they will be diverted away from the calvary core army of the potomac. the army of the potomac's calvary is trying to rebuild that as they lost thousands and thousands of forces. all of those forces are going to stall and you can see that he is going to get the very best horses available. general montgomery meigs was the army quartermaster. he writes this as you see it there. he draws this out. he tells his subordinates to direct the barricade. he is in the depot of alexandria across the streets. he designs the barricades and what they should look like. he tells them where they should be placed. may 26, now for whatever reason, all we have is heisman's note. they have an idea that the raid is going to focus in the area between fort lyon and fort ellsworth. so if you go back to the map, the two arrows at the very bottom of the map point to where fort lyon and fort ellsworth are. again, there is the little river turnpike. there is the bridges. the circle is annandale. on may 27th, they are talking about obstructing all the roads. and this idea has got to t

all of the mobile infantry's at the army of potomac. the only troops to defend washington are the men in the forts. they have no ability to chase down cavalry. if a horse had come they were certain that it could've succeeded. in conclusion, i think if you have trouble believing that they would've done this, remember, perception versus reality. the federals believed it, and they believe that because of what he had done in the christmas raid. by coming. the defenses, not going around them, he becomes a real fear in their lives. when this rate idea is dropped into highsmith's hands, they had no choice but to stay with it and bleated to the very end. because by the time it all transpires, the battle of gettysburg has already started. all right, i appreciate your time. >> if you're enjoying american history tv, then sign up for our newsletter using the qr code on the screen to receive the weekly schedule of upcoming programs like lectures and history, the presidency, and more. sign up for the american history tv newsletter today and be sure

remember general, i command the last reserve of the the army, the potomac. that was the excuse given. the fifth corps did not cross at the middle bridge. well, it's much more nuanced than that. let's look at porter's our report. he says later in the afternoon, i a report a request from pleasaon to send a division in to support those. beuse burnside and sumner were driving the enemy perfect timing to send troops against lee's center. but between the dispatching and receing of that call, the tide d ttle changed. burnside as his attack had faltered, as had sner. the army was at a stand these are his own words, by the way. i had not the force asked for could not risk the safety of artillery and the center of the line by diminishing my small. he didn't have he believed only 4000 men then in front line and unsupported. there also protecting all the wagons in the area. mcclellan is also to try to defend pitt's fitzjohn porter. the bottom line was you had two divisions here. two of the brigades were sent, another brigade was sent south. there's not a whole lot of fi

remember general, i command the last reserve of the the army, the potomac. that was the excuse given. the fifth corps did not cross at the middle bridge. well, it's much more nuanced than that. let's look at porter's our report. he says later in the afternoon, i a repo a request from pleasanton to send a division in to support those. because burnsidand sumner were driving the enemy perfect timing to send troops ain lee's center. but between the dispatching and receiving of that call, the tide had battle changed. burnside as his attack had faltered, as had sumner. the army was at a standhe are his own words, by the way. i had not the force asked for could not risk the safety of artillery and the center of the line by diminishing my small. he didn't have he believed only 4000 men then in front line and unsupported. there also protecting all the wagons in the area. mcclellan is also to try to defend pitt's fitzjohn porter. the bottom line was you had two divisions here. two of the brigades were sent, another brigade was sent south. there's not a whole lot of fi

michigan of the army of the potomac.we all know june 28 from the movie gettysburg, where they began the spy. and on june 28, riding in telling longstreet, i got to see general lee. and he tells them the yankees have, a new commander, and they're moving a lot faster than everybody thought. men are in they're actually, you know, cross of the mason-dixon line. yes, they are. robert e lee a menzies orders. we're to cash down and idlers bert. why? because i got to protect now the roads, the gettysburg. but that's june 28 while this is going on that morning here comes again our buddies here who are involved on a famous black horse they arrive and that's the only known sketch that i've ever seen done by an iowa nurse of the confederate army entering a town. lori miller york sketch society leaders water watercolors. the final version. but there's gordon and early on. oh, by the way, one last thing bristol city. what are the five iroquois women york have been told the confederates are going to pick a town, burn it to the ground.

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michigan of the army of the potomac.we all know june 28 from the movie gettysburg, where they began the spy. and on june 28, riding in telling longstreet, i got to see general lee. and he tells them the yankees have, a new commander, and they're moving a lot faster than everybody thought. men are in they're actually, you know, cross of the mason-dixon line. yes, they are. robert e lee a menzies orders. we're to cash down and idlers bert. why? because i got to protect now the roads, the gettysburg. but that's june 28 while this is going on that morning here comes again our buddies here who are involved on a famous black horse they arrive and that's the only known sketch that i've ever seen done by an iowa nurse of the confederate army entering a town. lori miller york sketch society leaders water watercolors. the final version. but there's gordon and early on. oh, by the way, one last thing bristol city. what are the five iroquois women york have been told the confederates are going to pick a town, burn it to the ground.

now, mind you, stuart is going to be across the potomac river. time is all out to catch the wagon train up around rockville. they're going the federales don't know this and i can't take the chance. what people said, well, i know now all i have to do is look back at 911, but all hearings about who knew what, when, where, who told what or who didn't tell if i didn't like the cia, see, i didn't want all the commission. if they had not they'd ignore the senators is never going to happen. and lincoln been kidnaped and held. this is a map by a general who was in arlington house he's his headquarters were legal. or the house of tom and it took me a while to figure out how to orient this map i was pretty clear on there he identifies bright little red returned the leesburg pike. but the only thing i didn't know was paget's tab. where in one side of your sliced search, a bunch of civil war maps find something i said paget's tavern anywhere in the map, so it makes sense so it's all upside down. that's why i put i went back so you can read it. you see how cl

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he speaking of the potomac river, he's speaking about retreat. as you know, one of the pontoon bridges, if not boat near williamsport port were destroyed by the federal forces. so they got to the river. there's no bridge, no pontoon bridge coming across the river was he says for he means full rights of the river flooding that's what he's talking here. the river was full and the wagons these are ambulances now washed down the river and. they was grounded. can you imagine seeing that? he saw these poor confederates from gettysburg, right. flailing about in the water, utterly helpless, drowning after, experiencing what he saw at cemeteries on july 2nd. oh, it dreadful that they come in. does do. i wouldn't mind if we ever irrigate anything or ever could expect to gain anything. and this is so telling. but just keep on fighting till they have all the men killed up and the big fellows have it all. what an outright rejection of these words. and boy, does he pull back the curtain to give us the darkness of war. word of the last letters. when wagner wrot

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the final moments of his speech just two weeks earlier, sputnik dived into the frigid waters of the potomac river to a passenger of an air florida that crashed into the 14th stre bridge during takeoff from what was then known as washington national airpo. we now know it, of course,s the ronald reagan airport. sputnik became overnight celebrity and thmea replaye heroic chant for millions of americans on the evening news, the white hoe invited sputnik and his wife linda to sit next to first lady nancy reagan in the house gallery during reagan's address and, the president concluded his speech by identifying sputnik as an example of the spirit of american heroism at its finest. even as he honored publicly, reagan also the young government employee, to represent what he called the, quote, quiet, everyday heroes, unquote, who sacrificed their time and their energy to revitalize the american spirit by pointing out sputnik to those in the house gallery and to millions of americans watching at home. reagan helped his audience visualize what. he was describing the ideals of a modern american hero wer

while some people might regard those moments, cool spring a picket line in the army, the potomac wherever it might seem insignia scant to us, to the made a widow, to a child made fatherless to a mother or father who lost a son to a sibling who lost a brother that moment their loved one was struck and died. it made that engagement. however large or small or popular it might be today, it made that moment the conflict's most significant for them. second, for families left behind the war's impact, as some of our presenters will reaffirm, throughout the course of our conference today. it did not end in 1865, but were felt years after the war. henrietta comerford did not come to that decision to kill herself until after the civil war as guns fell silent in. many instances they carried the pain of what had happened on the battlefield with them until grave. as a civil war entered its second summer, a resident of california, quite far away from the war's major theaters, pondered how history when the civil war finally ended, would remember the conflict. this unidentified thought that it was quite s

it's right across the potomac river from washington, d.c., and that's where officers. >> we're trying to serve a search warrant. the police said in a statement that the suspect fired several shots inside the home. >> and then explosion happened, as you can see this explosion created a huge flared. it also knocked out power for some homes in the area. this, of course, is a developing story and we'll update you as soon as we learn more information. you need to taunlikely customer made its way through sam's club in corona. there she goes. a deer caught on camera. >> going through the automatic doors into the stores. you can see it even walked to the electronic section. police eventually caught up with the deer. they say before it went, sam's club run through some backyards and even to the dip in a pool. animal control having a good time as you would do. animal control eventually really severe back into the wild. supposed to be. well, this rescue was a first for palo alto animal control. you're looking at the spotted in the method arrow creek over the weekend. looking rather unwell. offic

and it was necessary because of the potomac companies charter, the first company charter in multiples states. and george washington was the first president of the first company chartered. and that happened right here at mount vernon because were supposed to meet in alexandria, the george washington, in his wily way, manipulated them in the meeting at mount vernon itself. and that's the peek behind the curtain there. the good so excellent 100 points for mary bill there and is the question for you so mary bilder what is the deal with mary get last quote what is the deal with madison's notes? oh yeah. so so how do we what's going on? i wrote a book about this. it's not the that's out there. my, my more fun book to read. female geniuses out there but but most of what we know about the convention comes from madison's notes. there were many people who took notes, but his notes are the only notes that cover every day, and they cover it like a little and even people who know that they're reading through madison's eyes, you can't help it. you just end up telling the story the way he he told it

he wants the army of potomac to get credit for this. johnson down there in north or alina saenz back to lee, you know, i can't stop sherman. about 15,000 men maybe. the only thing i can really do is annoy him. this is us to what is lee actually thinking in these last two weeks of the war? go ahead. here is his staff. imagine running a whole war with four guys. the staff is terribly overworked. he was called faithful old venable wiley. 19 years younger than lee. professor of math at the university of virginia. in farmville at a house on longwood house. kind of an interesting little ted bit of back there. born in 1838 in portsmouth. although at one time, he was expelled and was allowed to come back. on the staff, he became inspector general on lee's staff. wounded at sailors creek, kept a diary of the war and died in 1937. the oldest surviving member of lee's staff. the interview was interesting. his diaries and papers are at the virginia historical society. charles marshall. notice that these guys are all from virginia. most of the actio

on kay yak day, she invited him as my kayaking partner and nothing like the two-hour trip down the potomac to learn about somebody. >> sink or swim is where that relationship was going. >> and she did go away from public life with her failing health, and with that comes the presence of the public conversation or even sort of being a mentor continuing on for girls. so what do you hope that young girls today might not know and they should take from o'c o'connor? >> i want the young girls to know her legacy and what she did. she graduated in the top 10% of her law class in stanford, and she had one job offer in the private sector as a legal secretary. and she could not get an attorney job, and that is why she went to government, and it is the sort of perseverance when the odds are seeming against you and the odds seem to have you down, dig in and try harder, and that is what she did. she proved to a whole generation that there is no ceiling for women in the law. we can do whatever we want, and i hope that young girls watching today who have not thought about themselves as a legal career give

two weeks earlier sputnik dived into the frigid waters of the potomac river of an air florida ple that crashed into the 14 straight ridgeuring takeoff from what was known as washington nationa airport that becameme known as the ronald ag airport. he became a celebrity in the media -- the white house invited spniand his wife in the house gallery during reagan's address of the president concluded his speech by identifying sputnik is an example of the experience of american heroism. even as he honored sputnik post publicly reagan used a government employee to represent what he called the quote countless every day heros and quote. he sacrificed their time and energy to idolize the american spirit. by pointing out sputnik to those assembled in the gallery millions of americans watching how reagan helped his audience visualize the ideals of the modern american hero reflected the lenny sputnik. this pursuit to sputnik or did they stay the union address. prior to that presence relied on language to deliver the congress. reagan featured a hero introducing a new strategy by which president displ

so these people move to the potomac as isn't that it was a funding society. and people also raised capital sheep and go see good. so there's the vantage hospitals and they develop specialized methods of funding and breeding livestock on to mom. but it was a social hierarchy, but we've not yet been able to determine the presence of a differentiation in social status. there's no, there's not lies in the, the houses are all about the same size. and that indicates that this was an egalitarian society. it also appears that they were built close together. there was no room for pathways between them. the rooms of the houses were very small. the people seem to have spent a lot of time on the roofs. the the small chambers were used to store food and house livestock. a lot of lot shot from on this side was very kind of loops on the home semester. so for example, we determine that all 3 of these passageways of the same height of the, at the small max is and the masonry is quite neatly laid in places caused investment. so it's lucky that specialist did it in the early da

in 2014 potomac books daughter of the lost cause. his narrative nonfiction book entitled the league of lives the untold story of the woman who took on the u.s. government to bring their husband over vietnam was published by saint martin's press in 2019 was auctioned by reese witherspoon film company hello sunshine feature film. writes about women's history and politics for publication such as time, the hill, the atlantic white house history quarterly. her next book is the first commercial biography first lady pat nixon in over 30 years. the book we published by st. martin's press 2024. welcome to history happy hour. >> thank you so much. and thank you to the white house historical association for hosting me tonight. i also want to thank the nixon foundation and the nixon library for all of their help facilitating my research with a special shout out to the head archivist at the foundation for all of his help. thank you all for that. i am excited to jump in and talk about the world war ii. and that nixon story during that era it with

in 2014, potomac books published keats prize winning book. wendy davis, daughter of the lost cause, heath's narrative nonfiction book entitled the league of wives untold story of the woman who took on the u.s. government to bring their husbands home from vietnam was published by st martin's press in 2019 and was optioned. reese witherspoon's film company hello sunshine for a feature film. heath writes about women's history and politics for publications such as time, the hill, the atlantic and white house history quarterly. her next book is the first commercial biography of first lady pat nixon in over years. the book will be by st martin's press 2024. heat welcome to history. happy hour. thank you so much, rob. and thank you. the white house historical association and for hosting me tonight. i also wanted to thank the nixon foundation and nixon library for all their help facilitating my research. with a special shout out to jason and jason schwartz the head archivist at the foundation and for all his help so. thank you all for that and i'm ex

washington at the library there about mount vernon itself is this sprawling property overlooking the potomacame the center of the political and the nation as washington was there after the war and after his presidency. he welcomed people to mount vernon. if you are going to see the founding of our country, mount vernon is a part of it. they do a fantastic job and lay out washington's job in visual form. more than any place in the world but. >> i regret we cannot discuss your book more because there's so much we have not even touched on. i want to encourage people that satisfy people write books you cannot cover it on tv and radio it the way you should to rescue the constitution george washington the fragile american experiment fit is out tuesday. >> it is out tuesday women our special on sunday, sunday night 10:00 p.m. that puts a visual sense on a lot of this book. but you talking about it your love of history and how you tie that into today is really why i wanted to come here first. if anybody gets it, you get it free. >> it's an honor and you came to the best audience of audiences. you ca

potomac books, published winnie davis, daughter of the lost cause. the book, league of why, untold story of the women who tooken the u.s. government to bring their husbands home from vietnam was pub published by st. martin press and from reese witherspoon's hello sunshine, for film. the next book is the book of the first lady and st. martin press in 2024. heath, welcome to history happy hour. >> thank you so much, rob, and thank you to the white house's historical association for hosting me tonight. i also wanted to thank the nixon foundation and the nixon library for all of their help facilitating my research and a special shutout to jason schwartz, the head archivist for the foundation for all of his help. so thank you all for that and i'm excited to jump in and talk about the world war ii period and the nixon story during that era with you this evening. first, i want to start with a little world war ii context in case you've forgotten about that. just very basic things. world war ii was declared in europe september 1st of 1939. the u.s., as you ma

vernon on the banks of the potomac river. this was george washington's home. his business and his most beloved place on earth. but his dedication to his country is best measured by the time he spent away from here. >> his dedication is beste measuresov by the time he spent away from here, 8n. spent away from here, 8n. years th then to preside overnati constitutional convention. and another 8 years, when he served as infant nation's firsto rt president. my latest tell-all book, to rescue the constitution. washington. i tell the story of how washington was human embodiment of document that guarantees our liberty that will end here at mount vernon, but it begins on another virginia plantation not far away. >> washington was born in 1732 when british coloniesonis were still out boasts. outpost.g >>us mew world held promise, many colonists became healthy from tobacco farming, includes georgeck father, augustestine. they overlooked the river across from fredericks berg, across from fredericks berg, virginia. their comfortable life would not last. >> his father died

. >> is an independent historian, biographer and curator. 2014 potomac books produced his prize-winningook, whitney davis the daughter of the lost cause.he his narrative nonfiction book entitled the league of wives, the untold story of the woman who took on thein u.s. governmet to bring their husbands home from vietnam was published by st. martin's press in 2019 was auction but reese witherspoon film country hello sunshine feature film he writes about women's history and politics for publication such as time, the hill, the lancet, at white house history quarterly. her nextdy book of diverse commercial biography in over 30 years the book will be published by st. martin's press in 2024. heath, welcome to history happy hour. >> thank you so much and thank you to the white house historical association for hosting me tonight. i also wanted to thank the nixon foundation and the nixon library follow their help facilitate my research with a special shout out to jason short the head archivist as the foundation for all of his help. i am excited to jump in and talk about the world war ii. in the n

he tells us that large pumps of the legal sex, industry and potomac, are in the hands of the chinese mafia. we use the opportunity to learn more about them and from franks, the team custody. what have become? how do you recently announced that the cobra bar in pattaya was closed because under age prostitutes worked there. you said that a german customer was arrested. could you tell us what's happened to the suspect? when do you make it? yes, i'd be pleased to witnesses. we questions said he had sex with at least one under age prostitute. he's been charged with child abuse by the british owner of the bar is being investigated for human trafficking. the german is being held in pattaya. we're waiting for the trial to start the deputy police chief message was clear. they will be no lenient c for pay. the final 6 tourists. the lowest will be applied to the full extent. but what he didn't know at the time was that the german suspect would successfully escape from thailand just 7 days later on the scandalous circumstances we manage to get in touch with the man of the he flipped to germany,

vernon on the banks of the potomac river. this was george washington's home. his business and his most beloved place on earth. but his dedication to his country is best measured by the time he spent away from here. eight years of the revolution, and then again to preside over the constitutional convention. and, of course, another eight years when he served as the infant nation's first president. in my latest tell all book, “to rescue the constitution, george washington and the fragile american experiment”, i tell the story of how washington was the human embodiment of the document that guarantees our liberty. it's a story that will end here at mt. vernon, but it begins on another virginia plantation. not far away. washington was born in 1732 when the british colonies were still just fledgling outposts. the new world held promise, and many colonists had become wealthy from tobacco farming, including george washington's father, augustine. their home stood on this 280 acre property overlooking the rappahannock river, across from fredericksburg, virginia, but thei