a civil war navy conference in march to mark the 150th anniversary. we'll first hear from a naval history professor on the war along the atlantic coast. this is about 50 minutes. >>> well, it's my great pleasure to introduce our opening session here for the battle of hampton roads weekend 150th edition. craig simonds is professor emeritus at the united states naval academy where he taught history and civil war history for 30 years. he thought he was retired. then he went back, and he's teaching there again. he's a native of anaheim, california. craig earned his b.a. degree at ucla and his master's from the university of florida where he studied under the late john k. mann. in the 1970s, he was in the navy, a navy officer and the first ensign ever to lecture at the college in newport, rhode island. he remained at college az civilian professor from 1974 to 1975. he's the author of at least 12 books -- maybe more by now. who is counting, right? he has written over 1 00 scholarly articles. he was the historian here at the mariners museum and helped us get

and we now return to the mariners museum in newport news, virginia where a civil war navy conference was held last month to mark the 150th anniversary of the battle of hampton roads. this was the first time ironclads faced off during battle. up next, a discussion on some of the ideas and suggestions offered by northerners for fighting the confederate ironclad known as the "merrimac." this is about an hour. >>> if everyone would grab their seats. good morning. my name is jonathan white, and i'm an assistant professor of american studies and a fellow at the center for american studies at christopher newport university, which is right across the road here from the mariners museum. it is a pleasure to welcome you this morning to the mariners museum in newport news. i know tham of you have come a long way to be here today at this wonderful event at this incredible museum. and for our friends who are watching us on c-span, i'd like to say that if you've never been to newport news i'd strongly recommend visiting if for no other reason than to see this incredible maritime museum, the mariner

. >> this week on the civil war, more from the mariners museum, civil war navy conference in newport news, virginia. it marked the 150th anniversary of the battle of hampton roads wherefore the first time iron clad warships met in battle. in this section, david gerleman talks about some of the ideas and suggestions offered by northerners for fighting the con federal iron clad merrimac. this is just under an hour. >>> good morning. my name is jonathan white. i'm an assistant professor at christopher newport university. it is a measure to welcome you to the mariners museum at newport news. >> if you have never been to newport news, i strongly recommend if for no other reason than to see this incredible museum, the mariners' museum. i would like to thank our sponsors and partners, without whom this conference would not be possible and the weekends events. our sponsors are bank of america, the virginia foundation for the humanities and southern structural steel. our partners are the museum of the confederacy, the center for american studies at christopher newport university, the hampton

. >>> this week on the civil war, more from the mariners museum, civil war navy conference in newport news, virginia. this year's conference in early march marked the 150e anniversary of the battle of hampton roads where, for the first time, ironclad warships met in battle. in this section, david gerleman an editor at the abraham lincoln project, talks about some of the ideas and sgzs offered by northerners for fighting the confederate ironclad mashg mac. this is just under an hour. >> if everyone would grab their seats. good morning. my name is jonathan white. i'm an assistant professor at american studies and a fellow at christopher newport university. it is a measure to welcome you to the mariners museum at newport news. i know many of you have come a long way to be here today at this wonderful event at this incredible museum. for our friends watching us on c-span, i'd like to say that if you have never been to newport news, i strongly recommend if for no other reason than to see this incredible museum, the mariners' museum. i would like to thank our sponsors and partners, without

we consider it a war grave, as does the navy. it is a national historic landmark, the first marine sanctuary. but congress said what is the plan. do you raise the entire thing? do you raise segments of it? do you leave it alone? and the answer was after a careful study, one that involved in partners, including the mariners museum was that selected pieces would be brought up. between 1998 and 2002 the navy working with noaa, and of course the navy was the workhorse in this effort, bringing their professionalism and expertise and ten cal abilities, began to recover those pieces of the wreck. and as noaa worked with the military, we acknowledged from the beginning that there was the likelihood that human remains would be found. and lo and behold, in july of 2002 while the navy was removing overburden, if you know the story, the monitor sank upside down with the turret upside down filled with coal and material and artifacts. but the roof of the turret, you have to understand how it was constructed was just railroad rails. so it was k

navy. his brother was in charge of union troop movements during the civil war and lincoln's funeral train. a volunteer from findagrave.com photographed samuel augee lewis' mother, hannah mendenhall's grave. so we have located it. if the navy should choose to exhume, that could happen. of course, that's a legal process, and that would be their daniel moore was the son of henry and sarah moore. he was from prince william county, virginia. his siblings were taken to washington, d.c. and owned by mildred ewell. mildred ewell was able to sell them to the union government. the union did pay upon emancipation money for slaves determined at the value of their owners. this is the only time that the federal government bought out slaves from their owners. charity smith and evelyna moore were the sisters of daniel moore. they were witnesses on the pension for their mother, sarah moore. this is a picture of edgehill farm where daniel moore and his family lived and served the ewell family. i particularly like this picture of the fireplace because that is a fire that they would have undoubtedly tended. th

war against the united states. it was the most influential man in the navy. the army which is quite rampant in china and they wanted a war, that was their business. the fact he actually went to war, actually try to assassinate him understand prior to the war, do you think that his initial reluctance had anything to play with his performance as leader abdel to command the navy during his war, as commander of the japanese navy? >> no, i really don't. yamamoto was an extremely astute individual. he had had two tours of duty in the united states in diplomatic capacities. he saw america's enormous industrial capacity, and there's the that famous quote that he did make in contrast to the sleeping giant quotation, which he probably never uttered, as good as it is, he predicted with a surprise attack and the initial japanese technological and strategic advantages, he said something to the effect that i have run wild for six months after which i can guarantee nothing but, of course, midway was exactly six months after pearl harbor. yamamoto was very much a dedicated mi

tomorrow, programs from the civil war navy conference as it marks its 150th anniversary of the battle of hampton roads. that event was the first time in history that iron clad ships faced off in battle. see those events tomorrow beginning at 8:00 p.m. eastern here on c-span3. >>> april 15th, 1912, nearly 1500 perish on the ship called unsinkable. >> once the lookout bells were sounded, the lookout, once the lookout sighted an iceberg ahead, they struck the bells in the crow's nest three times, ding, ding, ding, which is a warning saying that there's some object ahead. doesn't mean dead head ahead. and it doesn't say what kind of object. what the lookout then did after they struck the bell. he went to a telephone in the nest and called down to the officer on he bridge to tell them what it is that they saw. and when the phone was finally answered, the entire conversation was what do you see? and the response was, iceberg right ahead. and the response from the officer was, thank you. >> samuel halpern on the truthss and myths of that night. sunday at 4:00 p.m. eastern. part of american h

war navy conference in newport news, virginia. this year's conference in early march marked the 150th anniversary of the battle of hampton roads, where for the first time ironclad warships met in battle. in this session author and professor david mindell talks about the technology of the "uss monitor" and the experience of its crew aboard one of the first ironclads. this is about 50 minutes. >> well, i've got to say i was so excited when our next speaker contacted me and wanted to be part of what we're doing today. and david mindell has been a friend of the "uss monitor" for quite some time. and i'm so pleased that his book has been reissued with a brand new name, right up here. we have it in the gift shop. i've got to admit, i was an english literature nerd. and so the fact that he used so much melville and hawthorne in his book just made me so happy. well, david mindell is a historian and electrical engineer. and he is the dibner professor of the history of engineering and manufacturing and. we're not sure when he sleeps either.

prior to the war queue is very much against going to war in the united states as a commander on the title he was the most influential man in the navy. the army was just going rampant in china and they wanted a war and they were much rest. the fact he actually went to war and tried to assassinate him i understand prior to the war do you think that his initial reluctance had anything to play with his performance as the lead admiral in the navy during the war and during his tenure as the commander of the javanese navy? >> i really don't he had two tours of duty in the united states in the diplomatic capacities. he saw america' enormous industrial capacity and there's a famous quote that he did make in contrast to the sleeping giant quotation which she probably never uttered as good as it is. he predicted with a surprise attack and the initial japanese technological and strategic it can't just he said something to the effect that either which i can guarantee nothing and of course midway was exactly six months after pearl harbor she was very much a dedicated military professional. he was a warrior. he knew that japan almost no chance of

tell my idea to the president alone, or, if the president is not available, the secretary of war, maybe navy. in fact, louis winterbauer writes in and the navy says, thank you for suggesting your idea, however, we cannot judge it because you gave us no particulars. in fact, everyone wants to get in on the act. lincoln gets a letter from an unexpected source, a pastor from a baptist church in new hampshire, william sausen, who writes in saying, i have perfected an invention of the most marvelous destructive power that can immediately destroy the most powerful warships at a distance. you, sir, may smile at all this and suppose it is only the dream of an excited brain. but only a few days are needed to convince the world of its reality. the united states will be given the power to resist all the world's navy. and he also says, i am fully willing to do a test and then will sit back and wait for the offers to flood in. well, if shells and other machines couldn't destroy the merrimac, it is suggested, how about using one of nature's basic elements? fire. or fire and patrolling. this idea of turnin

stanton is concerned, the navy is just not going to take care of this problem. so the army, the war department needs to get involved. and he contacts, cornelius vanderbilt the shipping magnate and says, we understand you have an extretremtremely fast boat, vanderbilt" how much would you charge to use that ship to sink the merrimac. vanderbilt graciously says, i won't charge you anything. i will una sense donate this vessel to the federal government. which he does. although the navy does not want it. in fact, wells calls it a white elephant. that in the end, no one really knows what to do with this vessel. it does become part of the u.s. navy blockade fleet. but again, wells had never wanted it. also, very popular, especially with new yorkers. there is a number of new yorkers who write in, saying -- that -- often it's not an unusual occurrence for an east river steamer to clip a pier and be no worse for wear. in fact, charles meggs, a banker in new york said i saw the steamer umpire, basically sheer off the 19-street pier and it was perfectly fine. and thus he has the this idea for c

thank you. >> the royal navy expanded in the napoleonic wars. significantly. the manpower needs went from 36,000 in 1793 to close to 150,000 in 1812. the royal navy was chronically under manned and the royal navy claimed a right to reclaim british subjects to require them to serve in the royal navy. now, at the same time that the royal navy was expanding and needed all the manpower it could get, our trade was flourishing and expanding. we needed all the sea men we could get and started employing british tars. it was very easy to recruit them because the pay and the working conditions were much better on american vessels than the royal navy. the royal navy reserved the right to stop vessels on the high seas and muster the crew and inspect the crew men and remove those who were deemed to be british subjects. the problem with this is first of all, it was difficult to tell the difference between a u.s. citizen and a british subject. the differences in language and the like was not as great as it is today. sometimes by accident american tars were impressed into brit

they're the clee direction for the navy direction. warfighting is first, operate forward, and be ready. war fighting first, that means the navy has to be ready to fight and prevail today while building the ability to win tomorrow. this is our primary mission and all our efforts must be grounded in this fundamental responsibility. iran's recent provocative rhetoric highlights the need for us to have forward deployed war fighting capability and in our 2013 budget submission, we directed funding to weapons, systems, and tactical training that can be fielded to the fleet particularly in this area. this includes demonstrators and prototypes that can improve the force's capability. operate forward, that means we'll provide the nation an offshore option to det deter influence, and win in an era of uncertainty. our 2013 budget submission gives several issues, including placing destroyers in spain and combat ships in singapore and patrol coastal ships in bahrain. one ship that has operated from apoverseas location can provide the same presence as

british prime minister seeks to seal an historic reckons deal with japan and to agree on a possible war oil navy submarine deployment in the region many see the move is nearing washington's recent drive to boost its military presence in the asia pacific. russia and poland remember the pick. the tragic plane crash near small killed the polish president and most of the country's political elite that was now two years ago separate investigations by both moscow and warsaw concluded bad weather and mistakes by the crew of play. time now for sports. hello welcome to the latest poll this tuesday and here the headlines. european and asian chelsea and talk them slip up in the race for champions league football next season as rivals newcastle keep up the pressure on the top for. the us mission possible holders barcelona agency to cut the gap to leaders realm agreed to a single point as they host make table top eight like the spanish title. under all the saw it twice former champions russia fall out of the top ten in the davis cup rankings of the miserable year in world tennis. but says the football and ch

thank you. >> the royal navy expanded in the napoleonic wars. between 1793 and 1812. significantly. its manpower needs went from something like 36,000 in 1793 to i think it was close to 150,000 in 1812. the royal navy was chronically underman undermanned and the royal navy claimed a right to reclaim british suggests. to require them to serve in the royal navy. now, at the same time that the royal navy was expanding and needed all the manpower it could get, our trade was flourishing and expanding. we needed all the experienced seamen we could get and starting employing british tars. the pay was much better. so the royal navy reserved the right to stop american vessels on the high e seas, muster the crew, inspect the crewmen and remove those who were deemed to be british suggests. the problem with this was that it was very difficult to tell the difference between a u.s. citizen and british suggest. the differences in language and the like was not as great as it is today, so sometimes by accident, american tars were impressed into british service. in addition, sometimes, it was no accid

. >> it looked like a war zone. the navy fighter jet plowed into this virginia beach apartment complex, setting it ablaze. much of the complex for senior citizens was wiped out in the initial contact. eye witnesses were in shock. >> that one is on fire. look at the roof. the other roof is getting ready to go on fire. oh, my god. this apartment complex right here. this one is already ruined. firefighters are doing the best they can to get it out. >> in the burned out wreckage, the unmistakable twin tails and jet engines from a u.s. navy f-18. eye witnesses reported smoke and flames coming from one of the wings. >> i heard whoop, whoop, whoop, and the pilot, just on the plane, and all of a sudden i looked up and boom, an explosion. >> one witness said it appeared the pilot struggled to gain control of the plane. >> i could hear the engines blowing out or either trying to restart, and i looked up and could see the plane going straight up with no sound or engines, and then i seen it pitch over and go down. >> at the last second,

it looked like a war zone. the navy fighter jet plowed there this virginia beach apartment complex. flames were to follow. much of this complex was wiped out in the initial impact. in the burned out wreckage the unmistakable twin tails and engines from the fa-18. eyewitnesss reported seeing smoke and flames coming from one of the wings. >> we heard a noise and the pilot ejected from the plane and we looked out the door and saw an explosion. >> reporter: it appeared the pilot appeared to struggle to regain control of the plane. >> i heard the engines blowing out or trying to restart. i could see the plane going straight up with no sound of engines and then it pitched over and go down. >> reporter: the two crew members ejected safely. one of them seen here on a stretcher, the other walking with a police officer, both with minor injuries. pat cavanaugh found a crew member still in his parachute. >> made sure he didn't have broken bones. he apologized for crashing into our complex. i said don't worry about it. >> reporter: no one died and only four people on the ground suffered minor in

not only the president was there, but the secretaries of the war and the navy, all the major officials involved with the defense program, and a. phillip randolph, and walter white, the president for the national association for colored people. even with this sense of gathering all these important busy people, in june, in late june of 1941, those of you who know military history will know this is a period in which the nazi government is in the process of planning to break their pakt with the soviet union and is on the brink of invading the soviet union. this is a period in which poland has just fallen. this is a crucial moment in the war. and all these men are called into the office to meet with these two men and roosevelt starts by trying to tell stories and jokes. and randolph has to interrupt them and say that, you know, we're here to talk about the problem of negros' participation in the armed services and the defense industries. so roosevelt tried to say you know, i'm opposed to this. and he started listing his reasons. he said that the march would make other people think that the

someone stole his collection of world war ii u.s. navy memorabilia. he says he was heartbroken after hearing about the theft so he went out and broke a replacement for him. >> made my life better. >> my pleasure. >> so far there is no word of any of the stolen items turning up. >>> this traveled 8,000 mimes for a new lease on life, his story will shock you. >> and in a interview we sit down with the chairman of the federal trade commission, what he has tosay about -- to say about cracking down on companies using the internet to keep tabs on consumers. @ >>> complete bay area news coverage continues right now, this is ktvu channel 2 news at 5:00. >> talk about an incredible journey. the story of this cat, what he has been through and how he ended up in san francisco. it started 8,000 miles away, he lost a leg, shot in the head and soaked in gas. ktvu's david stevenson tells us what happened how & how he is -- what happened and how he is doing now. >> reporter: he was born in tehran but his home is in san francisco. he is being given special attention.

it was 65 years from mike's first appearance on camera, a world war ii on the navy, to his last appearancean interview with roger clemens. >> and never anabolic steroids? >> never. >> reporter: 65 years. ♪ >> reporter: it's strange but for such a tough guy, mike's all-time favorite interview with one with another, pianist, vladimir horowitz. he played "the stars and stripes forever." it almost brought tears to the toughest guy on television. ♪ >> astonishing what you learn and feel and see along the way. that's why a reporter's job, as you know, is such a joy. ♪ >>> on cbs's "face the nation" bob schieffer gave an emotional farewell to mike wallace. >> mike was a great friend and mentor to me. he even gave me a compliment once and he was one of the real pioneers in television journalism all going to miss him. >>> next sunday, april 16 lt "60 minutes" plans a full tribute to mike wallace. you can see that right here on cbs. >>> now to the shooting rampage that left three people dead. the incident happened in tulsa, oklahoma. two men have been arrested and are due in court this morning. inve

exporting cotton rivalled, if not exceeded, the southern government's total expenditures on its navy for the whole war. given that relatively simple, cost-effective analysis suggested that the union blockade was worth the effort. so what is the bottom line here? i think it's this. that despite the apparently porous character of the union blockade, the cumulative effect of the reduction and the south cotton exports, the loss of its coastline and eventually the production of its major seaports seriously undermined the government and its war effort. if the blockade was never airtight, which it wasn't, it was constricting enough. the south was constantly gasping for economic breath. i love that phrase. i borrowed it from william roberts and his book. that slow asphyxiation, combined with the reduction and the size of the logistic base from which the confederacy could draw supplies for its armies, so isolated lee's indomitable army in virginia that in the end it had no choice but to surrender. almost certainly, the north could have won the civil war without the blockade. but almost as certainly, the blocka

war. senior officers from the chinese and russian navies gathered together to run drills. commanders began by plotting strategy. they will hit water for drills through the next four days with defense and submarine tactics, search and rescue. china and russia have participated in four military drills since 2005. these are the first for the navies. chinese commanders have deployed 18 vessels including two submarines. the russians have sent seven ships, including a missile cruiser. they say the two powers want to emphasize their military ties to counter the u.s. armed forces. pentagon regions adopted the new strategy last year that puts a renewed focus on the asia pacific. both the chinese and russians are modernizing their military capabilities. china's defense budget this year increased by more than 10% to more than $100 billion. military leaders have pushed to develop more advanced aircraft carriers and they are overseeing the next generation of fighter aircraft. russian commanders plan to spend more than $700 billion by 2020 to modernize their armed forces. they, too, are

of putting republicans into the major positions, early in the war, secretary of war, secretary of the navy, working across party lines in that, in that regard. also, doing the other great -- combining great strengths of leadership that washington had done but in a different key. in another era. in a different framework. and now the question is -- what next? we can see that people took inspiration from lincoln, for that same period of about 60 years that had worked for washington. and then there is a wonderful book by -- bill luktenberg on long shadow of fdr running to at least ronald reagan. reagan turning against the new deal. embracing that style of leadership. on the explicit example of franklin roosevelt. and now what today? what for us? and we look in this country and find many great leaders in every field. we find great leaders in, american universities. you are in the presence of one, such an extraordinary leader that way. and, there are 3,000 american universities today. most of them are in the hand of very good leaders. we see good leaders in government. one of my privileges is to

storing the riyadh more material i believe his name is a play and so on really making this a war of special operators navy seals forming bill to force an army special forces which really is the way to fight this war it's an unconventional war you need to fight in conventional but i'm curious about here and i mean i guess you could say that maybe thirty three thousand troops isn't all that large of a surge but still we have almost one hundred thousand troops were you know there was a peak on the ground in afghanistan but still quite a massive force to be dedicating to something like this you know whether it whether you want to say that it's a lot or not but the problem is that the more troops we sent in there we didn't see things get better and quite the opposite you only saw the violence skyrocket you only saw more troop deaths and and so it shows you that numbers were not really really not part of the equation here they were not something that made the war effort more successful but what i want to ask you is that on one hand they want to make this more of a special ops smaller teams type of operation but

he went to college at michigan, he served in the navy in world war ii and then into radio and eventually tv. he bravely and openly fought depression for years after a nervous breakdown and a suicide attempt brought on by a damaging lawsuit brought by retired general william westmoreland. about himself, he left us with two quotes. he said he walked a fine line between sadism and intellectual curiosity. he also asked us to remember him as tough but fair. mike wallace, gone tonight at the age of 93. that is our broadcast on a monday night. thank you for being here with us as we start off a new week. i'm brian williams. we, of course, hope to see you right back here tomorrow evening. good night. >>> thanks for joining us. i'm janelle wang in for jessica aguirre. >> and i'm raj mathai. investigators are trying to determine what played a role in saturday's deadly crash which took the lives of a father and daughter. tonight many in the east bay are taking a close look at their own driving habits. jodi hernandez joins us from the crash site where

navy's bloodiest fight of world war ii. considered, and i quote, vivid and engaging, extremely readable, comprehensive and thoroughly researched by ronald specter of "the wall street journal" and brilliant, a compelling narrative of naval combat, simply superb by the washington times. it is a new york times, publishers' weekly and boston globe bestseller. so once again, it is my very great pleasure to welcome mr. james hornfischer. [applause] >> thank you very much. i appreciate everybody coming out. i think this is my fifth colby symposium. it's truly unique, in my experience, in terms of a publishing conference that focuses on the craft of military history, that celebrates the achievement of servicemen and women and that hopefully will guide policymakers through the experience of digesting our past. in this case, our recent past as we discuss afghanistan. today, however, we're going back a little bit deep. i've written three books about the navy, three books about the navy in world war ii. you immediately turn to the paci

he went to college at michigan, served in the navy in world war ii and then into radio and eventuallyv. he bravely and openly fought depression for years after a nervous breakdown and a suicide attempt brought on by a damaging lawsuit brought by retired general william westmoreland. he left us with two quotes. he said he walked a fine line between sadism and intellectual curiosity, and he asked us to remember him as tough but fair. mike wallace, gone tonight at the age of 93. that is our broadcast on a monday night. thank you for being here with us as we start off a new week. i'm brian williams. we, of course, hope to see you right back here tomorrow evening. good night.

it was 65 years from wallace's first appearance on camera in a world war ii film for the navy to his last interview for "60 minutes" at the age of 89. >> do you think people are going to believe you? >> pelley: with baseball star roger clemens who was fighting charges of steroid use. >> i never used anabolic steroids. never. >> pelley: he told new correspondents at "60 minutes" "our job isn't hard. just look for the truth." mike did that without flinching. later we'll look at mike's favorite stories. they're probably yours, too. there have's a link reported between obesity in mothers and autism in children. and a tradition rolls on when the "cbs evening news" continues. when bp made a commitment to the gulf, we knew it would take time, but we were determined to see it through. today, while our work continues, i want to update you on the progress: bp has set aside 20 billion dollars to fund economic and environmental recovery. we're paying for all spill- related clean-up costs. and we've established a 500 million dollar fund so independent scientists can study the gulf's wildlife and