including his arrival in the shenandoah valley as a homeless teen. his experience in the french and indian war. and his role in pivotal victories over the british in the 1777 battles of saratoga and 1781 battle of cal pens. the american revolution institute of the society of the cincinnati hosted this event. >>> tonight's talk is on a book that explores the life and legacy of daniel morgan. morgan began life as a homeless, illiterate teenage laborer, through ambition and determination and a great deal of luck, he became a land owner, a congressman, and one of the american revolution's greatest battlefield commanders. daniel morgan, a revolutionary life, available in the back corner after the speech, is a deeply american story and the become is recently been published by doctoral better louis zambone. he earned his doctorate in american history from the university of oxford and an m.a. in medieval studies from catholic university of america. he has received a number of scholarships and awards in the field of early american history, including a rockefe

my question is, you're talking, i know in the shenandoah valley they took over the land, about 500 displaced, but you seem to be talking about that in your books, i don't understand that, that never happened from where i'm from. i understand the coal people wanted under deed they didn't need to buy it, and the people didn't need to buy the land to cut down the trees, they paid you a few bucks and cut down the trees and left. where does that fit in? because that confuses me. >> there's basically a number of different ways that people were-- i understand that not every family who lived in a log cabin ended up losing their land and going down and living in a coal or a lumber camp. not everybody did, but those who were left behind who lost those woods lost their-- the entire bay that they had made a living. >> how did they lose, why, i don't understand how it happened? >> so, it happened a number of different ways. sometimes they never owned the land in the first place, so if you go back to the period between about 1840's and the 1870's, when the first investors with-- in capital. people who bas

but my question is i know in the shenandoah valley 500 families were displaced but you seem to be talking about that in your book from what i read from the reviews i understand that and that never happened where i am from. i understand the people wanted to intervene so they didn't have to buy it the people didn't buy the land to cut down the trees so they would save money and cut the trees and leave where does that fit? >> basically there is a number of different ways in which people were not every family who lived in a log cabin lived in a lumber camp. not everybody did. but those who are left behind who lost those words lost the entire life and the way they made a living. >> but i understand how. >> in a number of different ways sometimes they never owned the land in the first place so the 18 forties and seventies the first investors basically the people who took over from george washington's generation were interested in the actual extraction of resources from the mountains as a passive investor but when the other generation came in they needed to figure out a way to get the people off

meantime, the cvrr has an influx in ticket sales because refugees for hagerstown from a from the shenandoah valley, refugees from southern pennsylvania are jumping on the trains and trying to put the susquehanna river between him and robert e lee. ticket sales are quite strong and hundreds and hundreds of refugees, many african-american are coming into chambersburg to try to escape the onslaught of the oncoming rebels. well, the state militia, the pennsylvania state militia is not very well organized. governor curtin has asked for 10,000 volunteers from new jersey and new york, so a number of new york standing militia regiments have arrived in harrisburg. the new york state national guard, put them on the cvrr trains, and they had south to shippensburg. with chambersburg cut off, shippensburg is the new central organization point for the pennsylvania state militia. you can't get to chambersburg because it is south of the bridge of scotland. they have to walk from shippensburg to scotland, guard bridge crews that are definitely trying to put cvrr's bridge back into place so that the army can use th

here in the first decade, it goes down the shenandoah valley into east tennessee, you hang a hard right up the road to central kentucky. this is the first frontier of the south. at the same time, this is the first decade of kotten expansion, they are moving into south carolina. you will notice from the earlier talks we've had, this land that is occupied by the cherokee, as you can see. but all of the lands that have diagonal lands on them are lands still in native possession in 1790. this is the black population change at the same time. we will toggle back and forth. white people are not moving to the same places where they are taking enslaved people. enslaved people are moving into the piedmont of virginia and what becomes georgia and south carolina at the same time they are moving into -- moving enslaved people into the bluegrass region of kentucky. in the next decade, you see how rapidly this is growing. this is where andrew jackson would be moving into as part of this bright pattern because he moves from western north carolina into central tennessee. central tennessee, like the blue

letters home to his family over the course of nearly three years while deployed in louisiana and shenandoah valley in virginia. again and again he are described the war as a struggle to break the hold that slave aligarchs had over the masses. in 1862 as new orleans felt felt observed of the common whites, quote, they do not think for themselves but let their political leaders lead them by the nose wherever they please. sherman looked forward in this letter to this time when this deluded people, unquote, would be brought back to the faith and love of its youth, as he put it. now, like peter, i feel it's very important to emphasize the emotional needs and worlds of soldiers. i emphasize that this filled emotional needs for soldiers like charles sherman. union soldiers shared to what historians have called effective theory of union, as in affection. this was the idea that they were bound together by mutual affections of their citizens. what made the union exceptional in the world a shining beacon representative of government. thus to achieve victory, union soldiers like charles sherman felt they had

sheridan won at the shenandoah valley at third winchester and at fisher's hill and cedar's creek, october 19, and those two sets of victories gave republicans a smashing victory in the november elections. before moving on from military affairs i'm going to add that my comments about conventional armies and why we need to recognize this doesn't mean that guerrilla warfare was unimportant. i would never say that. it is important. vicious guerrilla activity developed in many parts of the confederacy and in especially missouri and kentucky among the loyal slave holding states and it created vast misery for civilians. bedeviled political leaders and produced long-lasting bitterness. you can't explain the vicious little thugs like the james boys after the war and what they did without some understanding of what went on during the war. a lot of the famous, the hollywood famous desperadoes after the war cut their teeth with some of the most famous of the confederate guerrilla bands that operated in that part of the war during the war but guerrillas who probably constituted between 2% and 3% of al

he comes to sherman, captured atlanta and philip had, sharidan was in the shenandoah valley at thurd winchester on september 19th at fisher hill three days later and at cedar creek on october 1th. and those two sets of victories gave republicans a smashing victory in the november elections. this doesn't mean guerrilla warfare is not important. i would never say that. it is important. this is guerrilla activity developed in many parts of the confederacy and in especially missouri and kentucky among the loyal slave holding states and it created vast misery for civilians. the devilled political leaders and produced long lasting bitterness that went -- i mean you can't explain the vicious little thugs like the james boys after the war and what they did without some understanding of what went on they cut their teeth with the guerrilla bands that operated during that part of the war. but guerrillas that constituted between 2% and 3% of all the men under arms operated on the margins both geographically and in terms of their influence on the broader korcourse of the wa. they're doing things.

including his arrival in the shenandoah valley as a homeless teen. his experience in the french and indian war. and his role in pivotal victories over the british in the 1777 battles of saratoga and 1781 battle of cal pens. the american revolution institute of the society of the

i can see the shenandoah valley mountains from my window. people want to climb it anyway.'m just saying to the people out there, i call him dr. northrom, he--dr. is our governor, be patient, where the masks. i only have a little bit of lysol spray and i'm having trouble getting it. people need to understand when they come in our area they need to do what our governor says. social distancing and stay whale little longer and not be so frustrated. we are not able to go to the doctor as quickly as people in new york. host: let me add on a little to what she said. is there a concern that coronavirus is going to run through rural communities? it hasn't yet. are we still concerned about it coming out to those communities and affecting the people who, like the caller said, are 25 miles from a decent hospital? guest: i think that is the concern and we still want to be careful moving forward. we want to think about reopening our services, but we want to be careful. we want to continue to wipe things down with the bleach, the sanitizer, we want to use masks. as we become used to bein