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>> good evening. the subjects tonight are abraham lincoln and jefferson davis. i think it is fair to say by any measure of military or government experience, by bearing and background, by any remotely reliable crystal ball, any american, northern or southern, asked let's say in the spring of 1861 who was more likely to be a superior commander in chief in a full scale war, would have given the same answer. jefferson davis. he graduated from west point, lincoln had emerged from let's say the school of hard knocks. davis served two stints in the army, led forces in the american mexican ...

>> well, good evening, everyone. the subjects tonight are abraham lincoln and jefferson davis. i think it is fair to say by any measure of military or governmental experience, by bearing or background, by any remotely reliable crystal ball. any american, northern or southern, asked let's say in the spring of 1861 who was more likely to be a superior commander in chief in a full scale war, would have given the same answer. jefferson davis. he graduated from west point, lincoln had emerged from let's say the school of hard knocks. davis served two stints in the army, led forces in the ...

>> good evening, everyone, subject for tonight as you know or the subjects are abraham lincoln and jefferson davis. any measure by bearing and background and any remotely reliable crystal ball, any american, northern or southern, asked let's say in the spring of 1861 who was more likely to be a superior commander in chief in a full scale war, would have given the same answer. jefferson davis. he graduated from west point, lincoln had emerged from let's say the school of hard knocks. led forces in the american mexican war and lincoln's only military experience came in a rag tag mili...

war perspectives. >> please take your seats and welcome. my name is joseph glatthaar. i am the distinguished professor at the university of north carolina chapel hill and this is the panel called civil war perspectives. today we have two outstanding folks. the first, the new york times -- "the new york times complete civil war 1861-1865" compiled and edited by craig symonds and harold holzer. and we have "andrew johnson," a presidential biography by annette gordon-reed. one would think initial these books don't have that much in common but in fact as i read through them it became app...

presidential biography by annette gordon-reed. one would think >> as i read through them, itmu became apparent to me that they had an enormous amount innt common. andrew johnson, of course, was a southern unionist, and the war was over the union. furthermore, there are huge constitutional issues, huge race issues in both books, and sormor they do have tail nicely.ge r dovetail nicely. let me introduce our authors, and the authors will speak, and we'll have a question and answer session. we will have a question and answer session. hopefully there will be lots of times for questions an...