gary gallagher is professor of the american civil war at the university of virginia. he taught for years at penn state before going to uva. gary grew up in colorado and california. he went to graduate school at texas. and i don't know what it is, but maybe the texas hook that makes the neoconfederates think he ought to be one of them until they find out he's not. at any rate, for years, he i had edited a series with the university of north carolina press, which has produced some of the best books we have about the civil war era. several of which he wrote himself. he is the author, editor of 30 books. i will just mention a few, "the confederate war," the book called "causes won, lost and forgotten: how hollywood and popular art shaped what we know about the civil war." he is the hollywood expert on this. "lee and his generals and war and memory." a particular favorite of mine if you work on memory. just recently, the book called "union war," which my graduate seminar read and took apart as graduate seminars always do, yesterday afternoon. so who knows what questions may

gary connery intentionally jumped from a perfectly good helicopter without a parachute, and you won't believe how he landed. trace gallagherus. trace? >> reporter: no parachute, no problem. he's a stuntman, by the way, in the u.k. he's been in films, he's done over a thousand sky dives and base jumps in his career but nothing like this one. helicopter takes him up to 2500 feet in that special bird suit. he jumps out, he flies for about 25 seconds. says he actually studied this in switzerland, jumping out of planes, he studied the kite bird. oh, what happened? there he is. studied the kite bird 25 seconds ahead as he lands, he lands in 18,000 boxes. [cheers and applause] how cool is that? what was it like? here's gary. >> absolutely amazing. i'm overwhelmed with the whole crew. i mean, look at the sides of that rig that people have put -- size of that rig that people have put together for me. i'm so choke with the the turnout. it's been an amazing experience and, you know, it was so comfortable, so soft. my calculations have, obviously, worked out, and i'm glad they did. >> reporter: he had a celeb story glass of campaign a

gary hopkins, seriesly have you ever seen anything like this in soccer. there is the gallagherse done this. they try to figure this out and we were on the way down and we managed to get it. this was one of the greatest last five five minutes in any sport. we were in despair. we thought we had blown it. to score two goals in five minutes. >> i wasn't joking. the kids were weeping. mothers were weeping when they were down 2-1. americans can't understand the tribalism involved in this sport. >> this is 44 years of just despair. to be in manchester and lost this game from manchester city, would have been inbearable. to win like this is -- no one expected it. you don't win games like this. it's fantastic. >> you have a continuum with alabama and auburn and somewhere in the middle is man city and you. it is much more tribal than sports in america. being able to live and die by this. >> nine months of sporting challenge comes down to the last kick. manchester united for them not to win at all, the blazers, 2005 was the last season and that was shocking. this is incredibly shocking. wil