until he was confirmed as secretary of war edwin stanton pretended to be the friend of george mcclellan on the left. we are living in 2016. stanton assisted mcclellan and composing the document that he lincoln tosent to retired general scott. that document was composed in the privacy of stanton's home. so mcclellan would not be found out. stanton's devotion to mcclellan blessed only so long. he needed enthusiastic endorsement from the general in order to cover all the bases and getting presently to nominate on his very first day in the war department, stanton arranged a meeting with the most powerful and combative republicans who gaining also to political matter any capital. they headed mcclellan and they were turning on most antagonistic toward the president. the radicals included weight of ohio. wade of ohio. , they called with chama on their conduct of the war in his office. no minutes of that meeting were taken what messages had passed between stanton and weighed the next day, indicating that the very first discussion that night consisted of how to remove mcclellan as commander of t

is the subjectay of his most recent published book about the secretary of war. , edwin stanton. iam is a native of stanton. they live near conway, new hampshire. bill went to keene state university where he received an honorary phd even though they don't issue phd degrees. he got an honorary one. [laughter] [applause] >> so that is very impressive. i have to say that some of you know i been working on this petersburg book. i have written my acknowledgments. the person to whom i am the most grateful for his help is my friend, william marvel. he is an outstanding researcher. he got sources for me in places i couldn't visit. he is an outstanding editor. i sent him the manuscript and he improved it tremendously. he is just a great writer and a great friend. so please welcome my pal bill marvel. [applause] william: thank you all. if there is one thing we learned this weekend, it is that will green gives good introduction. [laughter] william: i enjoy coming down here primarily because of those introductions. i don't hear such glowing praise elsewhere. especially in my hometown. it is a

at 67:00 eastern on the civil war, author william marvel on abraham lincoln's secretary of war, edwin stanton. >> stanton, grant said the secretary was very timid. it was impossible for him to avoid interfering with the armies. he could see our weakness but he could not see that the enemy was in danger. the enemy would not have been in danger if mr. stanton had been in the field. >> on at 8:00 on lectures and history, iowa state university professor describes the careers and social pressures on pioneering women writers like nellie blye and dorothy diction. >> they tried to assign her stories about flowers and and stuff except she kept busting out. she wrote stories about divorce laws, called for reform of divorce laws. largely baufs her mother's experience. she wrote about conditions for women who worked in factories. she wrote about the medical treatment of the poor. >> sunday afternoon at 4:00 on real america, the nasa film "friendship 7" documentling astronaut john glenn's or bit around the earth. >> roger, zero g and i feel fine. capsule turning around. oh, that view is tremendous. >> at

. ♪ >> this weekend on american , saturday on c-span3 at 6:00 eastern, william marvel on edwin stanton>> grant said the secretary was very timid. it was impossible for him to avoid interfering with the armies. he could see our weakness but he could not see that the enemy was in danger. the enemy would not have been in danger of mr. stanton had been in the field. >> on 8:00, iowa state university tracy luke describes the careers and social pressures on pioneering women writers. >> they tried to assign her stories about flowers and stuff that would've made sarah joseph a hail happy. she kept busting out. she wrote stories about divorce laws, called for reform of divorce laws. largely because of her mother's experience. she wrote about conditions for women who worked in factories. she wrote about the medical treatment of the poor. >> sunday afternoon at 4:00 on real america. friendship seven documenting john glenn's orbit around the earth. >> zero g and i feel fine. capsule is turning around. the feel is tremendous. >> at 8:00 on the presidency, garrett epps talks about the passage of the

narrator: this weekend on american history tv on c-span3, on the civil war, abraham secretary of war, edwin stanton. >> grant said the secretary was very timid. it was impossible for him to avoid interfering with the armies. he could see our weakness, but he could not see that the enemy was in danger. the enemy would not have been in danger if mr. stanton had been in the field. the careers and social pressures on pioneering .omen writers like neri bly >> they tried to assign her , exceptabout flowers she just kept busting out. she called for a reform of divorce laws, largely because of her mother's experience. women's work in factories. she wrote about the medical treatment of the poor. >> sunday afternoon at 4:00, the nasa film "friendship 7," documenting astronaut john glenn'bi

author william marvel on abraham lincoln's secretary of war, edwin stanton. >> stanton, grant said the secretary was very timid. it was impossible for him to avoid interfering with the armies. he could see our weakness but he could not see that the enemy was in danger. the enemy would not have been in danger if mr. stanton had been in the field. >> at 8:00 on lectures and history, iowa state university professor, tracy luke, describes the careers and social pressures on pioneering women writers. >> they try to assign their stories about flowers and the stuff that would have made everyone happy except she kept busting out. she wrote stories about divorce laws. called for reform of divorce laws. largely because of her mother's experience. she wrote about conditions for women who worked in factories. she wrote about the medical treatment of the poor. >> sunday afternoon at 4:00 on real america, the nasa film, "friendship seven" documenting john glenn's orbit around the earth. >> roger, zero g and i feel fine. capsule turning around. oh, that view is tremendous. >> 589:00 on the presidency

he quickly unhappily him to accept the formidable corporate attorney, edwin stanton's ruthless dismissal of his talents in 1854. lincoln knew then he would never rise to stanton's level in the profession, and that is true ability and opportunity, his square root lay in politics. in lincoln's party, it disintegrated beneath him, but the necessity of political parties never left him. he clung to the hull of the sinking whig party party longer than some. in this party chaos, lincoln cast himself into the world. as his party splintered, he began holding the framework of another one, even when he did not know he was doing so. many movements often overlapping, swirled into vacuum. movements against slavery, movements against immigrants, movements against trains. but the nativist and temperance movement confounded the development of the anti-slavery one. antislavery democrats and anti-slavery whigs with long grudges to regard each other with suspicion. politics were suffused with sectarianism and asserted itself as the core of a new alignment, though it could not itself attract or manage a vari

. ♪ >> author william marvel talks about edwin stanton.ecretary of war during post of the civil war. >> mr. marvel argues that his loyalties lasted only as long as they were useful to him. he also gives examples of the wartime powers and suggests they were often applied with disregard for civil liberties. this is in petersburg virginia

. >> tonight on the civil war, we talk about edwin stanton, abraham lincoln's secretary of war. he gives us examples of stanton's broad powers during the civil war and suggests they were often apply to disregard for civil liberties. here is a preview. heard, most of his contemporaries described him as sly, dishonest and treacherous. that is how he survived in public life. and by pursuing policies that were sometimes detrimental to the ultimate public good on the basis of what the most powerful faction at the moment desired in order to maintain his own position. i can't tell you that stanton was without redeeming qualities. i can tell you evidence of those qualities is difficult to find. [laughter] he was good to his mother. [laughter] i'm pretty sure he never beat his wife. [laughter] but in the realm of public service, his motives seemed more often selfish than benevolent, and his actions more pernicious than beneficial. countedell have opposition to the lincoln administration but not enough to make a difference in the outcome of the war. certainly enough to leave us with a gre

. >> tonight on the civil war, we talk about edwin stanton, abraham lincoln's secretary of war. he gives us examples of stanton's broad powers during the civil war and suggests they were often apply to disregard for civil liberties. here is a preview. heard, most of his contemporaries described him as sly, dishonest and treacherous. that is how he survived in public life. and by pursuing policies that were sometimes detrimental to the ultimate public good on the basis of what the most powerful faction at the moment desired in order to maintain his own position. i can't tell you that stanton was without redeeming qualities. i can tell you evidence of those qualities is difficult to find. [laughter] he was good to his mother. [laughter] i'm pretty sure he never beat his wife. [laughter] but in the realm of public service, his motives seemed more often selfish than benevolent, and his actions more pernicious than beneficial. countedell have opposition to the lincoln administration but not enough to make a difference in the outcome of the war. certainly enough to leave us with a gre