here are northeasterners using stonewall jackson to sell soap. what an explosion in jackson's public image, in just a period of a few weeks. that of course is my main thing today. an aside from the phrenology. maybe some of you are young enough that have never been exposed to it. pseudo science that the bumps on your cranium showed your strengths and weaknesses. and this was one of the eccentric enthusiasms. his library, which survived quite extensively, a few miles from here on the boulevard, includes two phrenological volumes. one is something like marriage or a guide for choosing a life's mate. you were supposed to feel his or her head and look for the bump that had to do with love, sentiment, music. jackson presumably was concave for music since he was tone deaf. this has fallen out of vote. but the fact that it was in the american phrenological journal seems to be a footnote. when he launched his epic venture he had no cache whatsoever. just none. public mentioned of him in the valley. usually poked fun at him in the southern newspapers. not

he wrote, the dreaded form of stonewall jackson seemed to lurk in every bush. well, if jackson was lurking in a bush during the seven days, it was probably to sleep when he should have been doing something else. but the fact people were terrified of him is pretty significant. the utterly unknown military school professor, by the time his death, had become the great dread of the yankees. that's a quote from one the confederates. the legend continued to expand after his death. i have been shackled with the injunction that i'm not to talk about anything that happened after 1862. your window of discussion is 1862. but evidence of jackson's impact upon the psyche north and south comes from a wonderful court martial in acheson, kansas, in 1864 after jackson was long dead. i was amused when i found this. a citizen named a.r. earl ran a little store, in the summer of 1864, a court marshall tried him for treason. now, this fellow, under the constitution, there's no way a military tribunal could try him. there was no martial law enforced, but they were pretty much ignorin

jackson, stonewall jackson's valley campaign. no civil war campaign has been more closely identified with the victorious commander, i would argue, than this campaign. but today our focus is going to be a bit unconventional. our remarks look at the campaign not from the perspective of victorious general, what he accomplished, so much as from that of the losers, or more pointedly, loser, as you'll see from the title of my talk, president abraham lincoln and union defeat. dr. robertson in his presentation so eloquently spoke of lincoln's intuitive understanding of grant's abilities and the way lincoln over the course of the first three years of the war had learned to allow generals of great talent to pretty much run things at an operational level. the lincoln in early 1862 was a far different lincoln. he was inexperienced at the art of command, role of commander in chief. i want to rest a moment, not taking you through the troop movements in the valley campaign, i just want you to bear in mind four towns. harpers ferry in the north,

they said that's stonewall jackson. he said is that devil here? betraying the attitude. an indiana soldier, a hoosier, referred to jackson as a prince of bushwhackers, kind of enviously and has outgeneralled call of our commanders. a new yorker writing in the popular press in the north in june said, oh, that the union could find someone as dashing and plucky as this stonewall jackson. one of the favorite court-martials i have ever seen among the 88,000 was of a quartermaster named simms in the fall of 1862. simms was court-martialed for treason. what he had said was, stonewall jackson has whipped us every time we fight him. and for saying such an outrageous thing, he was found guilty. a pennsylvanian, june '62, i'm sorry to say i have frequently heard our men talk as though they believe jackson could not be whipped. in fact, he has to become what might be called a bugaboo. all of this, attitudes in the south and the north, where there had been no doubt of success in the north and not much hope for success in the south after henry and donaldson and all of the , jackson wha

and his nomination was thomas stonewall jackson, general thomas stonewall jackson. we're going to talk to robert krick momentarily and also take your phone calls, as well. here are the phone lines if you live in the eastern and central time zone, the number is 202-585-3885, mountain and pacific, 202-585-3886. make sure you do mute your television when you call in so you don't feedback. you can participate online even if you don't want to call in at twitter.com/c-span. we will focus specifically on the #poty 1862, if you put that in your tweet, we'll try to read some of those. we already have some posts on facebook, facebook.com/c-span. you can join in with your nomination for the person of the year 1862, and just a couple of them want. want the take a look at that now. writing in for lincoln. justin says it should be lincoln in september of '62. with the emancipation proclamation. also paul martin says the abolitionist william lloyd garrison. we'll look at a couple of those and take your phone calls, as well. robert krick joins us from the library of virginia in ric

the nominees are frederick douglass, stonewall jackson, admiral david farragut and george mcclellan. you're watching live all-day coverage on "american history tv" on c-span3.

but as bob crick reminded us, it was not really a good dayall day for stonewall jackson who had a part to play and decided not to. the union general, mcclellan, after glendale, sent this message to the war department. notice the tone. i shall do my best to save the army. but we know that well before the battles of glendale and malverne hill, george mcclellan's conception of how victory could be won was badly shaken. this ld historian once again provides his insights into the character of this general who was actually just too closely wedded to his preconceived notions of how war should be fought. in a chapter with a marvelous title "billy yanks chickahogany blues" the historian writes, the failure of mcclellan's peninsula campaign was not alone a military failure. it represented also the downfall of the limited war for limited ends that mcclellan favored. from now on the north would fight not to preserve the old union but to destroy it and build a new one on its ashes. a concept so dear to men like mcclellan when eventually reconciliation some sort of gentleman's agreement was being wa

nathaniel green is the stonewall jackson of the american revolution. the british voice, the stonewall jackson of the british army is charles corn wallace. this is another interesting. this is the next story. i'll be writing. i should have a manuscript by the end of next summer. they are already scheduling it for publication this time in two years. that's just a big tease. if you like this -- >> that's marketing. >> now it's marketing, right. let's not make any mistakes here. also, i would like to tell you, we are, because i get this question a lot. i know a lot of you are waiting to hear something definite. there's going to be a film of "gods and generals." august 28th is the scheduled start date. they are internet savvy. go to www.ronmaxwell.com. there is all kinds of information there about casting. we are still in the process of casting stonewall jackson. that is a challenge. there is a lot of things going on right now this minute, not the least of which had to do with the strike of the settled yesterday. that is huge. a lot of the cast -- i mean yo

stonewall jackson and battlefield.ll of that coming up next. >>> it's time for usa today high school sports presented by toyota. >> god, i love that music. what's up, everybody. stonewall jackson, confederate general known for his ground attacks. stonewall jackson high school known for their ground attacks. four games in and they've been at or near 200 yards rushing every time out. but in combat will field tonight. they know -- in come battlefield tonight. they know how to play. here comes battlefield. stonewall's desmond hopkins wearing number 24 kind of looking like revis right there. not just a pick but the return too. bob, weave, do your thing. nice return for stonewall jackson. later this time nick newman. nick at night number 9 for 6. he takes it deep. 80 points between these two teams tonight. to the 4th quarter we go. down the stretch. 10 seconds to go. greg strollman finds hopkins. that man again in the corner. the raiders remaining undefeated in a good one 42-38. >> we knew that we had the ability to get this

second he's going to bring stonewall jackson's very effective but still rather small force from the shenandoah valley to reinforce the defenses of richmond, that he would send his young cavalry chief jeb stewart on a reconnaissance that two inform him as to the extent and location of the mcclellan's union forces and having done all that he initiated the series of pounding, direct, and very, very bloody assaults aimed at pushing the union forces away. on the 26th of june, beaver dam creek near mechanicsville, 27th of june gaines million. 29th of june, savages station. 30th of june, glendale. and finally, on the 1st of july, the terrible battle at malverne hill. in the course of one week the battle of the seven days, robert e. lee would lose 20,000 casualties. a fourth of his army. in doing so, he was somewhat disappointed that he didn't get the resounding victory that he'd planned for. he wrote his wife our success has not been as great or as complete as i could have desired, and in his official report to the confederate war department he stated under ordinary circumstances the federal army sho

the nominees are frederick douglass, stonewall jackson, admiral david farragut and george mcclellan. you're watching live all-day coverage on "american history tv" on c-span3. >> ladies and gentlemen, if you could return to your seats and let us get restarted. is the mike not on yet? okay, good. the mike's on? okay. ladies and gentlemen, let's get restarted. gee whiz, jack mountcastle, george mcclellan, what an interesting choice. it's my great pleasure to introduce our fifth and final nominator, emery thomas. he drove up from athens, georgia, where he's a professor of history emeritus at the university of georgia, but he's really coming home. he and his wife fran are native richmo richmonders. as a matter of fact, emery starred on the thomas jefferson high school football team as the center and the quarterback was james henry benford p.iii who is now the superintendent at the virginia military institute. emery went from thomas jefferson to the university of virginia, where he was a two-sports star. one as the center on the football team, and two is the captain of the party team at t

your nomination was thomas stonewall jackson. outside of 9 south the south, h mon known was jackson? >> he was barely known in the south and probably pot at all in the north. the impact seems to be a consequence of the explosion as though on a catapult to fame. the impact went from nothing to a great deal. and that is part of my case in making him the man of the year for 1862. he gave the south the opportunity to look for some success and find a good bit of it later this 1862. they had had none, not a hint of success until jackson. a little bit in march, but mostly then may and june of 1862 in virginia shenandoah valley. won victories that were of some consequence. they had some substance, but they were not as important as actual fact as they were in the minds on both sides about the new nation having a life, having some potential, having some capacity to succeed. >> toward the end of your comments, make you the poiyou yu thought jackson would have been a failure as the head of an army and certainly his legacy after his death cer

but if we think of the big three, lee, grant, sherman, stonewall jackson, longstreet, all west pointers and all have gone through that experience. >> host: when it comes down to the civil war you have generals on the south, generals on the north who have been train in the same ways. what does that do to some of the conflicts? >> guest: for me the most important thing that happens -- the most important end result of that is that the wars are fighting clones of each other because their leadership models, they're experiences are similar. what happens is that the armies are locked in what i call an equilibrium of competence. they're fighting mirror images of one another. the war done end in '61, first bull run, doesn't end in '62, '63. takes until 1865 and it's a long process, and it's partly because the army, since they start out with very similar institutional models, they learn at similar rates. so they both get much better. but they get better at about the same pace. so, you can still have a battlefield decisions. obviously the north wins. but the -- a lot of times in military history,

tommy stonewall jackson. mccallum always gets it first. how did stonewall jackson die? no. >> do you? >> he was killed. >> on a stone wall. >> he was killed. >> how did he die? he was killed. >> you got to give me a little more to win oo i am going to call it a tie. >> next great american news quiz in a moment. we are not talking about our cable news competition. we are talking about real disasters. this place is next. >> tonight the great american news quiz, the disaster edition. the first one we have chosen is hollywood's take on earthquakes has led to terrifying movie scenes. >> deadliest earthquake in world history occurred in 1556 killed 830,000 people in which country a iran c china scotland b brazil. worst in history 830,000 dead and it went where? the answer is china. there are a lot of people in that period. >> where would they be? in china. >> 853 solid today. >> number two when the >> you find that system appealing? >> i do. >> i was sleeping under a bridge here i am on the grandest ship in the world having champagne with you fine people. >> the wealthyest pa

when stonewall jackson had died, had he not died, who do you think he would have sided with at gettysburg, general lee or longstreet? >> i think he would have sided with lee. like lee, jackson always wanted to seize and hold the initiative and take the offensive. he was more of an offensive commander than a defensive commander in contrast to longstreet. so i'm fairly confident he would have sided with lee on those decisions. >> james mcpherson, we appreciate you joining us this afternoon. we'll wait with all of the rest of our viewers to see if your choice, admiral david farragut is picked as person of the year 1862 and remind our viewers that we have covered a number of events with james mcpherson in the past of his many books and you can find many of those in our video library. thank you for joining us this afternoon. >> thank you for having me. >> we are going to stay live. we'll go back live momentarily to richmond. we'll hear from john mountcastle. he is a former chief of military history for the army. he'll be the fourth out of five historians speaking at the library of virginia in

osborne and stonewall jackson faced off in tonight's game of the week. , both perfect in district play. this would be a battle. osborne senior guard cedric delaney to cory bedford, two of the 14 points, 14-29 eagles. it's time for osborne's other senior guard robin carter. the eagles led 58-41. carter puts the finishing touches on all by himself. osborne goes on to win over stonewall jackson 82-73. >> to have the two quality teams going at it on a friday night, a packed gym, a lot of enthusiasm by both fans, it's been a long time since this end of the county has had this time of environment and i was happy to be part of it. >> you can log onto www.myfoxdc.com to vote for next friday's match-ups. that's all for sports, but the news edge at 11:00 will be right back.  >>> one last look at that five- day forecast. 15 seconds left in the show, we gave gary the rest of the night off. bundle up. keep that heavy jacket handy. 36 degrees on sunday, warming up a little bit for martin luther king, jr. holiday. have a fantastic long weekend if you

as historic at abraham lincoln and stonewall jackson. when you play somebody, you have to play it with all the self love and self-loathing they have. you have to embrace the character. my motto is and this i stated several times in avatar because people after avatar people come up to me constantly and say, i really hate you. and, you know, they mean it in the nicest way. my feeling for characters is -- if i don't love them who will? and if i love them deeply and enough, then i can bring you to some kind of understanding. or not even an understanding. recognition. i just want you to recognize you know? so what that is, to me my relationship with my characters is many things but one of the things it is is an act of kindness, me towards the characters and i've come to believe as i've gotten older that the most important life lesson -- the most important quality that in my life is kindness. more so than intelligence or anything. but if you can live a kind life, then i think you'll die happy, which is yet to be determined, of course. >> steve

we've got two of the five, stonewall jackson and frederick douglass. let's go have lunch. i would remind you that your lunches are in order of alphabet. so look for your name and i hope you know how to spell it. we will reconvene here at exactly 12:40 to get restarted with jim mcpherson. on american history tv on c-span3, we're bringing you all-day coverage from the library of virginia in richmond, with a look at the person of the year, 1862. the premise, if "time" magazine had been around in 1862, who would they have selected as their person of the year. so far we've heard from two historians, robert krick and david blight. you heard david choosing frederick douglass as his choice for person of the year 1862 and robert krick who was the chief historian at fredericksburg for 30 years chose thomas stonewall jackson. we're going to open our phone lines here and take your calls. so you can get a chance to talk to david blight momentarily. the numbers are if you are on the eastern seaboard, if you're eastern and central time zones, 202-585-3885. mountain and pacific, 202-585-3

robert krick chose thomas stonewall jackson. we will open up our phone lines here to take your calls so you get a chance to talk to david blight momentarily. if you are on east coast, the number is 202-585-3885. mountain and pacific, 202-585-3886. if you want to tweet us us, #poty1862. we have a tweet from someone who agree was professor blight. i think frederick douglass should be person of the year 1862. we are posting the question on our facebook page. if you want to look at facebook and post your comments, you are welcome to do that. a couple here. steven says, lincoln was person of the year every year he was president. i suppose next to abe in 1862, you have to choose robert e. lee. david blight joins us from the library in virginia. he will take your phone calls. david blight, welcome to american history tv. >> thank you very much. glad to be here. >> frederick douglass was born a slave, but in eastern shore of maryland, how did he become such an interesting part of the abolitionist movement? >> he did not become part of t

how did stonewall jackson die?> bill: do you know how he died no. >> he was killed. >> bill: he was killed. how did he die some he was killed. you have to give me a little more. >> he was shot. >> bill: by? >> somebody with a gun. >> by his own forces. i'm going to call it a tie. you are always brilliant. next the great american news quiz, we're not talking about cable news, we're talking about >> bill: back with the great american news quiz, the disaster edition. first one is hollywood's take on earthquakes has led to terrifying movie scenes. >> bill: wow! deadliest earthquake in world history occurred in 155667 it killed 830,000 people in what country? >> bill: the answer is china. you should both, using sherlock holmes. >> where would i be in china! i know. >> 830,000 people. >> until the earthquake. >> bill: i know you guys got it. these are trained professionals allegedly. >> allegedly, right. >> bill: number two, when the titanic went down, many wealthy passengers died. >> the ticket on titanic at a lucky han

they lead the troops in a counterattack against john brown, stonewall jackson turns up there. it's almost a prequel to "gods and generals." which was a prequel to "gettysburg." jefferson davis is leading the charge in congress. but in the final twist it's at brown's hanging, one of the guards is john wilkes booth, who later writes about being quite inspired by brown or talks to his sister about it. she writes about it. she calls him the great man of the century. here's a man that took an act that changed the course of american history, and that's ultimately what john wilkes booth then does in assassinating lincoln. >> chill bumps. i got 'em. i hope you all do, too. when you read this book, you're going to get more, because i'm going to tell you something that you do so remarkably well, and that is these names, they're names on history book pages for most people. you actually open up their hearts, their lives, their thoughts and fears to us. there are stories in here that are just astonishingly powerful, one of which is the story of african-american newby who was a freed black

stonewall jackson the man, soldier, the legend. name would be enshrined among the greatest civil war historians of our time. or more accurately of all time. as it happens, he has written or edited over 20 books during a career that spans more than half a century, a body of work for which he has received every major award given in the field of civil war history. among his titles are such landmark studies as stonewall brigade and soldiers blue and gray. he not only has been a distinguished scholar, but a revered teacher as well. his lecture course for undergraduates at virginia tech averaged an enrollment of about 300 students per semester and has been called the largest civil war history class in american higher education. robertson trained at emory under the late bill wily. it truly can be said, if you will pardon a slightly vernacular, nonacademic expression, that the student has done the mentor proud. as you will see from our program, from your program, our first speaker is sy bunting who will offer answers to the question what w

stonewall jackson, a leading part of the force, takes harper's ferry a few days before, and that's why the battle happened. the union realizes lee has divided his army. they attack. and, as you said, as a result of antietum, which is seven miles from the kennedy farm, lincoln issues the emancipation proclamation. so, you know, this incredible journey in our history all occurs in this very tight geographic area. i mean, it really is quite stunning. this is the irony while i was sort of, not bashing lincoln, but suggesting that he wasn't the great emancipator initially that people imagined. he actually was on the conservative end of the anti-slavery spectrum. and this comes through again very much in his attitude towards brown. the great irony is that he eventually comes around to brown's position and that slavery -- this must become a war against slavery and ends up, you know, taking the step that begins to fulfill brown's mission, but also like brown, becomes a martyr through the cause. here's a final strange twist in their connection. one of the odd things about the harper's ferry sto

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how did stonewall jackson die?w how he died no. >> he was killed. >> bill: he was killed. how did he die some he was killed. you have to give me a little more. >> he was shot. >> bill: by? >> somebody with a gun. >> by his own forces. i'm going to call it a tie. you are always brilliant. next the great american news quiz, we're not talking about cable news, we're talking about [ fabric flapping in wind ] ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ [ flapping continues ] ♪ ♪ [ male announcer ] at nissan, our ideal is innovation. 5 all-new models over the next 15 months, including a completely reimagined altima. welcome to our most innovative year ever. nissan. innovation for all. ♪ >> bill: back with the great american news quiz, the disaster edition. first one is hollywood's take on earthquakes has led to terrifying movie scenes. >> bill: wow! deadliest earthquake in world history occurred in 155667 it killed 830,000 people in what country? >> bill: the answer is china. you should both, using sherlock holmes. >> where would i be in china! i know.

how did stonewall jackson die?er ] >> bill: do you know how he died no. >> he was killed. >> bill: he was killed. how did he die some he was killed. you have to give me a little more. >> he was shot. >> bill: by? >> somebody with a gun. >> by his own forces. i'm going to call it a tie. you are always brilliant. next the great american news quiz, we're not talking about quiz, we're not talking about cable news, we're talking about so, ah, your seat good? got the mirrors all adjusted? you can see everything ok? just stay off the freeways, all right? i don't want you going out on those yet. mmm-hmm. and just leave your phone in your purse. i don't want you texting, all right? daddy...ok! ok, here you go. be careful. thanks dad. call me -- but not while you're driving. ♪ [ dad ] we knew this day was coming. that's why we bought a subaru. ♪ [ male announcer ] remember when you were a kid? you ked getting dirty and building things. there were no limits -- yocould move mountains. the john deere 1 series subcompact tractor

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it is part of stonewall jackson's arm ney 1852. she's captured at the battle of town in march and goes back home to win chester and two months later, what happens with the union army marches into that city. she is a paroled prisoner of war and she's basically obligated to stay out of the action and there are union soldiers in her town and how do you think they treat her? soldiers should treat this prisoner with respect, but they know what she's going to do. she'll go back and join stonewall jackson's army. so is she going sit there and endure the union soldiers jeering at her and probably stealing all of her personal possessions and her chickens and cows and what have you? no. she'll not sit there and take it. she will eagerly await them to rejoin her army and take it. since the union army can do nothing to check to see if she's adhering to her parole she'll do it. think about this, if she violates her parole and she's captured a few years later in the battles of the shenandoah valley and the union soldiers captures her, what's she

you know, let's say katie, for instance, is part of stonewall jackson's army in 1862. she's captured at the battle of kernstown in march and then she signs a parole, goes back home to winchester. two months later, what happens but the union army marches into that city. now, she is a paroled prisoner of war. and she is basically obligated to kind of stay out of the action. but yet there are union soldiers in her hometown milling about. how do you think they treat her? >> badly. >> not well, right? i mean, these union soldiers should treat this prisoner with respect. but they know what she's going to do. when she's finally exchanged, she's going to go back and join stonewall jackson's army. so is she just going to sit there and endure these union soldiers jeering at her, probably stealing all of her personal possessions and her chickens and cows and what have you? no. she's not going to sit there and take it. she's going to be probably eagerly awaiting the opportunity to rejoin her army, and she'll do it. and since the union army can do nothing to check to see if she's a

how did stonewall jackson die? [ laughter ] >> bill: do you know how he died, maccallum. >> um. >> bill: no? do you? >> he was killed. >> bill: he was killed. right? he was killed. >> bill: how did he die? he was killed. have you got to give me more to win. >> it was a sad event. he was shot. >> do tell us. >> bill: by? >> somebody with a gun. >> bill: his own forces. i'm going to call it a tie. you both win the prizes. you are a dunder head and you are always brilliant. thank you very much. okay. pinheads and patriots on deck. mark wahlberg saying controversial stuff about 9/11 and then apologizing. p and p back in just over two minutes. it's your social network. all mixed together. with galaxy nexus by samsung, now you can organize your contacts into circles, like you do in real life. so you can choose what people see and what they don't. and with the speed of verizon 4g lte, you can chat as a group in a googleplus hangout without missing a beat. introducing the first phone built for android 4.0. only at verizon.

how did stonewall jackson die? >> a stonewall. [ laughter ] >> bill: do you know how he died, maccallum. >> um. >> bill: no? do you? >> he was killed. >> bill: he was killed. right? he was killed. >> bill: how did he die? he was killed. have you got to give me more to win. >> it was a sad event. he was shot. >> do tell us. >> bill: by? >> somebody with a gun. >> bill: his own forces. i'm going to call it a tie. you both win the prizes. you are a dunder head and you are always brilliant. thank you very much. okay. pinheads and patriots on deck. mark wahlberg saying controversial stuff about 9/11 and then apologizing. p and p back in just over two [ male announcer ] lately, there's been a seismic shift in what passes for common sense. used to be we socked money away and expected it to grow. then the world changed... and the common sense of retirement planning became anything but common. fortunately, td ameritrade's investment consultants can help you build a plan that fits your life. take control by opening a new acco