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All right. It is my pleasure to introduce for our final afternoon talk. Barton myers. Hes an Society Professor of history at washington and Lee University. Where he teaches courses on civil war, war and society. His main refers is warfare, soldiers and atrocities. He has earned his ph. D. At the university of georgia where he studied under john insko. There he published his masters thesis entitled executing daniel bright, race loyalty and gorilla violence in a coastal care loo nacommunity this r...

All right. It is my pleasure to introduce for our final afternoon talk. Barton myers. Hes an Society Professor of history at washington and Lee University. Where he teaches courses on civil war, war and society. His main refers is warfare, soldiers and atrocities. He has earned his ph. D. At the university of georgia where he studied under john insko. There he published his masters thesis entitled executing daniel bright, race loyalty and gorilla violence in a coastal care loo nacommunity this r...

Lecturer in American History at the university of edinburgh in scotland. He teaches a wide range of cours es in the u. S. South. After beginning his career as a high school teacher, he in, florida, he earned his phd at the university of North Carolina, chapel hill. Taught at the university of North Carolina State University and there he published his first book, a superb one. Moments of despair, suicide, divorce and debt in civil war era North Carolina. The shifting sediments of black and white ...

Hosted by the Gettysburg College and civil war institute. David currently serves as a lecturer in American History at the university of edinburgh in scotland. He teaches a wide range of courses in the u. S. South. After beginning his career as a high school teacher, in florida, he earned his phd at the university of North Carolina, chapel hill. He taught at North Carolina State University and there he published his first book, a superb one. Moments of despair, suicide, divorce and debt in civil ...

Concept of honor and how that perception shaped their decisions during and after the war. This hourlong event was part of the annual summer symposium hosted by the Gettysburg College civil war institute. David currently serves as a lecturer in American History at the university of edinburgh in scotland. He teaches a wide range of courses in if civil war and reconstruction, civil war memory, and the u. S. South. After beginning his career as a high schoolteacher, he in florida, he earned his ph. ...

The civil war where you hear about the people who shaped the civil war and reconstruction. And the presidency focuses on u. S. President s and first ladies, to learn about their politics, policies and legacies. All this month in prime time and every weekend on American History tv on cspan3. Coming up tonight on American History tv in prime time, a look at the civil war and reconstruction starting with a look at how southern honor impacted the war. Then photos of emancipation during the civil war...

In the summer of 1864, general sherman marched south from chattanooga into georgia with the goal of capturing atlanta. After a series of battles andity siege of the city, atlanta fell to the yun i know on september 2nd, 1864. Setting up shermans march to the sea later in the year. This was part of the Gettysburg College civil war institutes annual summer conference. Its about an hour. Before we get started, the map you see up here is a campaign map on the left side insert there is are the smalle...

Than 200,000 complete suits of uniforms to its soldiers in the field just in that time period. I do have to note a few qualifications. It was not always the most perfect system. The Southern Railroad network as it deteriorated often meant that Raw Materials and finished products would be delayed in either reaching the factories or reaching the destination points. It also meant that some alternate materials had to be used instead of the preferred all woollen outer garments, the confederates had t...

And while atlanta had some Key Facilities itself, like the rolling mill depicted here as a result of the abandonment of the city of atlanta in Early September of 1864 in ruins, atlanta was primarily an Administrative Center for the Confederate Military production. Offices here in atlanta contracted with firms large and small throughout the region. And then receive the product of those operations, and then distributed them to the armies in the field as needed. But one of the most important facili...

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 unit 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 , andac here in virginia that of william t sherman, who commanded what was called the military division of the mississippi. G...