i hope you can hear me. Part of our mission at the Georgia Historical Society is the education of the history of the great state of georgia and were here today to dedicate a marker that represents an event, people, and a time in our 1tn history, and to get on with the program, id like to introduce the president of the historical society, dr. Todd gross. Todd . Thank you, bob. Thank you, sir. Thank you. Well, thank you, bob. And good afternoon, everyone. Let me add my welcome to this Historical Marker dedication commemorating the 150th anniversary of the end of the march to the sea. One of the bestknown, but most controversial, and i would hasten to add, misunderstood, aspects of the american civil war. The marker we dedicate today is one of 25 markers installed b
Screeria nigeria. The tenhour drive, frankly was definitely worth it. According to your program, what were supposed to do today is first offer some insights speak briefly on a portion of the campaign they believed to be particularly illuminating. Two things ill do real quickly, if i can, the first one deals with spring hill. Spring hill was the day before the battle of franklin and what it represented was a lost opportunity to attack some union troops either at spring hill itself or some who were in colombia and would come up to Franklin Pike that night. Essentially what happened is a profound mystery in many ways. Hood planned a flanking movement which was extremely successful. In fact there were federal troops still at columbia who were going to come up the pike that night. They failed to do two things. They could have launched an attack on the yankees who were in spring hill. They did not do that. There was a fight but it was not the larger fight that i think the generals had contem
Okay. The question was, how forrest and hood related to each other at the springhill situation, is that what i understand . And nashville. And nashville. Well, in regard to franklin, certainly, forrest did not agree with hoods decision to attack there. Back at springhill, it seems to me that forrest was never fully clear about hood allegedly wanting to block the pike, and instead was coming in and attacking the union troops that were marshaled there, maybe some 6500, rather than trying to concentrate on blocking the pike. I think theres misunderstanding certainly between hood and forrest at springhill. I dont know that that particularly affected what happened the next day at franklin. I think that probably forrest just disagreed totally with the idea of a frontal attack, a frontal assault at franklin and, of course, wanted to try and blank the federals out of their position. I think another interesting point is that what happened in the nashville circumstances, forrest was detached and
You know, china has demonstrated some advanced capabilities on cyber. They havent conducted anything that might resemble warfare, per se, but they have stolen military secrets from the United States. That starts to see an area thats moving closer to offense than mere security and espionage. Russia has devil straighted a real cyber offense capability if you look at the war in georgia. There was a demonstrated capability to go on that kind of offense. And another looking to do a good job of that, if they want to is israel. If you look at the joint effort of the United States and israel to create the stuxnet worm that went after the Iranian Nuclear capabilities thats another major area. There might be some terrorist organizations interested in developing that. But those are the big players on the international scenes, the nation states to have any kind of real severe ability to conduct attacks. The nsa with north korea a lot of countries would probably have that capability. Its easier to
Savannah is about 20 minutes and includes the unveiling of a New Historical marker about the march to the sea. Good afternoon. Im bob jepsen, chairman of the Georgia Historical Society and id like to welcome you all to Madison Square on this warm and balmy day. Im taking a big risk, we believe that the bells are finished for awhile, so i hope you can hear me. Part of t me add my welcome to this Historical Marker dedication commemorating the 150th anniversary of the end of the march to the sea. One of the bestknown, but most controversial, and i would hasten to add, misunderstood, aspects of the american civil war. The marker we dedicate today is one of 25 markers installed by the Georgia Historical Society and our partners, over the last five years as a part of the civil war 150 Historical Marker project. A Public Education and heritage tourism initiative, launched by the Georgia Historical Society to help georgias and visitors to our state gain a better understanding of the cataclysmi