anything that can give aid to the confederacy. unfortunately, when the wind blows and you are burning this factory next to a wooden house, it happens. john bell hood is being besieged by richmond to do something about this. hood realizes, he comes up with a new plan. i know what we will do, we will march north. we will go into tennessee, and we will go attack nashville. sherman, who is over here in atlanta, he will follow us. he will protect national. what they don't realize is that sherman has already sent george thomas up to nashville with a bunch of people. sherman could care less about nashville and whether john bell hood is doing. he has his eye on something else entirely, and he does not tell his own army. he tells a couple of his own generals and he tells grant. he has to get grant and washington's permission to go the opposite direction. we are going to burn all those railroads, or in the bridges behind us and go the other direction. in georgia, you have three cities sort of in arranged like this. the one in the north, aug

who had supported the confederacy. they are outraged by this idea these confederate men are calling themselves loyal southerners. what about nancy hancock? what is going on with nancy hancock? i know you wanted to say something. go ahead. it >> it didn't matter what she did. it mattered what her husband did. they asked her -- i think -- they had a different set of questions for women. what did your husband do during the war, what did he contribute to the union army, was it reflective of the woman herself? dr. lee: right. figuring out whether or not her husband was loyal rather than if she was loyal. what did you want to add? >> they are looking for the man contributions to the war. he mentions the sun volunteered for the army but was never taken . they focus on the sons and what the husband and the sons did. it was never about her. dr. lee: they were focusing on the husband's and the sons. why? why are they focusing on the husbands and sons. they see the quintessential act of a loyal citizen as military service or voti

however, the war is winding down and the confederacy is collapsing. there is no crude for the -- there is no crew for the jackson available yet. during the battle of columbus, she sat at the navy yard. the navy guys never could come aboard and get her steam up. there wasn't enough men available to do this. it sat there during the battle and did nothing. it's a nice showpiece, so to speak. the next morning on the 17th, wilson's men came into the navy yard and they started burning everything. they know they can't leave a viable weapon like this behind them, so they stuff flammables all over the ship and they set it on fire and they cast it loose into the river. for two weeks, this vessel is slowly floating downstream the chattahoochee and burning. there is a debris field between here and the final wreck sites. it finally got caught in the bend of the river, and she sank. the water finally put out the fires, and we have what is left of her now. her length is 225 feet long and she's 57 feet wide at her widest spot. we estimate she weighed 2000 tons. the m

>> what he claimed his he did not do anything to directly support the confederacy. he claimed he had bonds he received in trade but did not receive directly himself. he had travel passes but did not swear an oath of allegiance. and really -- he claims not to have operated his company to benefit the confederacy. dr. lee: he did not see himself as a devoted confederate. why else? >> he voted against secession. dr. lee: he had initially been opposed to secession. yes, he did later in some way offer support, but he had initially been opposed to secession. this really distinguished him from those who are original secessionists. those who had supported secession from the outset. these were distinctions being made in the south. garland did not consider himself a confederate like his neighbors who had been advocating for secession in the secession crisis with the election of abraham lincoln. he had been opposed to that. therefore, he understood himself as a loyal citizen. these are distinctions the federal government were not making. they were recognizing them. that shows t

debatable, we will take you to georgia where some people want to get rid of the monument to the confederacy. plus his grandfather dropped anatomic bomb, now the grandson is on stand by if the order is ever given again, you will meet him. >> and a battle is brewing over a major symbol of the old sought. it is the site of an enormous carving now some people want it changed. robert ray has more. >> it is a grand pant monument over 800 feet high. just outside the city, the huge upcropping was the sight of the rebirth of the ku klux klan. when several members of the then secret society gathers there and ignite add flaming cross to proclaim it's revival. ever since then, many have seen the mountain as a symbol of racial hatred. >> the history is only related to white supremacy. >> the carving which took nearly 50 careers to complete, depicts jefferson davis, robert e. 3, and thomas stone wall jackson all leaders in the confederacy. >> atlanta councilman has proposed keeping the monument but adding history call georgia native like former president jimmy carter and martin luther king jr. >> georgia

lee, and thomas stone wall jackson, all leaders of the confederacy.tlanta councilman has proposed keeping the monominute, but adding natives like martin luther king jr. >> yet the con fed rassey was only four years of that. and so the confederacy seems to dominate the perception of what is historic georgia, and that's really far from the case. the naacp has a very different approach, the group wants the monomoment completely removed. >> for people that claim that it is art, they are a lot of artistic expressions but that arth is not worth another black life. over the weekend hundreds gathers peacefully at the stone of the mountain. >> you are not offended by it. >> not at all, people with use it for bad or good, it is just a symbol. others a t the rally came with other intentions. are you with the kkk. >> i am. >> and i am very proud to stand up for my heritage, if these people now what they were talking about they would know that the kkk was started by six con federal soldiers. >> so what does the flag mean to you? >> but the kkk means hate. >> what

and so texas was -- texas's primary link to the rest of the confederacy was by sea. galveston was the best natural harbor on the texas coast and galveston was the largest city. and so a lot of -- everything that involved trade and later blockade running went through galveston, for the most part, and other small ports along the texas coast. but galveston was the primary one. even before the confederates fired on fort sumter, in april of 1861, in charleston, the union was preparing and thinking about what happens if this becomes -- if secession becomes a shooting war. one of the things they considered was establishing a blockade of southern ports. the idea of a blockade is it's an old traditional technique used in warfare to blockade an enemy's port, to keep ships and vessels from coming in and out, to prevent the enemy from getting support from outside. the union forces declared a blockade in 1961, just two days after jefferson davis had declared the confederates would authorize privateers to go after union shipping, which is itself an act of war. the union blockade w

yet, the confederacy was only four years of that.e confederacy seems to dominate the perception of what is historic georgia, that's really far from the case. >> the naacp has a different approach. the group wants the monument completely removed. >> people who claim this art, that art is not worth another black life. >> over the weekend hundreds rallied peacefully at what they call the pro confederate gathering at the base of stone mountain. >> you are not offended? >> not at all. >> but others like the self-proclaims head of the georgia ku klux klan with other intentions? >> are you with the kkk? >> i am with the kkk and i'm proud to stay up for my heritage. people would know that it was started by six confederate soldiers. >> let him go. >> rally is this way. >> this clan member would not give allovers his name. it's scenes like this that add fuel to the debate over symbols of the confederacy. >>> more on our website at www.aljazeera.com. night. >>> distrust and animosity between israel and iran are nothing new. and the pending nucl

every time the crown came close to backing of the confederacy, and there were those times certainly in 1861 and 1862 the question of the slave trade came up and every time the south gave the wrong answer to the british cabinet. so what is it that drove them to do all this? alternately even though he was no master spy in keen respects he was a little bit like george smiley. he was a professional representing the interest of the government as best he could. whose job involved, and i love the phrase excursions into the mystery of human behavior disciplined by the practical application of his own deductions. thanks to the man in charleston it remained united even in the minds of some war between the states goes on. [applause] so now, questions and answers. i was curious if you knew where he was living in charleston. it's just a couple of doors away then he moved the meeting street my question is in south carolina in the revolutionary war we had a civil war. a lot of very hard feelings. while they are economic reasons to cooperate on both sides in the civil war. but do those old hard feelin

he claims not to have operated his company to benefit the confederacy. dr. lee: he did not see himself as a devoted confederate. why else? >> he voted against secession. dr. lee: he had initially been opposed to secession. yes he did later in some way offer support, but he had initially been opposed to secession. this distinguished him from those who are original secessionists. those who had supported it from the outset. these were distinctions being made in the south. he did not consider himself a confederate like his neighbors who had been advocating for secession in the secession crisis with the election of abraham lincoln.

was only four years of that so the confederacy seems to dominate the perception of what is historic that is really far from the case. >> reporter: the naacp has a very different approach and the group wants the monument completely removed. >> for people who claim it is art, there are a lot of artistic expression but that art is not worth another black life. ♪ over the within hundreds rallied peacefully and what they call the pro-confederate gathering at the base of stone mountain. you are not offended by it at all? >> not at all, it can be used for bad or good it's just a symbol. >> reporter: others at the rally like the self proclaimed head of the georgia ku klux klan came with other intentions. sir are you with the kkk? >> i am with the kkk and i'm very proud to stand up for my heritage if these people knew what the hell they were talking about they would know that the kkk was started by six confederate soldiers. >> let him go let him go the rally is this way folks. >> reporter: this klan member would not give al jazeera his name and people at the rally had him removed and it's sc

mississippi being the backbone of the confederacy. the meeting is held in washington dc and we have officer david porter, president lincoln, secretary of the navy gideon welles, secretary of state william seward, general george mcclellan, secretary of war edwin stanton. they begin to talk about this need to seize new orleans. assault? plan that predominately, they plan to assault fort saint philip and fort jackson. the problem is these are yankees from the north and they do not know those forts. someone says there's a young lieutenant in washington right now who knows everything about this two forts. -- those two forts. his name is godfrey weitzel. so the call goes out to find weitzel and bring him right away. he shows up with these the wigs -- bigwigs of the federal government. they ask what he knows, and he asks what they need to know. he knows exactly how to take the two forts because he knows their weaknesses, so they make weitzel the chief engineer of the mission against new orleans. this twentysomething has the key to unlock the

janet weaver became very involved in the united artists -- united daughters of the confederacy.she was known throughout the south for her efforts with the udc and the robert ely cap. you can see -- the robert e lee camp. you can see with the streamer, a mrs. norman vincent randolph relief fund, obviously given in her name. you see the horse in that slide and that is little sorrel, stonewall jackson's horse, and it was norman vincent randolph who was responsible for reaching out to a taxidermist in new york city to have little sorrel preserved. and he stands in all his grandeur to this day at the virginia military institute, so the two of them together have a wonderful legacy. even after norman vincent randolph's death janet weaver randolph continued her work. she became known as mother richmond and fran what you could consider today a united way type of -- as mother richmond and ran what you would consider today a type of united way, and helped retired veterans and their wives. as lives would progress for both ben palmer and norman vincent randolph, they were both very successfu

changed allegiance from the stars and stripes to the stars and bars, the first national flag of the confederacy. at the battle of bull run, georgian soldiers discovered it was difficult to tell the two flags apart, so they created the confederate battle flag, also known as the southern cross. when the war ended, georgia returned to the stars and bars -- without the stars! >> georgia is the most controversial state flag. it set national records for having eight different state flags, and it was a controversy steeped in the history involved with their ties to the confederacy. >> many people believed those ties were too reminiscent of slavery. others believed georgia's confederate past needed to be recognized. >> in 2003, georgia's legislature introduced a flag that addressed the concerns of both sides. >> it features the stars and bars, which is the first flag of the confederacy, but in the canton, you see three pillars, which are supposed to represent the three branches of government, and words like "wisdom," "justice," and "moderation." >> a soldier bearing a sword symbolizes georgia's commitme

why does he defect and go from the union to the confederacy?d what was the attraction with mosby? >> the question was about big yankee ames, who don talked about in the fairfax courthouse raid. why did he defect and go over to mosby? don: the explanation that has been given when he was asking -- actually questioned is that he had a disagreement with the emancipation proclamation, that he had joined the army to protect the union, to save the union, but when he thought emphasis went over to the emancipation proclamation, he deserted from the cavalry. >> why did he choose mosby's command? eric: well, the fifth new york, he had already tangled with them a few times, came out on the very, very, very short end of the stick in those fights. [laughter] i mean, it is a great story that as far as i understand when i read it, when ames shows up to join mosby, somewhere out in the middleburg area, he was not mounted. so he hoofed it from the fairfax city area, germantown area, out to join up. the reason i believe that is true is because that night, he and

for thesaw all options state as other states joined the confederacy, he began to see that there were were options -- fewer options and reluctantly he joined with the confederates north carolina was one of the last of those states to break away from the union. as the war began to come to an , battles moved into the central part of the state. the cabinetvis and led -- flight enrichment through greensboro. the governor met them, but he was also able to have an open dialogue with union generals who came. visited generals greensboro. they were welcomed by the governor. they could pretty much take what they wanted. he was welcoming to them. the then governor of north carolina sought to broker a surrender, governor morehead was called to be sort of a broker of that these. -- a broker of that piece. bring to generals from the union side, and a general from the confederate room.together in this governor morehead passed away shortly after the surrender -- after the surrender, so he was not an active participant in the restoration after the war. i'm sure he would have been instrumental. i see h

it -- and yet, the confederacy was only four yearsover that and so the confederacy, seems to dominate perception of what is historic case. >> reporter: the naacp wants the monument completely removed. >> for people who claim it's art, there are a lot of artistic expressions, but that art is not worth another black life. ♪ >> reporter: over the weekend, hundreds rallied peacefully in what they call the pro-confederate gathering at the base of the mountain. >> you are not offended by it? >> no people can use it for bad or good it's just a symbol. >> reporter: but others like the self proclaimed head of the georgia ku klux klan came with other intennings. are you with the kkk? >> i am. and i'm very proud to standing up for my heritage if these people knew what they were talking about, they would know the kkk was started by six confederate soldiers. it is my heritage. i have forefathers who died for this flag >> reporter: but the kkk means hate. >> no i don't. it is scenes like this that are adding fuel to the debate. >> what they celebrate is treason against the united states of america,

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. >> one of the confederacy's first acts is to seize all the federal forts in the south. in charleston, union troops under major anderson are stationed at fort moultrie. >> fort moultrie was in pretty bad shape. that fort had been built in 1809. it was only one level high. >> in the middle of the night, the soldiers secretly rowed out to fort sumter, which was still under construction. >> anderson and his men moved over here to fort sumter because this was the newest fort in charleston harbor. it's three stories tall. it is going to be a state-of-the-art structure by the time it's complete, and it's defensible -- most defensible -- because it has a mile of water on all sides. so, south carolina militia units, should they want to attack the u.s. army, are going to have to cross a mile of water first. right now we are standing outside of the sally port, or the entrance, to fort sumter, and what we are standing on is the granite wharf. and this is where anderson and his men would have landed on the night of december 26, 1860. >> for more than three months, anderson and his m

the museum of the confederacy hosted this event. mr. quatman: thank you for the warm introduction and thank you for hosting me. i am so happy to be here. they occupied the house just next door, formerly occupied by jefferson davis. it is a story that very few civil war buffs know. i've given this talk all over the country and people are surprised, they have not heard of him before. over the next hour i will tell you why he was chosen to enter richmond 150 years ago today. you may remember his name when you walk out of here. the book is actually on sale upstairs in the gift shop. i will be doing a book signing upstairs. if you have a copy of the book there is time to get one. richmond was captured april 3, 1865. what an understatement that is, to capture the historic event that happened 150 years ago today. i got interested in this project 12 years ago when i was going through my grandfather's family archive and memoirs and came across this entry. my father's uncle was a general in the civil war. my grandfather george weitzel. he was bor

she was not going to get vaccinations and not going to learn anything but about the confederacy.ad to be done about that. >> when i was walking into court, i was sure i was going to get full custody. >> we felt we had a strong case going to trial, because we had the evidence. so, and the evidence was through this carlos lester's guy. and through megan herself, posting those things. >> the judge gave them 50/50, shared custody. robert would have lilly for an entire week from tuesday to tuesday. and then megan would have lilly for an entire week, from tuesday to tuesday. >> and that was it. my child was still allowed in the environment. my child was still allowed to be around this confederate organization. he put no limitations whatsoever. >> the information that we have of the virginia flaggers is from our perspective, they're completely legitimate organization. >> i know how tough it is for family court judges. i know their days are 12 to 14 hours. i know they're overwhelmed. but somewhere that judge has to sit there and say, as tired as i am, as sick as i am about these continui

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yet the confederacy was only four years of that. so the confederacy seems to dominate the perception of what is historic georgia. that is very far from the days. >> the naacp has a very different approach. the group wants the monument completely removed. >> for people who claim this art, there are a lot of arthritis i can expressions but that art is not worth another black life. >> over the weekend hundreds rallied peacefully in what they call the pro confederate gathering at the base of stone mountain. >> are you offended? >> not at all. people can use it for bad. people can use it for good. it's just a symbol. >> others at the rally came with other intentions. >> sir, are you can the kkk. >> i am with the kkk and i'm very proud to stand up for my heritage. this "f" these people knew what the hell they were talking b they would know that the kk was started by six confederate soldiers. the. >> this klan member would not give al jazeera his name and people had him removed but it's scenes like this who are adding fuel to the debate ov

every time that the crown came close to backing the confederacy and there were those times certainlyin 1861 and 1861, the question of the slave trade came up and every time the south gave the wrong answer to the british cabinet. so what was it that drove bunch to do all this? ultimately although he was no master spy, i have to say in some key respects he was george smiley, he was a professional recipienting the interest of his government as best he could a prowhose job involved excursions in the human behavior disciplined by the application of their own deduction. which i think some of my colleagues in the national post will find it familiar of a job. thanks to our man in charleston the united states remained united even if in the minds of some the war between the states goes on. thank you. [applause] >> so now questions and answers. come on, please. yes. >> actually i have two questions for you. the first one is a simple fact. i grew up from charleston and i'm curious if you knew -- >> yeah, he started off -- >> okay. >> 58 trad street is now what it is now. >> right. >> but it's a

. >> reporter: the carving which took nearly 50 years to complete depicts leaders of the confederacy. councilman michael bond has proposed keeping the monument but adding historical georgia natives like jimmy carter and martin luther king jr. >> georgia is over 280 years old, and the confederacy was only four yearsover that. so the confederacy seems to dominate the perception of what is historic georgia, and that's far from the case. >> the naacp want the monument completely removed. >> there are a lot of artistic expressions, but that's not worth another black life. ♪ >> reporter: over the weekend, hundreds rallied peacefully at what they call the pro-confederate gathering. you are not offended? >> not at all. it is just a symbol. >> reporter: but others at the rally like the self proclaimed head of the california ku klux klan came with other intennings. are you with the kkk? >> i am. and i'm very proud to stand up for my heritage if these people knew what the hell they were talking about, they would know that the kkk was started by six confederate soldiers. >> reporter: this klan me

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the first lady of the confederacy going to the north. and the southerners tried to get her to stay and they vilified her and they offered her a house and all this stuff. and she wrote to her daughter and said, i am free, brown, and 64. i can do whatever i want to do. [laughter]. >> a little unusual to assert oneself so much at that time. >> and then when she did go to new york, she made a living. she had to make a living. and she made a living writing for the newspaper, the "new york world." but she also, and this is where i think they became so interesting post-war, all these women. she befriended julia grant, the wife of ulysses s. grant and understood that this was an act of reconciliation. >> yep. >> and it was page one news in all the newspapers. and, by the way, the newspapers are all available online. >> right. >> so you can waste months, i mean -- [laughter]. >> waste. yeah. >> just reading them. >> right. >> they're so much fun. and one of the things that did surprise me, because even when i was growing up it was women should on

and others like the new confederacy like ohio and michigan when it comes to voting. they're the newconfederacy. >> what they're doing to remove those barriers. charleston was one of the wholliest in the old south. you had such a greatbackground of churches and religion and spirituals. whatare your perspective growing up on the bible and how you process that in terms of your community organizing. >> i think that change will change in this country and society has come with the role especially for african- americans is the church as an ins institution as been the the activitial point. the drive wasfed by volunteer and generated by congregations of both black and white. when we went tomississippi in the 60s and alabama and so forth. a lot ofwhite volunteers were volunteers by denominational desire to reach elk the i. so the church is the fundamental for change. when the gentleman struck at mother emanuel, a principal church which i have attended when i worked inside the south, he stroke below at the heart of the symbol of black freedom and so that's why when the eld duie

lee and tomas stonewall jackson all leaders of the confederacy. a council man proposed keeping the monument but adding historical georgia natives like jimmy carter and martin luther king jr. >> the confederacy was only four years of georgia's history. it seems to dominate the perception of what is historic georgia and that is really far from the case. >> the naacp has a different approach and wants the monument completely removed. >> some people who claim it as art, there are a lot of artistic expressions, but that art is not worth another black life. >> over the weekend hundreds rallied peacefully at what they called the pro confederate gathering at the base of the mountain. >> you are not offended? >> no, people can use it for bad or good. it's just a symbol. >> others at the rally like the self proclaimed head of the georgia ku klux klan came with other intentions. >> are you with the k.k.k.? >> i am and i'm proud to stand up for my heritage. if these people knew what the hell they were talking about they would november that the k.k.k. was star

and yet the confederacy was only four years of that.confederacy seems to dominate the perception of what is historic georgia, and that is really far from the case. >> we'll talk about the options being considered. >>> other news to tell you about, running for president, that's what joe biden is said to be considering with his staff. when would he announce his decision? how could this affect the relationship he has with his friend and former colleague, hillary clinton. we'll talk about that. >>> also the pewty of our planet. we'll look at the winning pictures from this year's "national geographic" photo contest. >>> it was supposed to be a test of american hospitality, turns out america may have failed. hitch bot was relying on average joes to help him hitchhike across the united states. but just like the fresh prince in bellaire hitch bot quickly found out that philadelphia isn't always full of brotherly love. in a city this has long struggled with his reputation from attacks on santa claus to snowballs, it now has a reputation as a rob

augusta became an important part of the confederacy because during the civil war acosta was chosen as the site of the confederate powder works by george washington. the augusta arsenal was surrendered to the confederates in january of 1861 and produced munitions throughout the war, and so augusta was very much a part of the war but there was no actual fighting here in which would make recovery in the post-war period faster and easier for a augustine's so in the reconstruction period augustine's began to talk of the new south philosophy, let's use our canal and let's enlarge it and deepen it, built textile mills along it, stop sending our cotton to the north for processing and process it here and make the money that will come from that right here. so after the war, well into the 20th century augusta was a textile center and it would remain that until the modern era when textiles like other parts of the south, textiles here began to move out of the country to other places. local history i think is the key to understanding history on a larger scale because a local community is a microcos

he wanted to attack the confederacy. a strange situation occurred at the beginning of the war. two national capitals of the two nations are miles apart from each other. it's the strangest thing in the world. one of the southernmost points of the northeast, washington, and one of the northernmost points of the south, richmond, and they are right there. lincoln says, we going to move against them. we have the numbers. we have everything. at some point, this turns into we are going to move a whole like 140,000 of them, against richmond. we will just take it. the problem is, starting in , this crazy2 confederate general that nobody has ever heard of keeps winning battles and draining off union troops. get rid of them. swat them away. do what you need to. lincoln's first reaction to jackson was this anonymous throwing this entire offensive off balance, and he can't stop it. he can't do anything about it. some people have said lincoln panicked at some point that the idea that richmond would attack washington. he didn't. there was a sense of great fear of jackson and his army because

of buildings, 20 eight or more, that were built more or less in a year to supply powder to the confederacy. one of the interesting things about the works is there -- they were separate buildings, and it was a reason for that. that is if there was an explosion at one, you wanted a net between one building and the next so that they would not blow was at the first step the main building called the refinery. that is where the sulfur and saltpeter were purified, and it would move by special wooden at great pains to keep the sparks down, and it went through a whole series of grinding and pulverizing and refining, and eventually it was sorted into grains of various sizes that were appropriate for different pieces of artillery. number of minor accidents that were reported in the local press that resulted in finally in october of 1864, there was a major explosion. one of the buildings blew up. they say the explosion went up five stories high at least. killed, thewere men, a boy, and a mule. it was quite a tragedy, but because this building was separated from all of the others, it was the only one t

back to europe representing now a confederacy of america during the revolutionary war. and serves as a key figure in the constitutional convention helping to save the day and arguing what was a close thing in the 13 states. benjamin franklin quintessential american homespun, sure, smart, entrepreneurial, represents so much of the american dirt. this is a wonderful biography. dying every day. i happen to love ancient roman history. this book is all about the roman poet senate who was the artist in residence at the court of aero and sort of the odd juxtaposition between this awful man and his tyrant and how he tried to survive the night time. while being on the other hand the senior visor and it was a very tricky business. it's a great piece of roman history about a very controversial and 90s the relationship and a very easy and

that britain, the most powerful nation on earth, had no choice but to support the cotton growing confederacy with official recognition and support. if it came to a fight, the secessionists believed, the british would supply the money, the arms and the naval power to guarantee the south separation from the union. they would sweep away what was the first a paper blockade. they would bottle up what was, in fact, a tiny federal army at the beginning of the war and that would be checkmate, game over. why? why would the british do that? why would they believe that? because rock cotton was the most important international commodity of the 19th century or you could say was that i can consensual oil was to 20 into the 21st. without the textile mills of britain and france would shut down and hundreds of thousands of people would loose their jobs overnight. britain got 80% of its raw cotton, slaveowning south. >> you can watch this and other programs online at booktv.org. >> you are watching booktv on c-span2, television for six readers. here's a quick look at our primetime lineup this evening. >> book

while all symbols of confederacy have been removed from the school, not all have disappeared.ni group on facebook still regard johnny reb close to their hearts. >> what i find interesting is how little the arguments have changed. >> test scores increased and dropout rates declined after the symbol was removed. hullsinger believes this contributed to the positive academic scores. we tried to reach out to the original group that sued hullsinger. those requests, though, have gone unanswered so far. >>> right now at 6:00 a gunman kills a virginia reporter and cameraman on live television before taking his own life on i- 66. we have live team coverage. >> reporter: coming up you'll hear from a group of young men who say they have now been able to do what police haven't been able to do and that is end the violence here on the streets. >> and very sad news tonight about the fate of one of the national zoo's twin panda cubs. good evening. i'm derek mcginty. >> and i'm lesli foster. >>> that gunman who killed two young journalists near roanoke is dead tonight. vester flanagan killed jo

what did the confederacy do that was so distinct if it was not a slave state? ben: slavery existed in every state in this country. it existed in every colony before that. slavery, you will come to understand, it built the american economy. it built wall street. read the book by the editors of the "hartford current" that established that it was a northern enterprise. what it was with a bunch of people who went out in their time to defend their rights, what they felt were being threatened in that system. if you want to fight be civil war here, if you want to fight the civil war here, no. >> i am not saying stupid things, i am expressing an opinion. >> ben, if you read the documents of secession, the states as they seceded, they were clear that it was about nothing other than slavery. it was clearly about slavery, and it was their determination, they wrote it themselves, that their culture was contingent upon slavery and the eradication of slavery was the eradication of their culture and their property and -- bruce: let's go to noelle back here. noelle: we also ha

columbus guards were invited to be the bodyguard of jefferson davis when he was inaugurated as the confederacy's first and only president. marched to montgomery, alabama, wearing these red jackets, where they were photographed and talked about in many newspapers across the south. portiontanding in the of the legacy gallery the details columbus's long history. columbus was founded as a city in 1828 and its first mill was founded the same year. the object we are looking at currently is a terry towel loom that was used at the mill here in columbus. this loom would have been used throughout the 1980's and still has fabric on it. you can see the various stages just from the basic cloth all the way to the finished terry towel product. in addition to mass production, the mill had a company store where residents of columbus and the surrounding area could actually come in and directly purchase towels and other scraps of fabric from the mill floor. columbus's location on the fall line makes it an ideal place for many typesmills and of mill products. but when union forces came through at the end of the yea

and the confederacy of america during the revolutionary war, as a key figure in the constitutional convention helping to save the day really for the constitutional convention and arguing in what was a close thing in the constitutional convention in 13 states. benjamin franklin bigger than life figure, homespun, shrewd, smart, entrepreneurial, so much of the american figure, wonderful biography. finally, die every day. this book, it is all about the roman poets seneca, in the course of nero. the odd juxtaposition on this thoughtful man seneca and how he tried to survive in that time period while being on the other side of very senior adviser to nero and it was a tricky business. great piece of roman history about very controversial and not easy relationship. and. ec and great read if you like ancient roman history as i do. that is my summer reading for now and i hope to be back next year with an equal number of recommendations. >> booktv wants to know what you are reading. tweet as your answer at booktv war you composed on our facebook page facebook.com/booktv. >> here are some books written b

many reasons, not least of which was that it was the second largest manufacturing center for the confederacy, second only to the confederate capital of richmond. however, many residents of columbus also left to fight in the war. bys jacket we are standing was worn by one of those residents. is an iconic red jacket that was worn by the columbus guards. this was one of the city's private militia companies. these sorts of organizations were very common throughout the south and the 19th century. it was mainly a way for elite white southern men to socialize but also to come together in a fraternal organization. usually their activities were limited military drills and social gatherings, but during the civil war many of these companies and their members were andally called into action went to fight as representatives of their hometowns. the columbus guard was started during the second creekmore in the 1830's and continue to be active until world war i. up until immediately after the civil war, they chose to wear a bright red jacket. as you can see, the red jacket actually has a right and ivory col

they were a part of the confederacy because during the civil war agusta was chosen as the site of the powder works and the agusta arsenal was a rented to the confederates january 1861 to produce munitions throughout the war. so agusta was very much a part of the war but there was no actual fighting that makes the recovery faster and easier. is in the reconstruction period they began to talk of the new south philosophy to build the textile mills and cotton to the north and the money that would come from that. and it was a textile center and debt would remain that and tell the modern era and tell other parts of the south began to move out of the country to other places. i think local history is a key to understanding history on a larger scale. because a local community is a microcosm of what happens is the larger world. if we cannot understand where we are we not know where we have been or why things are the way they are if we don't understand how they got to be the way they are. the local history provides that window for us to understanding of our past and how it has evolved over the y

. >> just like nonstop, nonstop learning the confederacy. >> pretty much lily was the virginia flaggers. they loved to take pictures of her with confederate hats and shirts and bibs. i don't see her playing with toys in any picture. i see ammunition. he's allowing my daughter to play with live ammunition. i spoke to megan about it, and it was, oh, well, you know, take me to court. [ gunshot ] >> roberter bau ebaumann came i, very concerned about his daughter lily. i told him he needs to establish formal paternity and also request custody. >> i got to know robert very well as a parent. he asked me to write him a character reference to take to court. it was about lily's best interest. so siding with robert was the right thing to do. >> the mother's own mother was prepared to testify for robert. and the mother's own sister was prepared to testify. now that is a total oaudioddity. usually blood is thicker than water. >> she was not going to get vaccinations and not going to learn anything but about the confederacy. and something had to be done about that. >> when i was walking into court, i

the museum of the confederacy hosted this hour-long event. [applause] mr. quatman: thank you for joining me. i am so excited to be here on the anniversary of when this house was occupied by joseph davis. this is a fascinating story on a story that very few civil war buffs know. i've given this talk all over the country and people are surprised, they have not heard of godfrey weitzel before. over the next hour i will tell you why he was chosen to enter richmond 150 years ago today. you may remember his name when yo

in the '70s -- 70 to 80 millions americans are the sense of the confederacy.e got to fill out application form when we came into this place. we didn't get to decide what color we are going to become who our ancestors were. in stating the turmoil of american history, i understand that indeed slavery, which is a lot longer than america, started in 1619, white and black bondsman came into jamestown under the english flag from 1619-1776. a big american flag from 1776-1865. those men thought they were doing the right thing, and lincoln in his first and not the address makes it clear he has no problem with slavery. that's a tough thing for people to get around that if we study history we have to understand, first of all, the debt we are to the african-americans. i think that's clear. they did not come after 1865, have the same storyline as everybody else. at the brooklyn and move ahead we have to find things as dr. king said. he had a dream that someday on the red hills of georgia the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners would dine together at t