porter's career with john hunt morgan. it goes all the way through until june 1863 when he is captured with -- in a company with tom hines, tom hines isn't captured, but john porter is. and union patrol catches up with hines' company and this company is on an advanced scout from morgan. morgan's whole division is coming into kentucky in advance of crossing the ohio river and entering indiana and ohio where morgan is ultimately captured. but tom hines is captured there in near barge town, kentucky. and from there, he is sent to johnson island a prisoner of war depot at sandusky bay. he stays there for 19 months. 19 months that broke him down terribly. john porter was born in 1839, he'll die in 1844. the exposure to ice, snow, cold on lake erie and the privation probably broke him down to such a degree that he died young. and you see that a lot among prisoners of war. in all wars and but particularly in the civil war. there's another great story that porter speaks of. and this is a story that you don't find in any other memoi

porter's experience like working under john morgan, what kind of stories did he tell? och. >> he loves to tell you a story, and like a lot of sober people they love stories, they are red and tours, and john porter goes through first of all the two episodes i love to talk about in this book and that is how he found john morgan. he didn't enter the war under morgan and didn't know about john morgan into the confederate army treated out of kentucky towards mississippi this was in february of 1862. and he heard about morgan who was then only commanding a squadron of consider a calgary mostly from lexington and served as a guard for the confederate army as it retreated out of national towards decatur alabama and then ultimately mississippi. he wanted very much to join this command. and so after the fighting at charlot he and his cousin who also came from the county set about to find john hunt morgan and by july, 1862 was entering kentucky in what was the first great raid into kentucky, to destroy the real heads and supply depots in the union army appear. so he and indy 500

and so this is a rare, a rare glimpse of life in morgan's command. .. how he fund john hunt morgan. he didn't and award and he never knew about john hunt morgan until the confederate army retreated toward mississippi in february of 1862. he heard about morgan who was only commanded a squadron of confederate cavalry mostly from lexington and they serve as the rear guard for the confederate army and retreated out of nashville for decatur, alabama. he wanted very much to join this command. so after the fighting at shiloh he and his cousin, who also -- they set about to find john hunt morgan. morgan, by july of 1862 was entering kentucky in the first great raid into kentucky to destroy rail heads and supply depots for the union army. so he and andy set out partly on horseback and partly on foot from decatur, alabama to escambia, alabama all the way to clark county, kentucky which is a neighboring county where we are right now. he goes to clark county because they hear that morgan will come in to kentucky on this raid and maybe they can find him. and they go to clark county because one of

john morgan supuestamente va hacer instruidos de cargos mañana a las 9 de la mañana josé?.a que aumentado tan los detractores y opositores de las comunidades seguridas la comisión de obama, pidió una corte pública, carlos tiene los detalles. >>> añ >>>carlos: mientras la mibs trag administración obama trata de poner comunidades seguras entre muchos latinos crece la desilusión >>> la confianza de la policía ly la comunidad está sufriendo estragos mayores. >>>carlos: es un plan que se lo impusieron a las au aautoridade local, condena que los obliga a compartir a quienes arrestan, algo que pueda dar pie a atropellos de lo que pasó con isaura garcía que fue detenida al pedir ayuda >>> me llamaron del 911 resultó la peor pesadilla que me pudiera haber imaginado, en vez de pedir ayuda me pusieron en orden de deportación. >>>carlos: quizás en un intento por aliviar las tensiones el gobierno federal discute el programa. una llama la de esta noche de los Ángeles una farsa porque la encabeza el sherif el grande febregra grandefensor de comunidades seguras.dr pero el gobierno cierra e

and he was probably prouder of having ridden through the war with john morgan and he was almost anything he ever did alive, and he handled this memoir for his daughter whose name was bill and he married shortly after the war was over, and his wife died after giving birth so he raised this child along with his two sisters and brother in bowling green kentucky in the county, warren county as a neighboring county to butler and it's the county seat so a rather large community in southern kentucky. and so he raised many bell and wanted many bell to understand what he did during the war. and so in 1872 he set about writing the memoirs, and they were titles then memoirs of my experience in the war for southern independence, and as he says in his little preface to these memoirs that they were met for her and he bemoaned repeatedly in his memoir how she had ancestors who were in the revolution from virginia but knew nothing about them and said that's really sad, i wish i knew more about my ancestors who served in the revolution and he literally set about making sure that wouldn't happen to the su

and he ultimately became a lieutenant in the ninth kentucky cavalry that rode with john hunt morgan. and, um, he was probably prouder of having ridden through the war with john hunt morgan than he was almost anything he ever did in life. and he penned this memoir for his daughter whose name was minnie belle. he married shortly after the war was over, and his wife died after giving birth to minnie belle. and so he raised this child along with his two sisters and a brother in bowling green, kentucky, a county, warren county, it's a neighboring county to butler, and bowling green is the county seat, so a rather large community in southern kentucky. and so he raised minnie belle, and he wanted minnie belle to understand what he did during the war. and so in 1872 he set about writing these memoirs. and they were titled then "memoirs of my experience in the war for southern independence." and they were really meant, as he says in his little preface to these memoirs, that they were meant for her. and, um, he bemoaned repeatedly in the his memoirs how he had ancestors who were in the revoluti

john d. rockefeller and j. p. morganbecame the leader of our finance establishment that wielded more day-to-day power than the government itself. without the inconvenience obligation to answer to the judgment of any electorate. for the sale of the pond but the point of the story of course is that the president of the united states turns to a private banker to bail out the government. that was more power than the government itself had. the social primghar and as some of that era dictated the corporate competition even if it resulted in some of nalubaale must remain free of restraint, especially government restraint. the result produced fabulous returns for the investing class is at the cost of great hardship for the working masses. conservatives became what it to morg och chat an unfettered capitalism was indispensable toe the survival of democracy.viva that marriage has endured. these were ingrained ideasward. these were ingrained ideas raised to the level of feel logical dogma with little apparent concern for their inte

of pharmaceutical companies but even the democrats here like john kerry and like max baucus their biggest contributors are also j.p. morgan they are also goldman sachs so what does that tell you. it's tells me that it's not a bipartisan committee at all i mean when you look at the american system right now political system as a whole the reason why it's so disastrous is because corporate interests trump everything else so you have citibank ok you have goldman sachs funding so far these three democratic senators that are supposed to be in the super committee so what are they going to do are they going to really focus and fight on increasing taxes now they're not going to do that because they have you know they have corporate interests that have donated so much money to them and their political campaigns and you know keep in mind that with the super committee all you really need is a simple majority to pass whatever deal you're you know the republicans are trying to pass so think about the people that harry reid has chosen for the democratic side max baucus is a centrist that is what his reputation is ok he is known as a ce

to the wives of some morgan stanley banks toure's as matt taibbi pointed out in a recent rolling stone article christine neck the wife of a high profile banks are on wall street john mack was given two hundred twenty million dollars by the fed to prop up an investment firm that she and her friend susan at start up now the two women had any experience and finance but preferred figure they were a safe investment through a boatload of essentially free cash it. free and interest free cash and all of this all the secret lending to major for the corporations dictators wall street wives all of that would have gone down in complete secrecy had not been for the efforts of senators bernie sanders and franklin i was ron paul to make the fed open up their books and let us the taxpayers take a look so you still wondering why the fed's actions aren't fixing our economy. let's imagine for a second that this wall right here is keeping our economy from collapsing think of it as a giant game. but this dam is starting to crack and holes are starting to form due to all the pressure behind pressure joblessness massive student loan credit card debt student loan debt by the way just exc

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morgan. >> ifill: then margaret warner examines the deadly helicopter crash that claimed the lives of 30 u.s. forces in afghanistan over the weekend. >> woodruff: plus, we have two education stories. special correspondent john tulenko reports on the cheating scandal that rocked atlanta's schools. >> the pressure to boost scores by any means necessary is so great that teachers think they have to get those scores up by hook or by crook. >> ifill: and the president issues a new executive order to circumvent congress and revamp the "no child left behind" law. >> where there's a high bar, the folks who are doing the right thick for children, we want to give them a lot more flexibility, frankly get out of the way and let them hit that higher bar. >> ifill: that's all ahead on tonight's newshour. major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: >> oil companies have changed my country. >> oil companies can make a difference. >> we have the chance to build the economy. >> create jobs, keep people healthy, and improve schools. >> ...and our communities. >> in angola chevron helps train engineers, teachers and farmers, launch child's programs. it's not just good business. >> i'm hopeful about my country's fut

morgan, i salute you. >>> your "political buzz," rapid fire look at the hottest topics of the day, three questions, 30 seconds on the clock. playing today, maria car don na, john, dana loesh, the three joining us. i promise all of you i will not sexually harass any of you. but if you lady would like to attack john, no problem. it's a free for all. three of us against one. >> sounds good, keira. >>> here's the first question -- with the markets in wild swings reitz now, some republican ares are hitting the president for his martha's vineyard vacation. do they have a point, or is there really little the president can actually do about the markets right now? dana? >> well, i'm not going to begrudge anybody for going on vacation. that being said, i think he does go on vacation quite a bit. and it just doesn't send a fantastic message, especially when you're going on an enclave like martha vineyard. jobless claims just went up unexpectedly by 9,000 this week. but honestly, and this may make conservatives mad, i want him to go on vacation, as much as possible, because whenever he's not giving a speech the markets do better. i'm happy with it. go on vacation, stay up