. >> mark braddock turned them in and that changed the course of the case. >> reporter: braddock testified the chrisleys falsify documents and said that his relationship with todd went beyond business. alleging they'd been lovers. telling the jury, "we had a personal relationship, intimate in nature. i pretty much would dohayou know, it clouded my judgment greatly." todd refuting the relationship in a conversation with his son chase on the podcast "chrisley confessions." >> the thing that has insulted me the most is that out of all of these 54 years, for me to finally be accused of being with a man, it would be someone that looked like mark braddock. >> yeah, exactly. >> i mean, a toad. >> reporter: in court lawyers argued braddock was just a former employee with an ax to grind. but prosecutors continued to hang their case on his testimony. >> for prosecutors, the unfortunate reality for them is, you want that witness with absolutely clean hands. but oftentimes, like you have here, they might not have bloody hands but they have dirty hands. you have to rifle through how they got to that ca

washington services as an in essence to general braddock in a braddock's defeat where braddock is is is killed in washington in that battle shows extraordinary courage he was suffering from some pretty severe health health problems. and he essentially gets up out of a sick bed and in the the battle in which bragg is killed, washington is accounts are all over place. a number of bullet holes it through his coat but he was following really braddock and braddock really becomes his mentor. so he was gaining experience, really watching aspiration was to become an officer in the british. he was declined because he was a colonist. oh, i'm not saying that's the sole. he ends up on the i'm to say our side, but that may well have into it. thank you, sir. this is a bit far afield. you kind of said void into my question. my understanding is that george washington and george the third were cousins. is there any anything to that at all? i've i have not heard that anyone else speak to washington cousins and george the third and fourth. yeah, i don't know. i have not heard that. not saying it's not.

streets on braddock street, but at the corner of piccadilly, braddock, which is one street west from the old valley. okay, it's there. it's been commercially rises is big white. that's where his upstairs bedroom. they come and he comes. a general shooting to the south at cedar creek. he said that's okay. they were going to do a reconnaissance and they were the 19th corps was going to go out and a brigade and do a reconnaissance work continued. so sharon breakfast he had breakfast gotten his rienzi and started south towards the battlefield very quickly became apparent that was going on because valley is filled up with a combination of teamsters in their wagons and fleeing him. he met a chaplain. the chaplain asked him what going on. he says it's terrible. general. and the chaplain kept going north anyway. sheridan will arrive, pull off the road there. go where? they're lining up north of town. they meet them and emory upton says to him, well, general prepared to retreat. and sheridan said, retreat. hell, we're going to be back to where we were. so anyhow he the troops are being formed

then family built ravensworth, which was a big house out in fairfax county, which today is off the braddockroad and they have a sign there. it burned down in the 1930s, but all the custis is and the lee's and the randolph's wood and have it all of those properties at different times and there's yet another property called hope park in fairfax. and that's where david stewart, who was a d.c. planner and wealthy, who he married wash his mother after she lost her first husband. and they went on to have a dozen or more and more children. and it's interesting that while she was being raised at mount vernon, while his stepfather and mother were continuing to raise and even be even bigger family, some. you mentioned that. constance was a very calm and gentle a slave owner, but that robert e lee was not. can you you said you were going to. yes. comment on that. and i must have missed it. no, you didn't miss. it is an excellent question. and i was sort of saving it for the q&a because, you know, i. i want to be a custis specialist. i'm not really a robert e lee specialist, but i learned in this resea