jackson was to make any move he would need the support of longstreet and longstreet's plotting was taking a lot longer than jackson had anticipated or hoped. by the late morning, longstreet's leading brigades approached the choke point at thoroughfare gap and stonewall jackson received good news on two fronts. a currier reported slongstreet's success at thorough fair gap suggesting that old pete would connect with jackson's right early the next day. as longstreet's men are plotting towards thoroughfare gap that choke point, and they're plotting along slowly, what is going on on jackson's front? on the 28th? during the post dawn hours of august 28th, jackson finally chosen a position to take in the area in which he had been operating. he decided to move his scattered divisions into a concentrated position just west of the warrington turnpike. jackson sent curriers to the divisions to have them move towards this new position. jackson's position that he decided to take was one that anyone would expect of the commander. jackson's line covered the road from haymarket to sudly springs. if lee w

so walker rides back to james longstreet, discusses this with longstreet. longstreet says i didn't realize that jackson was trying to do this. so longstreet was trying to delay the assault. but jackson surely is trying to do something on the northern end of the battlefield in conjunction with jeb stewart. it is interesting to note that the entire day of september 17th, if you look at the holy trinity of the army of northern virginia, all three, jeb stewart, james longstreet and stonewall jackson never go south of sharpsburg the entire day. all three of them are north. lee will only go south of sharpsburg later in the day. he's mostly north of sharpsburg as well. so the idea is to get jeb stewart a decently sized force, as many troops as he could, 4,000, 5,000 men and begin snaking along the potomac river. looking for the northern end of the union line and trying to get around it. turn the enemy's position, force them back across antietam creek or cause some havoc there, in order for stonewall jackson to send his legions out of the west woods toward the mass

people like pickett and longstreet, how they went? >> yeah, it's not uniform. it's not uniform. you see the sort of bitterness of a guy like pickett after the war, his conversations with people. i spent a lot of time reading john singleton mosby's correspondence and his saying that old man destroyed my division. those kinds of comments. but very quickly after lee's death in 1870 you see less and less opportunity, less and less moment for criticism and more and more perspective on lee's value. and eventually you see the creation of the infallible lee, the image of lee. the man and the myth begin to really separate. it becomes very, very difficult for people after that point. but you see people coming to the defense of lee and doing so in very self-serving manners as well, architects of the lost cause mythology. people were using lee's image and his history for different reasons, but ultimately you see this myth creation after that. in many ways it's very telling that robert e. lee never wrote his own memoir of the war. never cleared up a lot of the controversies. in some ways it

longstreet says i didn't realize jackson was trying to do this and so longstreet will delay his assault. so jackson surely is trying to do something in conjunction with jeb stewart. if you look at the holee trinity, so to speak, of the northern army of virginia, all three they never go north of sharpsberg the entire day. the plan, the idea is to get jeb stewart a sized force, and begin snaking his way along potomic river, turn the enemy's position and force them back or at least cause some havoc them in order for stonewall jackson to send his legions wens again out-the west woods. stewart is flanking columns. you can see highlighted there in red. it's only about $3,600 cavalry, not all that large. again, lee is looking for anything. grasping at straws, you could say, once again to try and gain the initiative back. basically in a nutshell stewart's expedition is a failure. he puts nine of his guns under george pelham. you can see oo few guns there and what they run into is about 50 artillery pieces. and stuart reports back to jackson and says yeah, this ain't going to happen. can't do it

surprisingly it took a combination of the aggressive jackson and evenhanded longstreet to cool lee's desire to switch from a defensive posture to an offensive action. but the fighting at manassas was not over. plans would begin to develop on both sides for the following day. pope wanted to attack yet again but for lee, longstreet, and jackson the prevailing thought would be no attack would come from pope on august 30. just in case that no attack came, lee was beginning to prepare for other options. by 3:00 on august 30, however, that attack did come. fits jon porter's massive assault against jackson's center and right, sending nearly 10,000 troops in position against the terrain and would be the final main federal assault on jackson's position. that attack would take place as deep cut and others along the unfinished railroad line and like so many occasions on august 30 the federal attack would break jackson's position yet again, confederate reinforcements arrived on the scene just in the nick of time. by mid afternoon, jackson needed help and his line was bruised, battered and broken

lee failed with longstreet. both subordinates were slow, plodding, resistant and guardedly insubordinate. but their positive attributes and their wide popularity made them worth the frustration that came with them. neither grant nor lee operates in a political vacuum, especially lee, who is often criticized for being virginia centric in his thinking. he is certainly to appoint, but lee is always aware with happening elsewhere in the confederacy. he may not seek to influence it, but he's interested in how it might influence what is happening in virginia. they both understood the value of popular morale, of civilian will and keeping the people behind the army. grant had cold harbor. lee had july 3rd at gettysburg. they both had made what had been called big mistakes. but don't forget have those awful assaults worked, lee would have been divided and all the trapped with his back to the chickahominy at cold harbor and lee would've been divided and gettysburg and forced to withdraw toward washington. the frontal assa

at the same time trying to understand to some degree with the relationship between longstreet in the international field. and with genealogy through the centuries 1933 through the present and the terms and then the things that the first is that critical relationship upfront even now what is known as a meager. put with that international expansion of legal practices in their attempts into triple regulations and finally what is the of relationship between for the history of capitalism through linking institutions of the from that development expansion there and ideas. spoke put so attentiveness the fact of sovereignty. including nicaragua and panama. >> when did become wall street?. >> cry would argue wall street became a wall street in the early 19th century. early years of history in new york city it without a significant presence at the time. but by the end of the 19th century increasingly capital becomes concentrated from financial insurance firms and the news for commercial development and then we start talking about and the expansion so different historians has thus of place or i

perhaps this is james longstreet recognizing a good what if. as we always like to discuss and debate 34 years after the fact. were somer there intentions in the confederate high command that they were thinking about this. as you will see in just a moment. i've done a very poor job of making maps. i know ed alexander from last year. i just want to show you some of the movements of the confederate army on the morning of september 17. here are the positions roughly of the confederate army. there are no union troops on this map. from 6:00 in the morning on september the 17th and very quick, we will do a blow-by-blow battle narration. early in the morning joseph hooker's troops are going to launch the attack in miller's cornfield. by 7:30 a.m. in the morning stonewall jackson and joseph hooker have battled each other to mutual annihilation. of as this is a plan by lee to simply harry and thrust with george mcclellan. lee is going to throw in a counterattack to maintain his line. 8:30what happens at about in the morning. there is the situation. watch

area of subprime mortgages have spread throughout our financial system it's been a dismal common longstreet lost by creating a fake outruns. mind how long yesterday the dow closed down five hundred investors agreed at this hour or so me to see whether or not the government can step in and feel the same kind of me i'm a strong believer in free enterprise. under normal circumstances i believe companies that make bad decisions should be allowed to go out of business but these are not normal circumstances you know the president has said over and over it's the people's money. is right about that it is the people's money but now it's the people's debt. this is the pain that will stay with me for the rest of my life but you got to keep four hundred eighty million dollars i have a very basic question for you is this fair. the spectacle all of these bankers who have contributed hugely to bringing the western economies to the knees and you're still going home putting themselves money beyond the dreams of avarice in most people's eyes and they really think it was but sometimes i meet them socially. wh

this is pete longstreet who was on the field by then. go ahead, dan. you can keep going.buford will miss the last two days of the battle, but when he writes his report of the action he will correctly say ae equa h task was before us.id our we were equal to it and shall all remember with pride at gettysburg we did our country great service. whoever saw a dead cavalry, you didn't hear that. i want to tell a quick story hear before i wrapp up.nument this t monument to john buford in front of the monument to johc fulton reynolds, it is on mcpherson's ridge. what you notice about it is tham john buford is dismounted. it was sculpted by a man named . james e. kelly. there was a trooper in tom devins' 6th new york by the namt of wheeler. he will make it up to the rank of majoror before he is court martialed. he goes home to new york city and marries well, he marries a woman whose last name is macy. he ends up being the president of the macy's mercantile empire, which he will ultimately sell. he will move to a place called aspen, colorado, where he will invest his money -- if you

homeowners along one of san francisco's wealthiest streets now promising a lawsuit after their block longstreet was sold at auction. we will hear from one of the new owners of presidio terrace and what she says her plans are for that straight. start two suspects in the twin peaks robbery are expected to be in court in about an hour. family and friends of the victim questioned why the suspect was not already behind bars. for years, men have enjoyed their man caves without guilt. now, it's mama's turn. welcome to my she shed. ...where i enjoy not cooking, not gardening, and not cleaning. ...where me and the girls can let loose. oh, look at the time! me time... mmm..brownies. fiber one 90 calorie brownies. allll mine. >>> an arrest has been made in the grizzly fire that burned last week. alfredo bautista of concord was arrested on august 2 following an alleged road rage incident. investigators say he was responsible for starting the fire which began the same day as his arrest. that is the booking photo there. he is facing a charge of arson and several other felony charges. the fire burned 20 acres

james longstreet, three of his children die in a scarlet fever epidemic early in the war. he's so distraught that he can't even go to their funerals. he sits in a darkened parlor while the funerals are going on. the personal losses -- wade hampton is plagued by grave personal losses. but these men rise above the losses. what's astonishing isn't that they make some bad decisions. what's astonishing is how tenacious, how persistent, how morally courageous they were and going even beyond it. i want to talk about a few case studies. francis channing barlow who seizes high bridge for the union forces and enables mead's army to get across with grant sup superintending. there's one monument to barlow on the civil war battlefield at ge gettysbu gettysburg. it's a monument from the worst day of the war, a day he really screwed up. overall he's a brutal tough fighter. he's a case study in leadership. i want to give you a background about the human side of him. his family is an old new england family. his father is a minister who marysryingies a stunning beauty wife. at some point he

of god and the war was only lost because he was let down by people who became republicans like longstreet. i think, in fact, you would find through most of history, that in contests between unequal forces, the underdog usually has to take greater risks in the hope of through surprise, ingenuity, maneuver, whatever, of evening the odds, and lee certainly did that, and of course it worked for him so much of the time. but it was very, very costly. i think we give up our myths reluctantly. that's one of the ones we will probably never have go away. if only everybody read several of my books, well, i don't care if they read them, if everybody just bought several of my books -- [ laughter ] they would know how that was supposed to be. i'm sorry. >> we will take one more question. and then break for lunch. >> in the civil war documentary series, the late show befoot stated that lee could actually make himself grant and think what grant was thinking. any comments on that? thank you. >> i didn't see that, so i don't know. lee was very able, as was grant, at looking at the situation at hand. lookin

it didn't really have any military opposition since longstreet's corps kind of abandoned georgia. >> right. >> but do you think that hard war is exclusively against civilians rather than total war as civilians are targeted but there are other military targets? >> i guess what i would say to that is it's hard for me to think. any war that i would put on a spectrum close to total war would involve targeting of civilians. it just would have to. that's part of the war culture that john horne talks about. when you see an 18-year-old young woman work in a factory as a legitimate target that you can hit with whatever can reach them with, you've crossed some border. the only problem that i still have is thinking of total war and limited war as a limited thing. you're either on one side of the line or the other. so that's the part that in my head i'm still not sure i'm entirely content with. and i think i'm still on the side of jenny keysly and these are concepts we've devised of a way of thinking about war rather than war dhactually is. sherman's march is destroying property, not killing peo

james longstreet, always a bit of a surly man, three of his children die in the scarlet fever epidemic early in the war. he is so distraught that he can't each go to their funerals. he sits in a darken parlor while the funerals are going on. hampton suffers all his life and is plagued by grave personal losses, but these men rise above the losses. what's astonishing isn't that they make some bad decisions. what's astonishing is how tenacious and how persistent, how morally courageous they were and going even beyond it and i want to talk about a few case studies. first of all, a name familiar to some of you locally around here, francis channing barlow who sees his high bridge for the union forces -- pardon me, and enables mead's army to get across with superintendent, and frannis channing barlow is fascinating. there is one monument to barlowe that's at gettysburg and it's a monument for the first day of the war, the date he really screwed up. overall, he's a brutal, tough fighter and makes mistakes as all generals have made some, but on the whole, his value is really tough, but he's a c