you know, beginning with benjamin butler in may 1861, after the emancipation proclamation. as i said, it's only when they march into a confederate territories that the emancipation proclamation takes force. so i think there are major, major player here. well, miles, i think looking back as historians, we like to have is colton you picture of like this person did this there's well i think it's also a portrait of knows that i guess like i she's like three groups all have their individual and phrase like people sort of like people themselves still speaking against you know just this to the policies you have just i'm sure people you did army actually fighting about an op ed for it and then politicians like lincoln action they were these you know abolition, you know all a legal force. absolutely. all those three dissolving binaries. we can't just focus on just. yeah gas affairs. yeah. yeah. that's really well said, i think is a great example. historical change. it's a team effort. different people motivated by different things, but they're all kind pushing together towards this

the men were interrogated and then taken to major general benjamin butler, who had just arrived two days prior to their arrival at fort monroe. for further examination and i. i encourage you to take the time and i'm just going to go back to this original picture. i encourage you to take the time to visit fort monroe, because right there. they're in the house headquarters, number one, that still exists. and the people can show you where that room is. that this eventred. so what these three men did was important in extorting area. they explained that their owner had made to withdraw the forces from the area and to take all the enslaved laborers who had been conscripted to build fortifications over there. as soon as point for the confederacy with them. one account mentioned that the enslavement site owner, colonel c.l. mallow of hampton, planned to ship out all the enslaved men to florida. while other accounts claimed that the strategy was to their forces in north carolina. way the intent was to take them far from home. their families. and for these men that was unthinkable. frank baker was

benjamin butler, the army, the james attack from june 100. there will be cavalry campaigns in the southwest of the state. and you have another force assigned to neutralize the shenandoah valley. this story really starts with the shenandoah valley, something since very beginning of the war. stonewall jackson in 1862, the second battle of winchester. later in june of 1863. so in the spring of 1864, the shenandoah valley will be the responsibility of a man named fran absolutely nowhere. fran siegel is very quickly defeated at the battle of newmarket 15th, 1864, and retreats back towards harperfer. he is going to be replaced by a man named david hunter, who is ,d■■é of basically fixing siegel's broken force and making another push into the shenandoah. one quick thing about shenandoah valley geography, right? if you're heading south through the valley, you are moving down the valley right? or moving up the valley. excuse me. it helps if i get it right. the first time. right. so they're moving up the valley. so when we talk about jubal early counte

applying to future insurrections, the answer to that was on page three of the brief, quoting senator benjamin butler on the debate on the 14th amendment. saying, this is to go into our constitution and to stand to govern future insurrection as well as the president present. the brief tells the story of how the 14th amendment prevented jefferson davis, the president of the confederate states of america, from even attempting to run for the senate, or run for the presidency of the united states after the civil war. the grief tells the story of members of the confederacy who were barred from holding federal office, automatically, and without trial. quote, when the democrat alexander h. stevens, the former vice president of the confederacy, was elected to the u.s. senate. the clerk of congress refused to call the names of the ex confederates at role and they were never seated. simple as that. before drafting the 14th amendment, a special joint committee of congress heard testimony from 145 witnesses. the brief, the historians brief presents the testimony of j w -- , who was questions about the conditions

who was killed in the us started striking 4 years ago is ready. prime minister benjamin netanyahu sent a warning task butler and a message to israelis living close to 11. of course, we will do everything we can to restore security in the north and allow your families because many of you are locals to return home safely and in the knowledge we are not to be trifled with. we will do whatever is necessary. although he went on to say that he would prefer not to carry out a large scale bombing campaign. those commons coming as international diplomacy is in full swing to stop and all that will and keep tensions contained within the dispute in food area. the german foreign minister arrives in baby route on tuesday, and also this week, a top of diplomats from the united states amos hosting also arrives now he was in israel last week. these right? these gave him a proposal to push hezbollah deep into lebanese territory impossibility river, but that proposal was already rejected by his boy's bullet. don't want to negotiate anything while the war in gaza is continuing. so what he has to offer will be closely watched w

um now in terms of has been a lot of problem is benjamin as him also released the statement earlier wanting his butler saying, look at from us, look at what we're doing to it and how we are winning this wars. what he's saying and saying that say, can example, i know that we can do the same to you, and this is something he's already said before. res threatens but by root could become another gauze, or if his by law doesn't push back. they have been resulting to zip domestic efforts with the us than with other countries, especially trying to bring in fronts. for example, to calm the situation. but his butler is still finding those rockets, they have much higher capabilities than from us does. and there is a real concern that things could escalate further, even though it has been measured so far. so we cover that for us and telling me thank you. so it's very false as killed 8 palestinians of the occupied westbank including 7 and a drains dry call. the city of jeanine by the city has seemed baffled between his very full size and palestinian scientists of a palestinian was killed in a village north of them

lot already in the 11 on they know that has butler also means serious business and it has the ability to do so. now in that statement, prime minister benjamin netanyahu is replacing what he has said for the last couple of weeks. however, he has been commenting a lot more on in the last few days, especially with your secretary of state on to me. bring can going to be visiting tel aviv tomorrow. he already mentioned yesterday during stripping tap solve that there is a problem along the boards that needs to be dealt with and that they will be discussing that as the top of the agenda. we know that he has sent his a special us and boy just a couple of days ago who came to visit hate to find out more. all of this happened earlier today when this has been lots of commodities seem to come under was killed . the problem is benjamin netanyahu was actually visiting some of those a soldiers along dot board. it's a gets an assessment to find out what the situation is that, um, he was reassuring them. clearly he was saying that they all there and that that, that role is important. and let's also get a few weeks ago they were doing also training at 2 as t