so it confuses mcclellan. the other thing he is not getting much assistance from is his intelligence. he has a fellow by the name of pinkerton, he is his chief of intelligence. he had been the chairman of a detective agency in chicago before the war. mcclellan knew pinkerton from his prewar days as, you know, a president of the railroad line. and so he brings pinkerton on to be his essentially his chief of military intelligence during the civil war. pinkerton plays into mcclellan's fears and once pinkerton realizes mcclellan wants high numbers, inflated numbers, pinkerton figures, ok. i'll give the boss what he wants so he gives him innated numbers. -- inflated numbers. also, the very earliest forms of aerial reconnaissance are at his disposal during this campaign. thaddaeus lowe, with hot air balloons, actually hydrogen balloons, go airborne, the balloon tied by rope to the ground, goes aloft to get an aerial view of the confederate positions and he is not doing much to help mcclellan either. there is a heavi

lee has 60,000, mcclellan 30,000, so he outnumbers mcclellan by what? two t ooto one. so lee thinks mcclellan is going to protect the railroad line. you see it, it goes from east to west, from richmond to west point landing? he needs the railroad. if he is going to set the richmond by artillery, he needs the railroad because only the railroad can transport heavy guns. we already know what the soil is like, you cannot strap the horses to heavy cannons to bring them into position. so what lee thinks, if he attacks mcclellan, he will retreat east to guard the railroad. because he needs the railroad for supplies, but also to continue the offensive against richmond. lee cannot anticipate what mcclellan will actually do. he thinks he will save the front against richmond, but instead when lee attacks, mcclellan will go south and go to the james river. and he will do this because union gunboats can provide protection from the army. basically serving as an artillery umbrella to provide protection of the union army. lee does not anticipate that. so it will play a factor in how t

mcclellan saw himself as part of the process of making that policy. pope saw himself as part of making that policy. meade did not. by the time he assumes command, he has managed to dodge the political pitfalls of engaging in that debate, which sunk men like mcclellan and franklin and many others. by the time he assumes command, the union debate over the nature of war, over the aims of the war is largely resolved. the emancipation proclamation is very controversial. it stimulates months of acrimony and debate within the army and beyond. by the time meade takes command, debates,t see public certainly not within the army about emancipation. they accepted that it was in their interests. they all thought for the abolition of slavery as a matter of policy. meade understood that. he exercised the policies in regards to civilians in the same way his predecessors had. , morelly over time severely, but really the army of the potomac never wavered from the approach towards civilians that it assumed in late 1862. even under mcclellan, when he resumed command of t

he reviews union general george mcclellan's failed attempt to take the confederate capital in richmond, virginia and examines how terrain, disease, and nutrition impacted both sides. this class is about an hour and 15 minutes. professor browning: today we'll pick up where we left off last time in the western theatre. so the last battle we covered was? [inaudible] professor browning: the last

james mcclellan will be first person to receive a medal of honor from president trump. the 71-year-old from michigan will be given the nation's highest military honor at a noon ceremony. he repeatedly braved enemy gunfire to rescue ten soldiers during a 1969 battle. normally the medal of honor is awarded within five years of the recipient's heroic actions, but congress waived the time limiting mcclellan's case. >>> a tropical storm bears down on the gulf coast. a look at the wild weather forcing a state of emergency in florida, and then a manhunt under way after an american tour sift shot in turks and caicos. the warning now for anyone with plans to travel there. >>> and relief for residents living along san francisco international's flight path. the ideas bei >>> you're in thedriver's seat. >> this is simply a scouting run. >> dang. >> next right this minute. and the wolf huffed and puffed... like you do sometimes, grandpa? well, when you have copd, it can be hard to breathe. it can be hard to get air out, which can make it hard to get air in. so i talked to my doctor.

he reviews union general george mcclellan's failed attempt to take the confederate capital in richmond, virginia and examines how terrain, disease, and nutrition impacted both sides. this class is about an hour and 15 minutes. professor browning: today we'll pick up where we left off last time in the western theatre. so the last battle we covered was? [inaudible] professor browning: the last battle was shiloh, april 6 and 7, 1862. we talked about how grant thought the war was going to be over, one more battle and this thing will end and then after

>> lee, mcclellan, sheridan. >> you should be closer than a factor of three. the have a very good sense of one another by this point in the war. the united states has excellent intelligence about the size of confederate forces in virginia. there are spies all over the place. i think it is unusual. we can disagree about a lot of things. remember, in 1862, mcclellan this confederate army of monumental proportions and lincoln kept in order of battle based on richmond newspapers. he knew how many regiments they had and he assumed they would have -- the regiments would be no stronger than the union regiments. they knew the structure, and you know roughly how many are going to be sick and so forth. they will be affected by the same problems as the union army. technically they will be worse because they are country kids and the northern kids are city kids, so they've already been exposed to the measles, mumps, that sort of thing. lincoln had a pretty accurate assessment of the size of wii's armie. he could not get his commanders to buy into it -- lee's army. he canno

what he will do is he will make a name for himself by writing entirely around mcclellan's army. lee says, go on the northern flank so i see what it looks like over there. once he got the information coming he could've turned around and gone back. but that was not cool enough, that will not my name in the headlines, that will not make me a legend he rides all the way around mcclellan's army. while he is doing that, the union calvary discover the confederate cavalry is riding around. is union calvary commander philip st. george cooke. he was instrumental in helping develop the united states cavalry. a very skilled officer, a career officer that had done a lot to advance calvary tactics. he serves with great credit throughout the civil war. i would wager that most people who have ever heard of him only hear of him in this context. philip interesting about st. george cooke chasing jeb stuart, he and mary his daughter. there's the father-in-law chasing his son-in-law around the union army. watch thisyou can and other american history programs on a website where all of our videos are

eastern on "lectures in history," appellation state university professor discusses george mcclellan'sailed attempts to take the confederate capital enrichment. >> they have not done an awful lot of research about what this peninsula looks like and what marching along this peninsula would be like, but he is so dead set on making sure that he does not concede anything to lincoln that he basically puts his army on the peninsula in the spring of 1862. it is going to turn out to be the worst possible place to launch his campaign. >> sunday at 6:30 p.m., on the anniversary of the salem witch trials, margo burns talks about the primary sources from the trials compiled in the book "records from the salem witch hunt." >> that is one reason why we know so much about salem village, about the pleas of innocence because samuel parris took it all down. there is a reason that arthur miller post from him because it reads like a play. she says this, he said that. we could not hear, the girls were flailing. all of those descriptions come from samuel parris because he is reconstituting it from his short

there was not as much for scott mcclellan who came next and he turned out not to be great and then turnedrge w bush. but the last press secretary had committed snow, was a lovely man. he had the same deft george w bush out of getting along with people, even people absolutely opposed to this policy is would like with him in person and want to work with him in person and want to work with him. what does anthony scaramucci bring to the role? he certainly brings the president's trust, and the trust of ivanka trump and jared kushner who reached out to him to assure him about getting the comedic asian is a rector role despite the fact that chief of staff writes previous and steve bannon we re writes previous and steve bannon were not in favour, because he does not have this traditional public relations experience. reportedly he was supposed to have a job with the trump administration much earlier cos of his early support. he headed a part of the transition committee and help with the inauguration festivities. but he had been blocked, and apparently, this is anonymously sourced, but i have read

at the end of october mcclellan said poker in his division of some 10,000 men south in the maryland. poker establishes headquarters here but scary across the river from quantico and virginia. he discovered for himself what his predecessors had already learned. the local white population was always entirely hostile. he reported local citizens would not help with his investigation of where people were worshiping stuff over to the confederates over the confederate outposts were on the virginia side. he called the town a nasa secessionists. -- a nest of secessionists. pos sometimes suffer from a lack of discipline, but they were disposed to magnify trifles in the mountains. navy present and in something very different to enslaved people in the region. this was an opportunity to claim freedom. here i want to connect this history with the largest -- larger topic of this conference, slave escapes and ties and the underground railroad. the history of slavery is the history of fairly unbroken line of resistance. most often manifested not in enslaved people's violent uprising against owners, b

james mcclellan saved ten of his fellow soldiers during the vietnam war. the would you say says he repeatedly entered the kill zone to pull his wounded comrades to safety in 1979. he is now 71. >>> the 2020 race for the white house may le years away, but a democrat in our area is already jumping in, john delany laying it out. he represents maryland's 6th district. he's already announced he's not running for reelection next year. and only growth and inoy investigation, but also in positive societal change. >>> today leesburg police will try to calm parents' nerves after an attempted abduction. officers will attend a homeowners association meeting tonight to answer any questions. last week a woman tried to convince a 9-year-old girl to get in her car. when the girl refused. the woman followed her for several blocks. the child eventually made it home and told her mother what happened. there was also an attempted kidnapping last week in woodbridge. >>> d.c. public schools finished last in several categories. d.c. has the lowest math, reading and s.a.t. scores

there was not as much for scott mcclellan, who came next, ben heaton out not to be great.ony snow, a lovely man. he had that same gift that george w bush had of getting along with people, even people who absolutely opposed to his policies, would very much like him in person and would wa nt to much like him in person and would want to work with him. so what does anthony scaramucci potentially bring to the role? he certainly brings the president's trust, and the trust of a bunker and jarrett, who apparently we re a bunker and jarrett, who apparently were pushing for him and reached out to him about getting the communications director role. —— the trust of ivanka trump and jared kushner. reince priebus and steve allen apparently were not in favour putting him into that role because he does not have the traditional public relations experience. reportedly he was supposed to have a job in the trump administration much earlier because of his early support. he headed up part of the transmission, committee, and helped with the inauguration festivities but have them locked and appar

eastern on lectures in history, appalachian state university professor jedkin browning discusses mcclellan's failed attempt to take the confederate capital in richmond. >> they have not done an awful lot of research develop this peninsula looks like and what marching along the peninsula would look like. but he is dead set on making sure he's not concede anything to lincoln that he basically puts his army on the peninsula in the spring of 1862. it will be perhaps the worst possible place to launch his campaign. p.m. on the 6:30 320th anniversary of the salem witch trials, margo burns talks about the primary sources for the trials compiled in the book "records of the salem witch hunt." >> that is what we know so much about salem village, so much about the pleas of innocence. single parish took it all down. the reason arthur miller coached from him is because it reads like a play. he says this, she says that. the girls were flailing around. all these descriptions come from daniel paris, because he was constituting it from the shorthand. >> at 8:00 p.m. eastern on the presidency, former boston g

he reviews union general george mcclellan's failed attempt to take the confederate capital in richmond, virginia and examines how terrain, disease, and nutrition impacted both sides. this class is about an hour and 15 minutes. >> today we'll pick up where we left off last time in the western theatre. so the last battle we covered was? -- [inaudible] >> the last battle was shiloh, april 6 and 7, 1862. we talked about how grant thought the war was going to be over, one more battle and this thing will end and then after shiloh grant learns the war is going to last a lot longer and nothing short of absolute conquest of the south will end it. today we'll talk about a campaign going on at the exact same moment over in the eastern theatre or virginia in this case. we have the peninsula and the seven days campaign today. it starts in late march, early april. 1862 and is going

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scott mcclellan left bush and turned and and criticized him and wrote a book.ive evidence of what trump has done or does he fall in line? >> no, i wouldn't expect that he would do that. he wouldn't do that either. >> no, i wouldn't expect that he would do that. he wouldn't do that either. >> yeah. >> look, jeff sessions is not going to be a make or break. if in fact this story is true. if it is true, then i think his time is up. but then donald trump is already basically implied that he's prepared to throw him under the bus. >> thanks for joining me. >>> the breaking news tonight with about attorney general jeff sessions and contacts with the russian ambassador. it's a new "washington post" story. quoting intelligence intercepts. >>> plus sean spicer's out sometimes only as good as donald trump's cell phone. >>> as jared kushner prepares to answer questions on the hill we're learning more about his finances, what he didn't disclose before. as "the 11th hour" gets under way on a friday night. he did b eleventh hour gets underway on friday night. >>> good evening

eastern, appalachian state university browning discusses union general mcclellan's attempt to take the capital of richmond. had not done army a lot of research about what the peninsula looks like and what marching along with look like -- would be like. he was dead set on making sure that he would not can eat to tocoln -- would not concede lincoln. it turned out to be perhaps the worst possible place to launches the campaign. >> on sunday, the 125th anniversary of the salem witch trials. a book discussion on the witchhunt. >> we know so much about the village, about the pleas of innocence, because she took it all down. -- he took it all down. it reads like a plague. she said this, he says that, oh, we could not hear. the girls were flailing around. all those descriptions come from him because he is contributing from his shorthand. >> at 8 p.m., former boston globe journalist on his book the roads to kamala. camelot.ad to >> in 1960, it was the first time i had heard the word charisma. it was because he had it. richard nixon did not have a. lbj did not have it. kennedy had charisma, and

that is when he was running against george mcclellan, who was a great hero to an awful lot of people. there's an interesting back story, too, if we go back to 1856. the first time the republicans ran a candidate, john fremont, lost as a candidate but the republicans gained control in new york state of the governor's mansion. it's interesting to look at the rhetoric of someone like fernando would when he is talking about new york seceding from the union. he is also setting up a kind of dynamic, kind of a microcosm. new york reflects tensions going on nationally. upstate, downstate. he is saying i am in favor of municipal rights. he is standing up for the city against the republicans. so, there is this kind of analogy almost between national and local politics. so, what we see as we go through the war and this will play i am later when we are talking about violence, there is tension sparked by republicans upstate making laws for the city putting in a new metropolitan police department and a board that controls it, putting in sabbath laws that close the saloons on sunday, all of these ir

thing i would encourage them to do, when there is a big change like this, when we went from scott mcclellanny snow, that was a change that was not welcome, you have to reassure the younger staff that everything is going to be okay. >> neil: you set embrace the chaos, is part of that also putting the president to know it's okay about the suites, i said, by all means, tweet. >> i think twitter is good for him. >> neil: stay on message. stay on the things that you want to talk about, and don't get sidetracked by the things that your opponents -- >> i think one of the things that he could have been doing as his health care bill is going through, i would have asked him, sir, would you be willing to smile for where these members are kind of wobbly and do you need to give them some air covered so that they feel confident that they can vote positively, the way that you want them to. >> neil: he is very good at it. >> exactly. to have something like an exchange in personal, for his scaramucci to come in and say i've got an idea. communication and press are very different, sales and marketing. they a

scott mcclellan left bush and turned and and criticized him and wrote a book.give evidence of what trump has done or does he fall in line? >> no, i wouldn't expect that he would do that. he wouldn't do that either. >> yeah. >> look, jeff sessions is not going to be a make or break. if in fact this story is true. if it is true, then i think his time is up. but then donald trump is already basically implied that he's prepared to throw him under the bus. >> thanks for joining me. the rachel maddow show starts right now. good evening. >> good evening, joy. you're working seven day as week again aren't you. >> i am. >> i blame the white house. >> exactly. all of us are like surveying our failing health, you know what i mean? >> lots of eye drops happening around here. >> eventually our bosses are going to relent and start main lining us vitamins all day long while trump is president. >> hopefully. >> hope you get some sleep. thank you. >>> thanks for joining us this hour. we have just had a remarkable communication from the president eats t 's top lawyer. his top la

. >> dana: it's interesting that her book title is the same as scott mcclellan's.s secretary for a couple years in the bush administration. people at the time were like, with a question mark. given our first block, it should be what the you know what happened. [laughter] >> dana! >> dana: i'm sorry. i thought -- >> tom: we have to have hillary going the other way. >> dana: i think she wants to write it for her legacy's sake so she can have her side of the story in her words in one place to get it out there. >> jesse: what should she title the book, tom? >> tom: it's the way you say it. it's not, "what happened"? [laughter] >> tom: this is the most appropriately titled book than "if i did it." >> jesse: doj book. >> tom: something about that title rings true. i think conservatives will read this book. they love reliving 2016. [laughter] >> jesse: trump will be up at the white house every night. republicans threaten to block a stripped-down obamacare repeal bill. at the is up next. affecting my good credit score. i see you've planted an uncertainty tree. chop that th

on lectures in history, appalachian state university professor browning discusses union general mcclellan. >> they haven't done a lot of research about what this peninsula looks like and what marching along it would be like, but he is dead set on making sure he doesn't concede anything to ligand and he basically puts his army on the peninsula and it will turn up to be the worst possible place to launch his campaign. onsunday at 6:30 p.m., anniversary of the salem witch trials, a historian talks about the sources. >> that is one reason why we know so much about salem village, so much about the pleas of innocence, because samuel harris took it all down. the reason arthur miller poche from him is it reads like -- poached from him is that it reads like a play. he was reconstituting it from shorthand. >> and at 8:00 p.m. eastern on the presidency, a boston globe journalist on "the road to camelot." a junior in college in 1960, it was the first time i had ever heard the word charisma. it was because he had charisma. richard nixon did not have charisma. lbj did not have charisma, but jack kenned

. >>> tom mcclellan has turned very bullish he says get ready for an explosion hire in the equity marketwill explain what he's talking about. plus, former spirit airlines ceo on the new airport security screenings and he has some great advice on what you should and should not bring to the airport when you're getting on an airplane i love this part of the story. coming up at the top of the hour during our final hour of today's trading. >> all right about g. to see nuthouse rare that we're all together we'll see new a minute watching the markets here. we mentioned the dow up 195. the nasdaq is red. jpm and goldman sachs are leading here in terms of the index. we're really -- jpm a few cents shy of another record. >> yeah. i mean the stock -- the financials are flying. you have treasury yields getting an extra lift today. obviously covering for the last two or three weeks we've been seeing the market test thought idea of a rotation from the winners into the losers, big cap growth stocks into cyclicals and financials you got a little bit of a help on that story line today with the ism. it wa

eastern, appalachian state university professor justin browning discusses union general george mcclellan's ailed attempt to take the capitol in richmond. >> they haven't done a lot of research on what this peninsula looks like but he's so ted set on making sure he doesn't concede anything to lincoln , he basically puts his army on e peninsula in the spring of 62. it's going to be the worst possible place to watch his campaign. >> sunday, on the 300th anniversary of the salem witch trials, his toishes mar go byrnes talks about the primary sources for those compiled in the book "records of the salem witch hunt." >> that's why we know so much about the trials an pitch runts, there's a reason arthur miller poached from him, it reads like a play. he says this, she said this, the girls were flailing around, all those descriptions come from samuel parish, he's reconstituting it from his shorthand. >> at 8:00 p.m. eastern on the presidency, on the book "the road to camelot": j.f.k.'s five-year campaign." >> i was a junior in college in 1960, it was the first time i ever heard the word charisma and

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pattern, story from february 11, 2005, a pattern in which the white house press secretary scott mcclellanssive, less than friendly question, would call on jeff gannon and get a softball question. listen. >> senate democratic leaders have painted a very bleak picture of the u.s. economy, harry reed was talking soup lines, hillary clinton was talking about the economy being on the verge of collapse, yet in the same breath they say social security is rock solid and there's no crisis there. how are you going to work, you said you were going to reach out to these people. how are you going to work with people who seem to have divorced themselves from reality? >> that man was not a reporter, we won't get into that now. the idea is every administration would love to have that ringer when the heat got too tough, go to a friend. this white house tried to stack friendly blogs in the room. hasn't stopped the tough questions. is there any -- give us a road out here. >> well, i am thinking of katy and thinking of brian. what you gonna do? >> you tell the truth, you push back, tell the truth which is wh

and on top of that mccrone wants to loosen labor laws in a bid to boost jobs well as discussed mcclellan's plans more now i'm joined by a french publish and journalist monophyly america mr america thank you for joining us on the program now president a crown argues that reducing the size of the parliaments will streamline the business of passing laws that's a good thing isn't it. or i don't think so when you have for instance french. i can go on on wednesday on the parliament because i have tennis lessons you can see how the this. has been elected without having made in politics in their lives because it's a very new party which has been elected with the with the help of the big media and pronounce you northern front nine billion hall the media so. these m.p.'s are only as employees of mr micro who is also an employee of the. thing so what about the color of the rejection. go ahead sorry i wanted to ask you about i think. his predecessors reforms. yes i think will people be happier with this new direction do you think. you know this is the he lacks legitimacy because he was elected by thir

transports look at financials and energy leading the way, some of the laggards for this year and tom mcclellanll us later why he thinks the bull run is forar from over a new report this morning says president trump's chief strategist, steve bannon, is pushing for a tax hike for the upper income bracket we'll get you those details. >> you're on a roll. do you want me to pick this up >> tesla, yes, it's true the model 3 is on its way and the stock market was higher earlier. it's given up many of the gains here ford and general motors are powering higher after their auto sales numbers came out we'll tell you what's behind all these moves, coming up in fact, tesla says it looks like it wants to turn positive once again >> i'm trying to stay focused here >> yeah. failed >> let's start with the markets. why not? big rallies hear the dow hitting those all-time highs. transports doing the same. first time we've seen the transports hit all-time highs since early march. joining our "closing bell" exchange, this early monday, kevin karone is with us, steve grasso from stuart frankel is on the floor, as w

. >> mcclellan and his army didn't do research on what marching along this peninsula would be like. but he's dead set not to concede anything to lincoln so he basically puts his army on the peninsula in spring of '62, the worst possible place to launch his campaign. >> sunday at 6:30 p.m., on the 325th anniversary of the salem witch trials, historian margo burns talks about the trials compiled in the book "records of the salem witch hunt." >> that's why we know so much about salem village, why we know so much about the pleas of innocence, because samuel paris took it all down. there's a reason that arthur miller poached from him, because it reads like a play. she says this, he says that, there's sound over here, we couldn't hear, the girls were flailing around. all those descriptions come from samuel paris because he was reconstituting it from his shorthand. >> in 8:00 p.m. eastern, on the presidency, former "boston globe" journalists on their book, "the road to camelot," inside jfk's five-year campaign. >> i was a junior in college, and it was the first time i ever heard the cord "

. >> mcclellan and his army didn't do research on what marching along this peninsula would be like. but he's dead set not to concede anything to lincoln so he basically puts his army on the peninsula in spring of '62, the worst possible place to launch his campaign. >> sunday at 6:30 p.m., on the 325th anniversary of the salem witch trials, historian margo burns talks about the trials compiled in the book "records of the salem witch hunt." >> that's why we know so much about salem village, why we know so much about the pleas of innocence, because samuel paris took it all down. there's a reason that arthur miller poached from him, because it reads like a play. she says this, he says that, there's sound over here, we couldn't hear, the girls were flailing around. all those descriptions come from samuel paris because he was reconstituting it from his shorthand. >> in 8:00 p.m. eastern, on the presidency, former "boston globe" journalists on their book, "the road to camelot," inside jfk's five-year campaign. >> i was a junior in college, and it was the first time i ever heard the cord "

failed attempt to take the confederate capital in richmond. >> mcclellan and his army have not done a lot of research about what the peninsula looks like and what marching along the peninsula would you like, but he heso bent on making sure does not concede anything to lincoln that he basically puts his army on the peninsula in the 1860 two, and it will turn out to be perhaps the worst possible place to launch his campaign. >> sunday at 6:30 p.m. on the 300 anniversary of the salem witch trials, historian margo burns talks about the primary sources for the trials compiled .n the book >> it has informed me so much about salem village, about the sources because samuel parris took it all down. there's a reason that roger miller poached from him. it reads like a play. she says this, he says that. this town over here -- all those descriptions come from samuel parris and his shorthand. >> on the presidency, former boston globe journalist curtis wilkie on the book the road to camelot, inside jfk's five-year campaign. >> i was a junior in college in 1960, and it was the first time i had hear

on lectures in history, appalachian state university professor jonathan union generalsses george mcclellan's failed attempt to take the confederate capital in richmond. >> they haven't done a lot of research about what this peninsula looks like and what marching along this peninsula would be like. but he is so dead set on making sure he doesn't concede anything to lincoln that he basically puts his army on the virginia peninsula in the spring of 62, and it's going to turn out to brass be the worst possible place to launch his campaign. at 6:30 p.m. on the 320th anniversary of the salem witch trials, historian margo burns talks about the primary sources from the trials compiled in the book "records of the salem witch hunt." >> it's more the reasons we know so much about salem village and so much about the pleas of innocence, because samuel harris took it all down. the reason that arthur miller poached from him is it reads like a play. she says this, he says that. this town over here, we couldn't hear, but roles were flailing around. all the descriptions come with samuel harris, reconstituting