a fire-breathing confederate newspaper editor named edward om pollard. he was -- he was a really diehard confederate. it's kind of hard from reading his columns, hard to know whom he hated more, lincoln or jefferson davis.i but pollard in writing about -- he stayed around.pat he witnessed the occupation, and he stayed for a few days, but h wouldn't stop his secessionist i opinions so the union army threw him out of the city, but he sou observed firsthand the fire, thl fall of the city and he said, all hopes of a southern confederacy consumed like a scroll in the fire. thank you very much. >> be happy to take questions. yes, sir? >> -- i'm a high school history teacher and raced most of my life, when i get to the civil i war, the kids come to me and i h know they get it from their pec, parents, starting to say, from g historical perspective what the world is about, why the south i secede and so on. a historical perspective without taking sides i immediately get what i like to call that ut confederate revisionist not perspective on history. that's not what