BGuthrie Photos: CWT Annual Conference (2013) in Jackson, MS -- Opening Talks

CWT Annual Conference (2013) in Jackson, MS -- Opening Talks:

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Description of Pictures: Lecture: The Vicksburg Campaign with Parker Hills
Panel Discussion:
* Dr. John Marszalek ("Ulysses S. Grant and the Strategy of Comaraderie")
* Dr. Michael Ballard ("John C. Pemberton: His Best Was Not Good Enough")
* Dr. Gary Joiner ("David Dixon Porter: Taking Control of the Father of Waters")
* (Moderator) Parker Hills

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Specific picture descriptions: Photos above with "i" icons next to the bracketed sequence numbers (e.g. "[1] ") are described as follows:
1. TALKS2_130530_016.JPG: Nothing but success, speedy and decided, will save our cause from utter destruction. In the Northwest distrust and despair are seizing upon the hearts of the people. -- Governor Oliver Perry Morton to President Abraham Lincoln, 21 October 1862
2. TALKS2_130530_022.JPG: War is... chameleon-like in character, because it changes its colour ... [it is] a wonderful trinity, composed of ... hatred and animosity; of probabilities and chance; and of a political instrument. -- Carl Von Clausewitz, On War, Vol. 1, pp 25-26, 1908
3. TALKS2_130530_026.JPG: The people; the army; the government. -- Carl Von Clausewitz, On War, Vol. I, pp. 25-26, 1908
4. TALKS2_130530_043.JPG: 1862 Congressional Elections October - November, 1862
  
  Party Total Seats (change) Seat percentage
  
  Democratic Party 72 +28 38.9%
  
  Independents 2 +1 1.0%
  
  Republican Party 86 -22 46.4%
  
  Unionist Party 25 -5 13.5%
  
  Totals 185 +2 100.0%
  
  Bearss & Hills, Receding TIde, pp 12-13, 2010
5. TALKS2_130530_080.JPG: The democracy has carried everything, and I think the country is ruined. -- William W. Orme, friend of Pres. Lincoln, 1862
6. TALKS2_130530_111.JPG: Fredericksburg 13 Dec 62 -- 12,653 Stones River 31 Dec 62 - 2 Jan 63 -- 13,249 Holly Springs 20 Dec 62 -- 1,500 Chickasaw Bayou 26-29 Dec 62 -- 1,776 29,178 casualties (3,222 killed) in 20 days
7. TALKS2_130530_132.JPG: I know I speak for Illinois, and I believe for the Northwest ... to permit no portion of the Mississippi River to be controlled by a foreign jurisdiction. -- Gov Richard Yates' Inaugural Address to IL Legislature, 14 Jan 1861
8. TALKS2_130530_135.JPG: Should the free navigation of the Mississippi River be obstructed by force, the men of the West will hew their way to the Gulf with their swords! -- Col John A Logan, 31st IL, former IL Congressman, Sep 1861
9. TALKS2_130530_149.JPG: It is contemplated when the legislature meets in this state to pass a joint resolution acknowledging the southern confederacy, and urging the states of the northwest to dissolve all constitutional relations with the New England states. -- Gov. Oliver P. Morton (IN) to Pres Lincoln, 3 Jan 1863
10. TALKS2_130530_177.JPG: We have fought one of the great battles of the war, and are victorious ... [the enemy] fled with great precipitancy on Saturday night [3 Jan]. -- Major General William S. Roscrans [sic] to President Abraham Lincoln, 5 January 1863
11. TALKS2_130530_195.JPG: Your despatch announcing retreat of enemy has just reached here. God bless you and all with you! Please tender to all, and accept for yourself, the nation's gratitude for yours, and their, skill, endurance, and dauntless courage. -- President Abraham Lincoln to Major General William S. Rosecrans, 5 January 1863
12. TALKS2_130530_206.JPG: There is a vacant major-generalcy in the regular army, and I am authorized to say it will be given to the general in the field who first wins an important and decisive victory. -- MG Henry W. Halleck, 1 Mar 1863
13. TALKS2_130530_217.JPG: Has there ever been a great commander destitute of the love of honor, or is such a character even conceivable? -- Carl Von Clausewitz, On War, Vol I, pg 56, 1908
14. TALKS2_130530_225.JPG: As an officer and a citizen I feel degraded to see such an auctioneering of honor. -- MG Rosecrans to MG Halleck, 5 Mar 1863
15. TALKS2_130530_288.JPG: The commander must subdue new doubts in himself at the time of commencing the execution of his work. -- Carl Von Clausewitz, On War, Vol. I, pp 76-77, 1908
16. TALKS2_130530_296.JPG: Ordinary men who follow the suggestions of others become, therefore, generally undecided on the spot. -- Carl Von Clausewitz, On War, Vol. I, pp 76-77, 1908
17. TALKS2_130530_298.JPG: Firm reliance on self must make the commander proof against the seeming pressure of the moment. -- Carl Von Clausewitz, On War, Vol. I, pp 76-77, 1908
18. TALKS2_130530_304.JPG: This is one of the great chasms which separate conception from execution. -- Carl Von Clausewitz, On War, Vol. I, pp 76-77, 1908
19. TALKS2_130530_311.JPG: Throughout the battle the conduct of the general officers was excellent, with a few exceptions. General Sherman was so exceedingly erratic that the discussion of the past twelve months with respect to his sanity was revived with much earnestness.
20. TALKS2_130530_345.JPG: If you think it advisable, you may make a reconnaissance of Hayne's Bluff ... but I am loth to order it, because ... our people at home would characterize it as a repulse. I therefore leave it to you whether to make such a demonstration. -- MG Grant to MG Sherman (in cypher) from Pointe Clear, LA, 27 April 1863
21. TALKS2_130530_369.JPG: We will make as strong a demonstration as possible. As to the reports in newspapers, we must scorn them, else they will ruin us and our country. They are as much enemies to good government as the secesh, and between the two I like the secesh best, because they are a brave, open enemy, and not a set of sneaking, croaking scoundrels. -- MG Sherman to MG Grant from Milliken's Bend, LA, 28 April 1863
22. TALKS2_130530_384.JPG: What motivates men to slay the enemy is anger. -- Sun Tzu
23. TALKS2_130530_427.JPG: Bring the maximum possible force to bear against the decisive point in the theater of operations, and upon the enemy line of communications while protecting your own. Engage fractions of the enemy with the bulk of our own.
24. TALKS2_130530_460.JPG: I would give more for fifteen minutes of bulge on the enemy that for a week of tactics. -- LTG Nathan B. Forrest
25. TALKS2_130530_464.JPG: I shall not bring my troops into this place, but immediately follow the enemy, and, if all promises as favorable hereafter as it does now, not stop until Vicksburg is in our possession. -- MG Grant to MG Halleck, 3 May 1863
26. TALKS2_130530_478.JPG: From the transport driver and the drummer up to the general, [boldness] is the noblest of virtues, the true steel which gives the weapon its edge and brilliancy. -- Carl Von Clausewitz, On War, Vol I, p 186, 1908
27. TALKS2_130530_517.JPG: Ah, Colonel, all is fair in love and war, you know. -- BG Forrest to COL Streight, 3 May 1863
28. TALKS2_130530_535.JPG: God Almighty could not prevent me from winning a victory tomorrow. -- MG Hooker, 30 Apr 1863
29. TALKS2_130530_551.JPG: Hooker expected Lee to fall back without risking battle. Finding himself mistaken he assumed the defensive, and was outgeneraled and became demoralized by the superior tactical boldness of the enemy. -- MG Darius Couch
30. TALKS2_130530_557.JPG: My God, my God, what will the country say! What will the country say? -- President Abraham Lincoln, 6 May 1863
31. TALKS2_130530_574.JPG: The news is here, of the capture, by our forces of Grand Gulf -- a large and very important thing. -- President Abraham Lincoln to MG Joseph Hooker, 8 May 1863
32. TALKS2_130530_584.JPG: Two command qualities are indispensable: an intellect which, in the midst of intense obscurity, is not without some traces of inner light, which lead to the truth, and then the courage to follow this faint light. -- Carl Von Clausewitz, On War, Vol I, pp 30-31, 1908
33. TALKS2_130530_588.JPG: The first is... coup d'oeil The other is resolution. -- Carl Von Clausewitz, On War, Vol I, pp 30-31, 1908
34. TALKS2_130530_593.JPG: The sun did not shine more certainly than that the loss of the Mississippi was the loss of the war. They did not see this clearly at either Washington or Richmond; but it was not the less a fact. -- William D. Mansfield, A Popular and Authentic Life of Ulysses S. Grant, pp 207-208, 1868
35. TALKS3_130530_001.JPG: Rear Admiral David Dixon Porter and Mr. Lincoln's Brown Water Navy: The Mississippi Squadron at Vicksburg
36. TALKS3_130530_015.JPG: Farragut's fleet at New Orleans
37. TALKS3_130530_029.JPG: USS Hartford was Farragut's Flagship. She was a wooden blue-water steam-driven screw sloop that sometimes saw service on the Mississippi River.
38. TALKS3_130530_046.JPG: It was obvious to both sides that Vicksburg was the key to controlling the Mississippi River Valley. Its high bluffs commanded the river for miles.
39. TALKS3_130530_055.JPG: The hair pin turn of the river at Vicksburg made any naval attack perilous at best.
40. TALKS3_130530_060.JPG: North of Vicksburg, the Mississippi Squadron had recently been created as an independent command with a Rear Admiral (Acting) as the commander. This rank held the equivalent of a major general.
41. TALKS3_130530_070.JPG: Union Rear Admiral David Dixon Porter, commander of the Mississippi Squadron and foster brother of David Glasgow Farragut.
42. TALKS3_130530_075.JPG: The Mississippi Squadron's fighting vessels included a large array of gunboats that included ironclads, monitors, tinclads, timberclads rams, and mortar scows.
43. TALKS3_130530_080.JPG: The Timberclad USS Tyler
44. TALKS3_130530_129.JPG: The Ellet Ram Switzerland
45. TALKS3_130530_136.JPG: The wooden ram Queen of the West at Memphis. Later she would be captured and served the Confederate Navy.
46. TALKS3_130530_142.JPG: Both the Union and Confederate navies realized that heavily armored and armed vessels should be the centerpieces of their fleets. The result were the great ironclads. They carried iron plates at least two and one-half inches thick and guns that ranged from 24-pdr to 100-pdr rifled cannons. These were needed to confront forts and Confederate naval vessels too.
47. TALKS3_130530_152.JPG: The ironclad ram CSS Tennessee which protected Mobile Bay
48. TALKS3_130530_164.JPG: Three James Buchanan Eads' River Cities Class ironclads at anchor at Cairo, Illinois. These are the Mound City, Baron de Kalb (St. Louis), and the Cincinnati. The other vessels of this class were the Cairo, Louisville, Carondelet, and Pittsburg.
49. TALKS3_130530_179.JPG: USS Cairo
50. TALKS3_130530_205.JPG: Lt. Cmdr. Thomas O. Selfridge (Later Rear Admiral) Officer aboard the USS Cumberland at Hampton Roads in 1862. Commanded USS Conestoga and USS Cairo in 1863. Commanded USS Osage in 1864 in the Red River Campaign.
51. TALKS3_130530_217.JPG: USS Benton, the most powerful ironclad in the fleet
52. TALKS3_130530_222.JPG: USS Eastport, flagship of the Mississippi Squadron. She was the most powerful ironclad to ascend the Red River with Porter in 1864. This image was taken on Red River shortly before she sank.
53. TALKS3_130530_264.JPG: The Rubberclad, and later Ironclad, USS Choctaw
54. TALKS3_130530_267.JPG: Another Rubberclad turned Ironclad, the USS Lafayette
55. TALKS3_130530_273.JPG: Ironclads were the largest gun platforms operating on the rivers. There was a need for shallower draft ironclads to work in far reaches of navigable streams. River monitors were designed for this task.
56. TALKS3_130530_282.JPG: The early river monitor USS Ozark. Porter called her "a miserable vessel".
57. TALKS3_130530_301.JPG: USS Neosho on Red River in 1864. Note the deck hatches and rear gun doors and the painted fake gunports on the side of the turret.
58. TALKS3_130530_320.JPG: Admiral Porter's favorite vessel, his flagship USS Blackhawk - the period label is incorrect. She was classified as a large tinclad and carried between 8 and 11 guns. She had been a cruise boat before the war and was luxuriously appointed.
59. TALKS3_130530_333.JPG: USS Covington, destroyed by artillery below Alexandria, Louisiana at Egg Bend, in the spring of 1864.
60. TALKS3_130530_341.JPG: USS Cricket, Porter's flagship on the Red River above Grand Ecore
61. TALKS3_130530_346.JPG: USS Signal, destroyed below Alexandria with the Covington
62. TALKS3_130530_351.JPG: USS Fort Hindman, during the Civil War
63. TALKS3_130530_390.JPG: "Torpedoes" or mines were used extensively by the Confederates. Both Farragut and Porter called them "Infernal Machines." These are modifications of the Singer design.
64. TALKS3_130530_393.JPG: Tom Lovell -- "The Union Fleet Passing Vicksburg"
65. TALKS3_130530_404.JPG: Ultimately, the naval war was won by overwhelming superiority in the numbers of vessels and guns aboard them. Massive production in Union naval yards and innovations to counter Rebel ingenuity secured victory for the Union Navy.
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Party	Total Seats (change)		Seat percentage
Democratic Party	72	+28	38.9%
Independents	2	+1	1.0%
Republican Party	86	-22	46.4%
Unionist Party	25	-5	13.5%
Totals	185	+2	100.0%