so the way i want to deal vicksburg tonight is dual ulysses s grant will talk a little bit about pembertonbut in particular will look at his decision-making process and the decision he makes. eight key decisions that ulysses s i grant makes in the vicksburg campaign. in our day of constant news media and everything coming through a phone and so on i have noticed the news networks, whichever you prefer and other people sport sites and so on are going to the top five takeaways from so-and-so top eight that helps us in our fast-paced world to wrap our minds around boom, boom, boom, different things. we see this a little bit and literature and this is by no means patterned but it is something similar. how many of you read george bush's presidential memoir every president writes a memoir. the way george w. bush did it was take the 10 key decisions that he made in his life like stop drinking and the surge and so on.ok he major decisions we will look at the eight major decisions that ulysses s grant makes. these are military decisions we will talk about military aspects and this is actually a tak

and obviously, it has a lot to do with ulysses s grant. i would go with vicksburg. ourse, i be biased. i won't. i won't argue that point. so the way i want do with vicksburg tonight, right, is to deal with ulysses s grant. and we'll talk a little about pemberton, but we'll deal with ulysses s grant and particularly look at his decision making process and the decisions he makes. eight key decisions that ulysses s grant makes in the vicksburg campaign. and, you know, we're in our day of constant news media and everything coming through a and so on. notice that the news networks, you know, whichever one you prefer and other people, you know sports sites and so on, they're going to, you know, top five takeaways from so on. so top eight, so and so that and it helps us in our fast paced world to wrap our minds around, you know, boom, boom, boom, different things. and we see this a little bit in literature and this is by no means patterned, but it's something similar to how many of you read george bush's presidential memoir. you know, every president writes a memoir in the

will talk a little bit about pemberton, but would deal with ulysses s. grantd particularly look at his decision-making process and the decisions he makes. a key decisions that ulysses s. grant makes in the vicksburg campaign. and in our day of constant news media and everything coming through a phone and so on, i noticed that the news networks, which everyone you prefer, and other people, sports sites and so on, they are going to this top five takeaways from so-and-so. top eight so-and-so, and it helps us in our fast-paced world to rapper mines around boom, boom, boom different things. we see this little bit in the literature, and this is by no means a pattern but it's something similar to how many of you read georgeid bush is president should know more? at the present rights in memoir, and the way george w. bush did it was to take those ten key decisions that he made in this life, like stop drinking, and i thinke the surge and so on. so we wrap it around the major decisions. were going to look at the eight major decisions that ulysses s. grant makes, and thes

and we need to go to no greater authority on this than ulysses grant, who pinpointed the problem immediately as grant, often does. quote, i speak advisedly when i say mr. davis prided himself on his military capacity, grant explained in his memoirs. he says so himself virtually in answer to his notice of the nomination to the confederate presidency. grant says it from day one. davis intended to take charge of the confederacy's military operations, and he tended to do it his way. even though he had a secretary of war, he had james snedden, he had people around him to advise him. he doesn't listen to them. and we know one of lincoln's great strengths is acting when he needs to, but listening to advice most of the time before he does act and he brings in people like halleck and grant and slowly assembles a team that can win the war. jefferson davis doesn't do that because jefferson davis knew better right. and we can we can go to a fight between these two gentlemen. two, two, really encapsulate that in brief. so when the confederacy is formed, they need to appoint general officers. they need to

ulysses s grant and the battle to save reconstruction with mr. border with he a prolific author he has written nine nonfiction books and is built on and furthers and continues the research and writing did about the radical reform. republicans in power. i told congress at war how reformers fought the civil war. lincoln ended slavery, remade america. that was published just three years ago in 2020. it's a narrative that continues in klan war and his earlier works include, and i'm sort of going to enlist a couple of these in reverse sequencing back in time time bound china, the underground railroad and for the soul of america there was great debate. henry clay, stephen douglass and the compromise that preserved the the first congress how james george washington and a group of extraordinary women invented the government and washington the making of the american capitol and there were several earlier than that. mr. burdick is, a native of new york city, he is an independent writer, historian and journalist. his most recent has been on 19th century ame

ulysses s grant and the battle to save reconstruction with mr. border with he a prolific author he has written nine nonfiction books and is built on and furthers and continues the research and writing did about the radical reform. republicans in power. i told congress at war how reformers fought the civil war. lincoln ended slavery, remade america. that was published just three years ago in 2020. it's a narrative that continues in klan war and his earlier works include, and i'm sort of going to enlist a couple of these in reverse sequencing back in time time bound china, the underground railroad and for the soul of america there was great debate. henry clay, stephen douglass and the compromise that preserved the the first congress how james george washington and a group of extraordinary women invented the government and washington the making of the american capitol and there were several earlier than that. mr. burdick is, a native of new york city, he is an independent writer, historian and journalist. his most recent has been on 19th century ame

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american president ulysses grant rode about the consequences of aggression against mexico several decades later. the l look forward to talking to you all or that technology should work for people. a robot must obey the orders given by human beings, except we're so shorter is it conflict with the 1st law? should we live in to the patient? we should be very careful about the personal intelligence at the point, obviously is to makes a trust rather than ship the job. i mean with artificial intelligence, we have so many redeeming the most protect this phone existence was on the the bathroom windows. thank you very much. for joining us today, thank you for having me. we have heard many calls from various international organizations to stop the hostilities in gaza, but still will see the war there goes on and on, and people are dying, including civilians including children. why do you think, are they un and other influential but is global but is failing to stop the war in gaza? we are opposed by this angry that this world has not stopped by now. and it's hard for me as a personal face to underst

american president ulysses grant rode about the consequences of aggression against mexico several decades later. the welcome back. joining me now to discuss is doctor and john de browse sky of the washington pain center. thank you so much for being here with us. the thanks so much for having me. yes, so now let's get into it. it's about finding the right balance as we spoke about earlier, between promoting self acceptance and recognizing the health risk associated with obesity. so from your stands, what is the right approach, and can we really have it all? yes, of course we can have it all. we 1st have to keep people accountable. i think we always thinking about this with you for segment. in terms of role models, we always have role models, whether it's role models in terms of been elected education, maybe more background or maybe physicality. and you say, i want to be like that person. we have never said now just except the way that i am, i'm just to see student not going to work hard. it just the way i am and i'll just let it be. we never do that as human beings, but the point is, is th

rawlins chief of staff to general ulysses s grant. so please join me in giving a warm shenandoah valley. welcome to melissa. will. write. thank you so much. i thank you, jonathan, so much for having me here and asking me to come talk to you. i'm excited to be here and i'm absolutely honored to be here and humbled because it is a very esteemed lineup of speakers. so i thank you very much for having me speak. i am going to talk to you today about some civil war photography and the power of portrait and its impact on the soldier and the experience of war and the aftermath of war, not just the soldier, but for the families and for the nation. this portrait here is probably one of the most famous, if not the most famous, from the civil war. and it is the hammerstone children. frank friedrich and alice amos, almost in of the 154th new york, was killed on the the gettysburg battlefield. his body was found by a local resident who found him clutching this photograph of his children. frank frederick and alice. another local resident, dr. john f

rawlins chief of staff to general ulysses s grant. so please join me in giving a warm shenandoah valley. welcome to melissa. will. write. thank you so much. i thank you, jonathan, so much for having me here and asking me to come talk to you. i'm excited to be here and i'm absolutely honored to be here and humbled because it is a very esteemed lineup of speakers. so i thank you very much for having me speak. i am going to talk to you today about some civil war photography and the power of portrait and its impact on the soldier and the experience of war and the aftermath of war, not just the soldier, but for the families and for the nation. this portrait here is probably one of the most famous, if not the most famous, from the civil war. and it is the hammerstone children. frank friedrich and alice amos, almost in of the 154th new york, was killed on the the gettysburg battlefield. his body was found by a local resident who found him clutching this photograph of his children. frank frederick and alice. another local resident, dr. john f

forward obviously after the war a of heat comes down on longstreet because he's best friends with ulysses grant and becomes a republican and that's troubling for people like jubal early. but i think their relationship it hits a bump in the road but i don't think either of them felt the other behaved inappropriately. and i think sometimes the literature might give us that miss. and there are ways to correct that. i grant and sherman would astonishes me. and some of us have about this sherman is able to immediately recognize that he does not want grant's job because he's scared to do it right. he says that he's got that sort of famous remark is the grant is that that when i'm in command when i sherman i'm in command all i can think about is what the other doing and all grant thinks is what he's going to do to the other guy. he doesn't worry about it. and i think sherman's brilliance in many ways is in recognizing that he is safe in grant's hands and he will go to the wall, go the wall for grant time and time again, because he doesn't necessarily want grant's job and there's no animosity between t

lee, ulysses s. grant, dwight d eisenhower, george patton, and g buzzra aldrin.t of notable graduates are just as impressive as the architecture on campus. the academy was the first institutions in the nation to adopt the gothic style of architecture. core buildings forming a imposing granite fortress, symbolic of the strength and tenacity to lead the united states army into the future. among them the exquisite cadet chapel which resembles a medieval fortress overlooking medieval fortress overlooking irish and italian immigrants who were stonemasons were told they would get citizenship if the chapel was completed in fiveget years. they completed it in 14 months. the 1492 windows truth themo sanctuary are dedicated to onein of the graduating classes from 1802 to 1976. ♪ tradition reminutes a big part of the academy. as soldiers wear the same style gray uniforms as those in 1802 as a badge of honor. while living out the motto, duty, honor, and country. ♪. >> class dismissed. [cheering] the holiday season would not be complete without the annual west point holiday c

the book i just finished on the legacies of civil war, i spent a lot of time on ulysses grant. his papers are all published. they've been published. i think it's 73 volumes of his letters. but what you realize and it's not unique to me, but what a group of historians the last four or five years have realized reading those letters in light of the world we're in, is that the image almost everyone has in this room of grant from school? history is entirely wrong that he wasn't a drunk. he wasn't someone in the white house was dominated by corruption, but actually cared very deeply about civil rights and still doesn't change his failures, a president, but it changes the ways. think about the presidency. the modern presidency evolving, because here you have a president who wants to do the right. i think it's pretty clear he does. he spent hours every day reading letters written by southerners, southern republicans and freedmen and women describing the horrors of their condition, describing the racism in the south and how little power he had within his own party to act upon that. it a

historian john reeves released soldier of destiny slavery, succession and the redemption of ulysses s grant it's mr. reeves third book about civil war generals and university of virginia history professor elizabeth varon took a new look at confederate general james longstreet in a book titled longstreet the confederate general who defied the south while also. each week, new book reviews are published. here's two of them. national review senior writer dan mclauchlan reviewed democracy or republic the people and the constitution. it's by american enterprise institute senior fellow jay cost. mr. mclauchlan writes that the us constitution and quote, has a lot ofnemies. these days and too fewriends. there is a surprising dearth of modern books defending it. jay costa is out to change that. he adds that mr. costs, quote, mainim is to explain what the framers at philadelphia in 1787 thought the constitution would accomplish and why their design is still needed in today's world. in mr. cost view, he writes the overall philosophy of the framers can be summarized in one word consensus and one more bo

james garfield, by all manner of critics, frederick douglass to, ulysses grant to all of these reformist republicans, these democrats, they all said the same thing, which is that he lacked moral backbone. and the fact that such a strange insult and it's such a common one, that it made me think that they all got together, agreed what to call him, which i kind of like. so. but he turn it back on his critics. garfield would say that actually, and this is a quote of his to be an extreme in is doubtless comfortable is painful to see so many sides to a subject. and he also wrote that i never feel that to slap him in the face is any real to the truth. so he was somebody who saw both politically and personally, the incredible value of being open minded figure in, the midst of a splintering political of the time. and he found his being very painful and he saw that as being a real of strength on the other side, i'm describing it almost like a boxing match. you have the hands of the republicans and. they were called half breeds by stallions because the stallion saw these republicans as being not re

i mean, you can a lot writing about dred scott decision where he's buried i'm writing about ulysses grant there about scott joplin, about, you know, chuck berry, about the birth of neon, about how the corvette used to be manufactured in saint louis, about early transports nation with the river, about the eads bridge. and on and on. it goes down the road and it ends 66 right into the santa monica pier. and california's and i must say it was two white people on route 66 had it different than people of color the green book was in play for a lot of route 66, not all, but a lot. and visiting some of those places and the national park is starting to save old gas stations. we're saving chinese restaurants along 66 or old kitschy roadside stops. they're all meeting criteria to be on the national historical register on any given day, you can hear any given elected official say united is the greatest country in the history of the world. joanne freeman what's reaction when you hear that? wow, that's a question, brian. i would say yes with an asterisk. i love this country. i've devoted my life pretty

i've never written a biography of my main hero, ulysses s grant. but following him is looking at a completely different war, if you will, then following jackson through the war and i find it very illuminating. host: the 2015 book "rebel yell" two texts we have received, one from ben turner in austin texas calling you one of the best storytellers and researchers there is, read whatever he writes. a question from eric in new york, wants us to return to his majesty's airship, asking if there was a positive financial component that kept the airships viable. i understand the pride and nationalism, but did anyone make any money despite the tragedy? guest: if you're a good question, no. no one ever made a penny on airships. i take that back. the hindenburg was actually crossing and re-crossing the atlantic. i cannot remember if they made money in the bottom line, i doubt it. but it was a revenue producing venture. from the beginning, the first airships were zeppelins. even though they ran -- it was like a phony airline the only flu and fairweather -- flew

kavanaugh reviewed the history of special prosecutors going back to the administration of president ulysses s grant. on page three of the article brett kavanaugh writes, congress can answer a question that the constitution does not explicitly address. is the president united states subject to criminal indictment while he serves in office? congress should establish that the president can be indicted only after he leaves office voluntarily or is impeached by the house of representatives and convicted and removed by the senate. brett kavanaugh would not advocate that congress pass an unconstitutional law. that sentence alone indicates the supreme court justice brett kavanaugh believes, quote, the president can be indicted only after he leaves office. page 16 of brett kavanaugh's article removes all doubt about what supreme court justice brett kavanaugh actually thinks. quote, the framers thus appeared to anticipate that a president who commits serious wrongdoing should be impeached by the house and removed from office by the senate and then prosecuted thereafter. the constitution itself seems to dicta

we are the fks who stood up and remember, it was a republican, ulysses us grant who sent federal troops to the south to ensure that african-american voters could vote. and it was democrats in the south who opposed that. so we need to be talking about our history and saying it, but here's e problem. at the same time they are playing with fire trying to play with those bad elements of our country. we lose credibility. that's why you can't say it was tradition versus change. that's what you can't use these codewords about it. because people hear that and say, you are playing games and so i can't trust you. we need republicans who will just tell the truth directly. the truth about our party is we are the antislavery party. where thparty who put our country with the greatest president ever. abraham lincoln is the guy who freed the slaves, fought the civil war to make sure every american could be free no matter the color of their skin. we need honest men and women to stand up and say it even in the south and they might feel uncomfortable. even in iowa. you need to say it and stand up for it a

ulysses s grant and the battle

ulysses s grant and the battle to save reconstruction with mr. border with he a prolific author he has written nine nonfiction books

grant's got a lot on his plate, a lot of different things going on. and i think he handles it pretty doggone well, right? pretty doggone well. it shows the genius of ulysses s grant. and again, in probably the most complex, the most unique, longest, probably important campaign in civil war. i think we see grant's genius come out very, very well. thank you very much. if you have any questions. i'm not sure how long we have, but you take over chris and tim me start with a question myself because grant proposes crossing the river and striking into the heart of mississippi, sherman does agree with the plan. he tells grant he doesn't. he still does. his duties. grant it doesn't seem to affect grant sherman's relationship, even though saying, oh, this is a terrible idea. can you speak to that a little bit? yeah. you know, we hear a lot about the grant sherman relationship going back to shiloh. everybody says it starts at shiloh, probably starts little bit before that when grant is going after 14 hearing fort donelson, sherman is actually back at paducah funneling goods and supplies cars and man up to grant and grant is very appreciative of what is doing, even t