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of the war, not only for the revolution that lee would bring in confederate expectations of victory but also because his skill and his skill alone probably lengthened the conflict by more than two years which in turn made possible the addition of emancipation to union as a condition for eventual peace. my second example concerns the process of emancipation. this topic has provoked considerable debate among historians who assessed the roles of abraham lincoln, the united states congress...

i know exactly how many minutes, seconds an seconds i have left. nothing left to chance in this conference. theres a trap door right underneath me, too. so youll be out of here by 5:00, maybe even a little bit before. i want to give you two examples of these linkages. the first is the bloody stalemate -- the apparent stalemate in virginia and georgia during the summer of 1864, the incredibly bloody summer of 1864. grant and sherman seemingly bogged down, threatened republican prospects...

they were closer to it and he could do that with longstreet and jackson. it sort of falters at gettysburg and thats one of the reasons. .. >> so there you have hill, he was having health problems, so in a sense the machine that lee created partly came apart at you for. but yet i dont want to emphasize, you know, that you cant take away from william scott hancock, you cant take way from georgia sykes, you can take way from the irish regained, to do that is to discredit history and to di...