anderson comes in to play along the same line, slams into clayburn's men and through clayburn's men and the same thing happens. he attacks, is repulsed, and continues to do battle. and then on top of that will be johnston's brigade and slightly to our east is robert russell's brigade, also of poke's corps, combined. they're about the size of clayburn and anderson's brigade, and so in close proximity they're coming into the same landscape, the same sector of the battlefield here in shiloh branch, engaging the same federal troops, which is sherman's division supported by brigade from mclaren's division and an extra battery from mclaren was holding the shiloh ridge and meeting the successive attacks and defeating them in detail. so if you just think about that issue of co-mingling of the confederate commands. no longer is it co-mingling of individual brigades, but a bigger problem is they're not brigades even from the same corps, meaning they're not even from the same organization within the confederate army. they're from a different organization of the confederate army and they don't know

first clayburn, then anderson, then johnston. now the thing is, they're all occupying the same space that's only big enough for one brigade, and they're doing it all at the same point in time, relatively the same point in time, because clayburn attacks and is repulsed but continues to fight on this front.

i mean, clayburn writes this thing at the end of 1863. and that's the other thing. as you well know, it's far quick er here in the mississippi valley and the tennessee valley than it is in virginia. yes. >> i had a question. so in your first book you talk a lot about how the wealthy class of planners appealed to the yeomanry and convinced them to go to war because of their shared role as masters. so i was wondering once we get into the war and women start to turn, confederate women start to turn on the war, were there class divisions among women or was there some sort of similar rallying cry for them to say that -- that the men used to go to war, the wealthy class and the yeomanry used as masters? was there something similar among the women? or was there class divisions? >> you know, i think it's a pretty predictable thing for me to say yep, there were class divisions. well, in this whole bunch of scholarship, which it sounds like you know pretty well, about women in the civil war, one position is drew foust's position, right? which is that elite slave-holding south

first clayburn, then

pat clayburn fought at shiloh and he learned a lot. and this, indeed, goes to the circumstance that everybody's been talking about that, hey, these soldiers were relatively inexperienced. many of them had been in the army for maybe a year but had not been in hard combat such as shiloh. and per se, pat claiborne, when he made all of these discoveries in terms of not, for instance, making a reconnaissance of the terrain that he was supposed to attack over, in terms of attacking the mclernen/sherman portion of the line and he got bogged down in a swamp and his caused all sorts of problems because his brigade was split in half because of having to pass this almost impassable morass, he decided that there were certain things that he had learned and would employ in the future from the tactical circumstances of being in the battle. in fact it was pat claiborne who was attributed to the statement that "shiloh was a battle brilliantly won and was stupidly lost." and that had to do with a lot of the tactical circumstances. i don't want to go on

so this is what clayburn's saying in this document, is there's only -- the union has all these sources. immigrants, slaves. they have all these -- a bigger population to start with. immigrants who they're fast-tracking to citizenship to get into the military. and slaves. and we have no more sources. that's why the radical ideas are coming from there. in that sense, i think the emancipation proclamation fundamentally changes the calculation of individual slave men. i think the emancipation proclamation as a preliminary one is a critical moment. i did see some really amazing sources in the shenandoah valley where the military reversals are constant, you know, places turning over 70-something times in one case. winchester, some people think. and there's a great diary of a confederate woman who has a small farm, two small sets of slaves on two properties, and you can see that her slaves don't leave. at various points, the union army's in and some slaves retreat with them but not hers. and then the emancipation proclamation is passed and a union officer comes to their farm and demands his r

there was considerable damage reported near the southern suburb of clayburn and that is south of fort worth. and we do know a lot of people saw these and you saw the semi trailers, the empty trucks, the snider truck yard and apparently they were lifted in the air and a quick look at the expanded view, what is going on? and that is a dangerous and spring-like storm and they're getting snow in denver. the two ingredients and a warm, moist air and that cold air that is funneling in behind the system and that is going to continue. they going have to watch in southwestern arkansas and portions of louisiana. the risk is going to continue for that area tonight. and certainly a big contrast in temperatures. dallas has been dropped down now to 68 and amarillo at 57. over to radar quickly, i want you to see where the chargings continue in the red and they're active tornado warnings and they north and east of dallas and moving to the texarkana area. we're going to continue to look at the video that has been produced and damage to the semi tractors and those are overturned. i have a guest with me

damage has already been spotted around the clayburne cell. see these cells moving rapedly to the northeast around 25 miles an hour. both of these areas heavily pop late. a dangerous situation and already we have spotted some storm damage because of this system. we'll keep you posted. the tornado watch until 8:00 p.m. local time including the dallas-fort worth area. megyn: we have a developing story right now involving the president's reelection team and a message it seems to be sending to african-american voters. the daily caller found the web seethe saying it's on with president obama wins a second term. >> obama has to get in the next four years. what really makes me excited about that is a united states president only has two terms. in the second term, it's on. megyn: then she goes on to say it's on -- because we don't have to worry about getting reelected. good luck, however, finding that video because it's gone from the web site and all references appear to have been scrubbed. we reached out to the obama campaign to comment on why, so fa