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I thank Prof. Thurston Howell III for his talk.

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It was refreshing to hear him shut down that democrat vs republican nonsense.

You'd think a well-endowed UCLA could afford a better audio system.

The Professor is on too high a level for the students.

to some extent how historians argue Reconstruction depends on their job security / tenure and the politics/ racism. Frankly to learn about Reconstruction the best place to go is probably a black college. The War and Reconstruction was about slavery and racism. Lincoln failed to say that.

For reconstruction to work, you needed at least a decent number of Southern white elites to buy into it. They NEVER NEVER did and were willing to. Also the Federal government never had the motivation to keep troops in the South deployed in the long term. So I guess Reconstruction was always doomed

Should not have admitted student to saunter in late.

plase make leacture about inquistion and heresty and and why in the Middle Ages it was used that the death penalty burning at the stake pusnisment of heresty and werewolves

Has someone said that the Battle of Gettysburg was not important?

The professor/speaker really trivializes Meade’s performance at Gettysburg and afterwards. His arguments seemingly derive from the same views as Dan Sickles and the rest of the Hooker group that remained during the Battle of Gettysburg. Reynold’s plan on the morning of the 1st initially wasn’t to hold the Rebels off until the rest of the army could be brought up, but to fight a running retreat southward until they were back on the Pipe Creek line as seen by the original positioning of the XI Corps closer to the Emmitsburg road as well as those of the III and XII Corps further south on the flanks of the XI. However, after Reynold’s death and the subsequent plan revisions by Howard and later Hancock, the decision was made to make a fight just south of town on the Cemetery Hill line. Otherwise with the time of day at the time I Corps made contact with Heth’s division, III Corps was just north of the Emmitsburg and XII Corps slightly closer, both close enough that had they been ordered to march to the battle would have had plenty of time to reach Cemetery Hill in time to receive Lee’s assault on the retreating I and XI Corps. We see this in the reports of Extra Billy Smith’s who saw the arrival of the XII Corps despite getting the direction slightly off. His quotes’ attributed to Reynolds can’t be corroborated because they were only remembered by enemies of Meade (Sickles, Doubleday, Pleasonton, Butterfield) after the battle so that they could use them to bash Meade to Lincoln and Congress because their egos were bruised. Meade’s councils of war were more to determine whether the army was still strong enough to hold that position after the damage the first day. Following the battle and Meade’s slow response to Lee’s retreat, there was little more that he could feasibly do. VI Corps and possibly V Corps were the only ones which could have made a serious pursuit of Lee. And attacking the entrenched positions at Williamsport probably would have been more costly than the Battle of Gettysburg itself. I really wonder if he still holds these views today, or if he has changed his beliefs.

Great teacher!!

It is instructive and in confirmation of his thesis that the inventors of the telegraph, telephone and the airplane were individuals of very limited means but natural genius. That Bell was also interested in the new aviation, much like Musk is interested in space travel.

Unfortunately, the microphone problem needed to be dealt with early on and fixed. Very distracting for me.

I think Americans wanted more individual liberty and a system of more checks and balances, as such the executive was bound to be at odds with the congress aka America's version of a parliament. It wasn't a step backwards, it was just different. The funny thing is today, there's actually factions on the right saying a move back to connotational monarchy would be a good thing because democratic parliaments and even republics have been shown to be a net negative for society. I of course take no position one way or another, but it's just food for thought.

WHAT a POMPOUS Ass speaker !

Tremendously insightful revisionism…

No, in the ACW as in the Napoleonic wars, cavalry did reconnaissance. Rather famously Stuart's ride around McClellan and discovery of the open flank of XI Corps at Chancellorsville provided intelligence. Guelzo can say that didn't happen, but it did. And there was much more. Where cavalry beat infantry at recce is in being faster, so able to range ahead of an army and and being able to skedaddle if they ran into something tough while infantry couldn't withdraw from anything much stronger than themselves without routing and outright running for it. Where ACW cavalry really was weaker than Napoleonic cavalry was that there was no trained 'heavy cavarly', at least until near the end of the war when the much delayed Union cavalry was finally trained up enough for charging troops not al ready in disarray. Sheridan in the Valley gave a good example of this. Even then, that cavalry was simply not as well trained and officered as Napoleonic cavalry that included men who'd been training and operating for a decade or more. Classically, heavy cavalry had always been the hardest arm to equip and train into usefulness.

Paul is always wonderful.

An excellent, factual presentation on the Reconstruction Period. There shoulld have been a permanent peacekeeping military force whose members would have,enforced a major land reformation program, in which white farmers and newly emancipated African Americans would be given 20 acres of land that would transform them into middle class people. Major fundamental changes should havee been enacted in the Constitution, such as outlawing the two party system and allowing multiple socialist and communist parties to have seats in the Congress. The Democrat Party should have been declared illegal because of their long involvement in the brutality, expansion, and continuation of slavery and gross violations of humsn rights.

Wilson was born before the war ended and hated the North as a child. He could remember the armies marching past his house.

If you have never met a great American educator then you have never received an education. Everyone who has been educated will always explain that it was because they had great educators. Gallagher makes learning the history of the Civil War a wonderful experience. He opens the students mind to think about what was going on at the time.

Interesting lecture.

Interesting. It seems if the South really wanted to keep slavery they would just stay in the union where it was already protected under law rather than risk losing it by possible failure of secession, which is what happened. "Ive led a soldiers life, Devin, but i never seen anything as clear as this ... odd. Very odd."

Thank you.

This lecture was an education about what really happened after the Civil War. I had never heard this information before and only had a vague idea of the “Gone With the Wind” version of Reconstruction. (I am not a fan of either the book or the movie.) I am really glad to have learned what really happened. It makes sense of the history behind the civil rights movement.

Gallagher is pedantic and hard to understand. Is he saying Lincoln is one of our poorest examples of a president because he sacrificed about 600,000 souls for nothing? Or does he honestly expect southern folks who just lost everything to federal overreach to welcome former slaves with open arms? Maybe everybody links arms and sing Kumbaya? He should just boil down his opinion and deliver it straight up.

Guelzo is wrong when he claims that civil war cavalry did not perform intelligence functions for their respective armies.. Proof? John Buford Brigadier general of Northern Cavalry, again and again sent messages to John Reynolds telling him that he had discovered which confederate forces were moving toward Gettysburg. He was able to do this because in his role as intelligence gatherer i.e. a scout he had ridden his horses up to the close proximity of said confederate forces and found out who they were and where they most likely going. He also told Reynolds of the nature of the terrain near Gettysburg making it a fine place for the Army of the Potomac to make a stand. No charge Allen for providing you with information you have chosen to ignore, in order to grind your stone of extolling infantry at the cost of reporting the truth. best Bruce Peek

If reconstruction wasn't a missed opportunity than why did the former Confederate states fight so hard to get it removed? If SCOTUS hadn't betrayed everyone that in itself would've helped immensely.

The South was right

The trouble is the battle of Gettysburg didn't matter. Hooker and Meade were not great fighters but they knew how to move an army and once the Army of the Potomac was between Lee and Washington the campaign was over. If Lee had unhinged the union line and driven the union army off in a rout Meade would have simply withdrawn into the lines around Washington (which at that time were impregnable) and Lee could have done nothing about it. The Army of Northern Virginia couldn't have laid siege to a corn crib. Lee could not then have moved on north because that would have left Meade in his rear, between himself and Richmond, on his communications and on his line of retreat. He could not have gone anywhere, as it were, because any line of advance would have exposed his marching flank to the federals. Longstreet saw all this and tried to talk Lee out of the campaign but the old man wouldn't listen. He wanted to play Napoleon (they all did). Gettysburg was an irrelevant battle despite the hype that surrounds it. Meanwhile, out in the west, one of the most important battles in history was going on at a place you never heard of. Champions' Hill. Look it up.

Of course Gallagher is right. But in fact Reconstruction was still a lost moment. Meaning that the nation did not make any adjustment to that mistreatment of former slaves. And when Congress did make an effort with civil rights legislation, the Supreme Court ultimately nixed these efforts - and also let the segregationists win re separate but equal. So while Gallagher is right mostly, he does not account for the virtual slavery that was re-established.

Dr. Gallagher is delusional in some things and in others, he has selective memory. He fails to point out very important facts that do not support his arguments. He says nothing about the Radical Republican propaganda machine, the Union League that controlled the Federal troops in the South long with the Freeman's Bureau. (He failed to mention that the courts eventually opined the Freeman's Bureau was unconstitutional. He also failed to express the most important fact of Reconstruction that kept Confederate veterans from holding high office or important business positions and how Congress failed to meet the expectations that Lee at Appomattox was promised. The Southern States were not permitted by Congressmen to be seated unless the Southern States ratified the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments. Also, he says nothing about the scapegoating of Col. Wertz for conditions he could not control and was not responsible for but said nothing about the real unusable conditions that Confederate prisoners were kept under with malicious intent. He also states the approximate 1% of blacks in the Northern States but mentions nothing of Northerners selling their slaves downriver into the South and prohibiting blacks in the North. The issue fn the North was not so much about slavery but about slavery in the South and keeping blacks out of the North and the new States and territories. Most importantly, the Radical Republicans need black southern voters to maintain Republican majorities in Congress and in the Executive, and they were successful in keeping the Presidency in control by the Republican Party for 80 years because of Reconstruction. Also very importantly the 14th Amendment and Lincoln's "nationalism" transformed our United States into a nation-state and one focused on individual rights, (an idea of Rousseau), rather than one based on "property (an idea of Locke). Our founding fathers and our original states would never have accepted the government we now live under. It is contrary to the revolutionary ideals that brought about these United States.

Dr. Guelzo is overstating the battle of Gettysburg's importance. Tactically Gettysburg was almost a draw; the AOP never would have collapsed and deserted if defeated (that didn't happen in the Civil War, for a number of reasons; if the Confederate Army of Tennessee didn't desert en masse after Nashville I can't see the AOP doing it). Lee had limited food and only enough ammo for 4 days heavy fighting, even if Pickett's charge had been successful but the Union army retreats intact then Lee still has to retreat due to ammo and food shortages.

Excellent presentation

I'm confused by Guelzo on the matter of intelligence gathering. I understand the overall battle of Gettysburg not being a failure of intelligence, since Lee was aware where the Army of The Potomac was, but his actions on July 2nd were based on an absence of intelligence as to the specific locations of the forces on the US left. Guelzo, if memory serves, in 'The Last Invasion' (a book which I LOVE) goes to great length talking about Samuel Johnston's rather poor job of scouting. Is his contention that Stuart possessed no scouts in his division that could have done a better job?

Teo is a remarkable human being. I’m currently doing my Ph.D at UCLA and he’s been one of my mentors. It was an honor to serve as his TA last year. ❤️

Lincoln's Gettysburg address was insufficient to explain the carnage. Democracies ARE inherently unstable. The south had a right to self-govern if it felt overreach by fed regulatory power. Imprisoning the south to arbitrary northern rule was in and of itself a form of slavery. Resolving the issue with force proved nothing more than "might makes right". State's rights must counterbalance federal power or bad things will happen.

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The calculus on the board offers more substance than the muffled exhalations.

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Jesus died on Calvary. The army had the cavalry

General Lee was right about this--guerilla warfare is unsportsmanlike.