Darden Leadership Ride Elective Course: Fall Session 2013, Class 4

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Fall Session 2013 - Darden Leadership Ride - Chancellorsville and Gettysburg: Leadership Lessons From the Battlefields of the Civil War. University of Virginia Civil War historian Gary Gallagher leads a classroom session that offers lessons on strategy, communication and leadership inspired by two key battles of the Civil War.

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@heynsenene 5 жыл бұрын

Gary, I love all your work so much, I almost wish I could go back in time and go be your student

@indy_go_blue6048 3 жыл бұрын

If I could go back I'd have majored in history and been his peer instead of majoring in nursing.

@analeelish5254 2 жыл бұрын

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@carolbell8008 4 жыл бұрын

American History is great and very interesting! These classes are excellent!!

@rebeccabsomanybooks3558 6 жыл бұрын

I am reading the diary of Edward Porter Alexander and I highly recommend it.

@indy_go_blue6048 5 жыл бұрын

I've read to the end of Antietam. He's great.

@paulspidell5908 3 жыл бұрын

Howdy folks , this lecture is very personal for Moi as my Great Grandfather William Harrison Spidell was wounded at the Battlefield of Chancellorsville in the Spring of 1863 at while recuperating in hospital President Lincoln shook his hand and what was said came to this writer out of the blue and made it’s way to my auto bio Under The Palm Tree 🌴

@indy_go_blue6048 4 жыл бұрын

I know I'm weird, but if I could I'd remove Gary and the podium from the scene, put on some good music or storm effects, and just pan back and forth over that blackboard. It's almost better than cloud watching, lol.

@terrywallace5181 5 ай бұрын

Lee says very quietly, "I have your argument several times now. Now shut up and do exactly as I tell you. Exactly. I say again, Exactly."

@12rwoody 5 жыл бұрын

Wonderful teaching!

@frankfischer1281 Жыл бұрын

An excellent teacher….

@davess357 4 жыл бұрын

Grant ultimately beats Lee for numerous reasons. One of those reasons is that he never allowed discussion of his commands. When make up his mind, he wouldn't even discuss it with Stanton or Lincoln.

@mikedesil23 6 жыл бұрын

I love this.

@joecarr2224 Жыл бұрын

Excellent series; superb instruction. Future leaders ought to use correct grammar. I hope they were corrected.

@zettle2345 6 жыл бұрын

To all who will be in command or at the top. Read "The Art of War" by sun tsu (something like that). Always make your orders clear, and NOT open to interpretation. Don't say if you want to, or if it's practicable, say ATTACK. plain and simple, so there is no confusion. Lee could have told Longstreet, "Go, I will send your other troops to you when they get here". If... If, the timing was so critical, you would expect that. Instead of people crying about how long it took Longstreet to get into position, on July 2nd, 1863. Only God knows why Longstreet did not follow Alexander's path. Artillery, with it's horses, wagons, and troops would have left a modern day equivalent of a Tank track through the weeds. How Longstreet missed it is beyond me.

@indy_go_blue6048 5 жыл бұрын

L either missed it or ignored that trail. The thing is Evander Law was right next to him and he missed it as well. Or possibly he read his CO's mood and kept his mouth shut. As Alexander said, he should've seen the horseshit from his earlier passage and followed it. Also, Lee was really upset that when Law{?) arrived Longstreet had done nothing about getting the rest of his troops ready to march.

@mike89128 4 жыл бұрын

Ever hear about Napoleon's soldier? Most people haven't. Napoleon was having problems with his marshalls and generals misinterpreting his orders. He conducted a search throughout his army for the dumbest literate soldier. Brought on staff, and every order Napoleon issued was read to this soldier. If the soldier understood the order, it went out to the field.

@adambrown798 3 жыл бұрын

I wonder what Lee would have done if Longstreet had resigned.

@mcfail3450 4 ай бұрын

Gary is a bit double standard with Lee and Longstreet. When Lee delegates command he praised him and uses buzz words like "latitude". When Longstreet asks his artillery COMMANDER (Porter had a low rank but in terms of his power and position he was basically the 2nd to Longstreet. Longstreet commanded the corps as a whole and the infantry. Porter commanded the artillery which was severely important to an attack.) to make a decision Gary criticizes Longstreet for delegating. If anyone had knowledge of if the assault would be well supported with artillery it would be Porter and artillery is key to an assault. Also I think that exchange between them is blown out of proportion. Longstreet isn't really giving Porter the decision. He is basically asking Porter if he thinks the plan is a good one. Longstreet nodded because he confirmed that Porter wasn't confident in the plan. Longstreet wasn't the only person as Gary paints it to be against the plan. Nearly every general on that side of the field didn't believe Lee had a good plan. Hood even protested it on the record. Gary leaves out some key information in this great performance and its unfortunate. He should have had them read Lee's resignation letter to Davis in August. Lee very clearly says his staff failed him. That he made choices based on bad information and his staff performed poorly. Lee's staff did all this: Failed to report union troops on little round top. Found and led the route for the march that resulted in a counter march. Longstreet shouldn't be blamed for the counter march. If he was even present at the front of the column when it occurred Lee was there with him and should share any blame. Who we know led and was at the front of the column was Lee's staff. Lee's staff did not feed Lee the information needed.

@spencerkimble3824 3 жыл бұрын

He puts a LOT of faith in porter Alexander’s account that I’m not sure I do. To argue that writing for one’s family means he had no reason to embellish or to burnish his own reputation is hogwash and I reject it wholeheartedly as fallacious reasoning. Family is absolutely an audience one would write to affect and Alexander wrote that memoir a long time after the war. It wasn’t published until 1907,

@cragnamorra 2 жыл бұрын

Exactly...in fact that very circumstance - private for family instead of publication - would incentivize even more self-aggrandizement, as it's less likely to be objectively critiqued or fact-checked.