what we have is you're going to see some -- from chancellorsville to gettysburg. we saw man-made roads. we saw fortifications, but they don't actually dig fortifications. he is going into open country. to paraphrase one officer, he said by the third day they are in pregnant. they seem to do the three days work in less than 24 hours. these men are going to be digging. they are going to be constantly digging. those are going to be very impressive. it will take place less than a month later. as the campaign of evolved, lee has to adjust tactics, as do the union forces, and both sides have to dig in. and the american civil war, you stood shoulder to shoulder. you fired the musket. you see them bashing every time at fredericksburg. as this happens these works are going to grow. even though lee is willing to keepmen, he is going to trying to nullify grant numbers by not only trying to get reinforcements but by building those negotiations. you will see the walls going higher. those are the fortifications. upton is an up and calmer from the army. for the army. he has no s

to davis that he could expect nothing like chancellorsville. he did hope that johnson might stop the offensive or at least make him pay heavily for it as lee was making grant pay and virginia. but in georgia sherman flanked his defensive positions and forced him back so i stopped, 70 miles to the outskirts of atlanta. by the first week of july. johnson kept his army intact in these retreats, but he yielded valuable territory and raise doubts about whether he intended to defend atlanta. which was not only an important railroad and manufacturing unter, but have become a symbol of confederate resistance second only to richmond and self. davis agreed with the secretary of war appraisal of johnston strategy and said that his theory awards seem to be never to fight unless strong enough to overwhelm the enemy and merely to continue to looting. davis might also have agreed with a modern has very of this campaign, richard mcmurray, who is not being entirely facetious when he said that if johnson had remained in command he would have fought the crucial b

but it became eminently clear that he could expect nothing like chancellorsville from johnston. we making grant to pay in virginia. but in georgia, sherman flanked johnston's positions and forced him him back step by step 70 miles to the outskirts of atlanta by the first week of july. johnston kept his army intact and bees retreats but he yielded the valuable territory and raised doubts in richmond about whether he intended to defend atlanta which was not only an important railroad and manufacturing center but had become a symbol of confederate resistance, second only to richmond itself. they disagreed with secretary of war appraisal of johnston's strategies. the theory seems to be never to fight unless strong enough certainly to overwhelm your enemy and then under all circumstances merely to continue to elude. davis might also have a great of a modern history of the campaign richard mccrery who was not being entirely facetious when he said that if johnston had remained in command he would have fought the crucial battle of the atlantic campaign at key west. [laughter] by the fou

there was chancellorsville. robert e. stonewall jackson marched out with 60,000 men to case 130,000 union soldiers and drove the entire union army away. jackson engineered the most brilliant march. robert e. lee had his and the south's greatest victory. one officer put it walking jackson ride out with lee on the first day of the battle comet as a fighter and leader he was all that could ever be given to a man's fate and then jackson was dead, victims of an accidental shooting by his own men and pneumonia that set in after words. he was shot by his own men. his arm was amputated. he was recovering pretty well in this house before the pneumonia set in and worked pretty quickly. this is is death mask. on display at the valentine museum in richmond. it is fascinating to look at that you can also see how easy it it was from the pneumonia that killed him. what happened in the wake of jackson's death was unique in american history ended with characterized by something most other historians fail to notice and that is the fact tha