johnston nears manassas and centreville. they'd dong winter camps. they were moving into the neighborhood. they were establishing different camps with saying first texas this way, 15 south carolina that way. and who knows when they might being southerners to get in their mind to just attack washington one night, kill us in our beds! it had to be cleaned out. and then there were the pesky artillery batteries that had been established along the little potomac, 1861 honest ship captains couldn't sail their vessels up and down the potomac without fear of being shot by the pesky rebels. they needed to be cleaned out. and then, of course, the third leg in the stool that concerned so much concern was the ohio and baltimore railroad bringing critically needed supplies across the edge of virginia, northwestern virginia, into maryland. passing by harper's ferry. dissatisfaction with the pace of mcclellan's movements, especially those in the east, were particularly acute in the congress where after the unfortunate situation that occurred at ball's bluff in the

and quick pointed out, jo joe johnston had no intention of attacking washington. in fact, he didn't really like to attack anyone. so he withdrew. he withdrew more precipitously than jeff davis thought he was going to withdraw. when he did withdraw his forces from mannases and centerville they left mountains of supplies he didn't have any way of moving out. those supplies were still burning on the 11th of march when the union forces basically marched into centerville and mannases unopposed. bacon, rations of all sorts, uniforms, and perhaps most critical, bales of newly-constructed leather brogans. if you think of a confederate cause for concern for lee's army and every other army throughout the war, what particular piece of equipment might it be? shoes. okay. in any case that was a problem that joe johnston had with his commander in chief. mcclellan got in there and reported that they had seized mannases. crossing in the mail were two messages" i've got mannases. here comes another from the president. very good. by the way, i want you to reorganize your army. i wa

my hero william sherman my maternal grandmother claimed ancestry to albert sydney johnston. i grew up hearing in the morning that william sherman was a monster and johnston was a saint. it has always been in my mind as well as the death oft victor hanson in okinawa. i had a personal relationship with these battles. when the battle was over two and a half days later the world took note. this was the first mass battle with rifled musketry. there were more casualties than all the bat unless the history of the american republic up to that time put together. 24,000 casualties and at least almost 2,000 killed. this is child's play compared to the wilderness or antietam or gettysburg. but at this period it was shocking. what the south tried to do with this army was to go up the tennessee river, reclaim the border states and go into southern ohio and threaten cincinnati. they almost did it. sunday morning they got this army. no one thought they could do it. johnston brought it within a few hundred yards of the union line and no one knew it was there. they attacked at dawn. they almo

and so joe johnston with his back to the wall so to speak said, look, i can't retreat any further. i'm at the last defensible terrain, i guess if i can't retreat, i'll just attack. so, on the 31st of may, he does just that. he attacks those federal forces that were in positions south of the river. assuming that those north of the river wouldn't be able to come to the assistance of that portion of the union army to the south. it was not a bad plan, but it was a complex plan and dealing with on-the-job training generals like pete longstreet who managed to get lost with a good segment of the attack force on the 31st of may, it really didn't go long for joe johnston, it took an even nastier turn when he got blown off his horse by union fire and badly winded. nevertheless the less the 1st of june the confederates continue to make assault but by this time the union force has been reinforced, bull sumner, edwin "bow" sumner comes down the grapevine bridge north of the river and reinforces the federals to the south and you have a pitched battle at what we call seven pines. probably the big

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he did have sublime enthusiasm, but perhaps more than jack stoo johnston was willing to admit. a woman made the mistake of speaking glowingly about jackson in front of one of general james longstreet's staff. latrobe she wrote was greatly piqued by such good words and said that it detracted from longstreet's fame. certainly sounds like jealousy to me. and latrobe, who was a mild mannered fellow, surprised her. she added, i was very much taken a back that such a quiet self possessed individual should have been startled out of his usual he can wi nimity thus. longstreet himself of course bet three decades after the death pointed out their defects and trying to assail their reputations. it grew expressly from those few days. southern newspapers admitted their conversion experiences. they had been making fun of jackson. they had been highlighting his ex-send tr t eccentricities. the richmond daily whig has been smaning how the war should have been run in hair view, they knew how to run it in the valerie and everywhere else, they had made a lot of fun of jackson and his eccentrici e

johnston were doing nothing so capably, living up to their birthrights.n the west, things were happening and they were all bad. ft. henry, ft. donaldson. on the upper mississippi, everything was going bad, and suddenly here was someone in virginia, a virginian who was succeeding. you have seen the compilations, they are everywhere, from the civilian diaries from the soldiers' letters about how the world had changed when jackson started to succeed. good news had been in miserly short supply and now it was everywhere, viewed with more importance than it really deserved from the somewhat secondary theater of the shenandoah valley. down here in richmond not far from us where by this point there were federal troops in profusion laying siege, not literally, but besieging the confederate national capitol, the soldiers here wrote about it from afar and started to wish they had jackson instead of their own leaders. here's a fellow in the brigade writing home at the time, middle of may, the news of the gallant achievements of stonewall jackson has been received ent

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but this time joe johnston has begun a withdrawal up the peninsula and there's a not a dry sock in the union army. that's the way they describe the effect of the weather on troop movement. lee by this time has adopted, and actually jefferson davis as well, the strategy of the offensive defense, that is, allow the enemy to penetrate your soil. initially jefferson davis said we'll not give up a single inch of our soil. well, that's impractical. and it didn't work out that way either. so, you allow the enemy to penetrate, but then you -- in circumstance of your choosing when the enemy is lost or has made a mistake or can be numbered or you can attack the enemy's fractions with your mast, you attack, the offense. go on the offense. davis believed in that strategy i think, and this is gravely oversimplified, davis said we will outwill the united states. we will exist. every day we exist we're winning. the united states is losing every day we survive. and the longer we exist, the more regular we will seem to the rest of the world and even to our enemies. and if all else fails, we will just a

but this time joe johnston has begun a withdrawal up the peninsula and there's a not a dry sock in the union army. that's the way they describe the effect of the weather on troop movement. lee by this time has adopted, and actually jefferson strateg offensive defense, that is, allow the enemy to penetrate your soil. initially jefferson davis said we'll not give up a single inch of our soil. well, that's impractical. and it didn't work out that way either. so, you allow the enemy to penetrate, but then you -- in circumstance of your choosing when the enemy is lost or has made a mistake or can be numbered or you can attack the enemy's fractions with your mast, you attack, the offense. go on the offense.

mckhrel on and johnston both equipped by nature did nothing, absolutely nothing. they were as full of lass attitude as any major in american history and have been. and during that encrusted epic jackson had no opportunities nor did anyone else. we often think about what if in the parallel universe it strikes me that it would be interesting to contemplate what would have happened had the northern or southern armies been led by someone with a metabolism facing the other one during the long sits kraoeg how would the war have resulted? it's hard to say. the opening scenes of stonewall's tenure in the shenandoah valley really did not lend themselves to legend building. in a note that most of you may not have heard, in fact, what's pretty interesting, he handled some of his very early orders for the tiny force he commanded when he moved to the valley before he got a bit of reinforcement. he denominated his army, "the army of the month na nonga hail. that's where he was thinking to choose that title. his first venture, as you know, launched new year's day 1862 towards ro

>> lee was appointed just after the serious wounding of joe johnston during the battle of 7 pines. lee took command two days later. and there was no question that lee was the man for the job. he was here in richmond. he had the rank. jackson would not have been considered -- he wasn't even on the long, long, long slate to consider that. his rank was not high enough. his experience was not high enough. lee was the obvious choice and jackson was not even a candidate. after he had reached lieutenant general's rank late in 1862 is when there might have been the question to which i addressed myself about commanding one of the larger armies while lee took another one. after jackson had the rank mene to that. but people were not jumped two ranks under any circumstances that i can think of. >> richard is in concord, massachusetts. thanks for joining us here on american history tv. >> thank pow hayou for having m. i'm glad someone has picked stonewall. but my question is as historians, we usually don't speculate in what could have happened, but i would like your opinion as to what you think

costing live from moscow you're watching r t m kerry johnston syria could get another chance at a diplomatic escape route from its continuing political crisis as it hosts a russian delegation later on tuesday that's amid widespread international outcry caused by clashes at the u.n. security council and swelling violence within syria ati's an italian overcover has the details. the main goal of russia's delegation in syria today is to stop the violence that's coming from both sides of the conflict to have them sit down and the negotiation table and talk now russian delegation to syria today is headed by the country's foreign minister sergei lavrov and together with foreign intelligence chiefs because of fraud calls they bear a message from russians residents of president assad's message that's calling on for siller syria's democratic changes in the country and while the speculations have it that those changes may include a change of regime sergei lavrov suggested that asking presidents of certain countries to step down is not a russian profession now this comes after russia vetoed for the seco

they are watching artie's weekly news review with me kerry johnston but first today millions of people across syria are expected to have their say on the country's new draft constitution referendum which promises a multi-party system comes amid ongoing violence with the opposition vowing to boycott the ballot as artie's were for national reports from damascus some hope of the vote could bring about an end to the conflict. ballots instead of bullets mass demonstrations and violent protests have been rolling across syria for almost a year by. the syrian government desire calling for the people to shape their future together by taking part in a referendum on the country's new constitution fulfilling its pledge to reform. was very excited that he'll be able to decide his own tomorrow. it's a completely new era is good for everybody even opposition can take part it's for all the amendments to the country's number one more have been among the key demands of the opposition since the uprising began and the draft seems to cover the most pressing issues. it starts with eliminating baath party su

speeches that are going against the kind of medicine the greece is applying to the patient and his mrs johnston is caught between those two. places the worse mindsets one is out of it of his bosses in washington and the other is the germany does it which is contracted mrs domes to affect policy is a bit of dom's nose are quite poisonous not only for greece but more generally poor of the global economy ok now this is are saying they are the bureaucrats in brussels have just found another fifteen billion euro black hole greece great finances there seems to be a recurring theme how many more black holes do you expect to be found in great financial universe before it's all over it really depends on whether germany is ready to let the eurozone go. germany has not. decided that it wants to reconstitute the dodge martin get out they're going to be blocking the black holes. with no money either. by the sea or gallon loans from the german taxpayer greece is neither here nor there it is not significant or important enough to worry about the state of its of its micro counting national accounting or indeed

you're watching at his weekly news if you want a very latest developments on kerry johnston russia and china have given a firm no to the latest u.n. security council resolution on syria has defended its move saying the draft fails to deliver a balanced approach to the unrest in favors extremist groups which could ignite even more violence that says those who are behind the document and now ganging up against the veto states parties were apart not reports now from new york. in a matter of just five minutes after the meeting began russia and china both wielded their veto powers not supporting this draft resolution that was written up by the arab league and european countries while the draft resolution was supported by thirteen members of the security council russia was asking for some amendments according to russian foreign minister sergei lavrov those amendments were not excessive and mr are a lot of said that russia was urging the west to accommodate moscow's concerns to reach a compromise on this draft resolution china said during the meeting that it supported russia's amendments and

southwest side and it's that southwest side he's trying to break out of there to go out and join johnston in north carolina. 25,000 african-american soldiers. at that point lee had fewer than 20,000 men in his own army. that's right. one writer said, david blight, that general grant pulled these soldiers back so robert e. lee wouldn't have to suffer the indignity of surrendering to an african-american. that's the beginning of the healing. first you win the war, now you've got to win the peace so you don't want to offend the dignity of the south's number one. well, sometimes we can manipulate history to get it to go the way we want to. and i think people thought we were never going to learn how to read these documents. let me make one other point about this. and that is that -- i said not only president lincoln needed these soldiers in order to win the war, but also needed them to win the peace. if you read over further into the south carolina secession document, each one of these states calls themselves into assembly, official meetings of their state and they rescinded the articles of con

kerry johnston the future of the syrian crisis will be the focus of a meeting between the u.s. european and arab nations opening in tunisia today the so-called friends of syria group is expected to discuss new measures to cripple the assad regime which they blame for the nearly yearlong violence in the country russia and china meanwhile have refused to attend the meeting. says the group is biased in its attempts to settle syria's internal conflict by ignoring the role of armed opposition groups in the bloodshed in which thousands of died meanwhile washington is reportedly holding talks with the u.k. france italy and turkey preparations for military intervention in israeli website and then for links to intelligence sources claims a decision will also depend on the outcome of the meeting in tunisia and whether the u.s. gets the support of its arab allies. takes a look at the noose tightening around damascus. the meeting of the countries calling themselves friends of syria raised many questions before it even started why would iran seventy arab and western nations gather in tunisi

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. >> reporter: david k johnston is a columnist and author and won the pulitzer prize for uncovering loopholes inequities in the tax code. it's out of the era as well as the hand cranked vi eed victrol players. unfair or not pro-growth, what would you do to change it. >> well, fundamentally i think we need to recognize we have a tax system that is allowing companies to earn profits in america and then siphon those profits out of the country as tax deductible expenses and hold the money offshore untaxed. that's what that 1.4 is o offshore. it's just owned offshore. companies shouldn't be able to take money out of their american pocket that's profit and put it into a liechtensteiner or cayman island system that has no taxes. we need to encourage investment and especially investment in manufacturing and creating things and there's something we can do outside the tax system that would be far more profitable. lowering the value of the dollar relative to other currencies which would lead to more exporting and less importing and would have a dramatically beneficial effect. >> thanks. i'm ali velshi a

. >> that is dwayne "the rock" johnston in "the gridiron gang."f the inspirational locker room speeches that hollywood routinely pumps out. if you covered enough presidential candidates you hear candidates spending a lot like football coaches at halftime. >> i'm going to swing. >> i'm convinced i can beat barack obama. >> we will win the nomination and we will then win the election. >> it is not about winning. it's about you and your relationship to yourself and your family and your friends. >> i do talk about family a lot. because family is the key. >> we have been married 55 years. >> i see so many children in this audience. how wonderful is that? >> when you take that feat of the day, you've got to lay your heart on the line. >> i need your help across the board. >> this really is a battle about the soul of america. >> let's go. >> yeah. >> get out there and caucus! >> either we heal now, as a team, or we will die. >> president reagan. >> ronald reagan. >> ronald reagan used to say -- >> ask them to go in there with all they've got, win one for

. >> david johnston is a columnist at thompson reuters and won the pulitzer prize in 2001 for enterpriseting that uncovered loopholes and inequality and inequities in the u.s. tax code. you wrote that our individual income tax system is, quote, as out of touch with our era as digital music is with the hand cranked control of music players of 1912. if the current tax code is unfair and again i don't want to get caught up in language whether unfair or not pro growth, what would you do to change it? >> well, fundamentally i think we need to recognize we have a tax system that is allowing companies to earn profits in america and then siphon those profits out of the country as tax deductible expenses and hold the money offshore untaxed. that's what that 1.4 trillion is offshore. it's invested in the u.s. owned offshore. companies shouldn't be able to take money out of the american profits that's pockets and put it in a cayman islands pocket and pay no taxes on it. we need a system that encourages investment and especially investment in manufacturing and creating things. and there's something

joining me now is pulitzer prize-winning author, david kay johnston, writer for reuters and professor. professor, the obama plan is out. it is a fascinating plan in that it cuts the corporate tax rate from 35 to 28. now, right away, some of president obama's supporters will say, wait a minute, he's cutting corporate taxes. but the important lesson in cutting tax rates is, if you also eliminate certain kinds of deductions, you can end up getting more in tax revenue as a result. a simple exercise for the audience, imagine we cut your income tax rate, but then we also eliminated your mortgage deduction. you might end up paying a lot more in taxes. how does this shake out, when you look at the whole obama plan? >> well, the president is being quite consistent in his plan. the reason the figure is 28% is that's what the work done by treasury and the congressional budget office indicates, that the tightening items the president would put in would allow without a loss of revenue. it's essentially a revenue-neutral plan, and if you believe the republicans and the president on this, it should

indiana house of representatives endorsed the pi in the sky brainstorm of a small town doctor, ed win johnston goodwin. dr. goodwin claimed to have figured out how to square the circle, that is construct a square exactly equal in area to any given circle. the symbol of pi is the ratio of a circle's circumference to its diameter. his formula called for pi to equal exactly 3.2, utterly wrong, of course, since pi had long been calculated to be an endless string of digits beginning with 3.14. fortunately purdue math professor waldo happened to overhear the indiana house debate and was appalled. asked if he would like to meet dr. goodwin, the professor replied he was acquainted with as many crazy people as he cared to know. but professor waldo's help the measure died in the state senate. still, the fascination with pi lives on. both in fiction and in fact. mr. spock assigned its calculation as busy work for the on-board computer in an episode for star trek. >> compute to the last digit the value of pi. (the computer is yelling no, no, no, no,). >> reporter: just last month "60 minutes" corresponden

this week in oklahoma in response to a measure, state senator johnston quote any action a man -- takingmeasures are going. i think it's very, you know, that was -- the language was -- >> vote counsel, i imagidown, i >> i think it's very interesting to see especially a couple of women state legislators reacting to humor to some of these issues. >> what do you know now? >> i never knew how to negotiate fashion week and black history month. >> weird. >> right? >> preach. >> this is what you do. you buy black cool. it's a book edited by rebecca walker. i have an essay about it in the politics of style along with some other really great writers. and i also didn't know that i am going to be a conversation with melissa harris perry, talking about her very show here and her book at brooklyn museum on the 16th. >> awesome. melissa harris perry is a wonderful colleague and starting her new show next week after us. finally, richard, what do you know now you didn't know at the beginning of the week? >> we know i'm just a little bit of american pride from jeremy lin. beyond that seriously a year aft

david jay johnston and charles blow, thank you for joining us. a decision by the susan g.omen association has angered a whole host of people. and how new laws are depriving citizens of their most fundamental right to participate in our democracy. >> you ever wonder what rick santorum would look like by a huge albino tiger? i have it after the break. good job. we'll explain what that means when we come back. >> 97% of those services that help women are going to be hurt. a lot of people won't get those exams and might get breast cancer. it's widely counter productive. anna, thank you for doing this story. we appreciate it. >> when we come back, we're going to celebrate the life of don cornelius. we'll tell you things about him that you might not know, when we return. v