they get two miles or so beyond chancellorsville. chancellorsville is not really a town, it's a plantation owned by the chancellor family. it is a crossroads. stops, because he runs into enemy troops, confederate troops. r issues the orders to his army for this envelopment move. says the enemy -- we must attack the enemy and he must seem gloriously fly. is confronted with this envelopment, by superior number, hooker has 110,000 men. lee would be forced to retreat to the north and a river and make a stand there. instead, lee decides to confront or 4/5 ofh about 3/4 his army, leaving behind only 10,000 troops at fredericksburg and marching west under jackson to meet with the hookers at the army of the potomac. .hen that happens, hooker stops he expected lead to retreat. -- lee to retreat, when he saw that lee was going to be trapped between the hammer and the andal -- anvil. instead, lee since 45,000 or so of his troops to confront hooker 12,000 ates 10,000 or chancellorsville. sees this, rather than smashing through those troops, whic

cigarette burns were recovered from a national park which was once the site of the battle of chancellorsville. were they able to make an i.d.? it was the first victim, taken 6 weeks ago. decomp indicated that she had been dead just over a week. so he likes spending time with them. m.e. found microscopic tool marks on the bone. i remember reading about a case like this in spotsylvania county. similar markings on the bone. it was the winter of 1980, also fredericksburg. 5 women, 16 to 24. buried in pieces. same markings. same civil war battlefield. killed the same time of year and left at the same dump site? it's like an anniversary. that case is still open. back then the victims were drug addicts and runaways if he spends that much time with them, there's a chance these 2 women could still be alive. wait. we think this could be the same killer? that's a hell of a cooling-off period. btk resurfaced after a 25-year hiatus. reid: true, but he didn't kill anyone. only taunted the police. marks on the bone and where he dumps them-- that's a very specific signature. hard to copycat details that were

that is granted for donaldson -- grant at fort donaldson and lee at chancellorsville. over and over again. what is it in the backgrounds that forms that? consider this providentialism of lee's that man is helpless. everything is from divine will. we are tools of the almighty. think how liberating that could be if you were a military commander who want to consider taking a big risk. if it fails, it is not the your responsibility. god intended it to fail. that can be liberating indeed. after the war, they go their divergent ways. they look back. both of them are agreed that it they don't want to keep the wounds of the war alive. their way of dealing with the war and remembrance is somewhat the same as well. grant will write his memoirs. which is still regarded as perhaps the greatest autobiography ever written by an american. lee will talk until his death about writing his memoirs. [laughter] jack: that is not a criticism. he begins to collect the materials but he will die before he can ever get it done. he even has meetings with a couple of publishers and there is a rep

he is present at chancellorsville, gettysburg. he is under sherman during the march to the sea. he is appointed to head the freedmen's bureau in may 1865. he issues rules to his subordinates the order that i gave you today. what does howard see? what does he imagine the bureau's role to be? in the post emancipation south? shane? shane: making them self-sufficient as possible. , iv every effort will be , made to make people self-supporting and government supplies will only be temporarily issued so that the people can support themselves. stephen west: they're carrying form government concerns about those contraband issues. he wants to wind up the relief as quickly as possible. he wants to make them self-supporting as quickly as possible. he doesn't want the expense for the government as howard sees it the bureau is going to have an educational role. it oversees some schools in the south, is being to teach both it oversees some schools in the south but he sees more generally the freedmen bureau job is being to teach both former slaves and former masters about free labor and how tha

chancellorsville, cookstown here. 610 to the north. highway 613. this is area at the moment we see the best chance on the right front leading edge of the system. where possibility tornadoes are on the ground. we don't have information for additional tornado to touch down as well as we have a lot of energy in the atmosphere poe cussed along the squall line. every time we see the squall line bow out like this, our attention perks up immediately. we know we have the potential of something coming in. ten minutes before the warning for fredericksburg the tornado warning came out, alex and ryan, two meteorologist in the weather center pointed it out and said it's just a matter of a few minutes before they issue a warning. we highlighted that notch and the bow area. western stafford county now. th i that will get the teeth of the storm moving to the area. we can see we are getting in eye shot of the exended metro area -- extended metro area with gaithersburg, stafford and this is moving northeast. storm at 45 to 60 miles per hour. the line itself is movin

a panel of historians discussed the battle of chancellorsville in 1863, considered to be general robert e delia's victory. initially, union general joseph hooker planned to develop the tofederate army, but chose retreat instead, allowing generally to counter attack. it temporarily tipped the balance in the war of the