longstreet, it will be his fault that gettysburg didn't turn out the way it was. after all, longstreet was in charge of the men, he's the next guy on the totem pole, like the ceo deciding he's not going to resign but blaming the vice president and throw him under the bus. it also hurt poor james longstreet that he was a republican and he actually got a position during the grant administration so he may not have been politically aligned with many individuals who were thinking about the lost cause. i think this in many ways becomes the struggle for historians going forward in that the lost cause doesn't have a lot of room for injured veterans, for distraught widows, for orphaned children. when you would have these organizations sort of spring up, they would put in their mission statements like the united confederate veterans that they were all about raising money to take care of that generation that had been destroyed by the war, but then they would use all that money then to go build a monument on a battlefield, to go construct gigantic monuments or even to go in b

longstreet was in charge of pickets men. the next guy on the totem pole. it also hurt for longstreet that he was a republican and got a position in the grant administration. this in many ways becomes the struggle for historians going forward. the lost cause does not have a lot of room for injured veterans. or widows or orphaned children. when you have these organizations appear, they were all about raising money to take care of that generation that had been destroyed by the war. they would use that money to go build a monument on a battlefield. or to go higher authors to write textbooks after the war. for others, these organizations, the cousin they are not representing their own personal pain and damage, they don't want to spend the money or attend yearly reunions to relive the injuries on a daily basis. this is an important juxtaposition moment in postwar history. we have an entire group of veterans struggling and they do not fit these neat narratives. it is hard to argue around the lost cause if you want to nitpick particular elements. it becomes a pret

. >> reporter: brian longstreet feels the same, a first time visitor. >> i wanted to get here before it got too americanized. i don't want to see starbucks here. i was doubly excited when i found out the rays would be here and president obama would be here. >> reporter: but like many he couldn't get a texas to the game. this is the beginning -- get a ticket to the game. this is the beginning chris afternooner believes is the beginning of something positive for cuba and baseball. >> i think this potentially could be the start of something great between our country and for the human rights for the people in cuba. that's why we're excited and i'm not afraid to express that. >> reporter: the hype around something to behold. there's electricity in the streets. it happened time and time again during the president's whirlwind visit. wherever he goes people seem to gather even when there may or may not even be a chance that he'll be seen, but just the thought of it captivates the crowd. 1 woman told me she knows how this particular swell of exuberance began. you're telling me thousands of pe

longstreet, it will be his fault that gettysburg didn't turn out the way it was.fter all, longstreet was in charge of the men, he's the next guy on the totem pole, like the ceo deciding he's not going to resign but blaming the vice president and throw him under the bus. it also hurt poor james longstreet that he was a republican and he actually got a position during the grant administration so he may not have been politically aligned with many individuals who were thinking about the lost cause. i think this in many ways becomes the struggle for historians going forward in that the lost cause doesn't have a lot of room for injured veterans, for distraught widows, for orphaned children. when you would have these organizations sort of spring up, they would put in their mission statements like the united confederate veterans that they were all about raising money to take care of that generation that had been destroyed by the war, but then they would use all that money then to go build a monument on a battlefield, to go construct gigantic monuments or even to go in bat

lee not stonewall jackson but james longstreet. core commander at gettisburg throughout the war. it will be his fault that gettiesburg didn't turn out the way he wanted. it's like the ceo deciding that he's not going to resign bah blames the vice president and throws him under the bus. he was a republican and he actually got a position during the grant administration. he may not had been politically aligned with many individuals who were thinking about the lost cause. this becomes a struggle for historians going forward. lost cause doesn't have a lot of room for injured veterans. distraught widows or orphan children. when you have these obligations spring up, they were put in mission statement. they were all about raising money to take care of that generation that had been destroyed by the war but then they would use all of that money then to go build a monument on a battlefield. to construct gigantic monument or battle to hire authors to write text books after the war. for others, these organizations because they're not representing their own personal tame and damage, they don't

longstreet. >> after the civil war breaks out, hundreds of texas troops are mustered into the confederacyere. but by 1867, chadbourne is reoccupied by u.s. troops, many of whom leave their marks on its walls. garland, every one of these walls, they're covered with etchings. wow. "forsythe, october 1870." amazing. garland, if these walls could talk. imagine. the u.s. cavalry uses the fort until 1873, when its buildings and surrounding lands are abandoned. four years later, garland's great-great grandmother snatches it up. >> they paid $500 gold for a section of land, which at that time was in the upper end of the land prices. >> garland's ancestors used some of the fort buildings for milking sheds, feed and saddle storage, and even houses. >> they overcame a lot of adversities to actually make it a successful ranch. and this has been handed down to us. >> so when do a handful of decaying government buildings become a historic treasure worth preserving? for fort chadbourne, it begins when young garland, the sixth generation of richards on this land, plays his first game of cowboys and india

what happened was that longstreet, his core, had gotten too far ahead of the rest of the army and created a gap, and it was george custer's cavalry unit that filled that gap, and then other cavalry units came in and then the sixth army corps came up behind them, and they captured a lot of confederates that day. >> yep. bud, we talked about this earlier at breakfast you. included one of my fav mist people, christopher spencer. tell us more about mr. spencer. >> he was just a gunmaker. he got this idea that surely had to be a better way to invent a shoulder arm, and the laborious process of loading the bullets and cap and everything into the musket so he designed the seven-shot repeater, repeating gun in which the bullets were stored in the gun and all you had to do iscock and fire. the confederate called it a week gun, claiming the damn yankeeys would fire on sunday and keep firing for a week. and i think you see that most effective use of the spencer was july 1, 1863, when john buford's cavalry held back an entire two divisions of confederates, and they were using spencers. now, if you're