so i'll close then with nathaniel hawthorne's really prophetic response. he actually did visit the "monitor." he came down. his college roommate. hawthorne had two college roommates. one of them was franklin pierce, who became president of the united states. and the other guy was someone named horatio bridge, which with a name like that you have to go into the navy, right? and he was the head paymaster of the navy. so he was keeler's boss. and hawthorne had a rough time just personally during the war, and a friend said why don't you go down and visit the battlefields? that'll make you feel better. and he went to find his friend bridge in washington. the two of them came and visited the "monitor" soon after the battle. and actually, interestingly, neither hawthorne nor keeler mentions the other, but they had so many similar reactions to the ship that i feel like they had a conversation. and this was one of keeler's reactions. "there must come up a race of enginemen and smoke-blackened cannoneers." so a whole different kind of person emerges from this whole

nathaniel hawthorne. edgar allen pau. washington irvin. the beloved poet, walt whitman and what schoolboy doesn't know the faces of our statesman? henry clay. john calhoun. daniel webster. men who shaped and guided our young republic. they built well, but soon within the country's capitol, still awaiting the completion of the now familiar dome, the storm clouds of the slavery issue threatened national unity. as the crisis sharpened, brady saw a new use for the camera. abraham lincoln, whom brady has photographed as a young congressman from illinois now sat in washington as president of the divided nation. from him, brady received permission to make a record of the war that could not be held back. we are coming, father abraham, so sang the volunteer units responding to lincoln's call to arm. hastily constructed camps sprung up. cruel by today's standards. the growing manpower had to be simplied and equipped, furnished with the weapons needed to fight this country bloodiest war. means to move these simplies were organized and assembled. this

one was nathaniel greene, who was made a major general at the age of 33, having no experience at all, and the second was henry foxx, who also had no military experience at all. but both of them had been reading books. what they knew about the military was entirely from books. but that was an era that believed one of the best ways to read things was to read books. they are in a way wonderful examples, personifications of the enlightingment. his daring, both physically and intell electricity actually is remarkable. he and greene were the only two officer who became generals who stayed with the war, stayed with washington, through the entire war. not with him necessarily physically, personally, right with him, but with him in the sense of still fighting the war. all the others either dropped out or had to leave for some other reason. but those two that he picked right at the beginning, who he admired for their persevereance, per seefered to the end. so it's an amazing story. but knox had the idea of going to ticonderoga and bringing back the cannons, which is a prepost rouse thought. to

politically appointed, those that were defeated left and right in the shenandoah valley, people like nathaniel banks, defeated by -- and fremont defeated by stonewall jackson, mcclellan was a profession. but later when compared to people like ulysses s. grant, sherman who split the confederacy in two, mcclellan does not compare as favorably as those men, who took their west point training and their prewar experiences and brought forth a winning combination. although -- >> our guest is john mountcastle, go ahead, finish your thought. i'm sorry. >> i would say that the spirit that he engendered in the fighting soldiers within the army of the potomac while not 100% in favor of mcclellan was so strong that they never truly forgot him. and in that regard he was regarded by many of his contempora contemporaries than better in history. >> john mountcastle teaches civil war history and a former chief of the military history. here's katherine, next up. >> caller: i'm from cleveland, ohio, and i'm 11 years old, i think general mcclellan was disrespectful -- >> katherine, it's a little difficult to hear

louisiana, that a family long living at that area, even before the civil war, had upon their retreat of nathaniel banks' army during the red river campaign of 1864, spring of 1864, the united states army had left a large amount of baggage and equipage, and the family went out and recovered this. amongst it were two, two civil war tents. one of those tents was a sibley tent designed by henry hopkins sibley. it's based on a plain's indian teepee pattern. the family had had these tents in their possession since recovering them at that point in time. one of them is a well tent and then this is a sibley tent. remarkably, it is now known there are only two sibley tents in the american civil war in existence in the world. one in each hemisphere of mother earth. this one is in our hemisphere and in possession of the american people now. this tent in recent negotiations with smithsonian institute will be traveling to washington for potential display at the national african-american museum and the civil war exhibit of the african-american experience in the civil war so that we're excited about that. the co

he then wrote a few days later, to general nathaniel green, the american commander in the south, he told general green, my greatest fear is that congress may think our work closed and will fall into a state of langer and relaxation. following those letters, washington made a brief visit home to mt. vernon, only by the way, the second time in eight years that he had been home. after a brief visit he and martha left mt. vernon and journeyed to philadelphia, where they planned to spend the winter of 1781-'82. in the meantime, the american army having taken care of lord cornwallace's army began their march to their winter quarters which they would take up on the hudson valley to watch the british army. washington arrived in philadelphia to great acclaim, parades, fireworks, endless banquets and toasts. they even wrote an opera in his honor. he went fox hunting and indeed was having a wonderful social time in philadelphia. but not political. he did not attend the sessions of congress. that would have been improper. for the commander in chief to attend congress. but every monday night he, robe

and i think, was it nathaniel green? >> saratoga is a crucial battle, right. >> it wasn't fought -- >> you're right. there are -- >> yeah. that's the pattern that works. back in the american revolution. the french were itching to get at the british. so i think the united states or america didn't need decisive victories as much as the confederates did. because the french and english needed their support, but they weren't as dedicated to defeating another power as the french were in 1776. >> when it comes to the history of europe, in 1776-'83, the british and the french are fresh off the war against each other. they really hate each other. but in 1861, the concert of europe is in full effect in the middle of the century. and the europeans want to do everything to not go to war with each other. so they don't want to pick a battle with north america when they're trying to avoid battles at all cost. >> fundamentally, the british and the french -- the french have ambitions in mexico and things like that. and partly because of

aspect of holding onto showing the french that they could beat the british and i think like was nathaniel green at saratoga. >> saratoga is a crucial battle, right. saratoga is the crucial battle that invites that. >> wasn't it like partisan battle. >> it wasn't fought -- >> yes, you're right. >> able to garner support. >> in a partisan battle from the french. i think it is not a strong argument. >> if you have partisans working with regulars, right, that's the pattern that works. >> i think to contradict that, i mean, back in the american revolution the french were itching to get at the british and so i think the united states or america at that point really didn't need decisive victories as much as the confederates did because the french and gish needed their support but weren't as dedicated towards defeating another power. >> i have to move. >> one thing working against them, the history of europe, the fact in 1776 that the british and the french are fresh off a war against each other and french indian war and hate each other but in 1861 the concert of europe is in full effect and in t

first under benjamin butler but then from december 1862 onward under general nathaniel banks who took command in the army in the campaign that captured port hudson north of baton rouge. while the confederates planned a couple of different campaigns to recapture new orleans, they were never strong enough or to put it alternatively, the union force there were always too strong for that effort to succeed. the attack on baton rouge in august of 1862, i alluded to in my talk, when "the arkansas" moved down there to try to help the confederate army to recapture baton rouge, that was to be a first step toward an effort to recapture new orleans but when the confederate attack at baton rouge was repulsed and unsuccessful, it ended that chance and later on the confederates undertook a couple efforts but they were never able to organize a strong enough army to carry it through. >> the program there at the library is about to get back under way. we'll take one more quick call from glen in downey, california. hi, there. >> caller: yes. dr. mcpherson, i would like to ask you a question. this questi

nathaniel green, his chief lieutenant was sent to the continental congress and in december they worked out an understanding, first of all that the continent congress would be the supreme body. representing the sovereignty of the people in america. and the generals would obey. but the generals would be allowed to get on with the war. and that was a very unstable compco compro is co compro is co compromise. and many others were, civilians were invited. and washington cultivated two gifts that i think were critical to his leadership. first he had the gift of listening. he was beginning to learn to listen to these people in his army. and the other was that he had the gift of silence. he could keep quiet about his own opinions. and reserve -- his, his views, until after the discussion had pretty well run its course. and then he went, he would intervene. nobody was in doubt as to who was running the army. but, he chose -- to run it by that open way. and then he went about the, the business of reordering intelligence. and he did it by -- creating an open system of in tee jetellige. he ordered

nathaniel greene walked with a decided limp because of a childhood accident. john trumble, the great american painter of the day, had the use of only one eye because of a childhood accident. this was very common. but they didn't let that stop them. john trumble became one of the great painters of the time despite the fact that having the use of only one eye greatly atered his depth perception. it is very interesting to see that the earlier versions of his significant, the small paintings are much stronger than the large paintings on display in the rotunda of the clol in large part because of that problem. if knox and greene had volunteered to serve in the army of today, they would have been rejected because they were physically unacceptable. but they didn't let that stand in the way. and in a way, it makes them more vivid somehow. they are more identifiable. they're like characters in dickens. you'd know them when they walked in the room. host: you mentioned that knox was 25 when he first gotton washington and you also talk about age, 43 for george washington

was it nathaniel green at ft. saratogo? >> saratoga is the crucial battle. >> wasn't it sort of kind of like a partisan battle? if wasn't fought -- >> yes, you're right. >> they were able to garner support in a partisan battle from the french so i think that's not a strong argument. >> yeah. if you have partisans working with regular, right. that's the pattern that works. >> i think to contradict that, back in the american revolution, the french were, in slang, they were kind of itching to get at the british so they didn't need decisive victories as much as the confederates did because the french and english needed their support but weren't as dedicated towards defeating another power as the french were in 1776. >> then i got to move. >> they have one thing working against them, the fact in 1776, 83 that the british and the french were fresh off a war with each other and they really hated each other but in 1861 the concert of europe is in full effect. in the middle of that century and the europeans want to do everything to

investigative reporter nathaniel vinton covered the first trial and is back in the courtroom for thenews. >> i think it's really embarrass for the prosecutors. it was a dumb mistake. >> reporter: the trial could bring big names to the witness stand. monday, both sides bring to the lineup of more than 100 potential witnesses, including former stars jose canseco and barry bonds. >> the key witnesses will once again be brian mcnamee. he was the trainer who claims he injected him with steroids and saved the used needles. but the most-anticipated testimony could come from teammate andy pettitte, who told congressional investigators that he had conversations with clemens about drug use. >> i think it's going to be really uncomfortable for him. he was really close with roger. i think that will be interesting testimony. >> reporter: the trial is expected to last four to six weeks if convicted on all six charges, clemens could face up to 30 years in prison. in washington, danielle not being ham, wjz -- nottingham, wjz eyewitness news. >> the trial is expected to last four to six weeks. >>> we

investigative reporter nathaniel vinton covered the first trial and is back in the courtroom for thehink it's really embarrassing for the prosecutors. it was a dumb mistake. >> reporter: the trial could bring big baseball names to the witness stand. monday, both sides presented a lineup of more than 100 potential witnesses including former stars, jose canseco and barry bonds. >> reporter: the key witness will once again be brian mcnamee. he was clements' friend and trainer and claims he injected the baseball legend with steroids and human growth hormone and saved the used needles. but the most anticipated testimony could come from clemens' former teammate, andy pettitte, who told congressional investigators that he had conversations with clemens about drug use. >> i think it's going to be pretty uncomfortable for him. he was really close with roger. i think that's going to be some pretty interesting testimony. >> reporter: the trial is expected to last 4 to 6 weeks. if convicted on all six charges, clemens could face up to 30 years in prison. in washington, danielle nottingham, wjz e

the suspects 40-year-old reginald anthony lasley and 34- year-old dylan nathaniel tucker. police say the two held up an m and t bank yesterday morning and officers caught up with the suspects. but they say one tried to hang himself out of the window and an officer cut him off -- he cut him free and the suspect was taken to the hospital with minor injuries. the second suspect is now in jail. >>> at 5:32 it's time for another your money report. >> and jessica doyle is here, she's got some help from a lot of us this morning for her report and we are excited to see how it turned out. >> i love this story, so you go to the drugstore and you probably there and you see a dazzling array of new products on the shelves. but are they worst your money? we put some new products to the test. better homes and gardens recently sent the 9news now newsroom a number of consumer products. it named best new products for 2012. beautbeauty editor rebecca george. >> they surveyed over 66,000 consumers from coast to coast to really find out the products they love and would buy again. >> we like to

nathaniel beers, the chief of special education and the founder and executive director of early stages, welcome. congratulations on getting the stroud prize again this year. >> thank you. >> i know that dr. stroud was very, very much involved in trying to make sure that kids were identified early. with learning disabilities so that they could be treated and learn to perform with whatever their disabilities are at the best of their ability. telling what you're doing in the district of columbia now? >> i think we're doing a lot of things to honor dr. stroud's memory at early stages and within d.c. pushl schools. to make sure we identify all kids early in their lives. the critical pieces we know that families who identify kids' needs early are more likely to have that child gone to be successful as an adult. >> we understand that d.c. has a success story to tell. what is that success story. >> we do. two years ago, actually almost three years ago, when we came in and overhauled early stages, we were identifying about 2% of all 3 to 5-year-olds as being eligible for special education. and

caller after iowa was a young man who came to our first event in oklahoma in a wheelchair named nathaniel had spina bifida and wanted someone who spoke again about people overlooked by society or don't seem to be as valuable as others in society. folks like the duggars who -- the duggar family who traveled around with us in their bus and gave their time and energy because, again, they believed in the basic importance of having strong families as part of a strong country that we can't have a strong economy, as you've heard me say over and over again, without strong families and a strong moral fiber that makes us the moral enterprise that is america. even fun things like the sweater vest. amazing thing, that sweater vest. it happened on a night i was doing an event for mike huckabee in des moines. and showed up and everybody was in suits and ties. and i showed up in a sweater vest. turned out i gave a pretty good speech that night and all of a sudden the twitter verse went wild saying it must be the sweater vest. from that point on the sweater vest became the official wardrobe of the santor

caller after iowa was a young man who came to our first event in oklahoma in a wheelchair named nathaniel who had spina bifida. and he wanted someone who spoke about people again that had overlooked by society or don't seem to be as valuable as others in society. folks like the duggers, the dugger family who traveled around with us in their bus and gave their time and energy because again, they believed in the basic importance of having strong families as part of a strong country. that we can't have a strong economy, as you've heard me say over and over again without strong families and a strong moral fiber that makes us the moral enterprise that is america. even fun things like the sweater vest. an amazing thing, that sweater vest. it happened on a night i was doing an event for mike huckabee and everybody was in suits and ties and i was in a sweater vest. it turned out i gave a pretty good speech and it turned up in twitter verse saying it must be the sweater vest. from that point on the sweater vest became the official wardrobe of the santorum campaign. the cool thing was, obviously we

one plaintiff is nathaniel claybrooks. he is a college football player.son. he's described in the news release only as an aspiring national football league player. claybrooks and johnson are both african-american and they're seeking a class action status for their lawsuit. this is according to their attorneys. they're saying the lawsuit will be filed in a u.s. district court today on behalf of all persons of color who have applied for the role of the bachelor or bachelorette but been denied the opportunity on the basis of race. they point out over 23 seasons, neither show has ever had a bachelor or bachelorette of color. there's a couple things here, suzanne. we were talking about this in the bureau. this is not the first time we've heard people say this about this show, but the question is, even if you're correct, can you sue for that? and are the producers of the show and abc legally required to have diversity on a reality show? we reached out to abc and right now the network is not commenting on this. in the past though they have said that really their

and then nathaniel claybrooks was interviewed for 20 minutes and he was gone.tes. these people came forward and we don't think they were given the same shot as white counterparts. >> let me just jump in for one second. there's a guy that we had pictures we were showing a minute ago. handsome young man that looked like he would be a terrific bachelor. he was interviewed earlier this morning on "early start" talking about why he think there's a lack of diversity on the show. here's what he said. >> you see some of the stuff they do. swimming in the oceans. sitting on top of mountains. my black friends don't want to do that kind of thing. i mean really? i'm not sure, you know. it might be something that a lot of people haven't stepped forward into that role. it wasn't until this year that i accepted that responsibility to step forward. i had a few people say i should do it. i shot it down initially. i finally accepted. you know, i'm really not sure. i'm guessing just like everybody else is. >> how hard do you think it is to prove in fact your case and win this cas

in a wheelchair named nathaniel who had spina bifida who wanted someone to speak about people who are or don't seem to be as valuable as others in society. folks like the duggars who gave us their time and energy because again they believed in the basic importance of having strong families. as part of a strong country. we can't have a strong economy without strong families and strong moral fiber that makes us the moral enterprise that is america. even fun things like the sweater vest. it happened on a night i was doing an event for mike huckabee in des moines. everybody showed up in suits and ties and i showed up in a sweater vest. all of a sudden the twitter verse went wild saying it must be the sweater vest. then it became the official wardrobe of the santorum campaign. and the cool thing was we -- obviously we have a big part of our campaign is manufacturing base of the economy, so we, of course, sourced that sweater vest in a company making them here in the united states. we ended up going to that little company in minnesota. got a chance to see that little plant that had been aro

caller after iowa was a young man who came to our first event in oklahoma in a wheelchair named nathanielnted someone who spoke about people who are overlooked by society or don't seem to be as valuable as on theo others in society. folks like the duggar family who traveled around with us in their bus and gave their time and energy because they believed in the basic importance of having strong families as part of a strong country that we can't have a strong economy as you heard me say over and over again without strong families and strong northerly fiber that makes us the moral enterprise that is america. even fun things like the sweater vest. amazing thing that sweater vest. it happened on a night i was doing an event for mike huckabee in des moines and everybody was in suits and ties and i showed up in a sweater vest. turned out i gave a pretty good speech that night and all of a sudden the twitter-verse went wild saying it must be the sweater vest. from that point on the sweater vest payment official wardrobe of the santorum campaign. the cool thing was we have a big part of our campai

the lawsuit was filed by nathaniel clayburkes who had previously applied to be on the series.ts were denied the same opportunity to become the next bachelor or bachelorette as white contestants, not because they were unsuitable for the role, but solely because of the perceived risk that casting a bachelor or bachelorette who is a person of color would alienate the show's majority white viewership. and i do need to mention as full disclosure, one of the defendants in this case warner horizon television is a subsidiary of cnn's parent company time warner. regional portland sportscaster lamar hood heard has been getting some buzz in an unrelated campaign to become the first ever black bachelor. here's a clip from his audition video. ♪ >> i am lamar's assistant. we just adore lamar. everybody who meets lamar adores him. >> no one has been a boss like this. i think that shows how he treats everybody. >> good tunes there. portland regional sportscaster and youth organizer lamar hood is with me. how are you? thanks for coming out. >> oh, i'm doing good. thanks for having me. let's ta

nathaniel greene, our best general during the revolution, i mean washington, i guess you have to say, is better because he had the strategic command of the whole thing. but green was just brilliant. greene saved a -- when the turn to the south in 1780, and really over ran the carolinas and georgia, and greene, greene want it all back. and even though he loses all his battles, i mean, it's just brilliant strategically. and that's the reason cornwallis ends up that -- at yorktown. greene has been out of the careless. just a brilliant performance. and then he died shortly after the war, sunstroke. he was given a plantation in georgia, and that was the end of him. but another one, if we're doing military people, is there a lofty of monuments were in washington? lafayette was -- >> host: lafayette circle. with a statue. >> guest: well, certainly he deserves it. he was a great young man. we got the best of him. he was 19 years old when he came over here. he did it out of a pure idealism. he thought the what america was trying to do was something worth while and the world he wanted to help.

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phone call after iowa was a young man who came to our first event in oklahoma in a wheelchair, named nathaniel. he had spinabifida. people that were overlooked by society and don't seem to be as involvable. folks like the duggers, the dugger family that traveled around with us in their bus and gave their time and energy because they believed in the basic importance of having strong families as part of a strong country that we can't have a strong economy. as we've heard me say over and over again without strong families and strong moral fiber that makes us the moral enterprise that is america. even fun things like the sweater vest. amazing thing. it happened on a night i was doing an event for mike huckabee in des moines. everybody was in suits and ties. i showed up in a sweater vest. turns out i gave a good speech. then twitter said it must be the sweater vest. from that point on, the sweater vest became the official ward robe of the santorum campaign. the big part of the campaign is a manufacturing base of the economy. we saw the sweater vest in a company that was making them here in the unit