Winter Lecture 2022 - Fighting for Loyalty: Political Life in the Army of the Potomac
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- Опубліковано 11 жов 2024
- The citizen-soldiers who fought at Gettysburg represented the nation’s diversity of political opinion. Whether at headquarters or around the rank-and-file campfire, partisan debate in the Army of the Potomac was usually bitter and personal. And the soldiers were not shy in assuming the role of moral and political conscience of the nation, particularly when antiwar voices threatened the Northern war effort. In this lecture Dr. Zachary Fry explores key moments in which the Union Army argued wartime politics under the public gaze, threatened home front dissent, and mobilized for political campaigning-all while fighting on the front lines of the nation’s most devastating war.
I am looking forward to viewing this. I believe I was at at a similar presentation at a NPS spring seminar.
Very interesting... Thank you..🙋💞
Just think how many lives would have been saved if Lincoln could have had a decent General before Grant came east
Talk starts at 3:50
The gentleman introducing Dr. Fry had the audacity to say "The Ohio State University."
You mean to tell me you didn't get pumped up after Dr. Fry's sick burn on the comparative performance of artillery units from the states of Michigan and Ohio during the War of the Rebellion?
The stupid thinking of the Democrat's hasn't changed. Fedderman comes to mind
I don't care how popular Mac was he was a Lousy Commander
calling him little mac repeatedly is disingenuous considering he was the best army commander the union had who wasnt a frontal assault type butcher and had seen some real shit, as opposed to lincoln
Little Mac consistently pulled defeat from the jaws of victory. He continuously misused the most well supplied military force in history. And honestly, it's probably because he didn't have the fight in him. He didn't want the Union to win if it meant the Radicals and abolitionism would be seen as the victors.
@@ajmari9585 this could have been a separate comment since it doesnt address my central point that he was the most competent man for the job, twice. or was your point to just call him little mac as provocation
Your comment is bizarre. "Little Mac" was his men's nickname for him, it's a term of endearment not disparagement, just like Sedgwick's men called him Uncle John.
Piffal Mac was going to run for President against Lincoln 1864 . Mac did everything he could to make Lincoln look bad Always delaying always saying he was outnumbered always making excuses
Lincoln went to litt Mac's house Mac was rude refused to speak to Lincoln and went to bed disgraceful