the next campaign, i say in my book, because james longstreet said, i'm not saying it because longstreet, bull run or second manassas come in fact it is really second manassas. if you go to the park it's the manassas battlefield, was lee's masterpiece. what he did was combine a strategic or offensive, march around john pope and once they got in the battlefield they assumed the tactical defensive until august the 30th, and then went to counterattack. and came very, very close to destroying the union army of virginia. if any of you go down there and go to henry house bill, down below it there's a stone house with the war -- across the road, the intersection. if they would've capture that pokes army would have been scattered. many would've been forced to surrender but they came close but they never did. from the seven days, the beginning of july and till the end of august, somehow this army, parts of the came together. this was a different army then marched in seven days. communications was much better. jackson had gotten down, whatever cost and have a subpar performance during the seven da

james longstreet is a different man. james longstreet was probably the best tactician in the army.ongstreet was much more careful in the expenditure of things. could longstreet have done the 1862 campaign? i don't think so. jackson knew the region, but secondly what it took to be jackson would push men and pressmen and punishment. lee says jackson around because jackson can push men be really understood it. when you wanted to defend a position or you wanted to launch a counter-attack he didn't give it to jack. that is where long street excelled. of won't talk much about fredericksburg. the it is a terrible, terrible day for the army of the potomac. you think about it. the resonance and brigades charge of toward the stonewall. the cannon fodder and gunpowder is so heavy, so heavy the dead men removing because the boats a striking him with such frequency that they're actually making their bodies moved as more and more union soldiers are going up the slope. if there is ever a place where the army of the potomac prove the courage of itself it was at the front of the stonewall in freder

james longstreet is a different man in that sense. he was probably the biggest tactician in the army. he was much more careful in the expenditure things could he have done the 1862 campaign? i don't think so. jackson knew the region but second, what it took. jackson would push the men and push of a man. glisson struck some around not long street because jackson can push men and he understood. but when he want to defend a position or who launched counterattacks you didn't give jack you gave it to pete, longstreet and that is where he excelled and so forth. i'm not going to tell much about fredericksburg. one confederate soldier said it's the easiest battle we ever had. yes it was. it's a terrible, terrible day for the potomac. as the is regiment and the brigades charge of towards the stone wall for the marine heights and the gunfire is so heavy, so heavy that the dead men are moving because there's tricking them in such frequency they are making their bodies move as more and more union soldiers are going up the slope. if there is every

don't know if we can do much but lee said but you will -- you know, you will move forward with longstreet in a demonstration and hope to convert it into attack. lee's method of command prior to that was to leave a lot to his subordinates because they were on the ground in a sense and they were closer to it and he could do that with longstreet and jackson. it sort of falters at gettysburg and that's one of the reasons. .. >> so there you have hill, he was having health problems, so in a sense the machine that lee created partly came apart at you for. but yet i don't want to emphasize, you know, that you can't take away from william scott hancock, you can't take way from georgia sykes, you can take way from the irish regained, to do that is to discredit history and to discredit the men. they put up a heck of a fight at gettysburg, and they did beat the army of the northern virginia. it's as simple as that. and we can go through all -- the reason we deal with that, we are pretty well known, the confederacy won the military history of the civil war. the losers wrote a better history than the