be polite at, antietam. and the background story to this telegram is this that in early october, halleck fell to its antietam. was september. mcclellan not follow lee. october 17, i'm sorry. september 17, early october, a couple of weeks after the battle. halleck general sends a telegram to mcclellan quote the, president directs that you crossed the potomac and give battle to the enemy. crickets. we week or so later abraham lincoln the president i states wrote a letter to mcclellan and had it hand delivered delivered. mcclellan gave him back of the hand and did not reply. by this point in time, lincoln was maturing his use of his understand ing, of the use of the telegraph, and he was the messages that would come in to the war department, even they weren't addressed to him. and he saw a message that had come in from mcclellan to halleck saying that they couldn't pursue lee because his horses were sore tongued and fatigued. october 24, five five weeks after battle of antietam, abraham lincoln sits down and re

antietam. gettysburg. appomattox. bill and transcribed kelly's with generals grant sherman sheridan sickles webb slocombe, hancock warren chamberlain and many. he published in bronze interviewing the commanders of the civil war in 2005 and the civil times magazine called it a blockbuster history the civil war. so it gives me great, great pleasure to introduce bill thank you. thank you thank you all for having me. thank you to hall and thank you all for coming out this we're going to talk about a little bit of james kelly and his art and his writings. james kelly. is born in 1855 in new york city. so was only six years old when the civil war. but from his front doorstep, young jimmy kelly would watch ten of thousands of union soldiers off to the war and inside the kelly home, his father would be reading aloud the depictions of reports of the battlefield and also the kelly. subscribe to the illustrated magazines of the day. harper's frank, leslie's and young jimmy kelly would would pore over these of these sketches and