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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 american civil war, we view it through the lens of the war, itself. That shapes what were looking at. ...

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 into forward motion. You collect excuse me you collect the steam. You send it down to a piston. The ...

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 that of william t sherman, who commanded what was called the military division of the mississippi. ...

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, their top commanders graduated from the same military academy. Union put an army in this war, the confe...

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 destruction well reget if. John even some lib tear yans are saying a clear declaration of war would cut thr...