Staf reports Upper Lake >> With Lincoln”s re-election 150 years ago this November, the Civil War began to grind to a bitter and tragic end. But the South was not ready to give up. On Nov. 3 at 6:15 p.m. at the Tallman Hotel, historian Zane Jensen will do a presentation on the Nashville Campaign, the South”s last desperate attempt at changing the course of the war.
Jensen will cover the Battle of Fraklin, where in just few hours, five Confederate generals perished, as well as nearly 2,000 of their men, with another 4,500 wounded and missing.
“It wasn”t war; it was murder,” Jensen said. An additional review of the results of the election of 1860 will be covered also, with a look at the electoral map and how the parties fared in Congress.
“The anti-war movement peaked in August of 1864, but with a series of major Union victories, the pro-war movement took new life and swept Lincoln back for a second term with a mandate to finish the war to its bloody conclusion,” Phil Smoley, Roundtable co-founder, stated. “Few people realize that Lincoln was on his way to be defeated up until just a few months prior to the election, and if Atlanta did not fall, we may have had a President McClellan negotiate a peaceful settlement to the war.” The Civil War Roundtable meets once a month to discuss topics related to that war, and is attempting to review the war month by month. The group was founded to coincide with the Sesquicentennial of the conflict.
Admission is free-of-charge and everyone is welcome.
For more information, contact Smoley at phils@countryair.com or 264-4905, or Jensen at zjensen@lakeport.k12.ca.us or 349-6390.
The Tallman Hotel is located at 9550 Main St. in Upper Lake.
