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if the british forces simply sailed up the potomac, everybody would know that washington was the ultimate party. coburn recommends that the force be split up, one squadron sail up the potomac river and threaten the capitol and the city of alexandria, the main force is going to go up the pawtuxet river into southern maryland. the advantage was that it would shield the ultimate british intention it might mean an attack on washington, it could also mean the british were simply chasing after commodore joshua barney who was the american commander of the chess peak flotilla, who had a flotilla of barges and the rivers flowing into it. he had been trapped in the pawtuxet river, he was further up river than the british, and the british could use barney s presence. it s what the british commanders, general ross and admiral alexander dock run agree to do. this weekend a panel of historians as they discuss the bu burning of washington. that s sunday at 6:00 and 10:00 p.m. east ....
rebuild these huge wooden spans. so that s where the real mastery logistics comes into play. one more question over here. general hood has been undergoing a bit of a re-evaluation recently. it seemed to me that his plans. once he took over as commander of the army of tennessee were fairly good plans on paper, it s just that his army couldn t execute them for one reason or another. could you comment briefly on hood s generalship as the commander of the army of tennessee? sure. hood is doesn t certainly doesn t have the mastery of logistics that sherman does. that becomes painfully evident during the tennessee campaign in 1864. but hood s operating under some pretty severe handicaps. not only his own physical handicaps, he also has the command structure with a lot of generals who are woefully inexperienced at their division and core level of command. they just they don t execute hood s orders, and don t carry out his plans the way he had envisioned them. i think t ....
they ve left a large train of munitions in the eastern central portion of atlanta that obviously can t get out. and so they set it on fire. this is 18 boxcars full of explosives. and you can imagine the sound that was heard 15, 20 miles away. this is the scene incidentally that s depicted in gone with the wind when red is in the wagon trying to get scarlet and the baby out, and there s all the sets burning in the background. i told my kids some of those sets were from the wizard of oz, which was true. they don t care anything about gone with the wind, but they were upset that the sets from the wizard of oz burned in this movie. it s worth pointing out here that the destruction of atlanta cannot be attributed solely to uncle billy sherman, that hood s army in fact began the process with the evacuation and the destruction of the firing of this train. and sherman took it a good bit further just before the march to the sea. on september second, the mayor of atlanta surrende ....
libraries, and there are lots of things that you can dig out of that volume. but by the spring of 1862, the powder works quickly constructed by incorporating the industrial capacity of much of the south by having the individual parts of the factory produced in different places, including some of the incorporating wheels, the big what you can kind of think of as grinding wheels in nashville, the drive shaft in the incorporating house building which was in segments, which is almost 300 feet long, was cast in segments in chattanooga, and then shipped by rail to augusta and assembled in the complex. there was a refinery for refining, removing impurities from the principal component of gunpowder at that time, potassium nitrate. and then large cooling magazines, and also storage magazines. and the complex was laid out essentially so that all the materiel progressed from downstream to upstream, and the finished product, and also the most dangerous part of the product was also ....
after the bad bike crash. so look who stepped in to help at a huge concert overnight. chris martin and bruce springsteen, honoring the singer s commitment to a big cause, with a show for the ages. with or without you still marking up with a lighter. i know. the lighter. just right outside here. just a few hours ago here in times square. a night to remember just popped up like that. and with or without bono, the show went on. it went on. chris martin and the boss up there. what a backup plan. bruce springsteen right there, fills in for bono. got a lot of good friends. and we have a lot to get to this morning. beginning with the wild weather. heavy rain on the west coast threatening mudslides and flooding. temperatures plunging in the east. ginger is tracking it all. the flash flood watch from san diego to los angeles. back into the sierras. and not just that, watching the new storm. we have had round one. now it s this. you can see it churning, pushes the moi ....