they were preparing a massive set of additional war crimes trials including among them george pickett. forgiveness has to start somewhere, and the united states began to forgive in 1866. and henry wertz, if there's an injustice to him, it's that major -- or general winder had a heart attack in february of 1865 at florence, i believe, and passed before a higher court of judgment, as we say. okay. one more question. okay. >> thank you for your presentation. it was evocative, it was beautiful. your passion for this is clear. i just have a two-part question. one, it's been a long time since i looked at the -- here to be reminded about the gentleman talking about percentages and numbers are misleading. what can we won or lost by creating a calculus of who created the most deadly camps. in that debate one would want to engage in. and what are the benefits of engaging in that debate? i don't remember the literature that i've read, the stuff i have read seemed to show that they were both cruel, depressing ways -- and as you said to the individual was the worst place in the world. secondly, gi

number wise, grant's losses in that one hour were equal to, and came in the same short time, as pickett's charge at gettysburg. from any perspective, the attack at cold harbor was a ghastly mistake. not to grant, however. cold harbor was a momentary setback in his ongoing offensive against lee. the union general several refused to admit defeat or even request a truce to bury him to and retrievead anead his wounded. 4 days past -- passed and the numbers became less wounded and more dead. one said that not every in the civil war were so many wounded soldiers left so long to suffer in plain sight of their comrades , the enemy, and the buzzards. lee's army was too thin to do a counter attack. further, there simply was no general capable of executing it. meanwhile, grant puffed on his sticks, andtled on thought about the future, with that abstracted look on his face. confederates reported that grant had abandoned the cold harbor line and was likely moving toward the james river to cross over. lee gave pursuit. by mid-june, at cold harbor, the pine thickets, open clearings, and indelible scars

about pickett's charge, taking in pettigrew's men. the spectacle of it. the spectacle of war. it is seductive. you can see the men wrestling with that. >> i was recently at cold harbor and one of the things we talked about was how were the men able to make another charge? they were making the attacks at the wilderness, at spotsylvania, and at cold harbor and it is a 4:30 a.m. in the morning and charging. it is -- >> coercion is a big part of it. that is missing in a lot of military studies. coercion is invisible and takes many forms, from peer pressure to -- you do not hold up. you could do some kind of courts-martial internally and it could go beyond. there's a whole new element we often forget. we could do a few more before we have to go. >> which side? >> the side. >> could you speak as to why lee decided to act as a court commander in a number of these battles. >> why he decided -- >> abandoned after the court commander. >> well, the two examples we look at was the wilderness when the line collapsed and the confederate army was done in and reinforcements come in. the texan

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