connect or intersect here at chattanooga. they do that to take advantage of the naturally occurring mountain gaps, passes, or passages, which allow beyond and through the appalachian mountains here at the southern end of that great mountain chain. chattanooga was important from the beginning of the war in initially because so many southern soldiers going to fight for southern independence passed through chattanooga on the way to what they described as the seat of war, or the early seats somewhere in northern virginia or along the kentucky and tennessee border. but chattanooga's importance increased as the war lengthened as well, because the new confederate nation realized that if they were going to be successful in winning their independence and maintaining that independence, they had to develop the military-industrial capacity to produce the war neededl their soldiers to fight and win that independence. that military-industrial base the new nation goes to create is located in central georgia and central alabama. as that mili

they are thrusting on toward chattanooga. they advance over the mountains to the northwest of chattanooga, on a broad front. deception and maneuver, by threatening to climb over the mountains to the northwest of chattanooga. they forced the confederates in 1863 to abandon the city of chattanooga. a small union force then occupies the city to garrison it, and the main armies then meet in the largest, bloodiest conflict of the campaign, the battle of chickamauga. it was fought about a dozen miles to the south of chattanooga, in the valley of western, what creek, on september 18-20, 1863. union army is defeated in that battle, but while they are defeated, they are able to withdraw into chattanooga.

they force them to abandon the city of chattanooga. cityll union occupied the and the two main armies meet in the bloodiest conflict of that campaign and thought about dozen -- s and in the valley the union army succeeded in that battle. while defeated, they range to withdraw and go into chattanooga. the fortified themselves within ande square mile area awaited the arrival of reinforcements. while the confederates attempted to lay siege to the union army in chattanooga from positions along missionary ridge to east of the town from across the valley between missionary ridge to lookout mountain and on lookout mountain itself, the final battle in the overall campaign force chattanooga and thatinal battle is the one unfolded along missionary ridge. the sharply defined ridge line to where we are located right now. along which the confederates have had their main decision throughout late september, october, november. 48 hours before the fighting on the ridge itself did the confederates attempt to build fortifications along the actual track o

chickamauga and chattanooga military park. i know a lot of you have discovered out in the lobby there are piles of brochures for chickamauga and chattanooga military park. the old one is currently in use, and the new one which some day will be in use. and so you can pick these up at some point, and i hope to see you on the ground studying those battlefields frequently and often. also, coming around is that handout, which hopefully everybody will get a copy of pretty soon. and i also have a power point. and let's see, mike -- okay. let's try this. aha! there we go. oh, no. there we go. okay. well, i'll only use the advance button. for the events that were, and would be unfolding in the year we are considering today in this symposium, the year now a century and a half ago, this past week of march, 1864, would prove to be a momentous one. not only on march 17 did the newly appointed ulysses s. grant assume command of the armies of the united states and the next day the 18th, his most trusted subordinate major general william tecu

observers believe that success in chattanooga was a signal of union success in the war.me have said that this was the death knell of the confederacy. c-span's american history tour of the civil war. tonight starting at 8:00 eastern. >> here is a great read, "sundays at 8:00." a collection of stories from some of the nation's most influential people over the last 25 years. >> i always knew there was a risk in the bohemian lifestyle. i decided to take it. whether it is an illusion or not, i do not think it is, it helps my concentration, it stopped me being bored and stopped other people being boring, to some extent. , puttingkeep me awake on a longer conversation. if i was asked what i do it again, the answer is probably yes. hoping to get away with the whole thing. easy for me to say, not very nice to my children. sounds irresponsible if i say i would do all that again to you. but it would be if the critical -- it would be hypocritical for me to say. thehe soviet union and soviet system in eastern europe contained the seeds of its own destruction. many of the problems we

chickamauga and chattanooga national military park. and i've already seen that some of you all have discovered that out on the table in the lobby there are piles of brochures for chickamauga and chattanooga national military park.se and the old one which is currently h in use and the new one which some day will be in use. and so you can pick these up ate some point, and i hope to see you on the ground studying those battlefields frequently and often. also coming around is that oming handout, which hopefully everybody will get a copy of efy pretty soon. and i also have a power point.r, and let's see, mike -- okay.see let's see here.. let's try this. aha! there we go.. that's the one that works. oh, no.ah i've already --a, there we go. okay. well, i'll only use the advance button. for the events that were and would be unfolding in the year we are considering today in this symposium, the year now a the century and a half ago, this past week of march, 1864, would prove to be a momentous one. not only did on march 17 the newly appointed lie

porter alexander during the siege of chattanooga said he felt lucky if he could get one projectile in nine to explode on target. one in nine on target is not very good. unfortunately for us, he did not record how many of the other eight exploded prematurely, or not at all, or well beyond the intended target. but we do know in one case where many of the projectiles fired, had fuses that burned longer than the ar tillerist believed. that is in preparation for that charge on the third day of july, at gettysburg. but despite these caveats, this complex by 1864 was what was keeping southern armies in the field. it was that complex which produced the materiel that confronted grant and sherman at chattanooga, and would confront sherman as he drove into georgia beginning on the 7th day of may. it is also the complex that sherman's men encountered as they advanced south into the empire state of the south that spring. on may 17th, sherman purposely took the industrial city of rome, georgia, to knock the industrial facilities at that site out of the war. six days later, troops were sent specific

it is from chattanooga that following spring that william tecumseh sherman will take a combined unionrmy group and from chattanooga toward atlanta and into that military disruptal heartland and it and destroy much of it and bring the war to be close in the spring of 1865. time believethe that union success here at was a signal of ultimate union success in the war. some have said that this was the death bell of the confederacy. >> and you can watch c-span's american history tour of the civil war tonight starting at 8:00 eastern here on c-span. also in primetime on c-span2, we will have more from book tv with hillary clinton on her memoir. also ben shapiro and glenn greenwald. it is american history tv, sports and history. that is tonight starting 8:00 eastern on the c-span networks. >> hi, i am sarah. >> and i am shelley. the buses of interactive, multimedia education center and along with your television c-span's we bring public affair coverage to you and your community. we also visit schools and book festivals, lyrical and historic events throughout the country. >> to learn more, go

grant himself, lee and the other campaign would march from chattanooga under william t. sherman, every atlanta citizen's favorite union general. grant's plans came early in the spring and summer of 1864. that is why the campaign is so important. the effort against mobile had to be abandoned, very early because confederates won victories on the red river in louisiana. threatened to attack new orleans. maybe even regain possession or regain control of the mississippi river. union troops that were scheduled to go against mobile, had to be held to protect the federal holdings in louisiana. that was abandoned, the campaign up the shenandoah valley, ran into the union market. they were defeated by the core of cadets from the virginia military institute. with a little help from some confederate army units that happened to be in the area. the third campaign under benning lynn butler came to grief, because as he started up confederate reinforcements rushed up and that left only the two big campaigns grants himself as i said, led the main union army in virginia, against robert e.

in chattanooga alone, between the months of march and may 1864 there were 165 rail cars unloading on a daily basis there. he is building supply bases he will need as he advances into georgia. hadng the campaign, he about 5000 wagons that were constantly on the move from the railroad to the army in the field. as richard mcmurray writes in one of the best overviews of the campaign -- and like other heard, i am have going to throw out some book titles. atlanta 1864 is a very good overview. decision in the west by albert castel is also a great book. mcmurray points out that sherman had a couple of big advantages over his opponent at the start of the atlanta campaign. first, sherman had command of a vast apartment that stretched from the appellation mountains in the east all the way to the mississippi river. he commanded troops through this vast division of the mississippi. johnson, on the other hand, commanded a much smaller department. he had no authority over the states of alabama and mississippi. he could not ordered troops from those states to join his army fighting in georgia. he al

grant himself, lee and the other campaign would march from chattanooga under william t.herman, every atlanta citizen's favorite union general. grant's plans came early in the spring and summer of 1864. that is why the campaign is so important. the effort against mobile had to be abandoned, very early because confederates won victories on the red river in louisiana. threatened to attack new orleans. maybe even regain possession or regain control of the mississippi river. union troops that were scheduled to go against mobile, had to be held to protect the federal holdings in louisiana. that was abandoned, the campaign up the shenandoah valley, ran into the union market. they were defeated by the core of cadets from the virginia military institute. with a little help from some confederate army units that happened to be in the area. the third campaign under benning lynn butler came to grief, because as he started up confederate reinforcements rushed up and that left only the two big campaigns grants himself as i said, led the main union army in virginia, against robert e. le

if you look at chickasaw bluffs in december of 1862, or december 1862, if you look at chattanooga and missionary ridge, sherman's, the attacks that sherman has launched in those battles have been piecemeal, they've been re pulsed. he doesn't have a particularly impressive record on the battlefield. sherman's reputation then today rests primarily on what he did in 1864 and 1865 to implement grant's grand strategy. sherman targeted not only the army of tennessee, but also the ability of the southern confederacy to wage war. of course, this is part of grant's larger strategy, too. during the campaign in the spring and summer of 1864, the city of atlanta symbolizes the way that the confederacy waged war. the city was a vital rail center in the deep south and was filled with important war industries. factories and mills turning out uniforms and shells. and accoutrements for the confederate army. he sought to demoralize the civilians, to prove to the people the government could no longer defend them. sherman said, war is cruelty, and you cannot refine it. sherman's an imminently quotable in

we will have a walking history tour and look at the battle of wars around the united states with chattanooga, south carolina, and southern medicines promoted during the civil war. the civil war tour starts at 8 p.m. >> tonight at 8 p.m. eastern, a history tour looking at the civil war. the communicators visit a technology fair on capital hill. and then pat bucannon is here. tonight at 8 eastern, books on hilary clinton, obama, and snowden. and we tour the literary sites of casper, wyoming. and the negro leagues kansas city moner city monarchs. and the depiction of slavery in movies as well will be discussed. call us or e-mail and let us know you thing. like us on facebook, follow us on twitter, join in the conversation. >> today's edition of washington journal. we asked viewers to react to the situation in fergsusoferguson, . darren williams has been named the officer of the shooting. >> if you go down a photo by photographer forbes showing this is the avenue in ferguson and people honking horns and raising signs saying no violence. this event took place after yesterday. if you go to the edi

it is from chattanooga that william sherman would take a combined group and advance from chattanooga towards atlanta and into the military-industrial heartland and disrupt it and destroy much of it and bring the war to a close in the spring of 1865. observers and participants at the time believe the union success here at chattanooga it was a signal of ultimate union success in the war. some said it was a death knell of the confederacy. >> c-span's american history tour of the civil war tonight at 8:00 eastern. former air force intelligence analyst leighton on the u.s. response in iraq. bato on the 2014 midterm elections. live on c-span at 7:00 a.m. eastern. next, a conversation about the .0th anniversary of woodstock star-spangled banner" plays] host: jimi hendrix at woodstock, 45 years ago, playing to crowds there. it is known as a music festival. here to talk about the political and social implications is bill greider. is it true we think of woodstock as a music festival and not a political type of situation? guest: i don't know what young people think of woodstock. they may get us

grant himself, lee and the other campaign would march from chattanooga under william t. sherman, every atlanta citizen's favorite union general. grant's plans came early in the spring and summer of 1864. that is why the campaign is so important. the effort against mobile had to be abandoned, very early because confederates won victories on the red river in louisiana. threatened to attack new orleans. maybe even regain possession or regain control of the mississippi river. union troops that were scheduled to go against mobile, had to be held to protect the federal holdings in louisiana. that was abandoned, the campaign up the shenandoah valley, ran into the union market. they were defeated by the core of cadets from the virginia military institute. with a little help from some confederate army units that happened to be in the area. the third campaign under benning lynn butler came to grief, because as he started up confederate reinforcements rushed up and that left only the two big campaigns grants himself as i said, led the main union army in virginia, against robert e.

and began exploiting the resources that are in this greater chattanooga region. even before the war was over, chattanooga's industrial segment of its economy that was beginning to grow just before the civil war actually gets reinvigorated in the closing months of the war, and then will boom in the late 1860's and 1870's. then willr, and boom in the late 1860's and 1870's. we are located right now and what is known as orchard knob, or more specifically the orchard knob reservation of chickamauga and chattanooga national military park, one of several small areas that are part of the missionary ridge battlefield of the larger chickamauga and chattanooga national military park. the veterans will come together and get congress to establish in andst of 1890 chickamauga chattanooga national military park as the first such public area in the united states. subsequently, battlefields at antietam, shiloh, gettysburg, and vicksburg will be created in the first era of preservation and commemoration of the civil war, on the very ground where it occurred. today, this national

in chattanooga alone between the months of march and may of 1864, there are 145 rail cars unloading on a daily basis there. so he's building supply bases that he'll need as he advances into georgia. during the campaign, he had about 5,000 wagons that were constantly on the move from the railroad to the army in the field. as richard mcmurray, who is one of the foremost scholars of the atlanta campaign writes in one what's one of the best overviews of the campaign, and like some of the other speakers you've heard, i'll throw out some book titles. if you're like me, you love books about the civil war. mcmurray's "atlanta 1864" is a very, very, very good overview. if you're looking for one book that gives you an overview, "decision in the west" by albert castel is also an outstanding book. mcmurray points out that sherman had a couple of big advantages over his opponent at the start of the atlanta campaign. first, sherman had command of a vast department that stretched from the appalachian mountains in the east all the way to the mississippi river. he had command of the troops within this

it is from chattanooga that following spring that williams comes to sherman.and advance southward from chattanooga to atlanta and into that military industrial heartland and disrupt it and destroyed much of it and bring the war to a close in spring of 1865. observers and participants at this time believe that union success here at chattanooga was a signal of alternate union success in the war. some had said this was the death knell of the confederacy. >> you can watch the american history tour of the civil war at 8 p.m. eastern. we'll have more from book tv with hillary clinton on her memoir. and then schapiro and glenn ringwald. it is market history tv, all tonight at 8 p.m. eastern on the c-span networks. here's a great read to add to your summer list. a collection of stories from some of the nation's most influential people over the past 25 years. crexendo is that there is a risk in them or him in lifestyle and i decided to take it because whether it is a delusion or not, i do not think it is, it helped my concentration. it stopped me being ordered dashboar

access should not be considered a luxury it should be a right which is exactly why cities like chattanooga tennessee and lafayette louisiana have done the same thing as rockport maine and set up their own city run fiber optic networks comcast and risin don't want you to know this but the main reason internet access and internet speeds are so bad here in the united states compared to the rest of the developed world is that the private companies that dominate our telecom industry have so little competition that they simply don't give a rat's patootie about making things better for their customers. best in your ultra fast fiber optic networks of the kind now available in rockport is actually pretty expensive when the really big internet giants the way they see it it's far easier and more profitable to just keep prices high and speeds low the fact that the biggest internet service providers are virtual monopolies pretty much guarantees it's going to stay this way too because without any meaningful competition they have zero incentive to change their ways that's why it's going on what's going o

of thers at the time in chattanooga believed it was a signal of ultimate union success in the war. some said it was a death knell of the confederacy. c-span's american history tour of the civil war tonight at 8:00 eastern. book tv, hillary clinton wald.en green whil here are some of the highlights for this weekend. on c-span tonight at 8:00 p.m., and history tour looking at the civil war. saturday, the communicators fair one technology capitol hill. sunday, political commentator and author and former presidential candidate pat buchanan. on book tv, books on hillary clinton, barack obama, and edward snowden. at 10:30 a.m., we tour the literary sites of casper, wyoming. eastern,t 8:00 p.m. the negro league kansas city monarchs. saturday, civil war, the depiction of slavery in the movies. let us know what you think about the programs you're watching. call us or e-mail us. join the c-span conversation. like us on facebook. follow us on twitter. california congressman xavier becerra recently held a town hall meeting for his constituents. he discussed the economy, the role of the u.s. ab

every american town should do what rockport maine and chattanooga tennessee have done and build a pool publicly owned fiber optic network can't afford to do that the state or federal government should step in and help them finish the job just like we did with electric power back in the one nine hundred thirty s. with the rural electrification administration and telephone service to rural areas in the one nine hundred forty s. in the one nine hundred fifty s. the internet is as important to our development today as electricity and phone service were americans living in the early twentieth century the stakes are simply too high to let shi'a virtual monopolies steal our information it's a commons that was created by our government in the first place just so they can make a few books let's hope the rockport means new fiber optic network will be the spark that sets off a municipal internet revolution. and that's the way it is tonight wednesday august thirteenth two thousand and fourteen and don't forget democracy begins with you get out there get active tag your. america is join me. in get

." >> friday night on c-span, stories from the civil war, including the battle of chattanooga. medicine civil war era and propaganda promoting the southern cause in europe. here is a preview. scene latearkable that day, the union penetrated the confederate line at multiple simultaneously and sent the confederate army retreating to the east and back down to georgia. with that union success on november 25 and a brief pursuit chattanooga is7, now firmly in union hands. it will be turned by the union army that coming winter into a giant supply base. and it is from chattanooga that following spring that they would take a combined union army group and advance southward towards militarynd into the -industrial heartland and disrupted and destroyed most of it to bring the war to a close in the spring of 1865. observers at the time believed that the unions success in chattanooga was a signal of ultimate union success. some have said that this was the death knell of the confederacy. american history tour of the civil war. friday night on c-span, starting at 8:00 p.m. eastern. >> now, from

the civil wart era medicine, as well as the battle of chattanooga and the impact of the union victory there over the confederacy. here is a quick look. late a remarkable scene that day, union troops would penetrate the confederate lawn along the crest of missionary ridge at multiple points, almost theltaneously, and send confederate army, retreating all from the ridge back down into georgia. with that union success on november 25 and a brief pursuit august 20 six and 27, chattanooga is now firmly in union hands. it will be turned by the union winterer that coming into a giant supply base, similar to our operating basis today. it is from chattanooga that following spring that sherman will take a combined union army and advance outward from andtanooga towards atlanta into that military-industrial heartland come and disrupt it and destroy much of it and bring the war to a close in the spring of 1865. observers and participants at the time believed that union was as at chattanooga signal of ultima union success in the war. some have said this was the death of the confederacy. >> you will

the private bus broke down at the intersection of 21st and chattanooga and still in the muni tracks blocking the j. trains in both directions. the bus was towed away about 9:30 but the j. church line still experiencing some delays around 10:00 this morning. >>> and there's no bail for a man accused of a brutal attack on woman and her daughter. kpix 5's kiet do reports police didn't have to go far to find that suspect. >> reporter: it's the nightmare come to life. >> it rang them out. he dressed up and he's got a firearm in his hands pointing at her. >> reporter: fremont detectives say this man, 34-year-old jamala morris broke into a family's apartment and waited for 30 minutes before the mother and daughter walked through the door around midnight. >> only his eyes could be seen. >> reporter: he's waiting in the taghairm's home ties her up and gags her with duct tape and she can't scream but tries to make some noise, any noise. >> she continues to squeal and make sounds and the mother finally hears this. >> reporter: that's when officers say morris turned his sights on the mother. binding her

global market which is why they want to go to the gulf coast that's why they're not trying to go to chattanooga that's right this is this is to export crude directly into global markets which seems you know you get all these americans you know your own homework to sort of help out america according to trans canada the company that owns this it's if this plan is completed it will actually raise the cost of gasoline diesel fuel the united states right i mean this is what they said a lot of their public relations stuff how is that the you know fox news in the american right this you know it's this article of faith the keystone somalis patriotic thing i don't get it well tom that's because sometimes facts are irrelevant to some of these national policy debates especially when you've got vested special interests that have a financial stake in the outcome of some of these policy debates and so what you see on these complicated issues around energy and climate policy are the fossil fuel industry spending money to define the narrative on these policies in their terms what's going to be best for their i

the grants 1863 victories at vicksburg and chattanooga had made in venice. when grant came to washington in march it to 64 wing kin and were secretary edward stanton for the first time he was the object of intense curiosity. granted not look the part of a great general. he was medium height, medium weight. he wore a private some nondescript blue uniform with his general stars and some on the shoulders. one man said that he was an ordinary, scrubbing looking man with a slightly seedy look. someone else had something different to say. the look of a man determined to drive his head through a brick wall. disliking washington and its show business, as he called it, grant chose to direct all the armies on the field with the army of the potomac. with the exception of a great victory at gettysburg a hard luck army who was well equipped, large, and slow. the army's sprawling winter camp in northern and virginia rant but in every available eastern unit until he had over a hundred thousand men. across the river was the army of northern virginia. weaponry. his army thou

he would have driven sherman back to chattanooga. he would have flanked him on to nashville. he would have forced him to retreat to louisville. pursued him across the ohio river. back up through illinois, across the great lakes. the remnants of sherman's army would have been drowned in hudson bay, after which joe johnston would have turned and marched on washington and forced lincoln to acknowledge the independence of the confederacy. joe johnston was just great. it got into books and movies and it's very difficult to get people to realize that what they see in movies and read in books is not necessarily so. i had an interesting experience along these lines one time. there was a movie made back i believe in the late '50s called "on the beach." one of you two look like you might be old enough to remember that. it's a movie set in australia in the after math of the world war iii, the united states, they have killed everybody on earth except the people in australia. those blokes are drinking beer and singing and awaiting the arrival of a radioactive cloud. and this became the ki

stories fromht, the civil war including the battle in chattanooga. war era medicine. -- civil war era in. .- medicine here is a preview. send theill confederate army retreating east and back into georgia. success and an brief pursuit chattanooga is firmly and union hand. it will be turned over that coming winter into a giant supply base similar to our operating basis today. following spring that sherman will take a combined southwardadvance towards atlanta and into that military-industrial heartland and disrupted and bring the war to a close in the spring of 1865. anervers believed it was indication of the union success in the war. back c-span american history tour of the war. obama spoke about the situation in iraq and called for ari -- ferguson, ms. missouri, where protesters clashed with police following the death of an unarmed teenager . >> good afternoon. today i would like to address the american people on two issues i've been monitoring. we continue to make progress in carrying out our military operations in iraq. last week i authorized two li

meanwhile, from chattanooga toward atlanta.nt himself chose to travel with mead, and he did so for a number of reasons. his presence would shield, for example, the north's cha congress was always interested in what the army of the po thomas was dock. it was just always -- and when sherman heard this, sherman, who had a low opinion of congress, sherman wrote to grant -- i hope you will make it a death penalty for any congressman who enters your camp. or for diplomatic reasons and -- he did not do that. another reason grant we aren't with that army was its commander. george meade was seven years older than grant, a dedicated soldier, but overly cautious. his army had done nothing for the last ten months. mead had a violent temper, which he could not controlled and when unleashed, it sounded to one like cutting an iron bar with a handsaw. >>> he had been appointed to initiate a hopefully successful campaign. thanks to the advent of the telegraph, grant could oversee all military theaters as easily in the field as he could from a d

got a facility thalt's te most advanced environmentally sound facility in the world right here in chattanooga, it been it. what's this been? it's about one thing. it's about money and it'ses about the power. >> well, that lie after another lie worked. the plant voted against joining. meanwhile, corker's fellow senator from tennessee is picking up where that senator left off. just this week senator lamar alexander made clear he's planning an attack on the national labor relations board. the top republican on the senate labor committee said, quote, the tennessee ans i talk with are tired of washington bureaucrats telling them how to live their lives. pursuing some of the most misguided policies under this administration. so i guess we have to follow the way tennessee thinks, right? alexander made clear if republicans take the senate, they will roll back. for example, republicans can't stand the so-called what they say is ambush election rule. which is in the process of being finalized right now by the board. the measure would speed up union elections in the workplace to occur as ten days after

and i wonder if this psychological effect, when he brought his children, when the family came to chattanooga, and his son died, another son named willie, how much of a psychological effect do you think it ha in making -- some say it made him manic and mean. what do you think? >> i think it was tragic for him, as losing a child would be for anybody. i think that -- i don't think sherman was mean. i think that sherman was clear-eyed. which is to say that i think sherman recognized that the way you stop a war is you make the war too costly. and that in so doing, he also really did believe that he was saving his men, because -- look, his men, they thought the march was great. they loved it. you know, they had more to eat than they normally did. they marched less each day than they normally did. with very few exceptions, nobody ever shot at them. from sherman's perspective, saving his men's lives while bringing the war to a more rapid close, so i -- i don't think he's mean. i think he's -- he has a job, and he's willing to do what it takes. >> could you speak to how, in 1864, northern papers were

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the 2-year-old pit bull mix is caught on camera chomping away on the bumper of a chattanooga, tennessee, police car. >> all right, fellows. this dog has almost got his whole bumper ripped off. >> on march 14th, 2010, the naughty winston unlocks the gate from his home and ends up here where he discovers a new doggie treat. the police tried prying loose the 80-pound dog by moving the patrol car back and forth but winston just won't let go. >> do you want me to take action or just sit here and wait? >> hang on for a minute. do you have the video on recording this? >> that's correct. >> so what is it about this bumper that winston so thoroughly enjoys? is it the smell, the taste? it's neither according to the dog whisperer cesar millan. >> if he was smelling an animal he would be peeing on it or rubbing himself against it, not chewing. this is the smell of plastic that triggers fun to him. this dog was encouraged to bite plastic or a tire. they're not born wanting to buy a tire. they just get encouraged. the dog learned to release his frustration on that object. >> from the sidelines other

these photos on the blog showing the ends of the commuter bus wedged into the pavement at 21st and chattanooga streets. the stuck pus also blocked j church street car line. muni brought in their own shuttle buses to move passengers. they got unstuck with the help of a tow truck. >>> the captain of a disabled fishing boat at ocean beach hasn't been heard out since he put out a distress call yesterday. >> nobody is quite sure where timothy ly brand actually is or what happened at sea. abc 7 news reporter matt keller has more on the troubled pat. >> reporter: the paloma fishing boat was designed to float. when it's not doing that yesterday after the captain report it had had hit some rocks and he abandoned ship, it came to a rest on its side on ocean beach with wave after wave crashing into it. this morning the coast guard and several contract workers made their first attempt at pulling it to shore by using cables, a loader, an excavator and high tide. after a couple of hours, it had moved five feet. >> the vessel has been in the surf for over 25 hours. whole penetration. it makes the vessel very

recently traveled the country for stories from the civil war looking at the battle of chattanooga, the slave market in charleston, south carolina, civil war era medicine and a confederate propagandist promoting the cause and europe. c-span american history toward the civil war begins. cramming or unauthorized third-party charges on wireless bills is a growing problem and the majority who are victims to not even know about it because they look like normal charges. he appeared before the senate commerce committee recently. also testifying senator richard blumenthal chairs this hour and 40 minute hearing. the senate [inaudible conversations] recen. senator richard blumenthal chaired this hour, 40 minute hearing. [inaudible conversations] >> this hearing is open, and ask myeyou know -- and as you kn i am here regretfully in place of chairman rockefeller who has an art -- urgent intelligence matter and therefore could not be with us at the opening. add up think he will be able to join as, but his absence is in no way a sign of any lack of interest in this subject. in fact my talk to him in

the battles at fort henry and donaldson, shilo, vicksburg, chattanooga. gives grant basically a two-part requirement. first, to bring organization, to bring continuity to the union war effort. and secondly, to defeat the army of northern virginia. and grant goes about making it possible to carry out that charge with a vengeance. first he puts together a program, unlike any that the war has yet seen. he realized that up to this point, battles would last a couple of days, and then the armies would pull apart for months. grant would not let that happen anymore. the union armies were to fasten on to the confederate armies and fight them until they were destroyed. he also realized that the old goal of capturing territory didn't make sense anymore. henceforth, the goal would be the confederate armies, the goal would be to destroy them, and only by doing that could the rebellion be brought to a close. finally, grant realized that the armies in the eastern and western theaters had to move together, so the confederates couldn't shift forces from one theater to the

meanwhile, general william sherman would drive southward, from chattanooga toward atlanta. himself chose to travel with general george meade's army of the potomac and he did so for a number of reasons. his presence would shield, for example, the north's chief weapon from congressional interference. congress was always interested in what the army of the potomac was doing. like most congresses it had no actions of its own, it was just always interfering. when sherman heard this, sherman who had a low opinion of congress and newspapers, sherman wrote to grant, i hope you will make it a death penalty for any congressman -- or for diplomatic reasons, grant did not do that. another reason why grant went with that army was its commander. george mead was seven years older than grant. he was a dedicated soldier but overly cautious. his army had done nothing for the last ten months. meade had a violent temper which he could not control. and when unleashed, said one officer, it sounded to one like cutting an iron bar with a hand saw. grant also knew that he had been appointed to initi

meanwhile, general william sherman would drive southward, from chattanooga toward atlanta. grant himself chose to travel with general george meade's army of the potomac and he did so for a number of reasons. his presence would shield, for example, the north's chief weapon from congressional interference. congress was always interested in what the army of the potomac was doing. like most congresses it had no actions of its own, it was just always interfering. when sherman heard this, sherman who had a low opinion of congress and newspapers, sherman wrote to grant, "i hope you will make it a death penalty for any congressman who enters your town for diplomatic reasons or otherwise." grant did not do that. another reason why grant went with that army was its commander. george meade was seven years older than grant. he was a dedicated soldier but overly cautious. his army had done nothing for the last ten months. meade had a violent temper which he could not control. and when unleashed, said one officer, it sounded to one like cutting an iron bar with a hand saw. grant also kne

in the summer of 18 six e4, general sherman marched south from chattanooga into georgia with the goal of capturing atlanta. after a series of battles and a siege of the city, atlanta l to the union on september 2, 1864, setting up sherman's march to the see later in the year. this was part of the gettysburg civil war institute. it's about an hour. >> before we get started, the map you >> before we get started, the map you see up here is a campaign map. the smaller map indicates the main battle. i know it is probably difficult for those of you in the back of the room to see the small details and maybe read the print , so what we did -- or actually, what pete's staff did, was actually include this in your book.nd handbooks if you turn to page nine, you will see this map in their. you might want to refer t