that is the battle of shiloh. we don't hear nearly as much as shiloh. we hear cold harbor, antietam and gettysburg. but shiloh was a critical battle. i will just give you a brief idea that on april 6 and 7, 1862 for maybe the one and only time of this young at that time young civil war the south really had a chance to defeat the north. somehow these disparate jennings who were squabbling from different states had assembled 40,000 men under generals bragg and beauregard. my hero william sherman my maternal grandmother claimed ancestry to albert sydney johnston. i grew up hearing in the morning that william sherman was a monster and johnston was a saint. it has always been in my mind as well as the death oft victor hanson in okinawa. i had a personal relationship with these battles. when the battle was over two and a half days later the world took note. this was the first mass battle with rifled musketry. there were more casualties than all the bat unless the history of the american republic up to that time put together. 24,000 casualties and at least alm

shiloh and its slanderers, ending by finally solace in ben-hur. i have reputation and others fear now to keep me afloat. in 1900, 38 years after the battle when he is a celebrity he says the awful battle of pittsburgh landing comes home more directly than to most of those engaged. and the lies that were told about me to make me the scapegoat to bear off the criminal mistakes of others. think of what i suffered. shiloh in other words is responsible for ben-hur for the zeal to promote it. and ben-hur is the first example of a phenomenon that we recognize today of the popular novel and movie and icon of popular culture. i'd like to give you another example. there was a fourth person there. he was a different man than lou wallace. as the union army was being pushed into the tennessee river and it was getting late one man in the southern side and only one man realized what was happening. lou wallace was pulling in but he hadn't quite gotten there yet. sherman was back pedaling. but there was nathan bed fort forrest. the most brilliant military commande

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what it did was eventually result in the battle of shiloh, well, pittsburgh landing. which the confederates lost, too, as well as p-ridge in arkansas. so, you lose a good hunk of arkansas and any chance to make missouri a bona fide, de facto confederate state. jefferson davis in his inaugural speech delivered not too far from here on february 22nd, a few days ago, george washington's birthday, not by chance, said this is the darkest hour of our struggle. and our struggle in davis' perspective just got darker and darker after that. lee himself had lost arlington, his home, which wasn't really his home, it was his wife's home, but it was the closest thing he had to a home, ever. he lost his wife, who was trapped behind enemy lines during most of that spring. he had one daughter behind enemy lines. all of his investments. lee was pretty shrewd. he invested in state bonds and railroad bonds, but most of those bonds were in places like kentucky and missouri. he wrote to his oldest son, i expect to be a pauper if i get through the war. so, how can this man be influential of

and i'd have to do that for every state that had soldiers fighting at shiloh which was most to have east except, well, most of the southeast. and so these are new tools that really are going to save your younger historians a lot of trouble. because you're getting the same material, you just don't have to work so hard for it. i don't know if that's good or bad, but it sure feels good to me. just because there's so much you do have to work for. and i, i'd do it, i buy the books. i don't use libraries much, i just -- you can get 'em. some of these things, one time i paid $700 for a book. wife gave me a fit. but i needed it. it was an old book if the 1830s, and it came from south africa, and i ordered it. but you can resell 'em. but anyway, i keep libraries of all these things because i'm kind of hard on research materials. i dog ear it and underline it. it's just, that's the way -- that's my method. but the writing probably took a year, i'm saying. but there's a point in the, between the research and the writing where you actually, you're doing both. but there's a point at least it is with

certainly in the upper reaches of the cumberland tennessee river by forces led by men like ulysses grant, shiloh was a victory even before the peninsula campaign started. so it was not just an issue of letting mcclellan do what the general does best, ie, conduct campaign strategy, but in truth trying to reassure the public in general, the congress in particular, and to an extent those people who controlled the information flow to the public. in those days the newspaper editors around the united states that there was a viable plan and that this was going to result in victory in a short period of time. another thing to remember that in 1862 the united states had not initiated conscription as yet. there was no draft. all the soldiers in blue were volunteers. and we know from our u.s. history that volunteerism will carry an army into a war but not necessarily carry it throughout a war. and so the pressure to bring it to a swift conclusion was there always. as to regards your second question, why does mcclellan not rate any higher among historians. well, i think we have certainly the benefit of hinds

whatever your political views, i think 9-11 will turn out to be just as important as shiloh. but if history demonstrates at lexington and concord, fort sumter and pearl harbor all turned america into a different nation in a matter of minutes, then why should we be less immune from 9-11. understanding of greek tragedy, art, philosophy, were changed by relatively obscure battle, why would not the destruction of the world trade center and bombing of the pentagon not similarly alter american culture? the 5th century was ushered in by defeat, but only after the destruction. the desolation of athens itself, the effort to destroy civilization, and miraculously greek counter response. millions have had lives alter in ways we cannot grasp for centuries, as a single battle, with all its confined spaces and dreadful killing warps members of friends and family of the fallen, twisters aspirations of the veterans, and abruptly ends accomplishments of the dead. in that sense, the ripples of battle are also immune from and care little for what people like us write and read. in or outside the

well before the secession crisis, the emassing of the armies and the battles of bull run in shiloh and the battles of richmond and the bloody day of antietam in 1862, my subject was and is a surviving veteran of an older, longer war. that state of war, the country called slavery and that the world called slavery. human kind's ancient desire and capacity to exploit and make property of its fellow human beings. if we could have the pictures there. i brought a photo. this guy is so handsome, it enhances my chances to finish at least fifth -- or fourth. i don't know if lee will show up today. lee was a gorgeous guy, too. check him out. my subject, of course, is frederick douglas. he was born frederick agustus washington bailey born on maryland's eastern shore in february, 1818. a little more on that background in

sam was shot through the bowels and died on the second day at shiloh. alec was killed in a friendly fire incident outside baton rouge. of course, two todd sisters lost their husbands. mary's husband, of course, was murdered while she was holding his hand. if you move to just after the war itself, three of the todd girls die in childbirth. and two todd boys die during the war or immediately after in what i'll call hard living. but what i mean to imply is that this is a family who suffered for their sins. this is a sad family. a train wreck, really. and what i decided is that they are, in a sense, suffering the partly deserved self-inflicted misery of the civil war and its aftermath. all right. you wouldn't want a story of 16 todds today, and so i'm just going to tell you two of their stories. and their impacts on the lincolns. one, who had a negative impact on mary lincoln herself, and the other, a positive impact on abraham lincoln. we'll start with david todd. david todd was born in 1832, even as a kid, he was difficult to control. he grew up wild. at

crisis, the emassing of the great armies in the fields of virginia, before the battles of bull run and shiloh, long before the horrible battles of the seven days around richmond here, before the bloody day at antietam in maryland in september of 1862, my subject was and is a surviving veteran of an older, longer war. that state of war, the country called slavery and that the world called slavery. human kind's ancient desire and capacity to exploit and make property of its fellow human beings. if we could have the pictures there.

. >> shiloh was serving time for sex crimes at the orange county jail in southern california. >> i made exactly 1,000 of these. i had a whole little plastic bag, probably about like that big. it was just filled. >> we met brian crist at the maricopa county jail in phoenix shortly before his conviction on a murder charge. >> origami, that's my getaway. i have a bird that flies and a frog that jumps. the champ. front flip. put him in the olympics, man. >> it's really striking and poignant to see inmates who oftentimes are in for incredibly violent crimes sitting there delicately folding this paper over hours into frogs and elephants and that kind of thing. and it really does seem to calm their nerves and almost transform them. >> nobody had a menagerie to match that of philip stroud, who was serving three life sentences for murder at the wabash valley correctional facility in indiana. >> basically making origami figures. you've got the lion, you've got the swan, you've got the rabbit, little puppy, dinosaur, flower. my niece, she loves the little goldfish. this is my favorite one because

shiloh baptist church who, along with the local nation, raised the $7,000 to put in another well. >>lping others, that we're really doing something important rather than just working to pay our bills and come home and go to sleep. >> reporter: how much time do you spend here in america thinking about what is going on in ghana? >> everyday, every hour, every second. >> reporter: peggy admits she doesn't get much sleep anymore. she wakes up every morning at 1:00 a.m. to call the village and saves up all of her vacation days to spend a month there each year. >> if something comes to my mind you have to call them. the whole day i have to think of the village and my people. >> reporter: this story of the village may noten with happily ever after. but just try telling that to king peggy. >> i'm really a king on a mission. an individual on a mission. i have to accomplish my mission. ♪ and i... >> osgood: next, remembering whitney houston. ♪ [ male announcer ] for our families... our neighbors... and our communities... america's beverage companies have created a wide range of new choices. de

. >> that's on ninth street around the shiloh baptist, is that right? >> absolutely.ime for us. we are looking forward to it. it's three years away, but that's only tomorrow. >> that's a nice goal to be shooting for, nice vision. and you have something else coming up, a luncheon honoring some very notable women. tickets are sold out, but there is a book-signing that's open to the public. >> absolutely. at 10:00 at the renaissance hotel located on ninth street. individuals can come and partake in a wonderful event. we'll have over 25 authors of historical books. there will also be children's books, novels that talk about black history. that event is free and open to the public, so if individuals will come between 10:00 and 12:30, they can walk around and just have a wonderful exchange with authors, find out why they wrote books and what inspired them and really have an opportunity to tellfellowship w the community. so we encourage people to come out saturday at 10:00. >> great way to spend the day and learn along the way. thank you for all the work you do. great for se