is it true that when grand executed his vicksburg campaign he was going to cut himself off from his base of supplies when he crossed the river. why wasn't he more sympathetic to what sherman was trying to do? dir. holzer: good question. prof. marszalek: that is very accurate. thathistorians argue sherman got his idea for breaking away from his supply did inom what grant vicksburg when he crossed the river. the difficulty with that interpretation, i think, and i've talked to people that know more about the battle of vicksburg than i do, and they argue that actually grant never cut his supply line. the irony is it was sherman who kept insisting that he do it had to be done to keep the supply line going. it was a very complicated supply line. it did go across the river. one of the first things grant wanted to do and did when he came onto mississippi soil was to make sure his supply line was there. see thiss, and you can in letters were he talks about i cut myself off from my supplies, etc. -- but, i don't think to a great degree that sherman did in the march to the sea. prof. mcpherson: she

kasich: we were not worrying whether they were going to come to a town in vicksburg to fix us. we were going to build things up ourselves. carol: the ohio governor says he has momentum in south carolina. kasich says his campaign is headed to scramble to find bigger venues. michael: a fuel consolidation proposal in pickens county. dozens of parents held a protest in a liberty square in the courthouse. the court -- the school district has planned to close three under enrolled schools. the district says they will save almost $12 million over five years. parents don't think this is the best idea for their children. each had 200-300 hundred people at the individual school they were trying to close. it was a resounding no. you have to realize the school district is owned by the people. you have to listen to what they have to say. michael: it is not a done deal yet. the proposal heads to the school board, scheduled to vote on the 22nd. chris: look for a frigid day tomorrow. to mergers in the upper 30's. a chance for snow in the mountains. highs only in the upper 20's to the outer frin

in this map vicksburg had not , been taken. this has to be prior to mid-summer of 1863. even by then, some of the most plantation-heavy parts of the south had fallen to union forces. one of those is here around beaufort, south carolina. the sea islands of south carolina. in the fall of 1861, union naval forces seized -- port royal sound. they wanted to use it as a blockade of confederate ports. manyis an area that was in ways, reflected in one of the documents you read today, was one of the hotbeds of secession. when the union navy and the union troops move into the area, the islands around port royal sound, white plantation owners flee. they go. slaves remain behind. probably about 10,000 slaves. they move into the houses of some of the leading supporters of secession. the editor of the "charleston mercury" and a leading secessionist in 1861, they occupy the home of the confederate general. from the perspective of union troops, that has to be attractive. these are plantation-heavy areas. some of theere richest people in the south lived. that is because some of the large