he came to train in lynchburg.moved from doctor johnson's apartment until i was five blocks from where this was in lynchburg where these two stellar athletes were being trained. also there was and spencer, she was a poet and her son was chauncey spencer who was one of the first aviators to petition congress to give money to create the tuskegee airmen. so i had three levels of integration without even knowing what was going on in lynchburg. that was a part of the journey in writing this book to find out the people that had an impact in my life that i didn't even know. so, do your history. [applause] [applause]

he had been in lynchburg when lee surrendered. he and others decide that they will return to their homes. they do it by april 13. by april 17, they made it as far as lexington when he notes in his diary he has heard about hancock, the flyers, that the men are invited to come and receive the same parole. in his diary that evening, he observes that in fact many are disposed to go and seek the parole. but many, including himself, were not certain that this was the course to take. with these paroles really protect them? especially in the wake of lincoln's. assassination had the terms changed? on april 18, he wrote, "the minds of soldiers are much exercise as to what course to pursue." they are still not convinced this is what they need to do. even as he is debating this, to the north in winchester, members of company f of the recovery, these are members of the brigade which had been on detached duty in the valley, finally decided that they would go seek the paroles as a unit. again, april 22, all this time they stay together as a unit

hunterseferenced leaving lexington. , was hisken lynchburg lan to come here? >> that was a rhetorical they saw the if two great seats of iniquity, but you're right -- the goal was lynchburg, not charlottesville. that was just a rhetorical term. i some had he taken lynchburg, his goal would have been to join grant in front of petersburg. >> but if sheridan does not replace him, then he is coming right through him -- right through here, right down west main street in march. questions? i will ask one while people are thinking. i'm curious about a theme that was mentioned. we have at the table a great deal of collective knowledge about civil war memoirs as a genre. you mentioned nostalgia as a feature. i'm curious about where taylor's nostalgials on the spectrum. >> a think katie plus point is going to keep in mind, which is this wave of memoir writing goes from one ward to the next. world war i has begun, so this is a phenomenon in military .istory i would say that taylor definitely falls more toward the nostalgia and then early does, experiences postwar -- it's

had he taken lynchburg, was his plan to come here? rhetoricalat was comment that if they saw the two great seats of iniquity, but you're right -- the goal was lynchburg, not charlottesville. that was just a rhetorical term. i some had he taken lynchburg, his goal would have been to join grant in front of petersburg. john: but if sheridan does not replace him, then he is coming right through here, right down west main street in march. who knows? you may have. elizabeth: other questions? people areone many thinking. i'm curious about a theme that was mentioned. we have at the table a great deal of collective knowledge about civil war memoirs as a genre. you mentioned nostalgia as a feature. i'm curious about where taylor's memoir falls on the nostalgia spectrum. or whereven to it evidence and post factor accounts of war in the valley? a great question and i think katie's point is one to keep in mind, which is this wave of memoir writing goes from one what to the next. 1886 to lawrence chamberlain's passing of the army in 1915. world war

lynchburg? we love it. deal like it? -- do you like it? i like it. i flew over it a little while ago and it is amazing. as a dream with a few good friends, he helped shepherd it into the largest christian university in the world. just look at this amazing, soaring, growing campus, and i have been watching it grow, because i have been a friend of liberty for a long time now, jerry, a long time. thanks in part to george's financial stewardship, hundreds hundreds of thousands of young hearts and souls have been enriched at liberty and inspired by this spirit of god. george, we thank you and we salute you and you just stay healthy for a long time, george. thank you. [applause] now it falls on the soldiers of -- shoulders of each of you today to protect the freedom that patriots like george earn with their incredible sacrifice, fortunately, you have been equipped with the pools from your time right here on this campus to make the right decisions and to serve god, family, and country as you build good lives, you will also be rebuilding our nation. yourill

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larry: long-time lynchburg superintendent scott brabrand is back in familiar territory. he was announced as the new head of the fairfax county. he takes over for karen garza who resigned in september. of the lifetime to go back where it started. >> i would not have left for anywhere else but it's hard not to go back home find the career where i began. we are a strong state for public education and we need to stay that way. larry: right now there is still no word on who will replace scott brabrand as the superintendent of the lynchburg city schools. nancy: covering metro. good news without getting in and out of the woodly park zoo adams morgan station. after more than two years work to replace all six escalators at the station is finally finished. they will start to replace five escalators at the cleveland park station. that should take two years. larry: no one was seriously hurt when the metrobus was rear-ended by the streetcar. ten people did get checked out but no one needed to be taken to the hospital. nancy: coming up at 5:00, who will be next? see which faces are bo

that is the name of the village built on a stagecoach road between richmond and lynchburg. "courthouse" spelled as two words. appomattox as a county was formed in 1845. the county seats are always known with the county name and the two words, "court house." but it did have a courthouse building in it. lee arrived here on the afternoon of april 8. he deployed artillery in front of him on this road on the way to appomattox station. this is where he has supply trains waiting for him. he sent some of the artillery to a position here and sent men out to unload the supply trains. while they are unloading these trains, they are surprised by general custer's cavalry, who captures the supply trains and some of the men. some of them escape and start heading back towards the courthouse village, where the main army is. when they are in this area, where the artillery troops are, the federal army has caught up to them. this was known as the battle of appomattox station. the only battle in the civil war fought between federal cavalry units and confederate artillery units. no infantrymen i

president donald trump at liberty university in lynchburg, virginia. senator bernie sanders at brooklyn dplej new york. representative mia love. former u.s. deputy attorney general sally yates at harvard law school class day commencement in massachusetts. president and ceo of lieu let packer meg whitman and national institutes of health director francis collins at . . . . . it is too easy to say you choose the neighborhood school. you can't look at your choice in isolati isolation. we in this country know many of us did not choose to live in the public housing project i was born into. i did not choos to be born on my mother's 16th birthday to an 8th grade drop out. i did not choose those things. you can't even compare my choice as a father to moi choice as a child. i tell my sons all of the time i wouldn't have liked you if i was growing up with you. i would have stolen your bike. they said well, i'll get a new one. and that's why i wouldn't like you. when we're looking at choice there has to be parity. choice ain't the same for everybody. i am provouc

scott braybrand is the superintendent in lynchburg before that a long career, wendy in fairfax county schools. >> the assistant superintendent, and principal at fairfax high school. selection will become final, pending a school board vote, scheduled for next week. karen garza resigned in september. >> details on the investigation into a missing veteran's body discovered in the parking lot of a va medical center. the i-team getting reaction tonighom >> and hundreds of people sickened across the country, the role that backyard chickens could be playing in this outbreak? >> we've got that moment of truth tonight for a boy from our region competing to be the narrator: "the time is always right to do what is right. ralph northam. army doctor during the gulf war. volunteer director of a pediatric hospice. progressive democrat. in the senate, he passed the smoking ban in restaurants, stopped the transvaginal ultrasound anti-choice law, and stood up to the nra. as lieutenant governor, dr. northam is fighting to expand access to affordable healthcare. progress every day. and he won't let donal

he was an assistant superintendant for a while before leading the lynchburg school system. he was in charge of 8,000 students there. now 185,000. >> the challenges in fairfax county public schools are real. the issues are complex. if we approach each other with open hearts, with open minds, we can and will find the solutions to our challenges. >> now the former superintendent, karen garza, resigned in september. his contract runs through 2021. >>> 4:52. route 10 on oxon hill. >> this is indian head highway. take a look at this video from earlier this morning. just a mangled mess. several cars and six patients involved in this bad crash that is still there and blocking traffic at this point this morning. so let's take a live look right now if we can from chopper 4 from above. you can see we are still shut down. indian head highway there at palmer livingston road. right now what they're doing is pushing everybody off palmer road and northbound/southbound indian head highway shut down. good alternate on sim hill road. >>> another big issue on the beltway, inner loop at 50, arl

he defeated union general david hunter on june 10, 1864 at lynchburg, before proceeding down the shenandoah valley, going north, to clear it of federals. early continue to fill the instructions by crossing the potomac into maryland, where early defeated a small federal force on july 9. he then threatened the u.s. capitol on july 11, before withdrawing back to the valley. during his u.s. invasion, he gained notoriety for issuing a on towns in maryland and pennsylvania. yegor's town, frederick offered cash. but as many of you know, chambered for pennsylvania attentive to call his bluff and calvary under john mccausland burned a large portion of the city on july 30, 1864. when union major general philip sheridan, the planted hunter, early's fortunes changed. in 1864, sheridan whipped early at various battles, blamed on early's calvary. he thought themselves sound, that he was completely unprepared for the confederate cutter blow at cedar creek -- counter blow at cedar creek. impress plant to routed approximately two thirds of the federal forces before his men paused to plunder camps. they succ

had he obeyed his orders, this institution would probably be down in lynchburg or something like that. >> when i was reading michener's book on mexico, one of the chapters talks about all the confederate soldiers that went to mexico and had their families, would pay for their children to go to university, and they also got involved with the oil, and as years went on in the 30's, they were after our government to be more accommodating to the oil that was being drilled by the confederate families, and i have never heard any historian refer to the confederates that ended up in mexico. >> large numbers ended up in brazil and create their own town were even today, they have ceremonies celebrating the confederacy and there is english spoken. national geographic did a big story with pictures. >> this a small literature on that. they are called confederate confederados. someone to egypt. there's a diaspora of former confederates. some go to new york. >> some do go to new york, and is a really wretched movie about some of the ones that went to mexico with rock hudson and john wayne in it -- we

hillary clinton at wellesley college in massachusetts, president donald trump at liberty university in lynchburg virginia and senator bernie sanders at brooklyn college in new york, representative mia love at the university of hartford in connecticut, former us deputy attorney general sally gates at harvard law school class day in cambridge, massachusetts, president and ceo of hewlett-packard, meg whitman and carnegie melanie hall in berg. national institute of francis collins at southern methodist university in dallas. saturday night at eight eastern on c-span and c-span .org. >> next, on ft

right now here's the superintendant of lynchburg city school and will take over in the fairfax after a final vote next beak. >>> police think it was a robbery that went terribly wrong. a gunman shot up a resort and set fire to gaming tables. dozens of people died. not clear if the suspect intended to kill anyone. nbc is london to tell us what' going on this morning. >> new video this morning showing the panic in manila. casino. >> isabel watching from her apartment. >> this man running for his life, but he got out. 36 others did not. they died not from the gunshots, but from smoke inhalation. a fire engulfing part of the building. a hotel mall and casino. smoke still rising from the roof this morning. police said the gunman seen on security camera didn't shoot anyone. inside, firing at a tv screen. stealing $2 million in poker chips and tragically pouring gasoline on casino tables and setting them on fire. firefighters brought many out of ladders from second floor windows, but they weren't able to save everyone. nearly all of the victims were found in the casino. >> there was only on

former teacher in the district, brabrand was assistant superintendant for a while before he led the lynchburg school system. he starts july 10th. the former superintendent karen garza resigned in september. >>> metro says you should start to see a smoother ride as the safetrack program comes to a close. 91% of trains are getting riders to their destinations within five minutes of on time. new stronger 7 thoirks series rail cars are replacing the older cars. there's new platform l new temporary cooling towers are going in. >>> we want to thank everybody who participated in our huge fund-raiser. >> nbc 4 and the united way, national capital area, worked together on do more 24. take a look for you here at how much money this campaign raised. almost $1.5 million. 1,475,000 to be exact for you. that's working for you and the community. all of that money going to hundreds of nonprofits in our area to help them keep doing the good work that they're doing. >> very nice. >>> 6:18. back to breaking news and first 4 traffic. melissa, talk to us. >> good morning. northbound indian head highway, guys. we'

a former teacher in the district, brabrand was assistant superintendant for a while leading the lynchburgols. he starts the 10th. karen garza resigned in september. >>> she says her reputation was ruined by rolling stone magazine. now former uva administrator speaks out. hear how she plans to spend the millions in the defamation suit. >>> we want to thank everyone who donated in the do more 24. more than $1.4 million doe naded to dozens of charities in one day. >>> and we are continuing to track breaking news this morning. chopper 4 flying over a crash that has closed route 210 at palmer road. this is in oxon hills. this has been closed for hours. the insurance companies and the credit card companies and the wall street banks - that's what tom perriello is about. i was proud to stand with president obama because progressive causes have been my life's work. i'm tom perriello, and i'm running for governor to reduce economic inequality, raise wages, eliminate the burden of student debt and protect our climate. together we really can build a virginia that works for everyone. every truck gu