most people have heard of shiloh. these are south of shiloh. i'm going to talk about corinth first. he said the effect was very great. it was indeed a decisive blow to the confederate cause and changed the whole aspect of affairs in west tennessee. from the timid offensive, we were at once and able to assume the bold offensive. from the timid offensive to the bold offensive. that's pretty interesting. let's talk about iuka. it was important for another reason. in september, then corinth in october. iuka is the beginning of a rift between grant and rosecrans that would never heal and would ultimately calls rosecrans to be removed and to not be in the army when the war ended. why did this happen? iuka was also to be a pinzer movement. rosecrans was to come in from the south and grant was to come in from the north. as originally planned, grant would come in first and then engage the enemy, and rosecrans would come in from the south. that was the plan. as we all know, plans don't always go as planned. so what happened was, rosecrans was delayed in arriving. he telegraphed that to grant,

[laughter] i have heard that at shiloh in -- and at cedar creek and a guy said that. would one of you guys from the national park service like to address that? i could take a couple of guesses. i would guess the scale of the fight would be part of it. if there isn't interstate and mcdonald's nearby -- [laughter] >> i do not think i would have an official grand suggestion for that are there have been great studies done on the health of battlefields and the history of the great title fields. some great mapping had been done in the 1990's for all of the fields that have not been recorded. as you alluded, there are probably levels of priority at the significance of this site. the national park service tries to preserve and protect nationally significant areas. obviously, every battle of the civil war was nationally significant for the fight for america. but some are more significant than others or have more in-depth history. this also instances where it may be a local community that has a nonprofit or a county government that can do a great job at preserving and protectin

and for the army of ohio, the battle of shiloh. later, in 1905, a year before his death, as the army was modernizing its field artillery after the spanish american war, he wrote an unpublished study for the field artillery board at fort riley kansas entitled "remarks upon the organization, command and deployment of field artillery in the war, based on experiences of the civil war." this report included additional insights into the artillery service as well as a general overview of the petersburg campaign. i first became familiar with these writings as a staff historian in oklahoma in the early 1990's. subsequently i determined these writings needed to be brought back into the forefront for students and scholars of the civil war. what i want to emphasize is that these writings were never intended to be read by a civilian audience. these writings were originally in a military journal for people in the military, and the 1905 report was strictly for internal army use only. the 1905 report, most of it was a rehash of what he had written

he was at shiloh in it is easy to a managed -- in a difficult 1862. managed -- in it is plagued with logistical problems. however, he was one the most trusted men that were continued through the war. sherman's march georgia as subsequent action of total war as he moved up the east coast earned him his final legend in the north. in virginia, grant would meet lee at the wilderness and begin a march that would culminate in a massive siege at petersburg, virginia. in 1864 was the last full year of the war. the army of northern virginia had had any victories under its belt. fredericksburg and chancellorsville where the biggest. meanwhile, the war machine of the north seemed to be stronger every day. when the army of the potomac at lee's army combined in the ,ilderness beginning on may 5 only a few miles west of lee's great victory, the first time the would face ulysses s. grant. while the name of the battle would go down in history as the wilderness, it was really the beginning of one along battle that would last a result and lee's surrender in 1865. lee's

shiloh, malvern hill artillery played a critical role. ofwe got to walk the path the confederates there at malvern hill. the other question i had for you is about the confederates at gettysburg. i had read that one of the reasons their artillery barrage didn't work very well is they fuses,t changed their and that's why they didn't thatt for the -- is correct? >> i'm not an artillery expert on every aspect of the war. -- thatld very well b. i could very well be. i don't have the expertise to answer that. but what i will say is this. powder back to black artillery. in a battle in the 19th century, weapons, youowder typically start off with an artillery dome and you try to silence your opponent's artillery. if you silence your opponent's artillery, then your infantry can go down for the attack. but those are basically black powder field artillery tactics. >> they were known at west they taughtse napoleon tactics. >> the confederates were whereing their ammunition henry hunt decided to husband his ammunition. it may have given a false sense o

he had become known as a coward for behavior at shiloh, which i can go into in more detail. grant had gone along with the story that had wallace come to shiloh when he was supposed to, the union would have won cleanly on the first day, but that did not happen, so there was a standoff. wallace never got the acclaim that he wanted. he ended up in a remote part of the west. and he came to see the united states as a kind of republic overly bureaucratized that was on the precipice of its fall. in other words, it was exactly like rome at the time of jesus. if you read "ben-hur," you can see it. you can see it in the descriptions of the roman bureaucracy, the descriptions of the u.s., and you can see it in the person who condemns ben-hur and his mother to prison, where they will contract leprosy. this little functionary is the criminal of the book, and what he says he is doing is he is simply carrying out the rule of law. wallace writes, "romans, it should be remembered, were at no time such lovers of the law and its forms as in the ages of their decay." the functionary is the vill

>> guest: a black neighborhood, shiloh baptist church, one of the greatest passions. and my son could have done that. i have a great granddaughter. brother came less. the isaac brothers. >> host: eric in seattle, you are on with cornel west. >> caller: thank you. pleasure speaking to you, mr. west. i feel like the biggest problem in the african-american community in the united states is we look to other people to be our leaders. and the united states senate, in this past election what actually happened was you had democrats trying instead of speaking up for the rights of the people who put them in office. this is going on in ferguson. governor nixon actually to speak up but he cannot win elections and these are senators like chuck schumer speaking about drones but nothing about stop and frisk. what i would like to add, isn't it time -- we only have black congressional members of congress, no whites. basically what we have is the symptoms like you said, legalized these, nothing for the blacks. the unemployment rate is 11%. what can we do to focus on our own community.

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grant them all he has done is won shiloh and pittsburgh. he went to chattanooga and saves that city from siege. he is now the winningest general, and grant will put the onus on him to bring home a victory. confederates, on the flipside, are going to have their best commander take on grant, and that will be robert e lee, obviously. the confederate strategy in 1864 is, in a way, similar to what the union strategy will be. that is that they want to make ,his war as bloody as possible as untenable as possible comes with of the northern electorate, when they go to the polls in november, are going to have no stomach for this war. they want to essentially win by a draw. the union armies have to conquer the south. they have to go through the south and eradicate those men who have come to power in the confederate government. they have to get them out of power. on the confederate side, if lee, davis, joe johnson out west, can bring home victories, what they can do is essentially win by drop your the democratic peace party can take our for her then by

. >>> moving to new york senator corry booker will speak at trenton's shiloh baptist church tonight looking to get voter support. he is facing off against jeff bell tomorrow. poles have booker leading over bell. >> state police are testing a rivalry covered from an abandoned airport hang tore see fit is weapon used to kill a fellow trooper. eric frein was captured near hanger following a seven week manhunt. he is accused of ambushing two pennsylvania state troopers outside pike county police barracks. other was killed, other was wounded. he is charged with first degree murder. prosecutors plan to seat the death penalty for eric frein. >>> two scary tricks played on trick or treaters. first half in lower macungie town ship in lehigh county. police say a teenager found a pin in the i bar. police are warning parents to be on the look out for the very same thing. police in montgomery county are trying to figure out how a raise are blade ended up in 13 year-old candy bag. boy found that blade after after trick are treat nothing towamencin township inside of the snack size nestle crunch bar. poli

. >> shiloh was serving time for sex crimes at the orange county jail in southern california. >> i made,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 it turns i

beauregard to the western theater in 1862 and after albert sidney johnston was killed at the battle of shiloh, beauregard became commander of the army, second in command. then he took an unauthorized leave of absence. the two of them never got along together after that or at all. joseph johnston who was the senior commander in virginia, entered into a quarrel with davis about his relative rank among the general sink confederate army and then as commander of what he called the army of potomac. sometimes very confusing. there were two armies that potomac and the latter half of 1861 in the first half of 1862. the better known army -- but the confederate army at that time is called the army of the potomac and his -- as commander was joe johnston who believes he knew better than davis, who believed that if he kept davis fully informed about what he was doing davis would overrule unwisely the point of view, some of his command decisions who feared a leak of information if he kept davis informed of what he was going to do. and the relationship between those generals began to deteriorate and when it

closing down stump road between worthington and shiloh hill.on the skill kill. flyers match-up this afternoon. ben franklin bridge clear. pedestrian walkways closed because of icy conditions. slik spots are out there this morning, tam. >> thank you, matt, let's go to meteorologist david murphy. not likely there will be a lot of thawing out there today. >> not a whole lot. once you get the sun up and bright that will help. right now, tam, we're looking at cold numbers. 34. remember how i said after the sun got up over the horizon we would see the winds kicking up. we were talking about that in the morning broadcast. it's happening, wind chill is worse now than an hour ago. 25 it feels like. feels like teens in the lehigh valley. today's high 39. feeling like we're in the 20s. tam. >> thank you, david. that's it for us right now. emril only gma will help you figure out what to do with your leftovers and we'll see you back figure out what to do with your leftovers and we'll see you back here in 30 ♪ i want to see you smile >>> there is r5. one of

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