jefferson davis was planning on it. this is really an important moment for him in the sense that it is the death of every name he believes then. -- believes in. right? so this explains a little bit i -- how he was able to make the transition to the confederacy because if his political system has died cummings got replaced with something else. it's a really sad moment for him. >> thank you. >> my question is what role do you think the washington brotherhood played in reconciliation after the war , where there isn't -- jefferson davis lives out his life with no trials? does that kind of continue after the war? >> it does continue after the war. there is a willingness among politicians that existed before the war to reconcile because people are willing to use the -- to see that you fought against me but we knew each , other back then. of course the civil war brings an enormous number of new politicians to washington you don't know about the washington code. and i think that is where some of the division exists. there are s

and blair had been a father figure to jefferson davis. he had known davis since davis was 13-years-old and went to transylvania university. they'd taken him under their wing, groomed them, introduced him to the social circle and political circle in washington when davis was elected to congress. and had worked with him closely ever since. they vacationed together, the davises and the blairs. and when blair's daughter wrote to her husband, an admiral in the u.s. navy and cousin of robert e. lee, she would refer to, quote, our oakland cronies because the blairs and davises had vacationed together in oakland, maryland, and didn't want letters around in the united states navy talking about their goods friends, the davises. so francis preston blair then was in truly a unique position to try to find some way to bring these men together. at christmastime of 1864, blair went to the white house and sat down with lincoln and reminded him of his friendship with davis. and told him he had a plan to end the war and would like to go to richmond to presen

i voted for jefferson davis." [laughter] >> who of course is the president of the confess was si. i was stuck behind the truck for two hours and had quite a bit of time to start thinking more in depth about the civil war, and my mind always goes, to what were the wimp doing? and not just any women. what were the bad women doing? the defiant women, in the revolutionary became doing? some women did things like knit socks and sew uniforms and hold bizarres to raise money for supplies. other women became informal recruiting officers especially southern women. they shamed any man who shirked his duty to fight. there was a great story about one southern lady who was very embarrassed by the fact her fiancee did not enlist so she sent over her slave with a backage and the package contained a skirt and a note and the note said ware this skirt or volunteer. he volunteered. and some women dared to go further. and i wanted to find four such women, women who lied, spied, dranked, and murdered their way through the war, and i think i managed to do that. my goal with the book was to weave a tape

he was jefferson davis -- president jefferson davis' secretary during the civil war. and he will become acquainted with a virginia woman whose name is constance curry fairfax. and she was a fairfax of old virginia. she will then eventually marry mr. harrison and so this is where the lineage comes through frances burden harrison. so think about that. that was important to him. you know how do we remember back? there's some -- it's been estimated that there's 16 generations from the time of pocahontas. and if you consider that a little bit, there was -- you had the parents, you had the grandparents. and then there would be follow 14 greats. so let me ask you -- talk about oral tradition that you could be -- you could remember that you were a descendent. think about your greats. you have eight great grandparents. how many of you know their names? you have 16 great, great grandparents. did you ever think about that? you know, how many -- how often have you visited their tombstones or whatnot? so things can get lost through time. this is why we have places like the nationa

he ultimately swore in jefferson davis. norfolk felt to the forces the forces in 1862 and alexander was always in the union had the loyal government was sitting in alexandria. they have the federal had the federal courts sitting within the boards >> explained that the last civil war was all about >> it occurred 14 years after the war but it's a very appropriate description. >> his son sued the federal government for possession of the arlington estate in northern virginia in each and 79 in the federal district court. can you imagine the emotions that generated? by then the arlington estate was the how the grounds of arlington national cemetery with many union dead from the civil war. the arlington estate had been seized by the federal government for the nonpayment of taxes. the catch is that it was tough to pay because you have to pay them in person. [laughter] there were not many that wanted to show up in arlington to pay their taxes at the time so they went unpaid at and the federal government seized property. in actuality

it has to do a lot with jefferson davis utter incompetence as president of the confederacy. but it is not because there's an absolute lack of food in the south. it's a question of how you get food from north carolina and georgia and mississippi to the troops. but wirz is in south georgia where food is available. food could have been commandeered, food could have been bought. the local women who wanted to bring fresh vegetables to the starving prisoners in andersonville could have been allowed to bring the food or they could have brought them to the camp and the camp could have brought camp officers and soldiers could have brought them to the prisoners. fresh water would have been obtained in a variety of ways, one of which was to order the troops upstream to stop using this -- the creek as a latrine. the other thing would have been to take a detail of prisoners every day and march them upstream, fill large barrels or buckets of water and bring the water down. prisoners could have marched all day long up and down bringing water, but you would have had fresh water. wirz does n

there are people who are still trying to ranch and handle cattle in texas, they write to jefferson davis, and they say, please, take our cattle, we will give you our cattle because there are so many cattle in texas that we don't go quail hunting because we are going to get killed by these things, so please take them away and jefferson davis writes them back and says i can't, or is no way to get them. so there is so much beef in texas that they don't know what to do with it. this is not some little cow in a stable somewhere. these are longhorn cattle, no these are 20 century pictures, so this is how that we have brought them to be, but these horns are significant horns, the wingspan there is like eight feet, so you don't want to get close to these guys. this is not a cute little cow, these are serious longhorn cattle. and during and after the civil war, they breach the nueces valley, and there are so many of them that texans are afraid to go hunting by 1855, and they are essentially feral cattle. the weather down there is perfect for the development of these cattle, and by the end of the

she had heard that verena davis who was jefferson davis' wife, needed to staff the white house. she was looking for help and she put out a call to the social rideties of richmond to -- ladies of richmond to help her staff the white house and send over any good recommendations for staff. and elizabeth decided to pay mrs. davis a business. and she says well, i have a girl for you. she's not very bright and she stumbles in the kitchen, but she's loyal, and she'll work very hard for you and your family. so elizabeth sends over mary jane bowser who was a former family slave in the van lew household. and little does anyone know that mary jane is not only literate but gifted with a photographic memory. so while she's dusting jefferson davis' desk and picking up the children's toys she's also sneaking peeks at his confidential papers and eavesdropping on his conversations and reporting all of this back to elizabeth van lew. what made all of this even more dangerous and adding another layer of treachery was that john van lew, elizabeth's brother was married to an ardent confederate sympa

the only person who landed on a confederate stamp before jefferson was jefferson davis, interestingly enough. this afternoon peter and i are going to have our conversation about jefferson's thinking about union and how his ideas were available for use or misuse by many different people in the decades between 1800 and 1880 peter. so why don't you talk for a few minutes about jefferson and union? >> just a few minutes. >> take as long as you want. it is rainy outside. no one's going to play tennis. >> well, i'm a radio star so i want you all to close your eyes and suspend disbelief. >> peter has not only a jefferson tie -- >> no. you got to see it. >> but two jefferson pins. >> 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 javirginia. gary and i 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. he said what is th

the leak happened friday at all my soaps on jefferson davis highway. it's still closed tonight. >> in maryland someone slammed into the back of i state trooper's car and kept right on going. the trooper pulled someone over last night on the inner loop near new hampshire avenue. now, he had just left his vehicle when he heard a lookout bang bang. >> crews had to dig deep, and traffic is still being detoured. crew advisory blocked the exit >>> tonight two families need to find somewhere to live after a fire ripped through their homes in gaithersburg. the fire broke out late friday night on landing court. we learned it started in one home's chimney and then spread to the neighbor's house. no one was hurt. the fire did about $200,000 in damage. brian williams has decided take himself off the desk for the next several days. now, williams wrote an e-mail to some of his colleagues t saying it's become apparent that he has become too much part of the news. earlier this week williams apologized for statements he made about his reporting in iraq. he has now admi

he ultimately swore in jefferson davis. norfolk fell to union forces in 1862 and alexandria was always in union hands. the loyalist government of governor pierpont was sitting in alexandria throughout the war and president lincoln appointed a federal judge their to begin sitting in 1863. so you had both confederate and federal courts sitting within the boards. explain to them what the last battle of the civil war was all about. >> it occurred 14 years after the war so it's a very appropriate description. general custis lee, robert e. lee's son sued the federal government for possession of the arlington estate in northern virginia in 1879 in federal district court. can you imagine the emotions that generated? by then the arlington estate was the hollowed grounds of arlington national cemetery with many burials of union dead from the civil war. the arlington estate had been seized by the federal government for nonpayment of taxes. the catch was that it was tough to pay the taxes because you had to pay them in person. [laughte

it happened just after 4:30 at the fast food chain on jefferson davis highway. delia goncalves talked to a witness. she's in crystal city with the latest on the investigation. >> reporter: there was just a small handful of employees and one customer inside this mcdonald's here in crystal city when the masked men stormed insides the restaurant. it was 4:40 this morning and police say the two suspects showed a gun and robbed the restaurant's safe. the whole ordeal was caught on surveillance camera. the lone customer who called 911 spoke to us exclusively. she was too shaken up to show her face on camera, but she did tell me what happened. >> i was just scared to death. i just started shaking. i just stood there, watched both of them. i tried to remember what they had on so i could give a description. i just tried to sit there and just, you know, watch what was going on. it was scary. >> reporter: the suspects' getaway car was last spotted on south ead street. anyone with information should call arlington county, police. delia goncalves, wusa9. >> police plan to re

. >>> tonight new surveillance pictures of two masked men who robbed a mcdonald's on jefferson davis highway in crystal city. the men stormed into the restaurant around 4:40 this morning. one of the crooks was a lookout at the door while the other armed with a gun jumped over the counter demanding cash from the safe. there was one customer and a handful of employees inside. there are no reports of injuries. >>> d.c. police think the suspect from last night's police involved shooting likely took his own life. it was after 11:30 when an armed man robbed someone on riggs place. police think that man robbed another person on swan street near the u street corridor. police tried to stop him, but the suspect ran, then shot at police forcing a shootout. they found that suspect a few blocks away on carroll line street dead from a gunshot wound. witnesses told them the man shot himself. the area was blocked off until this morning. >> i'm just shocked about the whole incident as a whole. so that's shocking and i'm just glad that nobody else was injured or killed. >> police have not released the

it happened at the mcdonald's on jefferson davis highway. this is the one near reagan national airport. police say surveillance video captured the two thieves wearing masks and carrying guns. they plan on releasing those images after detectives are able to review the case. jesse matthew is expected to receive his trial date in a fairfax county courtroom in just about two hours from now. he faces rape charges from a case back in 2005. that t supposed to start next month but it was pushed back after the defense requested more time to prepare. earlier this week matthew was indicted on first-degree murder charges in the death of hannah graham in charlottesville. coming up here on abc 7 news at noon cease-fire doubts. the deal is set to go back into effect this weekend. why the u.s. has concerns about it. >> at least i wasn't at least 100%. >> ruth bader ginsburg talks about why she nodded off at the state of the union speech. plus old man winter is showing his strength. how much new england is expected to get slammed with in this latest storm. a

jefferson davis, the president, fled richmond through greensboro . governor morehead solving, but he also was able to have it -- able to have an open dialogue with union generals, schofield and cox. governor warhead -- morehead welcomed them. he knew they could pretty much take what they wanted. he was welcoming to them. in fact, when the governor -- then-governor zebulun vance sought to broker a truce governor morehead was called on to be the broker of that peace. morehead discussed how to surrender the state with both sides and was able to bring the generals from the union side and governor zebulun vance from the confederate side together in this room, and governor vance surrendered the state of north carolina in this room. morehead passed away in 1866 shortly after the surrender. by the time the surrender came along, he was not in the best of health so he was not a participant in the reconstruction of north carolina during the confederate period. i see governor morehead as someone who is really struggling with the world in which he lived. he lived

this after a dangerous carbon monoxide leak at a laundromat in prince william counto jefferson davis highway. a faulty pipe caused washington gas told us they stopped it but that business is still shut downright now. one of those sickened had to be airlifted. that person listed in critical condition. >> this is it folks. today you have a chance to be a millionaire. the power ball jackpot drawing is tonight. wednesday's drawing didn't produce a winner. the jackpot is $380 million. if you win and choose the cash prize option you will walk away with more than $250 million. >> just doing the math you can split that among three and we will join you. it might be the biggist mystery of the last year. where is malaysia airlines flight 370. changing the way we track commercial flights. >> while some of you were sleeping the announcement of thank you, cable for taking longer to upload our family movies. for the slower internet upload speeds. for taking longer to upload my files to the cloud. for making me wait longer to share my photo albums. and for never upgrading to 100% fiber optics thank

section three concerning a double jeopardy challenge that was brought by confederate president jefferson davis. davis had challenged not whether section three applied to him or even whether he had in fact engaged in insurrection. those were facts that were known to the court. his challenge was on a very narrow question of whether the disqualification of section three was in fact punishment. if his crime was treason, and section three was punishment davis argued that he could not then later be tried for treason. that this was in effect a double jeopardy. that any attempt to try him for treason should be nullified in his indictment should be quashed. the argument reached the supreme court and was certified by justice chase in order to review the validity of his indictment the judges failed to agree on section three. they failed to agree on the effect of the section three disqualification, and regional -- reached no decision before president johnson issued his proclamation announcing amnesty for treason for geoff davis, among others. at the time of his indictment, and review of his indictment of

two masked men accused of holding up a mcdonald's on jefferson davis highway in crystal city. arlington police say they stormed that restaurant at about 4:40. they say the crooks acted as a lookout at the front door while a gunman jumped over the counter and demanded the cash from the safe. there were just a handful of employees at this time and just one customer. the customer who didn't want to show her face called 911 and spoke with us about the whole ordeal. >> i tried to remember what they had on so i could give a description. i just tried to sit there and just watch what was going on. it was scary. >> and here's who police are looking for. two black males, one about 5' 3, 125 pounds, the other about 5' 8, 190 pounds. luckily no one was hurt. >>> lots of new revelations today in that deadly smoke crisis in the metro tunnel. newly released 911 calls show confusion and delay and we've just learned a smoke alarm was sounded before the train even left the station. bruce leshan was at a congressional hearing today and joins us live from metro. >> reporter: yeah, one of the witn

even after richmond fell, jefferson davis refused to surrender. he took his government by rail and why can into the carolinas finally into georgia. the idea was that if britain or france was to intervene, there had to be a government they would recognize. even after lee'surrends surrender lincoln's assassination was intended to reignite the south's will to fight. generally hampton pleaded with jefferson davis, do not give up the fight. if you should propose to cross the mississippi, i can bring good men to escort you over. we can still make head against the enemy. so, they were going to join the french who were protecting maximilian and take a last stand in texas. davis responded by writing to his wife, saying he was heading to mexico. back to february 17, columbia was surrendered on this morning 150 years ago. until then, the confederate military had fought forces south of the city. they shelled their encampment the night before on the west bank of the broad river. they burned bridges across the rivers into the city. weight hampton promised -- we

jefferson davis also believed in the union as safeguarding self-government and economic opportunity, but of course he also saw it as guaranteeing slavery in its expansion. both men celebrated the declaration of independence. that is lincoln's great founding document. in his view, it's the declaration. both invoked jefferson repeatedly and throughout their careers. jefferson's union was immense and very important. we're almost to you, peter. they resonated throughout the 19th century on both sides of the potomac river, or the ohio if you prefer. the united states put thomas jefferson on its 5 cent stamp in 2006. only two people preceded jefferson on the

jefferson davis, the president, fled richmond through greensboro .overnor morehead solving, but he also was able to have it -- able to have an open dialogue with union generals, schofield and cox. governor warhead -- morehead welcomed them. he knew they could pretty much take what they wanted. he was welcoming to them. in fact, when the governor -- then-governor zebulun vance sought to broker a truce governor morehead was called on to be the broker of that peace. morehead discussed how to surrender the state with both sides and was able to

glenda romero was shot and killed february 21 2014 at the grocery and jewelry located on jefferson davis highway in woodbridge. the 21-year-old was a store clerk there. three male suspects wearing dark clothing with their faces covered were seen on surveillance cameras entering that store. another employee was also shot but survived. if you have any information about this case you are asked to call crime solvers. >> neighbors are remembering an 85-year-old woman struck and killed by a hit-and-run driver. >> this happened last night on stone crossing court at stone road in centreville. sorry, brianne carter is near the scene now with more on the search for the driver this evening. brianne? >> leon at this hour police are still looking for that driver that struck and killed 85-year-old adela antawa. neighbors and family members would tell us that she would come from this intersection right here from this intersection to cross this street almost every day and now at this intersection right here take a look down the road you can see police have put this sign here at this intersection of ston

she had heard that verena davis who was jefferson davis' wife, needed to staff the white house. she was looking for help and she put out a call to the social rideties of richmond to -- ladies of richmond to help her staff the white house and send over any good recommendations for staff. and elizabeth decided to pay mrs. davis a business. and she says well, i have a girl for you. she's not very bright and she stumbles in the kitchen, but she's loyal, and she'll work very hard for you and your family. so elizabeth sends over mary jane bowser who was a former family slave in the van lew household. and little does anyone know that mary jane is not only literate but gifted with a photographic memory. so while she's dusting jefferson davis' desk and picking up the children's toys she's also sneaking peeks at his confidential papers and eavesdropping on his conversations and reporting all of this back to elizabeth van lew. what made all of this even more dangerous and adding another layer of treachery was that john van lew, elizabeth's brother was married to an ardent confederate sympa