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Two leaders. This event was part of the Gettysburg College Civil War Institute annual summer conference. It runs about an hour. Ok, good evening. I and peter carmichael, professor of history at Gettysburg College and also director of the Civil War Institute. My guest is noted historian gordon ray. He 20 years ago published the battle of the wilderness with lsu press. This would be the first of 4 volumes to cover the 1864 Overland Campaign. Gordon was the first historian to ever attempt to write a comprehensive history of those operations. Those operations, as you know, covered Central Virginia...

I cant remember when i first saw the picture, and i certainly did not know where cold harbor was at the time. Im sure i thought it was a port town somewhere in virginia. I may not remember in which book i first saw the photograph, but i know that immediately and lastingly linked the words cold harbor and death in my mind. In subsequent years, i came to read more about the events of the spring of 1864 that culminated at cold harbor, that deadly slog from the rapid ann to the james that saw the u. S. Suffer 50,000 casualties, in the confederacy, another 30,000plus, the bloodiest six weeks of the...

Stymied. Lee is any a powerful position and grant cant break through. What does he do . Maneuvers. He pulled the army of the potomac ought of the wilderness and goes to the spotseslvania courthouse and then lee has to come out from the wilderness and fight him on opened ground. This is a tactical maneuver aimed at pulling lee from his strong entrenchmentes. The army of the potomac shifts south, a drama take point in the war because up to this point, whatever Union Generals had been trounced in the battle as bad as lee had defeated grant and in the wilderness they always retreated but grant mov...

Youre watching American History tv, all weekend, every weekend on cspan 3. In the winter of 1863 a South Carolina grade of the Confederate Army camped near montpelier. James madisons homes. Matthew reeves takes us on archaeology project striving to learn more how civil war soldiers lived in Winter Quarters. We are located on the north side of the property across route 20 just behind where the gilmore cabin stands. Where were at is at the site of a set of confederate winter encampments from the winter of 1863 and 1864. This is the area we found through archeological surveys the general Samuel M...

To attract the younger set. Kicking it off with one of the Biggest Companies in the u. S. Kicking the habit. Cvs caremark saying that they will stop selling Tobacco Products by october 1. Very interesting, they say they will stop selling Tobacco Products. A big change. The 7600 stores that they operate in the u. S. Are going cold turkey. Their largest provider of prescription drugs says that this will cut animal annual revenue by 2 billion. They are losing sales not only from cigarettes, but from people who might have been stopping in and buying other things. This is as they try to become more...