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vicksburg was. well understood. the union and dakota incorrectly speculated in may that the rebels might be trapped in vicksburg. accurately described the destruction of mississippi's rail system and remarkable he was aware that grant had maneuvered inland mississippi by living off the land and the john pemberton confederate commander at vicksburg was anything but brilliant. the oregon reported that vicksburg was strongly fortified but doomed. another paper shared the fact that six correspondents had been killed at vicksburg. finally, in june, report came that the rebel pemberton had surrendered to the gallant grant. but the prize for battle overall battle accuracy and reporting, in my opinion, has to go to the which reported the of fort sumter. several days before it actually happened. what about understanding the overall ebb and flow of the war? the western papers took their public mission seriously. publishing material on how weapons worked, how much firepower was used in a operation, and the complexities of mane
vicksburg was. well understood. the union and dakota incorrectly speculated in may that the rebels might be trapped in vicksburg. accurately described the destruction of mississippi's rail system and remarkable he was aware that grant had maneuvered inland mississippi by living off the land and the john pemberton confederate commander at vicksburg was anything but brilliant. the oregon reported that vicksburg was strongly fortified but doomed. another paper shared the fact that six...
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divert attention from vicksburg that. wasn't in the play. in 1862, the united war under ambrose burnside will be withdrawn. there, their way to mississippi to join us. grant they're going to be turned around as this campaign starts and they're actually going to be back in cincinnati ohio as the campaign really unfolds. now, we're going to talk a lot about guy. please bat, old man joe early. early commands a, division of about 6600 men, infantry, calvary artillery. he's got his cavalry this robert e lee has no eyes and ears while his troops kind of had a pennsylvania, got plenty of calvary with them. richard you'll get an entire brigade job always got a battalion and parts of the 17th virginia as well. he's got four brigades of infantry as well as the calvary john gordon, harry hays, louisiana extra, billy smith's virginian and isaac hayes, his last full month of life are famous, of course, at gettysburg for tell father. i died with my face to the enemy. this is the troops. these are really good by and large, they've had quite a bit of succes
divert attention from vicksburg that. wasn't in the play. in 1862, the united war under ambrose burnside will be withdrawn. there, their way to mississippi to join us. grant they're going to be turned around as this campaign starts and they're actually going to be back in cincinnati ohio as the campaign really unfolds. now, we're going to talk a lot about guy. please bat, old man joe early. early commands a, division of about 6600 men, infantry, calvary artillery. he's got his cavalry this...
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divert attention from vicksburg that. wasn't in the play. in 1862, the united war under ambrose burnside will be withdrawn. there, their way to mississippi to join us. grant they're going to be turned around as this campaign starts and they're actually going to be back in cincinnati ohio as the campaign really unfolds. now, we're going to talk a lot about guy. please bat, old man joe early. early commands a, division of about 6600 men, infantry, calvary artillery. he's got his cavalry this robert e lee has no eyes and ears while his troops kind of had a pennsylvania, got plenty of calvary with them. richard you'll get an entire brigade job always got a battalion and parts of the 17th virginia as well. he's got four brigades of infantry as well as the calvary john gordon, harry hays, louisiana extra, billy smith's virginian and isaac hayes, his last full month of life are famous, of course, at gettysburg for tell father. i died with my face to the enemy. this is the troops. these are really good by and large, they've had quite a bit of succes
divert attention from vicksburg that. wasn't in the play. in 1862, the united war under ambrose burnside will be withdrawn. there, their way to mississippi to join us. grant they're going to be turned around as this campaign starts and they're actually going to be back in cincinnati ohio as the campaign really unfolds. now, we're going to talk a lot about guy. please bat, old man joe early. early commands a, division of about 6600 men, infantry, calvary artillery. he's got his cavalry this...
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you know what, grant was doing in the summer of 1863, capturing vicksburg. so how much is his work going to fall on a sympathetic ear? you're telling me, you want to challenge us, grant, who just captured vicksburg, who just cut the confederacy in half. you're in check on that guy. and so lou wallace lets the matter matter drop. he is promoted to the administrative command of the middle department, which is headquartered in baltimore. it was largely a political appointee to watch over the city of baltimore and even that angered henry halleck. he said it was a little better than murder to give wallace commands like this. he wrote angrily to his wife, susan about all of these battles were about to happen in 1864, and he was sidelined in baltimore. and he said soon be heard. the trumpet and the shout of the captain and the clash of the spear. and i will not be there. he was a kind of guy who liked action, liked battle, like the marshal air. but he's in baltimore, headquarters of the utah hotel, which no longer stands but was about three and a half blocks away f
you know what, grant was doing in the summer of 1863, capturing vicksburg. so how much is his work going to fall on a sympathetic ear? you're telling me, you want to challenge us, grant, who just captured vicksburg, who just cut the confederacy in half. you're in check on that guy. and so lou wallace lets the matter matter drop. he is promoted to the administrative command of the middle department, which is headquartered in baltimore. it was largely a political appointee to watch over the city...
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. >> one of the most fun experiences in writing the book is tacking to her about growing up in vicksburgmississippi and she talked so lovingly about her grandmother and her aunt and both were merlies. and also her mom. she talked about them as the tribe of women that raised her and talked about her grandmother who was an enslaved person who was alive until she was five. she knew her grandmother. we did a lot of genealogical research about medger evers family and her family taking it back it enslavement in two different parts of mississippi and we only had to go back to their grand parents. >> i want to fit one more question from somebody on x pushing back on d.i. saying how can wexplain the loss of unity over the last three years? i know. d.e.i. means diversity, not segregation. >> i don't think so the negative obsession with d.e.i. it was not just invented. it has existed for decades. there's a good friend of mine who is a right wing conservative who i used to debate on cnbc. he is an expert on d.e.i. it is trying to add diversity to conditions and spaces that have been almost all white
. >> one of the most fun experiences in writing the book is tacking to her about growing up in vicksburgmississippi and she talked so lovingly about her grandmother and her aunt and both were merlies. and also her mom. she talked about them as the tribe of women that raised her and talked about her grandmother who was an enslaved person who was alive until she was five. she knew her grandmother. we did a lot of genealogical research about medger evers family and her family taking it back...
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any event in maryland or pennsyania or even vicksburg probably move the needle more than any. doesn't move the middle needle. nearly as muchs we think. but this sense of drama, this existential belief, that we are on the edge, something momentous and perhaps existential catastrophe, catastrophic. we see that certainly at manassas. and we also to think that, okay, well, the war the great lesson of manassas was that people realized it was going to be a long war, but that did not. hey, that's not necessarily. but too that did not cure anyone of the belief that then and the next moment be decisive existence? the same sorts of letters you being written on the eve of battle in july 1861. we go into battle tomorrow. we if we win this. everything will change. you can find those letters written on may 4th, 1864, before the overland campaign, probably on april first 1865, more rightly so there than than elsewhere else wise. so this was it's just another example how americans how, people i don't think it's purely american but how people see this these events and we like to see them retro
any event in maryland or pennsyania or even vicksburg probably move the needle more than any. doesn't move the middle needle. nearly as muchs we think. but this sense of drama, this existential belief, that we are on the edge, something momentous and perhaps existential catastrophe, catastrophic. we see that certainly at manassas. and we also to think that, okay, well, the war the great lesson of manassas was that people realized it was going to be a long war, but that did not. hey, that's not...
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now thanks to the effort of people like her, 13 previously unknown black soldiers buried in vicksburgl report," former president trump is expected to appear in a florida courtroom to learn additional details about when his classified documents trial will begin. plus, join us for our special super tuesday coverage. it begins 7:00 p.m. eastern time. remember, if you can't catch us live, set your dvr 6:00 p.m. in the east, 3:00 p.m. in the west coast. we got you covered, fair, balanced and still unafraid. "the ingraham angle" is now. ♪ ♪
now thanks to the effort of people like her, 13 previously unknown black soldiers buried in vicksburgl report," former president trump is expected to appear in a florida courtroom to learn additional details about when his classified documents trial will begin. plus, join us for our special super tuesday coverage. it begins 7:00 p.m. eastern time. remember, if you can't catch us live, set your dvr 6:00 p.m. in the east, 3:00 p.m. in the west coast. we got you covered, fair, balanced and...
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near vicksburg. >> he's like the anti-politician and this was really interesting but reveal who grant voted for four president when grant ran for president. >> he's did not vote for himself. he wrote in names and he was not a self promoter at all. in the least. he was this guy that was so self-deprecating and so self-effacing that before he's running for president and by the way it comes from his mom who despised pomp and circumstance and formality to the point where she was seen sweeping her front porch when he was being inauguration. she did not go to the inauguration. she hated all of the pomp and all of that and she actually, crossing books here, he reminds me a lot of the eisenhower's mom who is the exact same way and didn't really care that he was the winning general of world war ii. so maybe there's something in the mom that is just not that into it. lincoln called him up to washington and he brings his son fred and grant does not dress well. he's got a rumpled uniformity is muddied boots and he walks into the willard hotel. that's a really fancy hotel in washington and he walk
near vicksburg. >> he's like the anti-politician and this was really interesting but reveal who grant voted for four president when grant ran for president. >> he's did not vote for himself. he wrote in names and he was not a self promoter at all. in the least. he was this guy that was so self-deprecating and so self-effacing that before he's running for president and by the way it comes from his mom who despised pomp and circumstance and formality to the point where she was seen...
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any event in maryland or pennsylvania or even vicksburg probably move the needle more than any. doesn't move the middle needle. nearly as much as we think. but this sense of drama, this existential belief, that we are on the edge, something momentous and perhaps existential catastrophe, catastrophic. we see that certainly at manassas. and we also to think that, okay, well, the war the great lesson of manassas was that people realized it was going to be a long war, but that did not. hey, that's not necessarily. but too that did not cure anyone of the belief that then and the next moment be decisive existence? the same sorts of letters you being written on the eve of battle in july 1861. we go into battle tomorrow. we if we win this. everything will change. you can find those letters written on may 4th, 1864, before the overland campaign, probably on april first 1865, more rightly so there than than elsewhere else wise. so this was it's just another example how americans how, people i don't think it's purely american but how people see this these events and we like to see them ret
any event in maryland or pennsylvania or even vicksburg probably move the needle more than any. doesn't move the middle needle. nearly as much as we think. but this sense of drama, this existential belief, that we are on the edge, something momentous and perhaps existential catastrophe, catastrophic. we see that certainly at manassas. and we also to think that, okay, well, the war the great lesson of manassas was that people realized it was going to be a long war, but that did not. hey, that's...
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and myrlie lee evers was a 17-year-old from vicksburg mississippi who met medgar the first day she wased to stay way from in college, upperclassman, football players, and veterans and medgar was all three and she fell madly in love with him. >> stephen: you say you know medgar evers is often left off of lists of the most significant civil rights leaders. why do you imagine that is? >> joy-ann: i think partly and i've been thinking about this a lot because james baldwin who i consider the greatest writer in american history, he named three people he said with a great triumvirate of civil rights. martin luther king jr., obviously. malcolm x, and medgar and he knew and met all three. he rode with medgar is the delta of of this and readily dangerous job. medgar would do things like dress-up infield hand uniform clothes and pretend to be a field hand to be able to talk to these terrified people who could be lynched for looking at a white person in a way that they didn't like, right? and he investigated the emmett till case and got back to trial. he's the only reason it went to trial. he was
and myrlie lee evers was a 17-year-old from vicksburg mississippi who met medgar the first day she wased to stay way from in college, upperclassman, football players, and veterans and medgar was all three and she fell madly in love with him. >> stephen: you say you know medgar evers is often left off of lists of the most significant civil rights leaders. why do you imagine that is? >> joy-ann: i think partly and i've been thinking about this a lot because james baldwin who i...
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the new location is expected to open this spring near 24th in vicksburg in noe valley. >> a beloved dive bar in the north bay is closing next week. owners of the dirty in santa rosa say the bar will close march 1st, due to circumstances that it says it cannot move past. the dirty opened in 2019, but the owners tell sf gate the building has housed a bar since at least the 1920s. since opening five years ago, the business has been known for its karaoke nights and live djs. the bar is now having a liquidation sale that runs through sunday night. >> an ancient lake in death valley, which was revived by recent storms, is showing its staying power. the lake is in death valley's badwater basin. it formed in august in the aftermath of hurricane hillary. the lake gradually shrank, but the recent atmospheric rivers have now filled it back up. death valley is the driest place in north america, typically gets about two inches of rain per year, but it has received more than double that much in the past six months, and usually here in the bay area, our temperatures hover right around 60 to 62 degrees.
the new location is expected to open this spring near 24th in vicksburg in noe valley. >> a beloved dive bar in the north bay is closing next week. owners of the dirty in santa rosa say the bar will close march 1st, due to circumstances that it says it cannot move past. the dirty opened in 2019, but the owners tell sf gate the building has housed a bar since at least the 1920s. since opening five years ago, the business has been known for its karaoke nights and live djs. the bar is now...
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another veteran who i write about in my book, egg guy named perry bowser became addicted to opium at vicksburg hospital in 1864 where he had been checked in for a diarrheal disease. fast-forward to 1915 and he died in a soldiers hospital operated by the national home for disabled volunteer soldiers of something the doctors called chronic morphine. he lived about two thirds of his life addicted to the drug. of course for us to label something in hindsight and epidemic requires not just a large number of cases but also people in the past to recognize that an epidemic is a foot. so in fact during the gilded age, addicted veterans were rightly recognize so much so that they were reported on and become somewhat of a stereotype in the media and even in fiction. one boston pharmacist summarized the stereotype in 1872 when he reported to the state board of health that was investigating the phenomenon that quote veteran soldiers as a class are addict into opiates. this morphine addiction, civil war veterans crisis actually left a long-lasting impression on american culture cut drug laws and medicine as
another veteran who i write about in my book, egg guy named perry bowser became addicted to opium at vicksburg hospital in 1864 where he had been checked in for a diarrheal disease. fast-forward to 1915 and he died in a soldiers hospital operated by the national home for disabled volunteer soldiers of something the doctors called chronic morphine. he lived about two thirds of his life addicted to the drug. of course for us to label something in hindsight and epidemic requires not just a large...
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at vicksburg in july 1863, an illinois soldiers reported that the men marched hard all day because the officers had brush them through as it they were on a forced march. there was no point. there was no enemy nearby. while he wondered why they were being run back and forth. what wiley found out was that a few of the head officers have got too much mississippi rom and they did not know what they were doing. other soldiers talk about this problem of being subjected to double clicks and extra drilling for the pleasure of drunken officers who are abusing them for their own amusement. enlisted men believed that the useless drills are wasting their energy and wasting their manpower, their manhood and hurting the war effort. i confederate soldiers, robert watson, went so far as to threaten to desert and go to some other command because his commanding officer was so drunk. he did not want to abandon his duty completely but i think as watson sada, these drunken officers were misusing him and also his fellow soldiers. when the confederacy did not have manpower to waste. it was only by deserting
at vicksburg in july 1863, an illinois soldiers reported that the men marched hard all day because the officers had brush them through as it they were on a forced march. there was no point. there was no enemy nearby. while he wondered why they were being run back and forth. what wiley found out was that a few of the head officers have got too much mississippi rom and they did not know what they were doing. other soldiers talk about this problem of being subjected to double clicks and extra...
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does encounter tremendous adversity there's a richmond which is is part of the the the efforts capture vicksburgand has spends months in appalling conditions in the mud of the mississippi river. the banks of the mississippi river where his men are dropping like flies through disease. the terrible conditions that they're encountering and and again he's very hostile initially to to lincoln and the republican party and a fair amount of of the sort of racism we see commonly amongst democrats the time as well that that that really again he responds very negatively to the emancipation proclamation for example. but then again there's a transformation that as he spends more time campaigning in mississippi again as grant in particular becomes more and more successful we see the shifting of uses this sense that yes we need to destroy and we need to punish the south in particular for for dragging us into war by destroying slavery as well so again these interesting shifts within this this individual unfortunately his story is a tragic one ultimately that he late in the war relatively late in war is on again
does encounter tremendous adversity there's a richmond which is is part of the the the efforts capture vicksburgand has spends months in appalling conditions in the mud of the mississippi river. the banks of the mississippi river where his men are dropping like flies through disease. the terrible conditions that they're encountering and and again he's very hostile initially to to lincoln and the republican party and a fair amount of of the sort of racism we see commonly amongst democrats the...