douglas, that was a very alarming trend. thank you all, very much. [applause] [captioning performed by the national captioning fisher to the bennett place, closing operations in north carolina. dr. bradley. [applause] >> thank you, david. can everyone hear me ok? all right. we have watched the army's of grant and lee moving across the virginia landscape from the siege of petersburg to the surrendered appomattox courthouse. now i'm going to take a detour. we are going to make a sharp turn south, and we're going to turn back the clock. we're going to go back to december of 1864. and we are going to follow this man, general william t sherman. and his progress in what he believes in hopes will be his final campaign of the war. sherman grant are pursuing the grand strategy that they formulated in march of 1864. in cincinnati, ohio. the idea was to keep the army's in the east and in the west, the confederate army's so busy that they cannot reinforce each other. and i have a repeat fiasco of the battle of chickamauga. the strategy is working. slowly, but inexorably. while grant keeps lee's army bottled up around the trenches of petersburg in richmond, sherman captures atlanta georgia,