well, sydney johnston got his dander up. this was not only something that that he couldn't understand in terms of beauregard's reasoning, but after planning all this and doing all this, where was the moral courage in terms of fighting that battle. and that's one thing that, you know, again there is different ways to look at sydney johnston. but johnston, i think, you know if you consider his generalship in relation to grant and sherman at shiloh, and if you cut off their careers at that point, there is no question in my mind that sydney johnston would come out ahead on that circumstance. but, anyway, johnston made the decision that he was going to fight, which took a lot of moral courage despite the advice of beauregard who was the popular victor, hero of manassas. and, johnston couldn't understand, after this conversation, and he asked the doctor. what is beauregard, why is he talking this way? and the doctor said, he is a sick man. indeed he was sick. and that may have had a lot to do with his attitude, actions at the time

then johnston. now the thing is, they're all occupying the same space that's only big enough for one brigade, and they're doing it all at the same point in time, relatively the same point in time, because clayburn attacks and is repulsed but continues to fight on this front. anderson comes in to play along the same line, slams into clayburn's men and through clayburn's men and the same thing happens. he attacks, is repulsed, and continues to do battle. and then on top of that will be johnston's brigade and slightly to our east is robert russell's brigade, also of poke's corps, combined. they're about the size of clayburn and anderson's brigade, and so in close proximity they're coming into the same landscape, the same sector of the battlefield here in shiloh branch, engaging the same federal troops, which is sherman's division supported by brigade from mclernen's division and an extra battery from mclernen was holding the shiloh ridge and meeting the successive attacks and defeating them in detail.

johnston enters the camps. his troops are so overwhelmed with the success that they've had, they had issued rations before they left and most of the men cooked and ate their food before they ever got on the road so remember, the battle was supposed to have been fought on the 4th. now it is fought on the 6th. many of them have not eaten for two days or more. then they hit this union camp and later on, union troops would say they weren't surprised. the confederate veterans were coming. well, maybe they weren't surprised, but they did have the most devoted cooks in the world because food was on the fire when they entered camp. but remember. it had been a typical morning in camp. not a lot of action planned for a typical sunday morning in camp. of course, church services, probably parades or reviews. but not a great deal of activity usually in a camp that's on a stand down. and so it is a typical morning. so confederates hit this union camp and it is like a treasure trove of foods. i mean, the feds have luxuries. t

johnston. so harris, assisted by another staff officer, brought johnston down into the ravine, got him off his horse, laid him up against a tree, ripped open his coat, his shirt looking for a wound. of course, they're imagining something up in the, you know, vital part of the body. johnston's wound actually was from the back side around -- had entered just below his right

johnston had a plan. in the approaching battle every effort would be made to turn the left flank of the enemy so as to cut his line of retreat to the tennessee river and force him back on isle creek where he will be obleg obliged to surrender. very simple. concise battle plan. turn a flank. gain leverage. use your army's mass to crush your opponent against the swampy bottoms of out creek. next map. oops, we went backwards. well, i'll talk about it now. there we go. there we go. that's what i want to see. now watch these movements. i'm not going to talk about them much. just watch. it's the opening of the battle, from about 5:00 a.m. until 11:00. confusing, huh? just leave it up there, right there. battle goes from a simple core line front, slightly over a mile's frontage, and expands out to three miles over the course of about six hours. intriguing thing is notice the preponderance of the forces. notice that the battlefield is basically cut in half, just up above where you would see the beginning of johns

he's an aid on johnston's staff. he sends the governor to the troops because word is tennessee troops refusing to charge. so the governor comes over to talk to the tennesseans and he couldn't get them to budge. so it's breckinridge's force. breckinridge writes back to johnston saying he's having difficulty getting them to attack. he says i think you can do it. breckinridge is quite negative he can do anything. johnston says, i will go with you and we will move them. so he arrives in amongst the troops. he's been carrying around a continue cup he picked up, his portion of the spoils. he's been using that cup as kind of like a saber for the day. he's not been taking his saber out of here. he's been using the cup. that's what he's been cheering the crews on. if they have bayonets, they've been tapping that. there's a scene of him riding somewhere tapping the bayonets. these must do the work. they're a little stubborn. we have to use the bayonet. when it reaches the center of the brigade, he says follow me, i will lead y

johnston had achieved his surprise. although it would be federal reconzans that brings on the battle of shiloh because a brigade in grant's army violated orders and took initiative to send out a force. but it will take, the confederate forces in front of us, the better part of two hours to bring the forward brigades to bear against the main union camps on the south side of grant's large encampment. and that would be the divisions of sherman and benjamin pren tis. so part of the parts the confederates were running to is, this engagement consumes about an hour. it would be an hour before hardee's troops are commanded to move forward after the squirmish begins. so powell and hard castle are banging away at one another for nearly an hour before the main line under hardee's command steps forward. when it does, powell quickly realizes this is big time. because he could just set there and count muskets, count flags and real nice he's facing more than a mere reconzans. this appears to be a sizeable force much bigger than a brig

johnston's forces had been scattered. he commanded a front when the spring actions began that extended for nearly a thousand miles, from the appalachian mountain ranges, and westward across the mississippi to the indian nations. it was a huge, huge geographical area of responsibility. and he had basically the same number of troops to carry out that mission that were now manning a 100-mile front in virginia. so he had a big problem, and the problem was logistics. the other problem was all these western rivers had a tendency to run north to south. they were avenues of invasion by united states forces. as long as they had naval support and the steam power and the shippage to move their forces, they could utilize these rivers as the means of getting at the confederate defenses of entering the confederate heart land. and that's the example of just what you see at pittsburg landing. so the confederates have been backed up, the confederates believe they're completely on the defensive but they're concentrating and the purpose of

johnston, do you know me? johnston, do you know me? but he's gone. johnston had bled to death in a very short time. probably wounded somewhere around 2:00. dead somewhere between 2:30 and 2:45 from a loss of blood. highest ranking general officer in the united states military history to indict in combat. a full ranked four star general. his generalship debated to this day. his qualities are debated to this day. as a motivator of men, he had few equals. in his time frame of american history. harris will leave this ravine and ride west and tell general beauregard that he is now in full command of the army. we've moved just roughly say a half mile to the northwest from the center of bell peach orchard location to the center of the union line astride the eastern corinth road into a position that's iconic with shiloh, known forever after the battle as the hornet's nest. they mark the center of the brigade's participating in the assaults. you think of the story of the fighting in the sector, you know, you have a deployment portion. that's when the federal

johnston, sherman is marching on johnston in 1864. sherman is trying to take atlanta. johnston fights a delaying action and even wiegly acknowledges that what in the end even if you accept wiegl's account and it is also dispute, but if we tomb johnson did fade a masterful fabian campaign, what still happens to atlanta at the end of the day. >> it falls. >> judge does he say it falls? not because of johnston's lack of skill. >> refusal to get troops to the west. >> that's the larger strategic problem, right. for that reason by the time the effective strategy is chosen, johnston doesn't have -- if you're trading space for time, johnston doesn't have enough space to trade at that point. it is too late in the war to do that effectively. what should have happened then? this is called a counter-factual, right? the more -- it is the what if. it is tightly related to the issue of lee. if you say lee's strategy is wrong, you must then give an alternati alternative, and the alternative should give you a higher likelihood of success. you need to give a plausible alternative. have

cutting off joe johnston's forces up there around manassas and centreville. he said he'd need 140,000 soldiers to do that and obviously priority on navy assets to move them down through the bay to virginia. well, that concept troubled lincoln and his newly appointed secretary of war edwin stanton. it appeared to them that the army at the potomac could do a better job of protecting washington and defeating the confederate forces in virginia by attacking headlong into manassas and clean up those camps and then head south. by way of fredericksburg. or alternatively move southwest and cut that virginia central railroad line that was bringing so much sustenance that was the breadbasket of the confederacy from the shenandoah valley to richmond. however, mcclellan was adamant. and as he very carefully, the second time he went back with his whole staff, engineers and so forth, he laid out that concept. then they reluctantly agreed to it. but although they did approve to his concept of this turning movement through the chesapeake bay, they insisted that before he remo

johnston, sherman is marching on johnston in 1864. sherman is trying to take atlanta and what johnston does is essentially delays action. but even wiegly acknowledges that what in the end, even if you accept wiegly -- if we assume that, yes, johnston did fight a masterful fabian campaign, what happens to atlanta at the end of the day? it falls. and why does wiegly say it falls? it's not because of his lack of skill. >> refusal of troops to -- >> that's the larger strategic problem, right, and for that reason, by the time the effective strategy is chosen, johnston doesn't have, if you're trading space, if you're trading space for time, johnston doesn't have enough space to trade at that point. it's too late in the war to do that effectively. so what should have happened then? and this is called a counterfactual, right. all right, the more -- it's the what if. all right. and it's tightly related to the issue of lee because if you say lee's strategy is wrong, you must then give an alternative. and the alternative should give you a higher

johnston like breckinridge wants it over the red johnston of course never wanted to fight in the first place. he was a man that never missed an opportunity to miss an opportunity when his commanding an army. but now she was anxious to seize the opportunity under surrender. he was at least pressure in this instance. he recognized the situation. he asked davis for permission to enter negotiations with william t. sherman. davis said yes thinking that nothing would come of it but that would buy time for davis to rally support against. but he never quits. never gives up this idea. but, what happens is that johnston asks breckinridge to accompany him for the negotiations at sherman and very quickly it turns into something altogether different. the open the negotiations not for the surrender of johnston's army but the surrender of all of the remaining confederate armies. who has the authority to do that? only davis but in the discussions with sherman, breckinridge says i will take the authority and the responsibility to myself. it is essentially a usurpation of presidential power. it's probab

and what johnston did with the core of citizens has not been fully explained. this being one ufof the many mysteries of shiloh, from an obscure source. found in a period newspaper -- we now have -- an account of a federal sergeant in the 25th missouri infantry from colonel everett peabody's brigade that explains that -- "the day prior to the battle three spies were arrested by the 25th missouri regiment, two of whom were confined in our guard tent when the battle began." this confirms that sydney johnston was actively seeking critical enemy deployment information right up to the hour that the fight being gain. in fact, due to the need for specific intelligence, despite the shiloh attack, having been planned for nearly two weeks, sydney johnston was compelled to seek this crucial data as a basis for key operational decisions right up to the final hours. the fact that some of his civilian scouts guides were discovered, captured, and detained thus denying the confederates' vital information, contributed to the need for captain s.h. lockett's personal reconnaissanc

of johnston using the men's locker room repeatedly. johnston has a number of lawsuits pending against the university. that's sort of why they believe they are being targeted. >> payback from the university because we're suing them. >> the couple says they are willing for cooperate. they are not suspects. this is a huge hassle for students. joining us is a sophomore from the university of pittsburgh. lauren bernlgen. you had to be evacuated because of bomb threats two times in the middle of the night. tell us about that. >> the alarm goes off. you have to leave the building. it's pry difficult. we have finals coming up next week, papers and tests, all that kind of stuff. >> there were two threats yesterday. how frequent are these things happening? >> at one point it was just about every couple of hours you'd get some. sometimes there are multiple buildings at one time. >> people started to get annoyed and not want to evacuate the buildings because these threats keep happening over and over again. >> people are definitely starting to get

and johnston chuckles and says yes, that mates them. he'll never recall those people, he'll never have the ability to recall those people. those people have asked what's johnston doing on the right? johnston is taking care of any reserve that can go out and aid the federal front. johnston does not have to go near the river to destroy grant. all he has to do is start the ball rolling. the federals are going to come to him. when the alarm sounds, they rally on the front. all he has to do is gain leverage on the flank and turn it and the battle is his. and that's what he assumed but guess what, folks? we know the difference. because we know reality. he did not. he's facing his judgment on faulty intelligence. how many times have we based our judgments on not knowing the true picture in our lives? you can drop the maps. i'm going to finish this thing up. you want the full story? you want the 16-hour death march? join me at shiloh. staff calls it the death march, by the way. i'm still alive. although tim pointed out i had less than -- just a

it was clear to detective voth that nanette johnston was greedy and would stop at nothing for money. cheating on bill. it was also clear to him she had been cheating on bill with eric. he even knew that her key to the community pedestrian gate was missing. and, remember, there was one found, could have been it, on the mat at the murder scene. but did all of that make her a killer? she and her lover, eric? do you remember what you thought at the time? >> i thought the police would be able to have a closed case. >> wishful thinking, as it turned out. >> probably naive. >> reporter: in fact, it looked like someone or two someones might just get away with murder. >>> coming up -- if that's what they thought, they reckoned without this man. >> you're always nervous when you try an old case. >> and without this story from a new witness. >> she said, i don't even want to know if you had anything to do with this. he said, maybe i d. maybe i didn't. everyone's hair breaks. ♪ oh oh oh oh ♪ you see it in the brush... ♪ oh oh oh oh ooh oh ♪ ...and then there's the pillow. ♪ i dare you to dare me

. >>> well, levi johnston is about to become a father again. >> johnston first became well known you'llring the 2008 presidential race when sarah palin became john mccain's runningmate. palin's daughter bristol was pregnant at the time with johnston's child. well, they were engaged twice but broke it off both times. their son tripp is three years old now and johnston's current girlfriend is expecting a child. they've been dating about 16 months. >>> singer/actress hillary duff has some baby pictures she is sharing with the world. >> baby luca is just two weeks old. duff posted this picture of her blue-eyed baby boy to her twitter followers. >> this is duff's first child with husband mike connery, a former professional hockey player. the two have been married about two years now. the former lizzie mcguire star announced her pregnancy last august on her facebook page. >>> well it's candid camera with a twist. betty white's new show "off their rockers" makes the season premiere tonight here on nbc 4. >> she still has it going strong. this is hysterical. white sends a fearless band of senio

. >> levi johnston embracing fatherhood again, this time with 23-year-old preschoolteacher sonny.ith the cup until anchorage, alaska. levi's famous ex is bristol palin. >> do you ever bump into the palin family? >> the other day when i picked up something at his house, she gave me the bird. i just starred laughing. i was, like, real classy. >> levi says he hasn't seen his son, tripp, since january when this photo was taken. a palin spokesperson says if mr. johnston would like to exercise visitation or perhaps say child support, he knows bristol's number. how much child support do you owe bristol? >> a certain dollar amount. i haven't looked into that, but it's a decent amount, number. >> are you a daedbeat dad? >> no. and i never will be. and, you know, that's a horrible thing for someone to say that they know don't about -- they don't know me. >> it's really sad, his image, because it's pretty much the complete opposite of how he is in real life. he's an awesome dad. >> sonny and levi's plans to marry and levi trying to capitalize on his time in the spotlight after palin's vice p

grant, sherman, albert sydney johnston, pete g.t. beauregard, brag and on and on we could talk. the wonderful that shiloh has above all the other battlefields in today's world and listening to the additions that are going to be made to shiloh makes this more a fact. it is location. location in a rural part of tennessee, a place which in so many ways remains very much akin to what this area looked like in that previous period. so we are very fortunate to have a july like shiloh here. what we are going to do today as van indicated. we are going to hear from three of the leaders in civil war scholarship as pointed out. i am not going to reintroduce them again. we have larry daniel at the en. we have wylie sore here at this end and in the middle, james lee mcdonough. the frightening thought is if a terrorist puts a bomb under this table and it goes off, we lose most of our historical knowledge in the battle of shiloh. if you see any suspicious packages, please inform your nearest agent. let me begin by asking our panelists, what we are going to do is have each person do an opening s

johnston were doing nothing so capably. living up to their birth rights. in the west, things were happening and they were all bad. suddenly there was someone in virginia who was succeeding. you have seen the compilations, they are everywhere, from the civilian diaries to the soldiers letters, about how the world with 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 capital. the soldiers here wrote about it from afar and started to wish that they had jackson instead of their own leaders. here's a fellow in the brigade writing home, middle of may, the news of the gallant achievements has been received enthusiastically. and our commanders here -- this is heading toward one of my light motifs, one my heavy mo f motifs, t

he did have sublime enthusiasm, but perhaps more than johnston was willing to admit. a woman where jackson had inaugurated one those great successes, made the mistake speaking growingly about stonewall jackson in front of one of general james longstreet's staff. osmond latrobe. 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 aback that such a quiet, self-possessed individual should have been startled out of his usual equanimity thus. longstreet himself of course bet three decades after the death pointed out their defects and trying to assail their reputations. the emergence of fool tom jackson as he was known at the vmi with some cause, sort of fellow for whom high schools used to be named, grew expressly from those few days in the spring of 1862. southern newspapers admitted their conversion experiences. they had been making fun of jackson. they had been highlighting his eccentric

very dextrose synastry realists li ugly the good of british columbia supreme court justice robert johnston johnston ace of justice with the british columbia supreme court struck down a portion of canada's medical marijuana laws he concluded that a restriction for the use of dried marijuana limited only to that in canada's merit medical marijuana access regulations was unconstitutional the research through is up held medical marijuana users in canada will be able to possess marijuana in any form brownies i think it's time the american government followed on injustice johnson's footsteps and started to embrace marijuana as what it is medicine and a decent recreational drug the bad representative virginia foxx in a radio interview yesterday fox the house chairwoman of the subcommittee on higher education attacked people who are drowning in student loan debt after college. very little tolerance for people who tell me that they graduate with going to panic and dollars or even a. beer because no reason for being here's a news flash for you congresswoman college tuition has increased five hundred

, albert sidney johnston. to a certain extent. and the question was, who was going to sort of be the face of the south after the civil war. well, lee at a group of very dedicated adherents, people like jubal early. jubal early was one of his corps commanders who action is buried here. and through the actions of early and other members of the southern historical society you begin to see the construction of lee as something that was much bigger than just a normal human being. lee, for instance, never lost a battle. he wore himself out weeping the yankees. with all these reasons why lee was perfect and there were other things, there were other things that always dragged him down. it was a tragic situation. gettysburg is another good example of that. for a lot of people who talk about gettysburg, want to know why to lee lose. get lee make a mistake here, get lee make a mistake there? someone once asked george pickett of pickett's charge of what he thought happened. did longstreet make a mistake? was over, was it o

and this is jeff johnston, who's still here at the museum. looking at the data. and we would go out at 6:00 a.m. from hatteras. and all day we would come back at 6:00, 7:00 p.m. in the evening after a 12-hour day on the water for 20 minutes on the site given all the other logistics and decompression that we had to do. but we did get? good data. and it was an experimental device. so i wasn't -- we weren't confident to tell anybody they should plan around this, but there were sonar indications that suggested there were a lot of big heavy metal objects buried in the sediment in the turret. one place i never thought i would be then would be inside the "monitor's" turret, where i came and jeff johnston invited me in there. and again, for someone who had dealt with this ship as essentially a traditional historical topic, which means documents to most historians, to be standing there on top of those big heavy rails and seeing the dents in the armor, and i don't know if you can see, it's a little bit of a blurry picture, but i certainly felt like a kid in a candy store a

pay is so much from there you go there you go david cay johnston brilliant thank you so much for being with us and what host is accused of in screwing over it's workers is a moral crime possibly illegal crime unfortunately it's a type of crime that rarely is punished in today's post reagan economy. but now for some good news the organization color of change may have figured out a way to fight back against the koch funded corporatocracy known as the american legislative exchange council alec alex is behind several right wing laws being passed in republican controlled state legislatures around the nation limiting collective bargaining rights in wisconsin to privatizing prisons in ohio the new voter id laws in a slew of other states. on wednesday in response to alec written voter id laws a group color of change with the help of several democratic lawmakers announced a boycott against corporations that donate to alec that includes corporations like coke and c. ok enough scale c.-h. like the brothers coke at coca-cola and wal-mart which according to john nichols of the nation magazine playe

emily johnstone and brian kistler won first place for their film "bloom" at the distinguished new yorkciety for illustrators student scholarship competition. the film followed the vision of johnstone and kistler from the development of the story boards to post-production. ">>>it's a lot of love and passion, you know. we had a lot of members of our group just come together and really produce some really nice work and they seem to enjoy it and i think that's an important part of making a film." the film is about a lonely woman living in despair -- until her compassionate neighbor gives her a simple gift that changes the woman's life forever. the winners will receive their award in new york in may. that will do it for arts and entertainment... back you you guys. next in sports... out with the old and in with the new... athletics begins its search for a new athletic director. and we'll show you highlights of the beauty bowl. but first... we ask students who they would want to see most at coachella. ">>>probably hieroglyphics or people under the stairs two of my favorite bands. avichi defin