2021-03-25 - New Jersey - Online - Hail To The Chiefs: Two Presidents – One War

Thursday, March 25 -- Virtual

Time: 7:14 PM

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NORTH JERSEY CIVIL WAR ROUND TABLE

HAIL TO THE CHIEFS: TWO PRESIDENTS – ONE WAR

From 1861 to 1865, the United States was run by two Presidents – Abraham Lincoln in the North and Jefferson Davis in the South – as the country struggled through a bloody Civil War. Both were elected in a free and open election, both oversaw Congresses, both led huge armies, both were vilified by their states’ newspapers, both were married to strong wives, both doted on their children.

    Why did one man emerge from the conflict triumphant and the other as a dismal failure? What was it about their personalities and character that made them strong and at the same vulnerable? How did Lincoln who knew so little about the military, win and Davis who knew so much, lose? One had a military genius, Ulysses Grant, but so did the other in Robert E. Lee.

   

DR. BRUCE CHADWICK

    Dr. Bruce Chadwick has appeared all over the world and on various television networks (the History Channel, History Chanel International, National Geographic Channel, and, recently, the Smithsonian Channel) delivering talks on the American Revolution, the Civil War, and the history of numerous nations. He is the author of 31 books, most on America and some on other countries. Chadwick, a Syracuse University graduate, is the author of over 150 magazine articles He became a University professor in 1992 and plunged into stories about the American past and chronicled the lives of world figures such as George Washington, Abraham Lincoln and Julius Caesar. His latest book is Law and Disorder, published by MacMillan in the spring of 2017. He is currently working on a book about 19th-century slave ships.

         Chadwick’s books include Two American Presidents: A Dual Biography of Abraham Lincoln and Jefferson Davis, Lincoln for President, and the oft-cited The First American Army.

He is a full-time History professor at New Jersey City University and for twenty years worked as an adjunct professor at Rutgers.