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Now, i will start off with a word of warning. When i compiled all the information i wanted to share with you all this evening the first time i went through it and timed it i spoke for an hour and a half. So i hope yall are comfortable. We might be here for a while. Last year when josie was compiling this topics for this year she called me into her Office One Day and pitched me this idea as she mentioned and she ended up when i told her i probably did know somebody interested in this topic and sh...

Civil war guerrilla fighters who later became outlaws in the old west, including jesse james, his brother frank, and their gang. This event was recorded by the American Civil War museum in june of 2016. Now, i will start off with a word of warning. When i compiled all the information i wanted to share with you all this evening, the first time i went through it and timed it, i spoke for an hour and a half. So i hope you all are comfortable. We might be here a while. Im just kidding josie, dont ge...

Thank you very much paul. And thank you all very much for coming. Merchant of terror, demon, a killer. If you type was sherman a into google the auto complete includes war criminal, hero or villain. And if you add a couple more letters you get terrorist. The urban dictionary, a popular website, describes generally william t. Sherman as having employed the vicious tactic of targeting civilians. Continuing, such tactics had previously been deemed morally unacceptable. The deliberate targeting of t...

Said that or not, but if he did, that alone should take his reputation down many notches. Because among other things, johnston almost never commanded troops in front of grants army. Only for a few weeks in january and february 1864 did johnston command troops in front of grant and those troops that time sat in their Winter Quarters and had snowball battles with each other. I dont know why grant was so worried. Johnstons men are attacking with snowballs. We have to worry about that. Johnston bene...

Day before, in which johnston himself reported to the confederate government that he had 55,000 men present for duty. I dont know what happened to those 12,000 men on the night of april 30thmay 1st. Mass desertion. Who knew. Maybe the radioactive atomic cloud got there and wiped out 12 thousand of his men. Or the question of casualties. Johnston had his medical director, johnston lost according to his medical director 9,972 men killed and wounded in his infantry and artillery in may and june. Hi...

And had the federal authorities not arrested him, put him in a cell at fort monroe, clamped him in irons and made a martyr out of him, he would have been denounced through much of southern history. But they turned him into the man who was persecuted for the white south but made him a hero. Even so, postwar confederates did not like to air their dirty linen in public and most of them did not do so. Johnston was also praised in the writings of his federal opponents. William t. Sherman had good thi...

Robertus Love, born Jan. 6, 1867, near Irondale, Mo., launched his newspaper career at the Louisiana (Mo.) Press in 1883, under the supervision of Judge W.O. Gray, the newspaper’s owner.

LOUISIANA, Mo. — It wasn’t hard to get hoodwinked during the Civil War in Pike County.