and then the commander of the southern army, joseph johnson, is wounded.and the president of the confederacy turns to his chief military advisor and put him in charge. up to that point lee had been on the sidelines. even advisor. he had been sent to a few trouble spots we haven't really performed very well. as a professional military man, the most it ever commanded were a few companies of calvary and texas, in terms of military force. yet the day he took over he was the robert e. lee that all of you imagine him to be. there was a clarity of purpose for each circumstance that he was in, that enabled him to throw away the chaff of a battle. i mean, i'm sure you will know better than i, that any moment in the midst of a very complicated battle, the officer in charge is being pummeled with contradictory information. and it takes a certain internal sense to sort of say, this is important, i can ignore this, i can't believe that. and then to act on it. this was the lee quality, and he had a very bloody learning process in the campaigns, seven days, where he lost

joseph johnson who is greatly underrated -- i mean, the the best confected general was of course they weren't british but -- [laughter] by that thought that hamilton was by all accounts the top british general, he thought he was the great person and when you read his writings, he wrote well, he was intelligent, educated, he really stood out. he was the general. so there you go. but the southern generals never hit on a strategy. at the point in which lincoln basically surrendered command to grant and let him of like the strategy grant salles, the war was basically going to come to an end, so in that sense, to that point, lee had a losing hand. by the way, someone asked lee you know, grant was basically just an accident, and we said that is no compliment to me, sir. [laughter] he said i have studied the records of military history ancient and modern and i have never found a general to be grant's equals pittard i do not believe there is any general in history to be his equal. i don't think he was rationalizing and because he lost. it's been a lot of us in the south felt that it was the o

johnson, abc2 news. >>> one minute after six. st. joseph medical center agreed to pay 22 million dollars to settle allegation that is it provided illegal kickbacks to a cardiology practice accused of implant being -- implanting unnecessary extents. it was paid over a ten-year period. the suit was brought on by three whistle-blower who is are cardiac surgeons in addition to 22 million, the hospital will repay money it got from federal health benefits over a 10-year period for medically unnecessary extents. procedures were performed by dr. mark mi dea. >>> a dog owner in west baltimore is accused of shooting his dog but what police found when they arrive got him in more trouble. stanley coleman shot his bull mastiff. officers found the dog tell alive in a pile of trash underneath the porch suffering from a massive gunshot wound. they also found a mixed pit bull breed that looked like it had starved to death. >> there he was was third dog found in plastic carrier on-site. the carrier what lot of water and feces and looked like in the bottom of

johnson to resign. >>> just hours ago, 50 people treated at st. joseph's medical center, filed new lawsuits, sparked by a federal investigation that found they may have undergone unnecessary heart surgeries. mike hellgren has the wjz news exclusive. >>> these lawsuits allege negligence and fraud against st. joseph's medical center. and the man who was once one of its most prominent physicians. >> reporter: in these new lawsuits, patients claim dr. mark meday and st. joseph's medical center were careless and put them at risk. after stents placed in their arteries were not blocked enough to warrant the procedures. >> this was in direct response to the $22 million settlement reached between the united states government and st. joe's last week. >> reporter: in that bombshell settlement, st. joseph did not admit liability, but agreed to pay millions to the government for paying illegal kickbacks for patient referrals and gitting government money for procedures involving stents placed by dr. meday. >> i have had top institutions, including yale, review their ang

johnson explains. >> reporter: the security video in hooters captures the whole story. 54-year-old paralegal is disputing a charge on her bill with the manager and security guard, josephlawn police officer. as you can see, torres reluctantly puts down her credit card but is still clearly insensed. the offduty cop make a regard according to torres's daughter that suddenlychange the die animal ig and it gets ugly. >> what was he saying? >> he was saying all you people are the same. >> what was she saying? >> what dyou mean all you people are the same? are you trying to make a judgment toward me because i'm mexico an? >> no matter wat the situation is. he is three time her size. and even a cop, too, he shouldn't have been arguing with her. he should be the mature one. >> reporter: as the manager returns to have torres sign the receipt, the offduty officer does something that horrifies onlookers. >> he had her by the hair. he was slapping her. an i ran up to my sister. i'm like, don't touch him. he is an offduty cop. that's when i was in the middle of the video and i was pointing at him and inyou'd better [ blp ] hego. e ended up getting toe radio and i guess calling for