grant interpreted the oberlin campaign as a contest of morale. you can whip these guys if you just try, sherman saw that too. sherman wrote letters to the atlanta campaign saying you are giving the rebels a good lesson, keep it up. the morale issues were the uppermost. i'm saying this because i think that is the reason why grant so often attacked and with sometimes poor preparation, because he was afraid that lee would take advantage of him if he didn't do something quickly. sharman didn't have to worry about that, because johnston was so passively defensive he didn't have to worry about johnson taking advantage of him. it's a wonderful question that we could spend a whole hour discussing. thank you. >> why did sherman feel it necessary to build his own set of fortifications around atlanta? why didn't he reuse the confederate once which had been built? >> the answer is one of scale. the confederate earthworks were planned to be far enough away from the center of atlanta so that enemy artillery would not be able to reach the center of atlanta that

performance during the oberlin campaign suggested he was still learning his craft ambition st personal meant that he would never hesitate to accept any would advance his career. and leading proposed raid would his alley. the second offensive would be into 's first foray independent command. kautz was born in germany but graduated with an undistinguished rank at west 1852 at west point and was posted to the pacific northwest where he was reputedly first white man to ascend mount rainier. a captain the war as in the sixth u.s. calvary but ose to command the second ohio calvary in the western theater and then came east with butler calvary in virginia. kautz ne understood that required close supervision, suffered from bouts of malaria hat would incapacitate him for long periods of time and even at his best, was a mediocre leader. know, by the summer of 1864, the union in the was well along process of establishing superiority over its confederate counterparts. kautz was not instrumental figures in this evolution. second offensive began on the evening of june 20, as the out d and sixth corps

also a guy who shot up a --agogue in oakland park oberlin park. going to be a best of nine-game world series. it is different in a lot of ways. why is that? baseball had previously been a best-of-seven series. 1918, it follows world war i. world war i really disrupts baseball because they issued what was a work or fight order. that means that if you are not involved in the war effort, they are going to draft you. they will do selective service and paul your name out of a fishbowl or something and send you over to france. baseball does not know if it is 1919 untilntinue in the armistice comes around in november of 1918. in 1918, the season is cut down to a 142 game series -- season. games.l 1961, it was 156 games, fewerer attendance, much less revenue that your. there is a way you can get around that. aat involves going to work in defense plant and a defense related industry. one of the biggest industries is shipyards. we have to get all those guys over to france. we need boats to put them on. there is a big shipyard in delaware. shoeless joe jacks

now, wilson's performance during the oberlin campaign suggested he was still learning his craft but his vast personal ambition meant that he would never hesitate to accept any assignment that would advance his career. leading the proposed raid would be right up his alley. the second offensive would be wilson's first foray into independent command. august valentine kautz would be his jr. in the operation. kautz led the small cavalry division of the armory -- of the army in jane's. he volunteered in >> -- in the mexican war and was promoted to an undistinguished rank in west point and was posted to the pacific northwest where he was reputedly the first white man to ascend mount rainier. he entered the war as a captain in the sixth u.s. calvary but rose to command the second ohio calvary in the western theater and then came east with butler to lead his calvary in virginia. everyone understood that kautz required close supervision, suffered from bouts of malaria that would incapacitate him for long periods of time and even at his best, was a mediocre leader. now, as we all know, by the summ