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Washington journal is live at 7 00 a. M. Eastern on cspan. Next on American History tv, Brian Craig Miller of Emporia State University discusses confederate general John Bell Hoods campaign into tennessee in the fall of 1864, resulting in the almost total destruction of his army. This event is from the Gettysburg College Civil War Institutes annual summer conference that took place in june. Its about an hour and 15 minutes. Good afternoon. Im peter carmichael, the director of the Civil War Institute. Also professor of history here at Gettysburg College. Its my pleasure to introduce Brian Craig...

Destruction of slavery. And with that there is a guilt and burden having to live up to military defeat and the ownership of sl slaves, an explanation that came out of that that we call the lost cause, i dont care who thl cast of characters ultimately, defeated people, who believed they were a christian people, who believed that god would ultimately decide this conflict in their favor, and they wake uh in april of 1865 and say, thingh didnt turn out the way we had imagined, they have to do a lot of explaining. Explaining to themselves and to the outside world. That lost cause is mythical and fa...

Succession. Actual soldiers had a delight in destroying the cradle of the confederacy. They use them as bringing the war upon them. I think we have one more question. Why did it stop . Citieswe not see further earned in the same kind of mercenary manner . Withdrew back into virginia and they were occupied. Did notticular strategy move forward from that point on. Did theire certainly fair share of burning throughout the war. They did not have the opportunity as much in the north. Burn parts of town. For a monetary reason . There were a lot of soldiers. Ofy took great joy in our revenge on both ...