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They are returning to tables that had empty chairs around them throughout the war and now will be permanently empty, because many thousands of those men will not return back to their families. They are dealing with scenes like this, largescale property destruction, destroyed by battlefield engagements or by the destruction of military installations. The march to the sea, this particular image of richmond being destroyed as the union army marched in in a grand victorious manner. The smoldering ruins, if you will, left all across the south. We talked a little bit before about the crisis in faith...

Of walking up, turning over their flag, stacking their guns, which you can imagine that gun as part of your own identity a symbol of who you were as a soldier. Now being turned over to victors in the United States army and then traveling home. Going away, going back to where you time from. The lecture today is going to examine the transition that confederate veterans will go through as they go from soldiers back to civilians. Well look at the harpships that they face. What sort of help they can get in adjusting to the newfound disabilities. Finally how they thought to actually remember the war...

Hood a fighter as commander of the army of tennessee. Hood repeatedly attacks sherman, trying to drive him back from atlanta and hood gets a series of bloody noses. Finally, sherman undertakes the last of his flanking moments at the end of august cuts the last railroad into atlanta coming in from the south forces hood to evacuate atlanta on september 2nd. And that has a huge political impact in the north, northern people have become wary of the war and the slaughter, especially in virginia, during the summer of 1864, with nothing to show for it. Or apparently nothing to show for it. And now co...

Be sure to watch cspans washington journal beginning at 7 00 eastern on friday morning. Join the discussion. Next on American History tv, historians discuss general shermans march flew georgia. After that, historian dennis fry talks about the impact of john browns raid in the 1860 goals. The New York Historical society hosted this hour long event. Welcome, its great to be back in the same seats as we always occupy. For those of you who have come to a number of our sessions. We are promised and we are promising each other that well do more in the coming seasons. We have a topic today that we th...