during that summer with the army of northern virginia union general david hunter attended to subdue the shenandoah valley, confederate general robert e lee went to deal with hunter and hopefully divert some of grant's troops from washington, d.c. to combat this threat. were at my katie myers talk in a session before about early,u know and you know a lot about him and his campaigns during this period , and if you like to know more about his maneuverings, you can catch dr. meyer in the hallway and the siege her with questions. early men moved quickly and managed to surprise the soldiers garrison and washington, d.c. destroying buildings as they went. hunter had returned to these shenandoah and what early called warfare,ite mode of burning the homes of prominent confederates. as he noted in his memoir, early came to the conclusion that we had stood this mode of warfare long enough, and on july 26, he brigadesd two under charles mccausland. $100,000d mccausland in gold or $500,000 in u.s. currency at the compensation for the destruction of the house is named, those belonging to prominent co

after first trying out david hunter for a few days, hunter steps aside. philip sheridan takes over. tois sheridan's mission track down and eliminate jubal early, to take away lee's last lee has ofst chance upsetting the apple cart. with sheridan, although sheridan took his time to the point that grant had to visit him to say, when are you moving -- sheridan was ready to move. grant took the train back and found out, by the time he got back by train, that sheridan had in fact moved. only with sheridan's victories in the shenandoah valley was grant able to take the shenandoah valley out of the war and rob robert e lee of his last chance to upset the apple cart in virginia. what grant had done that he could not win, that could make sure that lee could not win either. and the war would have to be decided elsewhere, where union military leadership was superior to its confederate counterpart. you see that in september and october of 1864. september 2, william t sherman enters atlanta, and empty city, herschel he burned already. sherman is a complete test, -- completist, and so he takes ca

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we shot 60 episodes of man hunters, as david said, and my boss at the time, mikey, called me and said this is a great idea. we are federally funded. why not sure the great work the men and women do every day. weekends, holidays. is the perfect example of positive press that we need, and the law enforcement unfortunately were up against cameras rolling out there and whatnot. so positive press was good. what we set out to do we accomplished. it was a successful show, three seasons. i thank mike for the. he was backing me in washington 1% with everything, so it still worked out well. this book is something that shows with a 50 to 60 interviews that david did and the year-long for over a year of interviews that were done around the country and whatnot, but it's certainly going to show and give you an idea what kind of work these men and women do every day. they are downrange going after people with four to six prior a rest of the don't want to go back to joe. i could sit there and tell a lot of stories. i don't want to bore you to death, but with that again thank you for coming out. it's

in the tv show man hunters that many of you may have seen and i am just one of the joys of doing what i do is meeting people like these two. my friend lenny de paul. >> thank you david and that was a very kind introductintroduct ion and i very much appreciate that. i've got to meet this guy lanny. thank you all for coming and sharing this great night which i feel is going to be the launch of a fabulous book. i had the honor and privilege of forwarding the book and enjoyed every minute of it but i wanted to publicly thank and congratulate the writer and author david fisher and our former associate director of operations mike earp. they certainly need a round of applause for what they have done to get this book out. [applause] the stories that are in the book are extraordinary work that goes on every day in the marshals service. the investigators and david touched on the task force that iran. we were stood up in may of 2002 congressionally funded on a mandate that mr. earp was instrumental in spearheading and getting this thing off the ground. back in 02 after 9/11 with the fbi concentrating on domestic terrorism somebody need to look at our own backyard. we started v