the confederates now reeling from the losses of fort henry and donelson, having abandoned kentucky and middle tennessee and the forces pushed back into northern alabama and north mississippi and western tennessee concentrated to defend the railroads. the area that intersected was corinth, mississippi, where they junctioned. you can see the interplay of railroads and the river which in 1862 was a viable interstate highway. brings about the concentration of major military forces. armies of the united states, under the command of ulysses s. grant and don carlos buell, both moving to form a juncture here on the tennessee river, and the confederate state western forces under albert sidney johnston concentrating now in and around corinth to hold the railroads for the purpose of holding the valley, defending the valley. and that's what brings in all this activity here at this location in the early spring of 1862. what you would have seen here was, in shifts, steamboats coming in, offloading personnel, as well as all of the elements of what it takes to wage war, all of their equipment, food, t

union forces recovered the tennessee valley, the lower tennessee valley by seizing forts henry and donelson in the northern portion of the state. in february of 1862. that opened up the entire lower tennessee to union navigation, particularly gun boats and military forces who could penetrate into the heartland of the confederacy, reaching points in northern alabama, northeast mississippi, to threaten the railroad here in the western confederacy. the confederates now reeling from the losses of fort henry and donnelson, having abandoned kentucky and middle tennessee and the forces pushed back into northern alabama and north mississippi and western tennessee concentrated to defend the railroads. the area that intersected was corinth, mississippi, where they junctioned. you can see the interplay of railroads and the river which in 1862 was a viable interstate highway. brings about the concentration of major military forces. armies of the united states, under the command of ulysses s. grant and don carlos buell, both moving to form a juncture here on the tennessee river, and the confederate stat

they were at donelson. we knew some of the units escaped from them. they seemed to have junctioned up with the 51st tennessee and weren't formally consolidated with them until after the battle of shiloh, but they would not have been able to put a battle honor on the flag without being present. we do know the flag has been rearranged some since probably its initial issue. maybe that's post-war. it's hard to tell, but it -- the placement of the regimental identity and things is a little bit different than what is standard with the dalton pattern flags, but clearly a civil war witness flag. and, again, one that has survived the test of time to come to shiloh and interpret the colorful part of the civil war which was these battle flags being carried by these organizations, which were identity flags. in other words, you could look out over across the battlefield and identify the units, not only friend and foe, but you could identify the respective organizations. these cannons are brought in basically because they each have some provenience, a story to tell

it would drive donelson crazy. he was a man of good cheer. soviet -- he faced them down. there were some serious situations. they had 3600 warhead missiles pointing at this country. we would have been destroyed. from the cold war days after world war ii -- there was a policy of probably a decade of what they called containment. were we are trying to contain the soviet expansion. vietnam was part of that. vietnam was part of that in various other places. that sort of morphed over with henry kissinger to coexistence. we were going to try to be friends with the communist. reagan thought that they treated the people like barnyard animals. people who live under communism live like slaves. he made a moral judgment that you're not supposed to make, but he made it. here was his initial problem. all these old guys, they all died. finally he got mikael gorbachev. he was well educated. curse you, he wasn't educated. gorbachev was an educated man. it did not start off well, and reagan got a lot of flak when he came back from iceland where he was supposed

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it would drive donelson crazy. he was a man of good cheer. but he was determined when he got in that office to do some things that he thought were both important and necessary. the economy took care of itself read when he left office, the interest rates were back to normal. unemployment had gone back to normal -- whatever it is. but i think his biggest success was in his foreign policy. i'm not going to get into the caribbean stuff, but with the soviet -- he faced them down. there were some serious situations. they had 3600 warhead missiles pointing at this country. we would have been destroyed. from the cold war days after world war ii -- there was a policy of probably a decade of what they called containment. were we are trying to contain the soviet expansion. vietnam was part of that. vietnam was part of that in various other places. that sort of morphed over with henry in