for my first book to my time to gettysburg is significant enough i livekn the, raised gettysburg, a full circle makend sense. out the window of my attic i can see the round top, it's a pretty special place. >> when you're going through, i don't know if we call it a novel or novella, give -- >> my father had written, he had givenn up and couldn't sell it. after his death my sister and i found the manuscript and they had gotten hot and it was published and universal pictures trunk and of movement was made in 19999 and kevin costner and most don't realize it's based on the book. twice we have been based on books wouldn't see. >> the freeze-frame after. >> the incredible amount of writing around the american civil war or revolution were talking the mexican war and korean war, remarkable books and introduces stories we don't necessarily know but i'll pare it to where weof are as a county for high schools and middle schools and junior high so there is the nation's report card and we just had the results back from eighth grade across the nation so only 22% of eighth graders are proficient

gettysburg. the union victory at gettysburg. the union victory at fort hudson. so the land won the c-1 is the arrival of the s.s. alabama in the southwest pacific in the fall of 1863, where she takes several u.s. merchant ships. and that does two important things. number one, it globalize the civil war. we should never forget that the confederate commerce raiders globalized the civil war. our friends from the uk roundtable were back there saying, thank you, thank you very much, thank you're, welcome to. this the second thing that it does is it energizes as the us asiatic squadron if we had been sending ships out there since commodore perry in 1853, we'd actually been fighting few skirmishes with pirates in and around and in what's now the western pacific. as we know, the first island chain to use the modern term for it. but this energizes the us navy to have a more robust presence in asia, which it has maintained to varying reefs right up to this very best. and so from that perspective, when you look at the united states really broadly as an asiatic pacific powe

now that i lived there my wife is a native born and raised in gettysburg gettysburg, the tie, the full circle, plenty of sense and. you know, it's a wonderful place to be the home we live in is on the battlefield my attic is my office and head out the window of my attic. i have a perfect view of the round tops i can see little round top. my window right across the field will pick its to place. it's a pretty special place of so we don't forget it you when your your dad's estate and going through his files that. i don't know if you call it a novel or a novella that manuscript that baseball manuscript. don't you give him a why don't you give them a quick w -- >> the publishers wouldn't buy it. he could have thrown it away. i took it to new york, baseball had gotten hot and so the book was published and it was called love of the game and universal pictures jumped all over it. kevin costner jumped all over it. many of you may have seen kevin costner and kelly preston. most people don't realize that that movie is based on the book by michael. outwice movies have come out by his book that he

we talked about your historic house in gettysburg. you are not just the writer.you talk about historic preservation and historic sites. i'm just wondering if you want to talk to us about the idea of preserving. >> i was on the board of the american battle dress for six years and i learned a lot about preservation. preservation in general. i bought an old victorian house. my wife and i fixed it up. i appreciate what goes into that. as far as battlefield it's been said so many times once they are gone, they are gone. you aren't going to get it back. i very strongly believe and support it and i put my money where my mouth is and taking tell you all of you to take a least some interest in preserving what we have because we have less of it nows than we had 10 years ago and less of it than then 1010 years before and it's ongoing. so that's my commercial and i strongly hope they you would support that or historical preservation of any kind. >> that's a great note to end on.s the non-profits are really committed to that and i hope at 3:00 but we will see you at the signi

gettysburg heard all the engagements there the catastrophic wounds at gettysburg and chickamauga really took a toll on him. and at age 33, he was promoted. the youngest person in either army to be promoted to a full command. and gallup. tough problem billy. a great commander on the division level. but we found out quickly that he was not a great commander of a big army. so what happens? john johnson gives up atlanta. hood comes in. who is going to try to draw sherman out of atlanta? curtis supply line. sherman's said, we can live off the land. and he did it. and he takes off to savannah, georgia. hood then meanders over decatur and. beauregard, who's kind of watching over him. they hate each other, who not reporting regularly to beauregard, doesn't tell him his strategy, but devises with davis, a a plan i use that roughly because it was in a plan. he didn't have a plan. he was just going to go north. and he went from gas analysis to cater boy. six days here, baltimore time re. and he three weeks in november of 1864 fo he can get going to nashville. so he takes off bad start happening im

so he died on the battlefield in gettysburg, correct. okay. so he's lying on the battlefield with a picture in hand, which i can't imagine how it looks. i mean, it in the clarity that you have there is very good. how did they come in? did they come and take some type of picture it to make it that clear? because. yes. what exactly do they do to make it? i mean, because the pictures very good here where i imagine if he's lying on the battlefield, the condition of the picture is, very poor. yeah. so that's actually where this card to visit technology is very useful here. what he is holding on the battlefield is an amber type. and this is an example of a case, a hard image or a cased image. usually the case would be complete. but this is what he had on the battlefield with was a picture of the hard image. i think it was an amber or type of his in this case. and he's on the battlefield clutching this. so when the doctor gets a hold, this this new technology, the card to visit, i mean, it's about ten years old at the time or a little than that at th

now, as we've heard today, civil war battles like gettysburg, antietam produced thousands and thousands of war stories, just like chapels. and all too often, these cases, they ended in grisly deaths from infection or blood loss exposure. you name it, there's a million ways to die in the civil war. so judging by outward appearances, we might consider chapel to be one of the lucky ones, because after all, he somehow managed to survive long enough to actually tell his story. in 1886, in the letter that we see here on the screen, but chapel didn't see it that way. he did not consider himself one of the lucky ones because him survival in the long aftermath of the battle of gettysburg was a living hell. and that is because 23 years after gettysburg the unexpected consequences of chapel civil war wound still dominated the old soldier's day to day life as he explained in that tortured 1886 letter quote the put me on morphine and i stop that. in other words, chapel had become and remained hopelessly addicted to the morphine that surgeons had given him in that field hospital to treat the pain fro

after fighting seven days, gettysburg, all the engagements up there, the catastrophic chickamauga really took a toll on him, and at age 33, he was promoted the youngest person in either army to be promoted to a full command. gallant, tough, probably a great commander on the division level, but we found out quickly that he was not a great commander in the army. so, what happens? johnson gives up atlanta, hood comes in. who's going to try to drop sherman out of atlanta, cut his supply line. sherman said, you live off of land, and he did it. and he takes off to savannah, georgia. hood then meanders over to cater, and beauregard, kind of watching over him -- they hate each other -- who's not reporting, and beauregard doesn't tell him his strategy, but devises with davis a plan. i use that roughly, because it wasn't a plan. he didn't have a plan. he was is going to go north. and he went from gadsden, alabama to decatur, six days here, four times here, and loses three weeks in november of 1864 before he can get going to nashville. so, he takes off. bad things start happening immediately. the a

to him, survival in the aftermath of the battle of gettysburg was a living hell. the consequences still dominated his day-to-day life. as he explained in the 1886 letter, the doctors put me on morphine and i cannot stop that. chappell had become and remain hopelessly addicted to the morphine that surgeons had given him in that field hospital to treat the pain from his wound. he kept on taking as he bounced along the route into pennsylvania and maryland and on and on. the wound had healed but the drugs refused to release chappell from his chains. he suffered for it. tens of thousands of civil war veterans became addicted to opium and morphine during and after the civil war. historians have known about these individuals to a certain extent. we have been aware that scattered cases of civil war veterans became addicted to opiates that they were introduced to during the war. for over a century, individual veterans like chappell have made appearances in various media, early 1900s social science literature. television shows about the civil war. and even congressional deb

book i co-edited that helped me understand the command decision in the wake of gettysburg. so the bottom line is, lincoln completely misunderstood the limits with which to work. i mean, he had an army that was very battered and very bloodied. and the idea that meed can just follow up with this kind of bloodletting with such ease i think really reveals a misunderstanding at that moment, and also complements meed's great understanding of the moment. think about it. major campaigns are not going to resume in the virginia theater for what? another nine months? 10 months? i can't do math. i do history instead. >> let me follow up on that briefly. regarding meed, it is understanding that the most pointed criticism comes from july the 12th when he did not prevent meed from getting across the river and he let him sit there for 24-36 hours and then escape. but keep in mind, one of the things that meed did win in command for five days was caught together all his core commanders and ask them what should we do and they voted not to do it. he could have said, we are overruling you. we a

standing here in gettysburg, i have to and note that the conversation didn't really include anything. mead and i think some what dr. noah said is relevant as as lincoln's not understanding the challenges of the weather, but why does mead get overlooked so much? that's my question. i don't know. i don't know if he gets overlooked. abe lincoln. lincoln overlook criticism. when he wrote the famous letter to me saying that you you drive the enemy from our soil. it's all our soil. i'm so disappointed we could have won this war, but then showing his ability, a commander in chief as a leader in the long term, he, of course, writes on the bottom, never sign, never something we should all do with email when we're angry. put in the reserve or whatever you call it. the draft file. don't send it. wait 24 hours. that's part of genius. so that's that's favorite command story with made i think you only knew me for a few minutes before gettysburg. i'll give full credit to gene murray on this. she wrote a fabulous essay in a book that i co-edited, which helped me really understand mead's command decis

. >> i'm writing the gettysburg address by martin johnson how the gettysburg-- they wrote the gettysburg address over and over again. it's pretty fun and i enjoy it. >> who is the author again? >> martin p. johnson. >> thank you, sir for calling in. ray in glendale, arizona. >> hi, peter. i just happened to switch over from washington journal. what i'm reading right now is a book called troubled refuge, struggles for newly freed folks in the civil war and i just finished master, slave, husband, wife, and excellent book on the same subject. >> right, which we covered on book tv. can you tell me, ray, how often you read books? how many you have going at once and you get through a book a week or what? >> oh, i go to the library quite often, just down the block from my house and i pick up any-- i look through the new books first and then right now besides that one i have rebel yell, which is the biography of jackson and for fun, latest from christopher wright, kind of all over the map. >> ray, thanks for spending a few minutes from us. let's work in caroline in raleigh, north carolina. good

and as we know at gettysburg he had a shattered left arm which became useless. for whatever reason davis made the appointment of hood. hood had been schmoozing davis avenue for his wound in 1863 hood was big in the social circles in richmond. hood was a smoother and he was going after disappointment and he made it. bruce catton once said this was the biggest mistake of the war. and davis probably realized that 90 days later. a good picture of hood. we know a lot about them born in 1831. he was known as sam. the united states military graduate 1953, graduated 44 that of 52. he was a good guy and a party guy and had 196 out of 200 possible to merits his senior year and almost didn't graduate. after fighting seven days at gettysburg all the engagements the catastrophic -- chickamauga really took a toll on him. at age 33 he was the youngest to be promoted in command. probably a great commander on the division level. we find out quickly that he was not a great commander of an army. so what happens? johnson gives up atlanta, hood comes in, hood will try to draw out of

good afternoon, everyone i peter carmichael the director of the seaboard institute here at gettysburg college. it's my pleasure to introduce dr. ashley whitehead luskey. she is the assistant director of the civil war institute here at the college. she works there's a wide range of science. i think one of her great contributions is with the cwi fellows program and our students. she oversees a wide range of research projects. they do. many of them are online or on the blog. they do videos. they do original research. she's also our students to the vast professional network in, the history field. what she does is something that you can't get at most institutions, and that is connection to professional historians she is deeply involved with. and in fact, she had, i think maybe 12 fellows this spring. and when we looked at their projects, she was basically doing an independent study with each student and it was an extraordinarily rewarding experience for each of them before they came here. she spent some time me at west virginia university. she was my graduate student briefly before i came

i was partly attracted to him because of the gettysburg address. the second inaugural address. and part of the schooling in which i was brought up. also, my father had on his bookshelf, a book called, the perfect tribute. it had been given to him, so i read the inscription by his fourth grade teacher in a public school on the lower east side for deportment. so, somehow that got me thinking about my father and other fathers. and about lincoln. and about lincoln as a writer. when you have a life of your own, and you are a scholar or a writer, you are always looking for subjects. whether you are thinking consciously or not, what can you do that can bring a contribution that will be distinctive? i wrote a biography about lincoln. a lot of people liked it. that was nice. if they liked that, maybe i could do another one? who else was a writer? not a professional like dickens, i looked at everybody out there, they were fascinated by presidents. i started writing about lincoln, i became conscious about john quincy adams. that had to do with lincoln as the great emancipator. adams, some

i remember probably decade or so ago sitting on a bus going from gettysburg college to the shenandoah, talking about next projects, our >>> i have no now next speaker for quite some time. remember probably a decade or so ago sitting on a bus, going from gettysburg college to the shenandoah valley talking about next projects. our next speaker has been a great friend of me and the institute, and a great supporter of our journal of the central valley during the civil war era. so, it gives me great pleasure to introduce brian matthew jordan. brian is associate professor of civil war history and chair of the department of history at sam houston state university. he's the author or editor of six books on the civil war era, including marching home, "union veterans and their unending civil war," which was a finalist for the pulitzer prize in history in 2016. his more than 100 reviews, articles, have appeared in scholarly journals, and in volumes and popular magazines. without further ado, please join me in welcoming brian matthew jordan. >> well, thank you so much, jonathan, for this kind int

the comparison between vicksburg and gettysburg. you throw tullahoma in there, we just heard about bragg and the importance of that. you know, that's pretty good week, july the first week of july in 80. 63 is a pretty good week for the for the union. not so good for the confederacy in erie vicksburg. i would argue to you the vicksburg is the most comp lex largest and probably the most important of the civil war. now, i'm not one of these that says you can pick out one date or one battle or one campaign and says that's it. you know, the civil war was over. that's when it was decided. in fact, i was thinking about this and i've come to the conclusion in particularly dealing with adversity, just. johnston early in the war, a lot of people say, was the war done in 1862? but i've come to the conclusion that in a baseball pennant, how many of your baseball how many of you braves fans? oh, what? i know. we'll go one or two. i know. we've got a phillies fan back there. sorry. is he was the last time i saw him. he was wearing his phillies je

the comparison between vicksburg and gettysburg. you throw tullahoma in there, we just heard about bragg and the importance of that. you know, that's pretty good week, july the first week of july in 80. 63 is a pretty good week for the for the union. not so good for the confederacy in erie vicksburg. i would argue to you the vicksburg is the most comp lex largest and probably the most important of the civil war. now, i'm not one of these that says you can pick out one date or one battle or one campaign and says that's it. you know, the civil war was over. that's when it was decided. in fact, i was thinking about this and i've come to the conclusion in particularly dealing with adversity, just. johnston early in the war, a lot of people say, was the war done in 1862? but i've come to the conclusion that in a baseball pennant, how many of your baseball how many of you braves fans? oh, what? i know. we'll go one or two. i know. we've got a phillies fan back there. sorry. is he was the last time i saw him. he was wearing his phillies je

efforts to overturn the results of an election that he lost, and the likes of abraham lincoln's gettysburg address and george washington's farewell address. these things are not to like. so that's jack smith making it crystal clear, in case it wasn't already clear to just about everybody, that one of these things is not like the others. it seems, as we sit here on october 20th, 2023, that trump's intimidation tactics are failing on several fronts right now. today, in the georgia conspiracy case, a third codefendant, kenneth chesebro, has now defied trump by taking a plea deal from prosecutors which is seriously problematic for trump, and which we will have a lot more on later this hour. but the place where trump's legacy, the legacy of bullying is facing its most humiliating defeat right now, is in congress. for years, donald trump's protegee, and bluster in intimidation, has been ohio congressman, jim jordan. trump even awarded jim jordan the presidential medal of freedom for jordan's service as trump's defender in congress, and an avatar of trump's rage. so we are clear here, this award

and i was partly attracted to lincoln as a writer because of course the gettysburg address, the second inaugural address, somehow are part of the schooling with which i was brought up. and, also because my father had on his bookshelf, a little book called the perfect attribute which had been given to him, so i read in the inscription, by his fourth grade teacher in a public school on the lower east side for department. department. and so somehow that got me thinking about my father, and about other fathers and about lincoln. and about lincoln as a writer. and you know, when you have a life of your own and you are a scholar or writer, you are always looking for subjects, whether you're thinking, consciously or not, what can you do the can bring a contribution that will be distinctive. so i wrote a biography, lincoln the biography of a writer. a lot of people like it. that's nice. they like that book, maybe i can do another one. who else is a writer who is not a writer by profession like dickens and twain and so on, everyone out there in our great and glorious country, they are fascinate

the gettysburg address, one of the three most widely quoted statements by any writer. and, of course, adams could have anticipated that at a much later date it would become one of the most constant a virtual in its claims that all men are created equal. adams never got over it. never got over it. he's got -- about later in life. why didn't i do it? i didn't let him do it. yeah. jefferson was i was pressured to get, to get, get it written quickly. there wasn't much time we don't know very much about on what days actually wrote, how much at each sitting, how many days he spent revising, what papers or book and books. he had with him. that's partly known. he had a copy, of course, of richard henry lee's june six declaration resolution independence. he had his copy of the draft constitution he had written before leaving williamsburg to come to philadelphia in of which you are very with that draft he hoped to get as quickly as possible to williamsburg. so his draft could become the dominant draft he had that with him and that contained a lengthy forensic indictment of georg

was received and finding that it just wasn't nobody noticed the speech of gettysburg that we now think of as a kind of turning point in american history. yeah, it was the march on washington was was king's speech in particular understood to be a big moment the day after the week after? well, i think it varied, you know, the washington post front page the next day didn't have a word about it, didn't. but the new york times had, i think, three stories about it. james reston recognized it instantly. so i think, you know, it depend it on or on who you were. it it grew, of course, into the into the culture. so that commonly now, you know, people simplify the civil rights movement to rosa sat down martin had a dream and i'm free you know that's that's pretty much that's pretty much how it came down so it's definitely i have a dream i think is recognized by schoolchildren everywhere. it is part of the culture. i think it took a while and for me it was really amazing to study it because he wrote an incredibly stilted speech. this was the biggest event of his life. he knew that and the speech t

military academy at west point, the civil war institute at gettysburg college, the u.s. army heritage and education center, ulysses s grant presidential library, and the virginia historical society. are happy to welcome him here. [ applause ] >> thanks for allowing an academic historian to serve as a kind of interloper among you and i really appreciate the opportunity. i teach afte hello, faq. thanks to the benefiel trust, thanks to all of you for being here. thanks for allowing an academic historian to serve as an interloper among you. i really appreciate the opportunity. i teach afternoon classes. i understand how difficult it can be to strive to stay alert and awake after lunch when you have had a long day. i will try to keep this going and try to keep us engaged here as we talk about the battle of franklin. all right. the night of november 30 and december 1, 1864 must have seemed endless for the union and confederate soldiers on the field in frankly, tennessee. with widespread confederate failure to break the union line, and with the onset of darkness, the fiercest o

military academy at west point, the civil war institute at gettysburg college, the u.s. army heritage and education center, ulysses s grant presidential library, and the virginia historical society. we're happy to welcome here him here to the american battlefield trust 2023 annual conference drew. well, hello and thank you. thanks to the battlefield trust. thanks to all of you for being here. and thanks for allowing an academic historian to serve as a kind of interloper among you and i really appreciate the opportunity. i teach afternoon classes and i understand how difficult it can be to try to stay alert and awake after lunch when you had a long day. so i will try to keep us going and try to keep us engaged a little bit here as we as we talk about the battle of franklin. all right. the night of november 30th and december 1st, 1864, must have seemed endless for the union confederate soldiers on the field at franklin, tennessee, with widespread confederate failure to break the union line and with the onset of darkness, the fiercest of the fighting began to wind down by 7