gallagher: peter has are not only a jefferson side, but two jefferson pins. prof. onuf: well, gary, i'd like to start with a quotation from jefferson and it's an interesting one. it's when he's talking about the declaration of independence as he's designing a reading list at the university of virginia. goering are used to do this together. we used to teach a course, the famous 701. that reading list included the declaration, of course. oh, i didn't write it. the american people wrote it. i'm just channeled it. -- i'm just chilling it. he channeled the american people. anyway, he said, what is the declaration? we want jefferson's simple definition of what the declaration is all about. he says it is the fundamental act of union of these states. he says the declaration gave us union. now, as gary said just before, we don't -- that word means nothing to us now. what could he possibly have meant, why did he say it. why didn't he talk instead about all those wonderful things in the second paragraph. oh, all men are created equal. you've heard that one. government by cons

and the jefferson davis, the only difference between them and jefferson davis was that he had been chosen to be their political and several leader. thus, he didn't deserve any punishment any more than he did. and if the union were to punish davis, they should be punished. and they rejected that. davis, back at ft. monroe, davis went from southwest georgia to ft. monroe by train and by boat. and at ft. monroe he was incarcerated. in the summer and fall of 1865, his incarceration was pretty tough. he was jailed in a case mate cell that had iron bars. in his little cell, there was constant light. there was a guard sitting there24there2 there 24 hours a day. there was no privacy for anything, even for what they called acts of nature. he was not allowed to speak to anyone except his captors. he was shackled but for less than a week. but still the other conditions that i described lasted from his initial incarceration into the fall of 1865. but this did not remain a secret within the walls of ft. monroe. his treatment got out in the newspapers. his wife pushed hard to publicize the situation in

and the jefferson davis, the only difference between them and jefferson davis was that he had been chosen to be their political and several leader. thus, he didn't deserve any punishment any more than he did. and if the union were to punish davis, they should be punished. and they rejected that. davis, back at ft. monroe, davis went from southwest georgia to ft. monroe by train and by boat. and at ft. monroe he was incarcerated. in the summer and fall of 1865, his incarceration was pretty tough. he was jailed in a case mate cell that had iron bars. in his little cell, there was constant light. there was a guard sitting there24there2 there 24 hours a day. there was no privacy for anything, even for what they called acts of nature. he was not allowed to speak to anyone except his captors. he was shackled but for less than a week. but still the other conditions that i described lasted from his initial incarceration into the fall of 1865. but this did not remain a secret within the walls of ft. monroe. his treatment got out in the newspapers. his wife pushed hard to publicize the situation in

jefferson required visibility. the ability to find high ground and grasp the rise and fall of hundreds and even thou sands of acres of land. given the conditions, he might have been forgiven for staying inside and catch up. but he'd waited years for this opportunity and was passed ready to begin. retrieved his horse and rode off into the rain. first a man named major peeter charles lamfant, a highly unlikely clos sas of city planning around the world. second, an idea called the federal city. an iconic graphic expression of american values and ideals. and third subject is a single drawing. the meeting point of the first two subjects. the plan as it exists now, it's a big, brown smudge with a sliegtly darker brown smudge dominating the middle of it. it's impossible to read with the eye. you can catch bits and pieces of it. it took microscopes and lasers for us to pull this out of it. it took an enormous amount of excavation to get this out of it. when lamfant finished the plan when it created this document, it didn't

and the jefferson straight phase one and two uses the shared street concept and there are many times and with the street parking eliminated on the two of the five blocks at the wharf and the visibility has increased and so the dangers of the people getting hit by the cars pulling out of parking spots, and the doors opening into the bikes and into the bike way, and parallel park has been a non-issue and on three of the blocks at the wharf. and we have also worked to curtain the deliveries, and that is that businesses on the two rebound blocks of jefferson street are not to received the deliveries after 11 and that correlates with the street and that the spike in people happens at around 11 and starts to taper off at 5 p.m. pedestrians at the wharf and this was the one that i was excited to share with you on average, jefferson three, most heavily impacted area have more pedestrians than the time square three busiest areas and so back in july of 27, the fisherman's wharf has three cameras installed and one at budeans and one across the street at the wax museum and a third one at jeffers

jefferson. there needs to be some kind of memorandum once mission bay is built, not saying that we will be around, but anyway, ace, leave that activism alone. but for my children's, children's, children's. i have three great grandchildren. i would like to say 1 day, go down by mission bay, you know your pa pa knew that man that put that together. he's long gone, there is something that will show you it was a black man involved with this new city within that city. don't that sound good? i'm not up here complaining. i'm up here training trying to be something different. anyway, mission bay, i'm supporting it and hoping that there will be african americans involved like it started off to be. jim jefferson came up here years ago before any of you were up here. he came up with the idea about mission bay and at that time we were proud of him. we didn't know what mission bay would turnout to be and look at it, it's another city and ace washington 61 years old. hoping we can have something dedicated to

to show how hard jefferson hit him. each time, the trash can fell to the ground. those kinds of hits they said at so much force the student would surely have hunched over or left the room in visible discomfort but the surveillance videos didn't show that they say. this case largely centers on the word of one teenager. and the big question is will the jury believe him? from prince george's county, i'm allison barber, wusa9. >> allison thank you. and those set to begin tomorrow. >>> over in montgomery county, the public school substitute teacher today pled guilty to two counts of child sex abuse for inappropriately touching two middle school students. >> i'm andrea mccarren in rockville. where a shocking allegation emerged in court that a middle school principal told pineda's first known victim not to report the abuse to police or child protective services. >> that was a mistake. i think that matter should have been reported. >> reporter: in 2004, a 2-year- old student -- 12-year-old student tearfully told forest oak middle school's then principal john buehrle and t

jefferson assaulted one of his students in a conference room last september. states attorney angela alsobrook says jefferson confronted the student about being late to class and he allegedly punched the kid twice in the student and when the student tried to defend himself that principal punched him in the face. school officials say this is not tolerated and not accepted. we will see what will happened to in court when they get here at 9:00. we will be in the courtroom and bring you updates. for now back to you in the studio. >> nikki thank you. >>> and we have new information this morning about the house fire which killed six people in annapolis earlier this year. investigators found an electrical fire engulfed the pile family's 15-foot christmas tree inside their mansion. the couple and four of the grandchildren died in the fire. according to the capitol gazette later this week the atfhad plans to burn similar 15- foot trees to get a better understanding of how the fire spread. that information will be included in the final report which is expected to be rele

washington, adams, jefferson. jackson is actually a supporter of doing something the great hero is going to be grant. only presidential leadership. of course, jefferson provided leadership plans in the trash. and that's the way it's going to stay until grant. we only agreed to come here. we didn't agree that we couldn't leave. in 1804, 1805, attempts by congress were made to leave. to go to philadelphia or baltimore or back to nnl nj. new jersey. they all failed but then, in 1814, the new englanders were handed a wonderful gift by an englishman named robert ross who burned most of the federal building. one of the most important events in washington history. i say thank you, general ross. never again until the end of the civil war was there ever a bill introduced into congress to move the seat of the federal government. it's talked about sometimes in the press. the reason it didn't is because what i can only call the 9/11 effect of the burning of washington. there was an immediate up welling of support. congress ho

jim jefferson in the mission bay. i'm announcing formulating the new committee to recognize him, mr. jim jefferson on the mission bay. so write it down just what i said. okay. now. getting back to mr. gamble was sitting there. that was historical. i was sitting here which was historical. so i think that's a good idea. you all will find as a new ace now that gabelling. people say you rhyme all the time. before i got into politics i have that suave. i think you might like the new me. i think that's a wonderful idea. let that be the record, mr. ace washington is supporting the mission bay. we need to come together. chip in. all of them. i have seen so many new developers and talk about consultants. maybe i can be a consultant. i'm hustling. anything i do they will say i'm being negative. i would like to say since we have all of these new consultants, new staff. let's start something new in the city. let's all get together and put something together for mr. jim jefferson. >> thank you. any other speaker cards? no. commiss

he would pen a letter to thomas jefferson, letting jefferson know that he lost his dear friend. and he would say to his family "if only i could lie down beside her and die too." susan: can you talk about john adams' life in the years after abigail died? edith: yes. john was surrounded by family, so he was not isolated. he had always as his amanuensis and hostess and caretaker, a niece who lived with him and had lived with him for most of their lives, her life. and grandchildren came and children came, so there was always traffic to the house and people came and the militia came from boston, as you've said. so there was a lot going on during those years. and he was quite palsy. he couldn't write his own letters, so he had to have an amanuensis. he had someone write for him. but he carried on this incredible correspondence with jefferson during those years. susan: these great bitter enemies finally coming to peace and dying together. on the 50th anniversary of the declaration of independence on july 4th which is really quite amazing. there's a question here about whether or not th

professor varon: and what about jefferson davis?fessor gallagher: we have a countdown clock with the gigantic numbers counting the way down. [laughter] professor gallagher: jefferson made his way self work, they were in danville for a little while, through the carolinas, he was captured on may 10 near urbandale, georgia, and was taken to fort monroe as many of , you know, where he was kept in jail for two years. a manacle, early-onset and unequivocal message to society. he desperately wanted to be put on trial. he believed that a trial would vindicate him, and there is potential federal prosecutors thought about it, and in the end they decided not to do it. he had a really good defense lawyer from new york city, an irishman, incidentally, harold. [laughter] mr. holzer: who sweated profusely. [laughter] professor gallagher: he would have to be tried where the crime was committed, which they said was in richmond, and it was perhaps a chance he would not be convicted, which would be a problem because then the blood really would be on t

was reported to this commission in 2000 which would have been the loss and the parking stalls on jefferson street, so conceivablely that money was made up with the increased numbers at the parking lot, and triangle parking lot. and we continue to track 8 businesses the number that i just shared with you were both port and those from the cannery building and anchor square and we continue to track 8 business to see if the trend continued with the exception of two months, where the things stayed the same there continued to be increases as much as 33 percent in may of 2014 as well as 11 and 10 percent in march of 2014, and we also have done the survey result and we have good things to share about that and we ask some questions, specific about jefferson street, and some questions that we have asked throughout the years to see how the people think about the wharf and gauge it what we have seen the down trend of the neglective comments and the respondents were asked an open question and do you dislike most about the wharf, the number one response is that there is nothing. and so i love that and s

if jefferson davis is gives unbeknownst to me, that will be fine. professor gallagher: nothing like a good irish stereotype. [laughter] professor varon: so you talked a little bit there about lincoln and grant and lincoln's instructions to grant. let's get to april. early april, the siege line runs from richmond to petersburg, lee and his troops had west, and the troops catch up to him at appomattox courthouse. what happened at appomattox, and as appomattox effectively end the civil war? it is commonplace to observe that appomattox effectively ended the civil war. it does it intoend the civil war, and if so why? to lincoln and lee's minds does it represent the end? ms. leonard: i would say no. actually, depending on how you caf au lait the war and income i think it is clearly an important point, clearly an important surrender, but there's a lot to be resolved, and even after all of the confederate army has surrendered, there is a lot of resolution that needs to be accomplished. it takes a very long time for that to happen. professor varon: let's tal

our jefferson davis award, the richard b. harwell book award and the richard slatten award for excellence in virginia biography. i personally had the opportunity to read aloud an expert from an uncorrected proof of that book standing at this podium during the introduction of our 2007 symposium about robert e. lee. as is often true, there is a story behind elizabeth's emergence as a major civil war historian. she earned an m.a. in history from the university of

and always remember to eat fresh and stay healthy. >>> some call this week's jefferson award winner a hero to seniors. sharon chin is here to tell us how she helped them create a sense of community. >> there we go. >> reporter: when ana aureoles had a brain tumor removed she didn't know how she would manage but then maria jobling helped her home and gave her a computer to help her not feel isolated. >> i'm here alone, you know, surrounded with all my memories. and then i have this wonderful connection. >> reporter: to this day, ana remains grateful marie kept her connected. >> it's always exciting. you just see people grow and the light goes on. >> she is family. >> reporter: ana is just one of 1500 people that marie serves every year through the nonprofit she founded in 2007, community living campaign. >> that's great. >> reporter: marie has worked with seniors and adults with disabilities for years in san francisco as executive director for community living campaign. she provides a network of resources to help them turn strange nears neighbors and neighbors into friends. >> we found

the lincoln prize our jefferson d davisa award, the richard b. harwell book award and the richard slaten award for ence i excellence inn virginia ograph biography. p i p

jefferson who was in paris says we need a bill of rights. madison wrote him and said, we don't need a bill of rights. in particular, what would become the first amendment, that is what you don't want. the people pushing for that our people most concerned about religious power. >> his problem though was, the constitution was explicitly a grant of power to the federal government, and whatever was not included in that grant of power did not exist as a right. some people said power is such that power will creep. therefore, we need a list of what they cannot do. that became the bill of rights. madison was a phrase, if you have that list of what you cannot do, somehow that would expand the constitution itself. madison in terms of religious liberties, as i understand him was the most sensitive about minority religious rights because of what he had experienced with baptists in virginia. he wanted to make sure religions were treated equally. i agree he was concerned about the new england, battle sony and forces -- adamsonian forces, but he was more c

he was not madison, not jefferson. and so there was a genial surface quality to him that i argue in the last chapter of the book ran much deeper that the ability to say we should all -- the collegiality and working together is the essence of what america is about. some people felt that was a shallow and even a mark twain or others disparage the autobiography of ben franklin, how to succeed how to win friends, how to influence people side of ben franklin. i think it goes deeper to that and i tree to show that. >> host: ann in california you are the first call for walter isaacson. >> caller: yes. i've been reading the "innovators eye" and trying too figure out if there's any particular symbolism behind the design of the cover over -- cover of the book snooze no. i wish steve jones helped more. i wanted to show interconnected. i wanted to show that people wove together. i wanted to make it feel a bet creative but also show some of the pictures but there was not a grand secret design but thank you for ask. >> host: four pe

jefferson davis announced that they would be enslaved. somewhere, not a not -- soldiers captured were at risk of execution. under the law against insurrection they were risking being re-and slaved. it was not just black soldiers that face this. when his army invaded pennsylvania in the gettysburg campaign they sent back several score people into virginia trying to re-enslave them into the labor force of virginia. by and large, black folk in uniform or not were treated as part of the enslaved population by the confederate army. by the very end of the war as many out there will know, in desperation the confederacy in the congress of to president davis decided that perhaps they would try to recruit some former slaves into the confederate army and they did indeed recruit one small unit in richmond by late march in 1865. the idea was to do what many societies had done without -- throughout history, which was to arms slaves and put them in the army. which would have violated the very reason of the confederacy to exist. vast numbers of white sou

i don't know if that was true for jefferson davis or not with the confederacy. inasmuch as the congress lincoln urged congress, there is only a question of time as to when the proposed amendment will go to the states for their action. and as it is to so go at all events may we not agree the sooner the better. what lincoln was conveying here is that the newly elected congress, the one that had been elected in november when he was elected, the newly elected congress, the republicans would hold far more than two-thirds majority in each house. when they sat in december, beginning, would begin to sit in december and they would pass legislation anyway. so he was appealing to democrat whose had voted against the amendment, many of whom had been defeated in november that they should now change their votes. in the film it almost appears that his trying to get the amendment passed was a secret. mary todd was shocked. sally field had not read her husband's address to congress. now as most of you know, lincoln faced a crisis from the right side of his party led by the blair

explained to a increase cost of parking control officers to help address pedestrian activity only jefferson street and increase ambassadors along that areas as well. in terms of management plan verse annual budget, on theport side the fishermans cbd was well within the 10 percent range. with respect to bench mark 3 for the fiscal year, assessment receive new they well exceeded this expectation as well. and then in terms of budget to actual for land side we did see a little bit of a skew on district identify and street scape improvement by 3.4 percent and on the port side 2 percent increase. let's see, this is explained by expenses related to hiring a new employee and war fest 2013 which was a event that helped replace the fleet week events that were sequestered. in terms of careee, we plan to careee over 56 thousand dollars into the this fiscal year and will work closeically to insure the funds. we want to the insure every cbd including fishermans warf and expanding the funds that was approved by the voters. i will bring up troy campbell that is executive director of fish ermans warf that w

not jefferson. and there was a sort of a genius surface quality to him that i argue in the last chapter of the book land much deeper that the ability to say that we should all. working together that it is the essence of what america is all about. and some people say that it was sort of a shallow, and even a mark twain or others you know. desparage and auto bog feet. and to succeed. and win friends. to influence people. side of ben franklin. i of course think that it is deeper than that. i will try to show that in my biography of him. ann santee california you are the first call for walter issacson. yes. i have been reading the innovators and i am trying to figure out if there is anything any particular symbolism behind the design of the cover of your book. no. i wish that steve jobs would help more. and i wanted to show sort of interconnected and i wanted to show that people woef together and wanted to make it feel a little bit creative and also show some of the pictures. but there was not a grand s

you can nominate your local hero for a jefferson award at cbssf.com/hero.ing up at 5:00 how a small gap between pregnancies may put your baby's health at risk. that story and more at 5:00. >>> just like that it seems like it was just noon when we goon this. that's it for the kpix 5 news at noon. have a great afternoon. enjoy that weather out there. >> it's going to be near record highs today. it's going to rain next week. enjoy. captions by: caption colorado comments@caption >> brooke: you're not marrying quinn. i won't let you do that to yourself. >> deacon: brooke, i -- >> brooke: deacon, please. listen to me. this is for the rest of your life. and you're not in the right frame of mind to be making that kind of commitment. >> deacon: wait, stop, stop. look, i-i really appreciate your concern. and i get that you can't stand my fiancée, but, brooke -- >> brooke: no, that's it, okay? that is it. you are not marrying quinn. >> quinn: i'm not worried. i'll find a way to make it happen. i always do. >> rick: easier said than done. ivy's not exactly a team pla

this week's jefferson award winner is helping kids take a bow. >> and a reminder, if you have a consumer problem or question, call our hotline. 888-5-helps-u. volunteers are there right now. >>> it's the perfect mix of fruit and veggies. tony and stephanie tantillo are serving up a dish of tomatoes and squash. >> i saw some beautiful italian squash at the market this morning. steph and i said, let's make something but let's keep it really, really simple. italian squash is so mild and it's almost like the long italian squashes the kakoo tsa squashes we call them in italian. they cook up like that. so we put that in with mushrooms and tomatoes and cooked them together absorbing all the flavor. >> we started with the mushrooms and then put in the squash and then the tomatoes. very last because we wanted to just heat them up. >> now we're going to spice it up with red pepper flakes. >> i'm going to add a generous amount of oregano with the earthy flavor and coarse salt. look how beautiful that is. >> so simple and healthy too. >> lots of color. >> great vegetarian option. >> yes. >> grab a s

they never brought a formal indictment against jefferson davis. while in prison, he became an early folk hero of the lost cause. finally, he was released in the spring of 1867 because they had not brought any formal indictments, and they couldn't hold him any longer. his bail was purchased by welding northerners, horace greeley. once you release jefferson davis from jail in the spring of 1867, there is nowhere else to go. alexander stephens, the vice president, was also arrested and imprisoned for a short time in charlestown, massachusetts. he was released by the end of the summer of 1865. we will never know. most civil war's have ended in a much bloodier way. if a side loses as profoundly as the confederacy did, they're usually have been retributions and even executions. that we did not do that sets up to a certain extent some elements of the lost cause tradition. these leaders live to write about it. host: we are seeing the muskets and rifles stacked, and the confederate flag, the banners are being unfurled. the use of the confederate flag on a

my question dealt with the same topic -- which was surrendering before president jefferson. some people have said that perhaps he should have waited for his commander-in-chief to surrender, that perhaps, he took that step further than he should have. i know his men were suffering greatly, however, is he still convinced it was the correct situation? guest: absolutely it was the right decision. i was the commander of the army and commander-in-chief. there was no way to communicate with general davis. i made the decision and it was the right decision. host: you made the decision to allow union rations to be distributed, but your own rations were starved from the chase as well. guest: they were hungry because we had been on the run for several days and pursued the army of northern virginia. i gave general lee the provisions i had kept him from getting. it was his rations i gave him. host: magnanimous of you to do some -- to do so. guest: i thought so. his men were starving. mine were hungry but we had been in a headlong rush to get into this place. for the first time, i saw a ph

the census maker was thomas jefferson.ere are some facts and they gathered about the new united states -- the 13 former colonies, now the 13 initial states had a population of under 4 million. 757,000 of those are blacks, and only 9% were free. the per capita income was $437 and it was more than that before the years of war. years of war had reduce the per capita income. if you translate that income into 2013 numbers, it's $11,500. the largest cities in the country were new york, philadelphia, and boston. what should we learn about those three large cities? richard: first of all, i want to point out that two of those 13 states were not yet members of the union. both north carolina and rhode island held back when the rest of the union adopted the constitution. america was overwhelmingly a rural, rustic, agrarian, farm-based society. it ended at the appalachian mountains. in 1800, there were three roads that crossed. the united states was a nation in name only. it was, in fact, three distinct nations. new england, the middle

that have at broad street near jefferson street.you can go the entire expanse of broad street no issues there. live look outside, 95 at academy road where it will take you 16 minutes to go between woodhaven and the vine. the pennsylvania turnpike, about 22 minutes. >>> the savings continue at the pump. why gas prices continue to drop and who's getting the biggest break in this area. we'll have that for you. >>> one small step for man. the mission to bring espresso to the international space station next. you wish your dog could fight off fleas and ticks. but since he can't... you rely on frontline plus. because frontline plus unleashes a deadly killing force to kill fleas and ticks, plus flea eggs and larvae, preventing a new infestation. its protection lasts a full 30 days. no wonder frontline plus is the #1 choice of vets for their pets and yours. after all, your dog is a lover not a fighter. frontline plus. the vet's #1 choice. >>> spectators enjoyed high flying fun in newcastle county. the delaware air national guard flew the la

moriah jefferson steps up the defense, the steel, lays it in, 13-point game. more uconn the huskies with great all movement. breanna stewart has 35. the terps' final four run is cut short. a tough ending to a great season. coach: i thought we did a tremendous job in the first half trying to put things together, especially in the adversity and some of the calls that were made. we kept fighting and battling. i thought the runs in the second half hurt us and were really tough. robert: pretty big ratings night

they questioned the credibility of the victim and suggested he did not like jefferson. closing arguments are tomorrow at 9:00. >>> our helicopter search for an escaped convict in fairfax county, one powerful nose knew where he was. a dog sniffed out the jail escapee. >> wossen assaye allegedly drove his stolen car up this dead end here before breaking into this house looking for some way to get out of the hospital gown heescaped in. not much gets past bailey the bulldog, certainly not an escaped federal prisoner. >> just barking, barking, and which she never does. this was about 8:00 a.m. >> reporter: hundreds of heavily armed cops were out searching for accused bank robber wossen assaye after he somehow managed to overpower a private security guard on tuesday at a nova fairfax hospital. bailey knew just where he was. >> reporter: she tried to drag me across to the house. >> reporter: wossen assaye had allegedly driven his carjacked toyota into morgan's son's vacant garage to try and repair a flat. >> opened every single can, found clothes upstairs, left his hospital go

when the confederate congress and a reluctant commander in chief, jefferson davis approved the creation of the office of general in chief and named lee to the post. lee had not actively sought the position, and davis saw the creation of the rank as a potential infringement on his strategic prerogatives. still, such was lee's prestige. and so well did lee understand and appease the president, that davis ultimately set aside his objections, and agreed to promote lee. as personally flattering as this may have been in reality, there was little lee could do on the chessboard of war. but as a morale booster the assignment possessed real value. providence raises up the man for the time, editorialized the richmond dispatch. and a man for this occasion we believe has been raised up in robert e. lee. the washington of the second american revolution, upon whom from the beginning all eyes are fixed as the future deliverer of his country. edward grant a soldier serving in southwest virginia, spoke for most of the boys in gray when he wrote that lee's appointment has inspired our country with more ho

katherine scott is live at the 60th and west jefferson streets where this happened.ne. >> reporter: matt, that's right, bullets struck parked cars here in this residential neighborhood overnight and you can see that police remain on the scene here. there are vehicles positioned on either end of the block. it's been taped off. investigators will be back to collect evidence here later on. this happened just before 11 o'clock last night along west jefferson near 60th here in west philadelphia. at least four cars were hit. you can see the broken glass in the street. the investigation into why this happened is under way but police believe the shooter may have been targeting a house on the block. no one was injured in this. anyone with any information on who is behind this is asked to call southwest detectives and so far there's no word if there are any surveillance cameras on any of these houses. that could help police in this investigation. we're live in west philadelphia, katherine scott channel6 "action news." >> okay, katherine thank you. >>> the number of those confi

when the confederate congress and a reluctant commander in chief, jefferson davis approved the creation of the office of general in chief and named lee to the post. lee had not actively sought the position, and davis saw the creation of the rank as a potential infringement on his strategic prerogatives. still, such was lee's prestige. and so well did lee understand and appease the president, that davis ultimately set aside his objections, and agreed to promote lee. as personally flattering as this may have been in reality, there was little lee could do on the chessboard of war. but as a morale booster the assignment possessed real value. providence raises up the man for the time, editorialized the richmond dispatch. and a man for this occasion we believe has been raised up in robert e. lee. the washington of the second american revolution, upon whom from the beginning all eyes are fixed as the future deliverer of his country. edward grant a soldier serving in southwest virginia, spoke for most of the boys in gray when he wrote that lee's appointment has inspired our country with more ho