can you read the description of stonewall jackson? it is page 138.[laughter] >> so we have a request. >> she spent quite a bit of time violate his feet were as pretty as others. >> looking 30:00 a.m. looked more scarecrows and cuban. bright blue eyes and of mangy beard the uniform consisted of us that -- thread their single breasted coat from the mexican war. in the oversized pair of boots for the size 14 feet. the fanciest of only 15 ground held them up. he almost never laughed from there we are occasions when he did the way it went to his mouth open and made no sound whatsoever. once a northerner captured asked to catch and a glimpse of the general than in a turn of disbelief and disgust exclaimed oh my god. laid me down. [laughter] jackson was hideous as brilliant. the brill peculiar legendary he thought of himself being on a balance. tweeting for the blood to establish equilibrium. it made his left leg week and it often made it difficult to to determine the direction. convince every one of his organs was malfunctioning he sells medicated with a v

the southern victory was tarnished by their best general, stonewall jackson. grant's helped to pass quickly through the wilderness and move around lee's rightfully. if you could impose a union army between lee in richmond, lee would have to fight them in the open. early may 4 confederate lookouts reported yankees crossing the river. by midday lee said the second core and the third court east down parallel roads towards the wilderness about 20 miles distance. the orange turnpike, the orange plank road. at the point where the two roads intersected at the north-south roads, the turnpike was three miles north of the plank road. james long streets first core was that gordon still 42 miles away, a two-day march. instead of clearing the wilderness, grant's army stopped there that night to secure the wagon trains. it was a mistake. is handed lee a glittering opportunity and one he did not waste. when they fifth dawned, the second core suddenly appeared on the orange turnpike. the union's fifth corps advanced on the rebels, fighting exploded along the road and into the

lee, stonewall jackson, and those guys. there was an interesting controversy about back in the '90s some time, james river used to flood all the time. they built a f>o÷st wall to,a the low-lying parts of the cities from being inundated. and the city or somebody put up the display of pictures of richmond's history. on the floodwall, and one of the pictures was a portrait of general robert e. lee, and there was a black leader who complained about this very vociferously and said you have to take that down. we're not glorifying robert e. lee. without getting into the merits of his complaint, you should have heard a lot of white people howl about that. they said, why are you going to take down that picture of robert e. lee? this is terrible, this is racial chauvini chauvinism. and i wrote a piece. i said, wait a minute. i said, i don't care about the picture of lee on the floodwall one way or the next, but you've got a predominantly black city council in this city since 1977 or whatever, 20 years now, and in all that time, not

they had been stonewall jackson's former command. throughout the campaign in the 64th harbor 18,919 men were present on may 5 when the campaign started. a little under a year later, a little less than a year later on april 9 ninth 1965 by 5,036 men are rendered as part of this famous unit. being a historian, my math isn't always that great, but that equal 13,883 casualties. if you put it down it is simply 41 men every day. as they fall into the second quarter the men that served as the brigade commanders in the army they fifth to june 3 after the assault were no longer with the army. 35,000 of approximately 70,000 confederate soldiers had been killed or wounded in 30 days and in the harbor it was the end of the campaign and the beginning of something new. he had been remarked and said that ulysses s. grant reached the james river in a matter of time. he does reach the james river but he does reach petersburg and richmond and as sad it is just a matter of time. it's a short year later they would need less at a place in maddux. so why

additionally still missing stonewall jackson. he was less than his usual self. to suggest that he might have been a tad grumpy is not a stretch. brownnant george campbell expressing that he is uneasy and irritated by conduct, that he is blaming him for the defeat at gettysburg. so everybody pretty much knows. this, is a all of historian's job. it is necessary information to be able to perform a close reading. particularly if that close reading is lee's famous letter to stewart written after gettysburg. the sentence in the letter, the energy of yourself and your command elicits my high admiration. this takes on a new depth of aning when placed in the context of gettysburg. this is what he had been exasperated by in july. of detail thatt a historian looks for in a close reading. the first close reading is a lincoln's blind memorandum. schoolteacher, and school teachers give out handouts, so i do have a handout. included in this is a copy of the blind memorandum. copies, the front part with the text in the back where they signed it. while i was doing research for t

he was additionally still missing stonewall jackson. he was less than his usual self. to suggest that he might have been a tad grumpy is not a stretch. lieutenant george campbell brown overhears lee expressing that he is uneasy and irritated by stuart's conduct, that he is blaming him for the defeat at gettysburg. brown claims that he dressed steward down upon his return to the army of northern virginia. everybody pretty much knows that. you have seen "gettysburg," you know that. and knowing all of this, is a historian's job. it is necessary information to be able to perform a close reading. particularly if that close reading is lee's famous letter to stuart written after gettysburg. the sentence in the letter, the energy and promptness of yourself and your command elicits my high admiration. this takes on a new depth of meeaning when placed in the context of gettysburg. especially the words energy and promptness. this is exactly what lee had been exasperated by in july. this is the sort of picky detail that a historian looks for in a close reading. let's turn to the s

event, though the symbol of the loyal and faithful slave was well represented in the form of stonewall jackson's personal servient who led the parade of veterans through the streets. a larger re-enactment in 1937 numbering upwards of 50,000 people, imagine that, 50,000 people at the crater battlefield, 50,000 people marked the crater battlefield's inclusion into the national park service. as was the case in 1903, the ceremony highlighted the bravery of mahone's virginians but made very little effort to acknowledge the presence of united states colored troops. the success of jim crow legislation in virginia was clearly discerned in the absence of any serious attention to the presence of black soldiers and it is likely that very few if any local african-americans atte attended. the black community's inability to contribute to memory was enhanced by a narrative that celebrated a war of brave northerns and southerners without any reference to slavery, emancipation, and black military service. this whites only narrative maintained a stubborn hold on america's collective memory through the 1970s. the

where robert e lee and stonewall jackson embarrassed hooker. t became known as the battle of atlanta. it is a lot like chancellor lavelle -- chancellorsville. could's problem was not that the attack was not enough likely and jackson did. he was not up against joseph hooker and the army of the potomac. he was up against the army of the tennessee. that morning, as the troops got into position, sherman tells mcpherson, i don't think it is going to attack today. going to abandon atlanta and retreat. mcpherson says, no he is not. no, i want you to out to tearh corps up the railroads toward decatur. itherson said, i think who is going to attack my left flank -- i think hood is going to attack my left flank. t in a nicesed i way. i can't do an imitation of someone as nice and swap as him suave as him. in a kind, polite, respectful way, mcpherson discusses with sherman -- sherman finally agreed. the 16thyou can keep coprs. says, if the rebels have not attacked by 1:00, i will pull them off and send them to tear up the railroads. if they don't attack by

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