they will continue to move into farmville. hopefully he can get there before the union army tails him. he gets to farmville, has the supplies issued here, and then cut south to keysville and reenter sets -- re-intersects the railroad at keysville and continues his march to danville. that is what he is looking for. as he moves in making his night march to farmville he plans to go in this direction. late on the evening of april 6 , the union calvary pulling hit-and-run tactics. whenever they came to a crossroads, union cavalry would attack the confederate line of march, burn wagon trains, retreat and go to the next crossroads. that is basically what happens here at sailor's creek. that is part of tomorrow's talk. keep in mind one thing we point out in our museum. the battle for sailor's creek. it's spelled sailor's -- not sayler's. think of it as three three separate engagements, all going on at the same time. one is a mile from another. both of those are two miles from the third. there are three separate engagements. the warned

so that is what brought him heading towards farmville. as he is heading along he comes to the area just past detenville and amelia springs. it's a 23-mile march from amelia springs to here. as he is moving along the confederate army is on a single roadway going across the rolling land of the piedmont or south side virginia here. as they come to road intersections union cavalry and union infantry will move uponly's wagon trains and his battle lines and there will be a hit-and-run tactics by federal cavalry which is now under general philip sheridan. that is what brings us to what happens on the evening of april 6 at sailor's creek. previous to the fighting at sailor's creek, the evening of the 6th there was another small engagement just between sailor's creek and farmville. that engagement was for high bridge. union troops stationed in burkeville realized that the confederate army is moving upon farmville at this time so general eoc ord sends a group of union infantry about 900 men of the 123rd ohio and 54th pennsylvania and along with thr

any come from the east of farmville know that burkville is just down the road. it was and still is a railroad junction. the same day lee also sent a message to lieutenant general james long street, one of his core commanders, said with the army concentrated at or near burkville, our communications north and south would be by the railroad that's the railroad that came through farmville recently. we also the opportunity to strike at grant should he pursue us rapidly or sherman before they could unite. i desire you make every preparation to accumulate all the supplies you can. general grant seems to be preparing to move out by his left flank and he is accumulating his army near the depot of supplies and apparently concentrating along that quarter. so with those two messages general lee now prophesies he was going to have to leave petersburg and eventually head toward north carolina. so again the appomattox campaign overlaps the petersburg campaign which is what tracy talked about at the end of his speech. the nine days from march 29th to april 9, 1865. of course, t

they will continue to move into farmville.e gets to farmville, has the supplies issued here, and then cuts south and re-intersect the railroad. that is what he is looking for. as he moves in making his night march to farmville, he plans to go in this direction. late on the evening of april 6 the union calvary pulling hit-and-run tactics. union cavalry would attack and go to the next crossroads. that is basically what happens here at sailor's creek. that is part of tomorrow's talk. keep in mind one thing we point out in our museum. the battle for sailor's creek. think of it as three separate engagements, all going on at the same time. one is a mile from another. there are see -- there are three separate engagements. here you have confederate general richard stuttered you'll fighting against general wright six core. this land on marshall's crossroad, which you can't really see here. that is where we recently acquired a large amount of property. finally at lockets farm, also known as double bridges, this is known as the second co

to farmville they were wanting to know. i remember he said it would take a philadelphia lawyer to figure out how the armies got through this area. i'm not from philadelphia but i think i've figured it out. >> would you speak on major henry young? chris: henry young was in the second rhode island infantry. another thing the union cavalry used on this campaign and tracy ably talked about what the union cavalry was at this point of the war, they wore confederate uniforms and took the persona of -- i think they took the ninth virginia cavalry, fake southern accents, and what they would do is they would ride into the confederate line of march. they would tell the teamsters go water the mules or the horses. as much as they could, interrupt the line of march of the confederate army. over here at namozine church, a cavalry under general rufus behringer made a stand at the church. they were pushed back by custer's cavalry. as they fell back they ran into this group of masquerading confederate cavalry who proceeded to capture general

zynga rocketed to success with farmville and poker on the facebook platform. they valued zynga at $7 billion. now it is valued at $2 billion. sales tumbling 21% in the last year. shares down on the news. david kirkpatrick. let's -- this raises interesting issues. >> they are better depending on the time the company is in. pincus is an inspired leader. if he can tune his inspiration, so to speak, to really suit the time zynga is and is a tough question. not only does it need to revive the production of really big hit gains but they are slimmed down even further and becoming a more efficient company. cory: his visionary entrepreneur seems to be accounting tricks in the ip you to change revenue recognition. you called for this. you were saying that he is not working at zynga. what was he trying to do their? -- to do there. >> i am watching fulton are stars on sling tv and it looks beautiful. cory: i thought you were going to say you are playing mafia wars. what was different under the matrick year and a half or whatever? >> the problem with don matrick that we be

remember farmville?ynga once led the market for social gaming but its user base and revenue have shriveled. the company made a slow transition to mobile gaming. what is the committee's future? we have mike on the phone with us from chicago. shares are down 14%, is that all you need to know? mike: zynga has been stuck in neutral for the last couple of years as a goes through a transition to mobile and away from the dependence on facebook games. don mattrick made some changes but ultimately none of the work over the last couple of years resulted in eddie and he hit titles. stephanie: why is he leaving? michael: don had a hard time winning back investor trust. want to have lost that trust, it is hard to get it back without results to back it up. at this point, they are -- there are not a lot of tangible results. erik: it was investors that effectively drove him out as ceo two years ago. michael: i think it is hard to say if mark will be able to right the ship and transition in a favorable way. to investors,

. >>> american history tv recently visited longwood university in farmville, virginia for a sem seminar on the closing of the civil war in 1865 it. was co-hosted by the university and the appomattox courthouse national historic park. next author mark bradley talks about the fighting in north carolina during the last months of the civil war. this is about an hour. >> thank you, david. can everyone hear me okay? >> yes. >> all right. well, we have watched the armies of grant and lee moving across the virginia landscape from the siege of petersberg, to the surrender at appomattox courthouse, now i'm going to make a detour. we're going to make a sharp turn south and turn back the clock. we're going back to december of 1864. and we're going to follow this man, general william t sherman and his progress in what he believes and hopes will be his final campaign of the war. now sherman and grant are pursuing the grand strategy that they formulated in march of 1864 in cincinnati, ohio. the idea was to keep the armies in the east and in the west, the confederate armies so busy that they cannot rei

the company has failed to create a successful mobile game franchise on the level of farmville.trick drew criticism for hurting zynga's poker franchise by prioritizing graphics over speed and simplicity and a number of analysts have raised concerns about the company's bloated cost structure including mattrick's paycheck. take a look at skin da ga stock performance under mark pincuss versus don mattrick. stern says that the ceo change makes him more cautious that it clouds the potential for a near term turnaround at zynga. btig analyst rich greenfield said the departure is a good thing but calls the new he's been replaced by pincuss worrisome. >> thanks. i was surprised to say the very least when i heard about this news. >> i think any time you get a ceo that didn't do well coming back, it just portends that the stock has nowhere to go and they probably shopped it around, nobody there to buy it, so probably dead money for a while. >> i was surprised to hear about the news. who cares. you know. but -- >> people only care because it was mattrick who was sper sieved to be the savior

ryan mccall planned to fly to farmville regional airport. mccall had 30 plus hours of flight experience including 2 1/2 hours solo. >>> this sunday the columbia university graduate school of journalism will release its review of the now discredited rolling stone article detailing rape at university of virginia. the report will be posted on rollingstone.com and cjr.org at 8 p.m. sunday night. the article titled a rape on campus detailed an elaborate detailed story of a student identified as jackie who claimed she was gang raped at a fraternity house in charlottesville. a four month investigation found no evidence of the attack. >>> coming up what was said when president obama phoned the israeli prime minister to tell him about the tentative nuclear arms deal with iran? >> plus two women under arrest accused of plotting a terror attack on u.s. soil. >> reporter: the governors of indiana and arkansas signed >>> tonight the people of kenya are mourning the loss of at least 147 innocent people massacred in a terror attack at a college campus. ken

it is known for facebook games like farmville and pincas hired a c.e.o. in 2013 to lead the shift but the announcement is not going over well with shares falling 10 percent. >> pre-orders for apple watch start tomorrow with the first reviews of the gadget. >> good first reviews for the apple were what, most think it is better than other smart watchers but not for were. a concern is you need a recent iphone to make it work. pre-orders start tomorrow and delivery in two weeks. >> iphone users have access to more diverse set of emojis after a newly released ios3. >> fascinating with different skin tones. >> you can skip the annoying ads on youtube. for a price. that puts them in competition with netflix and hulu. >> no word on how much the fee is one estimate is $10 a month. >> you would you pay it? >> no, i will watch the ad, it is fine. >> those are ten bites. it is thursday. >> honoring the men and women in uniform who defended our nation with a moving tribute. >> do you like grilled cheese sandwiches? what it could say about your personality? stay tuned.

best known for games like farmville, at one time the most popular company on facebook but more recently to other games and mobile devices. >>> an overwhelming majority of american teenagers have smartphones. a study by pew research center finds 73% of teens have one. the report says 91% of those go on the internet on a mobile device occasionally and 24% say they're online almost constantly. >>> and those strange rob lowe tv commercials are done. >> i'm rob lowe and i have directv. >> i'm super creepy rob lowe and i have cable. >> the ads with lowe playing series of loser alter ego drew complaints from cable giant comcast. directv was told to stop using the ads because there's no proof their service is better than cable. >> you can't get enough of rob lowe is the problem. jill, thank you. >>> golf's greatest challenge tees off today. more than 80 players are invited to pursue a green jacket at the masters. on wednesday, some took part in the par-3 contest. tiger woods walked the course. it was his first time playing in the contest since 2004. the biggest shot of the day belonged to none

mainly captured at the april 6th battle of high bridge near farmville.lee dropped another rather large hint saying he had no food for grant's men and, indeed, he had nothing for his own men. no food for his own men. grant responded that he could send over 25,000 rations to feed lee's army. lee gratefully acknowledged that that was ample. well drafting the letters continued, grant introduced some of the officers in the room with him, including general seth williams. general lee knew seth williams well. williams had been lee'sage -- from 1852 to 1855. another person that general grant introduced was a young captain that had joined his staff less than a month earlier. his name was robert lincoln. he was the son of abraham lincoln. he had recently graduated from harvard and joined general grant's staff in mid march and here in the mclean parlor. we don't have a record of how general lee reacted to meeting robert lincoln. the 8-year-old daughter of wilma mclean left a rag doll on the couch in the parlor where the meeting occurred. and when everyone came in th

and our prime time presentation continues tuesday night in farmville, virginia. a seminal on the civil war in 1865. the program was co-hosted by the university and national historical park. that begins tuesday at 8:00 p.m. eastern right here on cspan-3. >> coming up next, part two of a two-part interview with daniel ellisburg. he talks about handing over the pentagon papers, the fall out from the leak and has arrests and trial which spans from june 1971 to may, 1973. the richard nixon presidential library conducting this interview as part of a project. this portion is about 50 minutes. that weekend on a sunday, the office is broken into. i believe the name of the assistant was andrew pierre. you will think that might be it. andrew pierre. and he told me there's no question there had been a burglary of the files that weekend. and it's in gredell's office. vrjs now my former wife had told the f.b.i. that i had given the pentagon papers to fullbright and gredell. so they kpaj rated the degree of my intimacy. so i think hunt and libbey on the way homemade a little op

the social media company, gaming company has struggled to adapt to a world no longer obsessed with farmville and mafia wars. mark pincus returning as ceo. don mattrick out after 21 months at the helm. zynga rocketed on the scene in 2007 with several games on the facebook platform but the company capitalize on that promise with a frothy ipo that values zynga at $7 billion. now it is valued at $2 billion. sales tumbling 21% in the last year. last year, they lost $226 million in just one month. shareholders are losing even more money. shares are down on the news of pincus' return. rich greenfield is with us. this raises interesting issues about whether a founder is better, or a professional manager? >> they are better depending on the time the company is in. it is not a bad thing to have change in a company in this much trouble. pincus is an inspired leader. whether he can tune his inspiration so to speak to suit the times that zynga is in is a tough question because not only does it need to revive the production of being hit games and continued immigration to mobile, but it has to slim down fu

grant first proposed that lee surrender near farmville on april 7th.lee danced around the issue trying to buy some time. keeping his options open. until all hope was extinguished. that moment came on the morning of september -- excuse me, sunday, april 9th. the supplies lee had hoped would feed his army in appomattox station fell into union hands. before dawn that morning sensing what the day might bring and knowing that how he portrayed himself in defeat mattered a great deal lee dressed in a new gray uniform and sash. and buckled on his sword, something he rarely did. at some point, he received the worst news at his headquarters east of the river. his army could not breakthrough the union lines west of the courthouse. on dozens of fields, lee had always had options. but no more. there's nothing left for me to do, he said, than to go see general grant. and i had rather die a thousand deaths. over the next many hours, lee sent three notes through the lines to grant. the last was simple and direct. quote, i ask a suspension of hostilities pending the ad

grant first proposed that lee surrender near farmville on april 7th.lee danced around the issue trying to buy some time. keeping his options open. until all hope was extinguished. that moment came on the morning of september -- excuse me, sunday, april 9th. the supplies lee had hoped would feed his army in appomattox station fell into union hands. before dawn that morning sensing what the day might bring and knowing that how he portrayed himself in defeat mattered a great deal lee dressed in a new gray uniform and sash. and buckled on his sword, something he rarely did. at some point, he received the worst news at his headquarters east of the river. his army could not breakthrough the union lines west of the courthouse. on dozens of fields, lee had always had options. but no more. there's nothing left for me to do, he said, than to go see general grant. and i had rather die a thousand deaths. over the next many hours, lee sent three notes through the lines to grant. the last was simple and direct. quote, i ask a suspension of hostilities pending the ad

this took place at longwood university in farmville, virginia and was co-hosted by the university and appomattox courthouse and national historical park. chris calkins talks about the battles that took place as part of the appomattox campaign. this is about an hour. >>> one of the benefits of those who were not here last night when i was talking about the entire campaign from petersburg to appomattox i mentioned when i worked at the park alt appomattox i would come to

the union soldiers marched into farmville. let me put the question differently. i see shaking or noddings of heads. did the confederates who rushed on to the field at gains mill or who held the stone wall in fredricksburg, did they fight to preserve slavery, to perpetuate. i don't see anybody offering up any opinion in terms of shaking or nodding their heads. ron's heard it. patrick's heard it. you'll hear something like this. my great great grandfather he didn't own slaves. he didn't fight to preserve slavery. he fought to defend his home his way of life and the community and state. the civil war wasn't about slavery. you're wrong to tell people that it was. you had that happen, we've all had that happen. we had that happen probably a couple of times a month if not more. what do you say? oh, yeah, the war was about slavery. your grandfather fought to preserve slavery. it's not likely to receive, well, it's likely to receive a letter to a congressman more than anything. they're great, great grandfather from woodstock virginia who served the second virginia infant

grant first proposed that lee surrender near farmville on april 7th.around the issue trying to buy some time. keeping his options open. until all hope was extinguished. that moment came on the morning of september -- excuse me, sunday, april 9th. the supplies lee had hoped would feed his army in appomattox station fell into union hands. before dawn that morning sensing what the day might bring and knowing that how he portrayed himself in defeat mattered a great deal lee dressed in a new gray uniform and sash. and buckled on his sword, something he rarely did. at some point, he received the worst news at his headquarters east of the river. his army could not breakthrough the union lines west of the courthouse. on dozens of fields, lee had always had options. but no more. there's nothing left for me to do, he said, than to go see general grant. and i had rather die a thousand deaths. over the next many hours, lee sent three notes through the lines to grant. the last was simple and direct. quote, i ask a suspension of hostilities pending the adjustment of

zynga is then for facebook games including farmville and hired someone to lead the shift from web toe announcement is not going well with inhave thors falling 10 percent. >> students and parents have a reason to sole brit after being accepted to all eight ivy league schools the valedictorian has a perfect s.a.t. score and was accepted to ten other universities and he hopes to become a neurosun -- neurosurgeon. >> another senior is wanted by stanford and hopes to go into public service. >> both join a fellow to long island who is send and also wanted to be a neurosurgeon. >> top tech companies where women want to work, the bet of the best in silicon valley. >> the men and women who defended our nation in a moving tribute coming to the bay area today. >> do you enjoy grill cheese sandwiches? what that can say about your personality. >> you can keep tabs on weather and traffic through the entire commercial break. stay tuned. this is not rain, this is water prior on to the new york subway last night from a broken waters main. passengers are still inside this train with the water now shut

. >>> american history tv recently visited longwood university in farmville, virginia, for a seminar on the closing of the civil war in 1865. the prom was cohosted by the university and appomattox courthouse national historic park. up next, michael gorman who talks about richmond in 1865 and what historians can learn from period photographs. his talk is just under an hour. >> all right. thank you, patrick. our next speaker is michael gorman. michael was here four or five years ago, did a great presentation with some amazing photographs. you'll see some more of those here today. michael grew up in richmond attended vcu and vmi. has been a permanent ranger and historian at richmond national battle park since 2003. if you have not seen his website, you really need to go and look at that website. i tell my students there's so much junk online and garbage online in terms of scholarly sources. this is about one of the best websites related to the civil war i've ever seen. i did an article on civil war hospitals in richmond a number of years ago and got a lot of good stuff from mike's websi

. >>> american history tv recently visited longwood university in farmville, virginia for a sem seminar on the closing of the civil war in 1865 it. was co-hosted by the university and the appomattox courthouse national historic park. next author mark bradley talks

. >>> american history tv recently visited longwood university in farmville, virginia, for a seminar on the closing of the civil war in 1865. the program was co-hosted by the university and the courthouse national historical park. next, author mark bradley explores the fighting at bennett place in north carolina during the last months of the civil war. this is about an hour. [ applause ] >> thank you david. can everyone hear me okay? all right. well, we have watched the armies of grant and lee moving across the virginia landscape with the siege of petersburg to the surrender at the courthouse

. >>> american history tv recently visited longwood university in farmville, virginia for a seminar on the closing of the civil war in 1865. as well as the closing activities in the transmississippi area. this is about an hour. >> i want to go ahead and introduce our speaker. our first speaker for the morning. robert dunkerly. he's worked at nine different historic sites. most recently at richmond national battlefield park and he has written two books that aren't specifically listed. i'm sure he'll be talking a lot about them today. one of them in the for sale bookstores. the final surrenders in north carolina elsewhere and the other one is the confederate surrender at greensburg. the final days of the army of tennessee. his talk to will been on the forgotten surrender and indian territory. since i did my dissertation on florida, i hope he'll mention florida a few times. burt dunkerly. [ applause ] >> thank you. >> good morning. i want to thank the organizers for having me. i really appreciate the invitation. it's great to be here with so many people interested in this topic. what i'd

. >>> american history tv recently visited longwood university in farmville, virginia for a seminar on the closing of the civil war in 1865. as well as the closing activities in the transmississippi area. this is about an hour. >> i

. >>> there's been a shakeup on the farm as in farmville.an francisco-based gamemaker zynga replaced the ceo with the man who started the company in the first place. mark pinkus, reasonable ceo is in. he says he'll try resurrect the zynga fortune by focusing on mobile gaming. >>> you know the burning sensation you get when you eat wasabi? researcher at u.c. san francisco say the so-called wasabi receptor can help improve pain medication. researchers say there's a certain protein inside sensory nerve cells that create that burning sensation when you eat wasabi or when you're exposed to things like tear gas. researchers used new imaging technology map the protein more clearly. now they're experimenting with ways to block the response of the brain receptor. pain medications as well as anti-itch medications could become more effective as a result of all this research. >>> ahead, changing the way campus second sex assaults -- campus sex assaults are handled. the penalty that could come for sanford students. >> reporter: a voe that's gone viral af

. >> american history tv visited longwood university and farmville, virginia for a seminar the civil war. the program was cohosted by the university and appomattox courthouse park. next, tracy chernault, park director at petersburg national battlefield. he talks about the long standoff between lee and brent and the final battle in 1865. he discusses the importance of supply lines and the disparity between union and confederate armies' access to food and ammunition. the talk is about an hour. >> i want to introduce our first speaker of the evening. tracy chernault. we have programs out there, you can pick up the program. i will give an abbreviated version of the introduction the , bios we have in the programs. tracy is a native of appomattox. he has a ba in history. he has worked for the national park service, first part-time and full-time starting in 1991 at appomattox court house national historical park. since 1997 at petersburg out of battlefield. he is the author of one of the volumes and the howard, virginia regimental history series. his deals with the 18th and 20th battalions

. >>> american history tv recently visited longwood university in farmville, virginia for a sem seminar on the closing of the civil war in 1865 it. was co-hosted by the university and the appomattox courthouse national historic park. next author mark bradley talks about the fighting in north carolina during the last months of the civil war. this is about an hour. >> thank you, david. can everyone hear me okay? >> yes. >> all right. well, we have watched the armies of grant and lee moving across the virginia landscape from the siege of petersberg, to the surrender at appomattox courthouse, now i'm going to make a detour. we're going to make a sharp turn south and turn back the clock. we're going back to december of 1864. and we're going to

lee opted not to test the defenses southwest of jeetersville but to shift directions and head for farmville to be supplied by the south side railroad. whether a determined attack by lee early that afternoon, before all the union infantry arrived and entrenched, might have suck saided, well, we have to chalk that up to the unknowable. the decision to controls the appomattox river on april 7th, and take a longer route west to appomattox station looks in hindsight as the wrong move. because it allowed sheridan and ord to take the shorter route west and arrive at appomattox before lee. no matter what mistakes lee might have made from our perspective 150 years later, there can be no question that his presence was about all that kept the army of northern virginia together. the most famous evidence of this is the oft quoted scene lee, atop a hill watching the fugitives from gordon's and anderson's corps fleeing from the yankee pursuers. the sight of him raised a tumult, wrote an eyewitness. fierce cries resounded on all sides. and with hands clenched violently and raised aloft, the men called on h

this took place at longwood university in farmville, virginia and was co-hosted by the university and appomattox courthouse and national historical park. chris calkins talks about the battles that took place as part of the appomattox campaign. this is about an

one, the southside railroad, which leaves petersburg and goes west, runs through here in farmville, goes out toward western virginia and the all-important saltworks that the confederates have there. arguably the most important railroad coming into petersburg supplying the confederates is the one that goes south, the petersburg-weldon railroad whose southern terminus is wilmington, north carolina. why wilmington, north carolina you would say? well, wilmington is the last seaport open to confederate blockade runners. the union navy, having blockaded every other major seaport, has not been successful in taking wilmington. with that, wilmington is now the window to the world for the confederate government. and all manner of goods and materials brought from around the world can be brought into wilmington, placed on a rail car, and then taken up to petersburg. union army, of course hampered that somewhat in the summer of 1864 when they cut the weldon railroad in the two battles that take place there, the assault on the weldon railroad on august 18 19, and 21. and further with a battle on augus

lee opted not to test the defenses southwest of jeetersville but to shift directions and head for farmville to be supplied by the south side railroad. whether a determined attack by lee early that afternoon, before all the union infantry arrived and entrenched, might have suck saided, well, we have to chalk that up to the unknowable. the decision to controls the appomattox river on april 7th, and take a longer route west to appomattox station looks in hindsight as the wrong move. because it allowed sheridan and ord to take the shorter route west and arrive at appomattox before lee. no matter what mistakes lee might have made from our perspective 150 years later, there can be no question that his presence was about all that kept the army of northern virginia together. the most famous evidence of this is the oft quoted scene lee, atop a hill watching the fugitives from gordon's and anderson's corps fleeing from the yankee pursuers. the sight of him raised a tumult, wrote an eyewitness. fierce cries resounded on all sides. and with hands clenched violently and raised aloft, the men called on h

. >>> american history tv recently visited longwood university in farmville, virginia, for a seminar on the closing of the civil war in 1865. the prom was cohosted by the university and appomattox courthouse national historic park. up next, michael gorman who talks about richmond in 1865 and what historians can learn from period photographs. his talk is just under an hour. >> all right. thank you, patrick. our next speaker is michael gorman. michael was here four or five years ago, did a great presentation with some amazing photographs. you'll see some more of those here today. michael grew up in richmond attended vcu and vmi. has been a permanent ranger and historian at richmond national battle park since 2003. if you have not seen his website, you really need to go and look at that website. i tell my students there's so much junk online and garbage online in terms of scholarly sources. this is about one of the best websites related to the civil war i've ever seen. i did an article on civil war hospitals in richmond a number of years ago and got a lot of good stuff from mike's websi