mcclellan as to save the union. between this election in we will say november '64 at this point and the inauguration march 4th, 1865. as he will have secured his elections on such grounds that he cannot save it afterwards. so we're going to look at and say what happens if mcclellan had won the presidency, what would he be thinking when he put his left hand on the bible and raised his right hand on march 4th, 1865? what was his policies going to be? lincoln says if he wins it and it looks like he is, it's over. he's not going to be able to save the union. well, will he save the confedera confederacy? is that possible at this point if you elect mcclellan as president? so let's look back at october and november 1864. lincoln accepted or said you can put my name for candidacy in 1864, he said that in january 1864 the convention is going to be in baltimore in june of 1864, we will get nominated and this is the plank -- he doesn't attend the convention, doesn't make any speeches there, this is the plank that they are goin

and is the army of the potomac mcclellan's army and will they go for mcclellan? there's a few bad things said about lincoln. the reconstruction as a campaign issue, we've touched upon the 10% plan and the 50% plan. we won't get into the radical republicans. here's the platform. 1864. hannibal hamlin from maine, he's an abolitionist and he is dismissed from the ballot and andrew johnson is on. general benjamin butler, i can be president, too. i'm a lawyer. i'm a successful general. i'm an abolitionist. think about me if you have to change from lincoln, i could do that job. and the south thinks i'm a beast. they don't like me. that's qualification for the job, too. things that the emancipation is going to do is provide issues. the 13th amendment, some people said i would vote for lincoln just because of that. the abolitionists are going to vote for him because of the african-american soldiers, it is now the homestead act which we mentioned earlier this morning. that's an issue. the veteran soldiers who are done at the army, they're saying it would be nice to have a

is mcclelland's army and that whole army go for mcclellan? there is a few bad things said about lincoln. the reconstruction is a campaign issue. we have touched upon the 10% plant and the 15% plan. we will not get into the radical republicans here is the platform. 1864. how noble hamlet from maine is an abolitionist. he is dismissed from the ballot. they put andrew johnson on. general benjamin butler. i can be president to, i'm a lawyer, i'm a successful general, i'm abolitionist. think of me if you want to change from lincoln, i can do that job. the south thinks i'm a beast. that's a qualification for the job to. things that the emancipation is going to do is provide issues. the 13th amendment. some people said i would vote for lincoln just because of that. abolitionists will vote for him because of the african american soldiers. there is now the homestead act which we mentioned before earlier this morning. that is an issue. veteran soldiers who are done at the army are saying it would be nice to have a farm in iowa. i could go there. immigr

mcclellan. you are recognized. dr. mcclellan" thank you for the opportunity to join you all today. i want to add to the comment you have already heard. we are in the process of reopening, we have to do that as deeply as possible. testing is not the only thing that is an integral part of a strategy that continues to require action from all of us and businesses as we move forward to keep that reproduction rate as close to or below one as possible. to give you a sense of where we are in testing, this past week, between around two and 3 million per week. that is significantly short of that six-plus million target s work reflects, but an increase of where we have been, based on the administration's expectations on testing this month, we should be on track to 3.5 million a week by the end of the month and maybe 6 million per week by september. that is a ways off the kind of numbers that dr. jha was talking about. dr. gottlieb has talked about ways to bring technology into accelerate the availability o

mcclellan is replaced by ambrose burnside. and the men of the irish brigade are still nursing wounds. flags they will carry were threads, silkd flags, but they are in such tatters after antietam that they are unusable. they will be sent to new york for replacement. ranksregiment joined the of the 28th massachusetts, will now replace the 29th, they will be one of the only regiments that has an emerald green flag in the battle of fredericksburg. flags are what you rally around. flags are what you follow into battle, because you can't hear your commander to tell you to move left or right, so if you don't have these, what are you going to do? a story out of the irish brigade says that, without their flags, without an object to rally around, what would they follow? began puttingn sprigs of green boxwood in their caps, to indicate the green of place ofand stand in those beautiful flags that had gone back to new york. this is fredericksburg. the union army would eventually build a pontoon bridge across the river and attack the town.

mcclellan reacted and moved to south mountain. for me, the two most important things i would tell you about the battle is there were 6000 casualties there. most of the folks that visit the park have no idea and have never heard of the battle of south mountain. that's a very significant number. for, me the other critical thing about south mountain. the union army drove the southerners right off the mountain top they were actually taunting them as they retreated. this in your army anymore. the union army gained great confidence after september 14th. the confederate army, i would, say is already the most competent army other. now you have a union army with great confidence. but i'm telling you is, three days later, in the fields outside of sharp spurred, you have to very well equipped, large, confident armies that come to those fields intent on destroying each other. that's a very bad combination. the army is gather around sharp spergel, on each side of the antietam creek. the union army on the east side, confederates on the west sid

mark mcclellan.itnesses talked about the need for robust testing and adequate contact tracing to spoil the spread of the virus. they also addressed health disparities in rural and minority community spirit this is about one hour 15 minutes. -- minority communities. this is about one hour 15 minutes. representative clyburn: thank you, distinguished democratic and republican colleagues, for your participation in this rather unique forum. over 80,000 citizens have lost their lives due to covid-19. more than in any other country on earth. many families have lost loved ones, including my own. our fellow committee member maxine waters has recently experienced a loss in her family due to this pandemic. this select committee was not established to cast blame on or cast disparities on foreign or domestic or to search for the viruses origin, but to pursue future success. we have been tasked with the urgent and important work to ensure that our country's response to this seminal crisis is effective, efficient,

mcclellan. dr. mcclellan: thank you as well for the opportunity to join you. there has been some important bipartisan leadership with congress so far. i hope we can build on that with a comprehensive approach that is by no means limited to testing or some specific number of tests but that focuses on getting people back to their lives with confidence. getting the economy going again through new steps by business, public health and health care, new types of support for innovation in this very -- this new reality. this is an unprecedented situation. if we focus on what will make things better in the low income vulnerable communities that include surveillance with testing, but includes a lot of other steps too. support for helping people be able to stay home from work if they have symptoms. support for getting folks reoriented and reaching people at home if they do not fill condiment coming out are if that -- phil confident coming out chaired i am glad to be part of the efforts to advance it. rep. clyburn: thank you very much. >> thank you again for the opportunit

you can see the map on the screen, the location of mcclellan's army still sitting pretty much idle in maryland doing very little. stuart decides i'm going to break apart the cvrr, the main supply line besides the baltimore and ohio that will feed mcclellan's army. of the two, the more vulnerable is the cvrr, so he takes three brigades of calvary and comes across the mason-dixon line into chambersburg. he will end up wrecking the cvrr at chambersburg. they will destroy the turntable and destroy most of the offices and whatever rolling stock is still there. all the warehouses around the train station. chambersburg sees flames on the north side of town for hours and hours and hours as the area immediately around the railroad station burns to the ground. now, he's going to go on. he's heard from locals, the bridge is made from iron and can't be burned. he believes the story and hears the state militia is coming after him and then that the union regulars are coming after him, so he will head towards gettysburg. he comes within six miles of gettysburg in october of 1862 before he turned sou

in stunning example of mcclellan's generalship in those days, he doesn't need the ammunition. even though the railroaders risked their lives and set new speed records for the fastest route the cvrr has or ever will run during the civil war, not a single one of these ammunition rounds is fired at the confederates during the maryland campaign, at least up to that point in time. but, it becomes known as the amazing antietam ammunition run. it is the finest hour. the finest gets a lot of hour, national press. they are really happy. start comingen back, reynolds starts bringing them back and the darkest hour for the railroad soon follows. on december 26, heavy fog along the susquehanna river, a train barreling through the fog filled with the 20th volunteer militia from philadelphia smashes into nding locomotive called the utility and 30 soldiers are killed or permanently maimed. now the cumberland valley is in the national press again, but not for a reason they want. it is one of the worst losses of u.s. soldiers at that point in the civil war, on civilian-run railroads. that will

i think mcclellan gets a bum rap. you are probably gonna hear that from dana so many other speakers today. a lot of it is because the post war, lincoln, he's against lincoln and the election of 1864. well that's almost as bad as long street speaking out against generally. he's pushed off to the side for the rest of his life to. i think, what people ask me all the time, who wins this battle? you can talk about that 1 million different ways. i've had a lot of those conversations at the highest level of government and military. i did a tour for 17 four star general and we had that conversation. a lot of it depends on whether you are thinking tactically, operationally, strategically. who would cheese are operational objectives? robert elite does not and george mcclellan doesn't most times he beats him to the punch. his speed, his lack routine is actually winning the milan campaign. why that has been turned so badly, i think it's because of his opposition to lincoln and no one's going to pick mcclellan over lincoln, let's

mcclellan, president trump calling a clinical study of hydroxychloroquine in va patients phony. he is taking the drug against the fda's recommendations. he's sidelining the cdc. what impact do these attacks have on fighting this pandemic? >> well, i hope they won't slow down the need to get more evidence on the treatments that really work. there are some randomized studies under way now about hydroxychloroquine that will hopefully give us more definitive evidence. for now, though, don there is not clear evidence this treatment works and the fda has put out some very clear warnings for people with heart disease, for people with other medical conditions to avoid it because it can cause serious heart complications and other complications. >> you mentioned earlier in the interview, you mentioned remdesivir. there's been a lot of talk about that as well as a synthetic antibody treatment. what looks like the most promising therapeutic to you? >> i think remdesivir has a lot of promise, as tony fauci and others have said. it's not a home run but it does seem to help reduce the duration

gary: the army is still, to a significant degree, mcclellan's army. he created the culture in the army and it was powerful. allen: you could plot the political identities and allegiances of the seventh infantry corps of the army of the potomac on the way to gettysburg along a spectrum. a spectrum that would run from the most ardently abolitionist. gary: howard. allen: in the 11th core, no question. also, you would get dan sickles in the third core. whatever else he lacked in terms of military acumen, and he lacked a lot of military acumen, he was a political general. he was in fact worst dream of george mcclellan. he was a turncoat democrat. he was a war democrat, a ferocious supporter of lincoln calling for abolition. whatever else he did wrong, he did get that right. that is one end. on the other end, you have the second corps of the army of the potomac, commanded by hancock, one of the most ardent mcclellan followers. ardent democrat. sedgwick comes in, the six core, and george sykes in the fifth. somewhere in the middle you might have john reynold

in the election of 1864 which had mcclellan won he had announced in advance that he was going to sue for peace and arrange some kind of settlement with the south and then the union would not be what it is today. so lincoln -- or grant has been brilliant tactically. he's been brilliant at the operational level larger level now he is in charge of the entire strategy. what was the essence of that strategy? >> so you alluded to his comment to meade i think where he said where lee goes you should follow. i think -- >> that was the main effort. >> right. he makes a lot of important decisions. he takes about when he finally comes east he takes about eight weeks i think to study everything. and he makes what i think what his torns have suggested, fuller in particular makes this point, he has the insight to leave executive command of the army of the potomac to meade so he frees himself up to think strategically. and the area of his command is huge. we forget that. how it stretches from the canadian border to the south and all the way to the west, and i think that leaving meade with those admi

but mcclellan is only one face in a crowd of politically motivated generals. over and over again in the battle of gettysburg, people are making military decisions on what are really political motivations. and i wanted to explore that involvement of politics at intersection politics with what is ordinarily treated as a simply straight forward military story. >> the army is still mcclellan's army. >> it is. >> in the summer of '63, his imprint on it, he created the culture in the army and the culture was powerful. >> you could plot the political identities and allegiance of the 7th infantry tour way to gettysburg along the spectrum, a spectrum that would run from the most ardently abolitionists -- >> howard? >> howard, and the 1 he 1 -- 11th core, no question. also, also, you would get dan sickles in the third corps. whatever else he lacked in terms of military acumen, he was a political general and the worst dream of george mcclellan. he was a turncoat democrat. because he was a war democrat and a ferocious supporter of lincoln calling for abolition. so whateve

this is the best way they reckon to neutralize the threat fromom lincoln's rival, george mcclellan, the democratic party, they are running on a platform that declares the war a failure and calls for a negotiated peace as we know and we've heard about this theme from peter and it will arise again, the copper head democrats seemed willing to sacrifice the union and concede independence to confederates, condemned emancipation in the harshest terms and copper heads echoed confederates in portraying lincoln as a remorseless tyrant waging war without mercy. but again here is the key point lincoln would not permit himself to be painted as a conquerer. the national union party's campaign in 1864 was built around the theme of southern deliverance. lincoln chose as his running mate the most celebrated of all white southern loyalists andy johnson of tennessee. lincoln's moderate and conservative supporters in the north could and did hd up amnesty with its theme of forgiveness as his crowning achievement. the franklin repository oof pennsylvania noted approvingly of lincoln's amnesty policy during

mark mcclellan is a former fda commissioner. it's good to have you. >> good to be with you, chris. >> what's your take on them giving a boost to this vaccine? >> i think it's another important step forward in the development of vaccines. chris, as you said before, this is a new kind of vaccine. we haven't seen it used in people before. so there are, still, some important steps and testing ahead that will take time. this round of tests is about figuring out the right dose and if there are any major side effects, as well. after that, it's going to have to go into larger-scale testing. but this is going to be done in a matter of a few months. and that's a really unpre unprecedented timeframe. >> so tony fauci says, look, we're not going to rush the phases of the testing. we're going to rush the manufacturing. and we're not going to wait until the phases are done. we're going to take gamble here, that this works. and i said well how can you take the gamble? you don't know anything about this virus. every time i tell you something ab

i think mcclellan gets a bum wrap. you will hear that. a lot is because the post war, lincoln -- he is against lincoln in the election of 1864. that's almost as bad as longstreet speaking out against general lee. pushed off to the side for the rest of his life. what people ask me all the time, who wins this battle. you can talk about that a million different ways. i've had those conversations at the highest level of government and military. i did a tour four 17 four star generals. we had that conversation. who achieves their operational objectives? robert e. lee does not. i know -- he beats him to the punch. his speed is actually winning the maryland campaign. why that has been turned so badly, i think it's because of his opposition to lincoln. no one is going to pick mcclellan over lincoln. let's face it. most circles. just my sense of it. go ahead. >> this is the deadliest day in american history, is it true? >> we think so. if you want to be precise, you could say -- if you didn't hear that, is it still the deadliest day. it is the wor

i lose, i will do everything i can to support and transfer power to the other party, even though mcclellan was campaigning on a piece platform. -- a peace platform. he would have repealed the emancipation proclamation. lincoln said it was more important that we observe the measures of government, election, and placement. that is true here. elections,ave the you just have to do them with social distancing. it is hard for the government to claim because of the pandemic that we can just shut elections down completely if there are reasonable alternatives. we saw that in this -- in the wisconsin primaries. >> this is an important issue. suppose we have to undertake elections in a nontraditional way. what authority does the federal and state government has in ensuring voter identification to make sure it is a fair election? doesn't the current situation broadly disadvantage challengers as opposed to incumbents? that there a mandate leaders address that problem? prof. yoo: very tough questions. the changing of the rules is interesting. it goes to your initial question about federalism. you could

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he ensures the victory over mcclellan in the election of 1864, which mcclellan -- he would have noted in advance that he would arrange for some kind of settlement with the south and the union would not be what it is today. grant has been brilliant tactically, at the operational level, and what was the essence of that strategy? >> you alluded to his comment where he said, you should he takes eight weeks to and inverything he has the insight freesd the command so he himself up to think strategically. hugerea of this command is and we get that. from the canadian border to the i thinkd to the west, leaving me with administrative responsibilities really did help them to do that. >> in his back pocket, just moved to side in the wilderness. and allows sherman to maneuver through the south and also in the shenandoah valley, the breadbasket of the confederacy. by holding the army in place and really grinding it out in the , he helpsl warfare , he is sheridan, knowing not particularly concerned. that is really the idea that he recognizes this is the way to in the war. >> the victories in atlant

when we think about politics in the war, we generally think almost exclusively about george mcclellan and his spate with lincoln, but mcclellan is only one face in a crowd of politically motivated generals and other and over again, you know, in the battle of gettysburg people are ostensibly maki making decisions on what are political motivationed and i wanted to explore that intersection of politics in what is simply being treated as a straightforward story. >> the army is is it still to a certain degree mcclellan's army in 1863, his imprint on it. he created the culture in the army and the culture was popular. >> you could plot the political identities and allegiances of the infantry corps and the army in the potomac on the way to gettysburg along a spectrum, a spectrum that would run from the matter ardently abolitionist. >> howard. >> howard and the 11th corps, no questions and also -- also you would get dan cycles in the third corps because dan cycles because whatever else he lacked in military acumen, and he lacked a lot of military acumen, he was a political general. he was in f

mark mcclellan. doctor, thank you. good to see you again. >> good to see you. >> let's discuss here. so, listen, you're trying to get treatments for coronavirus to be more widely available but what are the treatments and how can we get that done? >> well, don, so far there are not many that have good evidence to support them. i know you were talking about hydroxychloroquine earlier. there's not strong evidence there. remdesivir, a new anti-viral drug by gilead, had shown very promising results in studies where people were randomized to get the drug or get an alternative standard of care treatment and it showed they did better. we need more studies like that done quickly, including on remdesivir to learn more about who exactly it benefits and how they can best take it. >> then there was this possible vaccine by moderna that was just announced yesterday causing the stock market to go up. people were optimistic about it. definitely need more of that. without a vaccine, finding effective treatment -- treatments, you know,

mark mcclellan. thank you for making the effort, third allow me to attack it.slavitt, the reason there's no plan that approximates anything like this on a federal level. even the cdc had to secrete their plans out under cover of night with no fanfare is they don't want to own the reopening protocols. they want to put it on the states because they don't want to pretend covid is such a big deal which is why trump won't wear a mask but he'll take a magic pill, and they don't want to have the controls you'll put in their domain. so andy, why would they do this? >> well, chris, look the most important thing i think we have right now is for all of us to go back and try to enter the workplace and move to the next stage in the safest way possible. we don't think there's a lot of americans that sit around saying, gosh, i hope more people die or, gosh, i hope this economy stalls. i think governors may have different methods, different approaches, different teams. but in the main they're all trying to figure this out. and there is i think a vocal minority of people who wo

mark mcclellan.sses talked about the need for robust testing and adequate contact tracing to spoil the spread of the virus. they also addressed health disparities in rural and minority community spirit this is about one hour 15 minutes. -- minority communities. this is about one hour 15 minutes.

this is him talking with general mcclellan known as little mac at the time and talk about adapting to changing circumstances and doing what works but he hired mcclellan, fired him, hired him again, fired him again because he wasn't chasing down the confederate armies the weight lincoln wanted him to do so you can see the perseverance again with lincoln as well and you saw that very clearly in his dealing with the civil war. of course one the civil war ended up abolishing slavery and i want to show you one other i like to show these pictures were i discussed lincoln's before he took office and shirley before he grew his beard and he was given a famous speech at cooper union in new york and it outlined his agenda but keep this in your mind. this is what he looked when he took over as president before he grew his beard three weeks before he was killed the ravages of the war had taken such a toll on him that he became to embody the suffering of the country was going through in the civil war and that was very important to people, even in the south he became known as among the three enslave

general mcclellan known as little mac, talk about those circumstance he hired and fired and then hired him again and then fired him again because he was not chasing down the confederate armies so you can see that perseverance as well and you saw that very clearly dealing with the civil war. i always like to show these pictures this is before he took office and giving a famous speech at cooper union this is what he look like when he took over as president three weeks before he was killed the ravages of the war had taken such a toll to embody the suffering and the civil war and that was important to me. even in the south and known as father abraham and then to go through such trauma. and just amazing it would to embody that history with that crisis manager. and the focus of the book during the early thirties we have terrible economic calamit calamity, unemployment today is 4 percent we don't like it when he gets up at eight or nine or 10 percent it was 35 percent. one out of every three people that were basically men at the time could find it so that was a provocative pitcher and conside

mcclellan. wely should focus on running a parallel process, manufacture se the supplies even advance of approval,do i to some of the dog pre-clinical work in a sequential fashion while we are doing the cklyclinical studies,e that we cand accelerate this ai quickly as possible. we need whatat i would call a sq massive parallel process where we are doing things simultaneously instead of sequentially as we traditionally do in vaccine development. dr. fajust had a web event that included doctor fauci, and public and private leaders reinforcing the seam points that dr. gottlieb made but emphasized that it's not the parallel process about getting the clinical trials done, we know that vaccines are safe as quickly as possible. manufacture them as soon as possible as soon as we have enough evidence. also of the materials that have to go along large-scale vaccinec manufacturing, the vials and needles. this is a big scale program that goes along with the research and development. >>ishe doctor fauci and d

mcclellan received a lot of pictures of people gathering without masks or the appropriate distance betweenm. are they potentially putting themselves and loved ones and other people at risk? >> they are. and that's another important component of reopening. it takes new actions by businesses and people when they go out. wearing masks or using hand sanitizer, being careful of what you touch, especially railings and door handles and things other people might use, those are important steps as well. >> you know, the fda this week, as you know, gavl what they call emergency use authorization for the experimental drug to treat coronavirus patients, very sick patients in hospitals. how much of a difference, potentially, do you think this drug could make in the overall fight against the virus? >> so, i think the key part of that emergency uses authorizization is exactly what you said. it's for the really, really sick patients. it is not going to be a game changer for the average person with covid-19. it's not like penicillin for strep throat. you're not going to have a positive test and get a prescr

i think most americans would follow george patton penn george mcclellan.hat is a choice we have right now. >> laura: it is a reasonable risk to get into a collective field position. >> laura: america is built on risk. the most risk takers on earth were founding fathers of america. everything that they risk, they were fortune, their blood, they are everything for freedom of liberty. look at what we are doing. governor newsom issued this morning, watch. >> the reality this pandemic has just begun and has not ended by any stretch of the of matt. this virus behind us and i just couldn't be come i think more precise in terms of my recommendation. >> laura: victor he's prepping people to get used to this kind of rolling series of draconian controls over their daily lives. >> we are seven weeks now from his march 19th warning that 25 million people would be infected at the given rate and 2%, we should have had 600,000 dead californians. we have about 3800. that is a tragedy. we are the largest state in the country with 40 million people. and we haven't seen any o

i think most americans would rather follow george patton than they would george mcclellan.hat's the choice we have right now. there is a reasonable risk to get into a collective fetal position. >> laura: america is built on risk. the most daring risk takers on earth were founding fathers of america and everything they risked, their fortune, their blood, everything for freedom and liberty and look at what we are doing. governor newsom issued this morning. watch. >> the reality is this pandemic has just begun, it hasn't ended by no stretch of the imaginati imagination. is the virus behind us, and i could not be more precise in terms of my, welcome a recommendation. >> laura: victor, he's basically pressing people to get used to this kind of rolling series of draconian controls over their daily life. >> we are seven weeks now, laura, from his march 19th morning the 25 million people would be infected at the given rate. we were told 2% lethality, we should have 16,000 dead californians. we've got 3800. that's a tragedy. the largest state in the country, we have 40 million peopl

mcclellan who used to run the fda, we need people, and senator kunze is introducing bipartisan lejszation soon. what peace corps was, get people back to work, get contact tracing we need to have confidence this won't spread more quickly. >> do you know how many people you would need for contact tracing in los angeles? >> probably need a couple thousand people for county of 10 million. 300,000 for the country, might be more than that, 3% of the population lives in los angeles county for the nation more or less. could be as much as that, according to those stats, 9,000 people. it's great way to get young people to have summer job, a great way to get the unemployed back to work. and we have a lot of city workers who can't go back to libraries. london breed in san francisco enlisting them as supplemental staff, already on the payroll, put them to work in new role. >> mayor garcetti, appreciate the time -- >> before we go, one quick thing, i know in midst of all of this, you had amazing thing happen. we have a certificate, from my daughter maya, we wanted to congratulate you on the birth

other people's books, that we began to in the civil war, when lincoln fired his sober general george mcclellannd hired his drunken general ulysses s. grant, and indeed, that is when the tide seemed to turn and it did seem to turn because of grant's can-do attitude. what do we call it? because of grant's refusal to admit defeat, because of grant's forward motion that nobody could seem to stop. as lincoln said of grant, he's a man who gets -- git, right? he was a man who also drank. so here goes grant. of all the drunken generals, who fought during the civil war, and there were many, the one who most famously battled the bottle was ulysses s. grant. born the son of a leather goods producer in ohio, grant was sent to west point where he graduated in the bottom half of his class. at west point, he fell in love with his roommate's sister, julia dent. he proposed, she demurred. he proposed, she asked for more time. his father disapproved of julia. her parents disapproved of him. after a four-your courtship, he won her over. the couple adored each other. they had four children. almost 40 years later,

sunrise, about 2.5 after they realized the confederates are gone, two and a half hours, george mcclellan'slying column is chasing confederates on the two roads that will lead to fort mcgruder. so we set the stage. why here? the third corps and the fourth corps will take those two roads , one from hampton, one from yorktown, headed toward williamsburg. and the first division of the first corps of the union army will be put on transport boats and they will fly by both armies on the york river on their way to elfham's landing, and that is truly a forgotten battle. never forget that while the battle of williamsburg is happening, the confederate army is trying to outrace union transport boats on the york river, and it is a race. almost immediately after leaving yorktown, stoneman, the general who is in command of this flying column, runs up against the confederate rearguard of resistance. and for 12 miles on may 4, there is constant rear-guard action. one of the most incredible places is here at whitaker's mill. at whitaker's mill, they make a stubborn defense. the confederate mounted troops un

mcclellan, the president won't wear a mask but he will take an unproven drug, hydroxychloroquine. is he taking the best steps to protect his own health? >> well, wolf, i wish we had more treatments that have been proven to be effective available. fortunately, there are many in the pipeline. i think very important for americans to know there are warnings against using hydroxychloroquine, especially if you are certain risk groups. and very importantly there are some clinical trials going on right now involving hydroxychloroquine. so hopefully we will get a better answer soon. but we do need better treatments available. and i think we will hopefully be able to get there quickly. >> the fda, your former agency, issued a public statement saying it is not advisable, it is not going to prevent someone, necessarily, from goating coronavirus. you know -- from getting coronavirus. sanjay a clearer picture is emerging from parts of the country that reopened on the earlier side. some are suggesting they are saying a cause for concern. are you? >> you know, i think any time you start to reopen

thought of him as a simple susan, a choker, huckster in politics, first rate second-grade man, george mcclellans opponent openly disdained him. lincoln was convinced it was good reason he was doomed with incalculable consequences for the war effort and all that he had done and sacrificed to that end. so they quote from the book again. we need to remember this is generally how history happened. very much directed towards the young people but i think all of us can benefit from this. we need to remember this is generally how history happened. it isn't like a hollywood movie in which the background music swells and the crowd in the room leaps to its feet into the camera pans the room of smiling faces. in real history it doesn't spo spoil. the critics often seem louder than the applause. the leader or the soldier has to wonder is he acting in vain are the criticisms of others in fact true. will tim judge him harshly and will his sacrifice count for nothing. few show more comprehensively than lincoln. the two get people to appreciate what it's like to be. let me also suggest the story at the end of t

i mean, we all believed he was right when he told mcclellan should have pursued the enemy and we all know the agony he went to when george meade did not pursue him from gettysburg and how horribly upset he was but at the same time we celebrate his essential humanity. his ability to appreciate and empathize with the unprecedented human suffering that was the american civil war. he seems to have been able to do both things at once, to be both a man of empathy and a man of hard action. a president who could order men to their deaths and generally rue the dying. and, you know, it's this quality of lincoln that i think we don't often appreciate and don't often remark upon, his ability to balance things. he was able, in so many aspects of his life, to find a proper balance point between extremes, whether it be the intellectual realm, his balancing the constitution's pragmatism with the declarations ideal i, or the political realm. his ability to steer a middle course between the more radical and conservative elements of his own party, or the personal realm with his life-long balancing of h

george mcclellan opponent in 1864 election openly sustained, meaning problem.election year lincoln was convinced it was good reason he was doomed to lose that election with incalculable consequences for the effort and all he had done all sacrificed to that end. we need to remember this is generally how history happens. this is directed toward the young people but i think all of us can benefit from this. we need to remember this is generally how history happens. it's not like a hollywood movie in which the background music swells and clouds in the room applies and leapt to their feet as the timeless words and camera pans the room full of smiling faces. in real history, background music does not spell. critics often louder than the applause. the leader or soldier has to wonder, is he acting in vain? are the criticisms of others, in fact, true? what time judge him harshly? with his sacrifice count for nothing? two great leaders have felt this burden more comprehensively than lincoln. i do this a lot with other states in times of stress the cap people to appreciate

mcclellan would telegraph lincoln, "hancock was superb today." so this brings us to kerfuffles. and i have five minutes left to do it. four. [laughter] mr. gruber: why is the battle of williamsburg forgotten? we already addressed memory. you go to colonial williamsburg because of the rockefellers. williamsburg's memory is a tough one. when the president of the u.s. drives down the duke of gloucester street to open colonial williamsburg in the 1930's, one, one woman stands on her porch wrapped in a confederate battle flag saying "there will be no yankee president in my town." [laughter] mr. gruber: we have no maps so i can't take you to the battlefield and say, you are standing on the excelsior line. this battle sets into motion several weeks if not several months of continued combat, so when you flip open official records, you only find a few. we have no maps. we have no impact landscape. we have no photographs to argue about. although we know civil war photographers come through town and take pictures, but they don't survive. this battle for the combatants is one of the most co

reminder of our small size of the district of columbia and in the middle on his horse is general mcclellan lincoln's worst general, appeared to have no use for it and probably -- later as a proslavery democrat, he is pointing south, confederates would have been that way. a little reminder of our history. >> a typical riding day begins with -- i tend to work late at night and this has been successful. may not have gone to bed until 3:00 until noon. it would be like this, to inhale some coffee, forcing myself to have anti-cholesterol sources. before lunch time i wouldn't get much done instead answering emails and fending off accumulators. what i usually do when reading by myself. testing against other writers, that is what horrifies one has a writer. with all their books, so i know i have, every single word to the bbc. most of that, james joyce, it seems almost blasphemous. salman rushdie, ian mccarron, all of what they have written. the life of a job, and public speaking which we can also do. it is also what i am, who i am and there's nothing else i can do. i chose this, it shows me. >> hos

he was running against one of grant's predecessors, general mcclellan who said he would sue for peaceere were draft riots. there was unrest in cities like new york and it's entirely possible that mcclellan could have won had it not been for the successes of the first true strategy of all of the union forces. grant had an income to minable determination. in the series they have this incredible moment after the terrible day at shilo and he said, grant, we had the devil's own day today, didn't we? grant says, yup, lick 'em tomorrow though. this was even inspirational to us so many years in iraq. he could see a battlefield. he could see it in time and in space and he could issue orders that were very, very clear. it would synchronize the activities of all of the different commanders on a battlefield and ultimately in the entire strategy that enabled, again, the union to win the war and save the union because it enabled lincoln to win the war. >> hey, ron, it's willie geist. in an effort to butter up the professor, i brought my book to class today. it's so fascinating and the history chann

then there is general mcclellan, the man from whom he had asked to borrow the army's general and they had no use for it. he ran against as a proslavery and have secrets from the other side. he is still pointing south in the wrong direction it would have been that way. >> a typical writing day for me depends on how the previous day was. i tend to work late at night and if it's been successful and may not have gone to bed until 3:00, so the next writing they probably wouldn't start until say noon. but if you had to average the day it would be like this. get up, try to inhale some coffee, forcing myself to eat oatmeal. before lunchtime i wouldn't get much done except answering e-mails, sending off whatever had accumulated. the world of telegrams. just coping and then having plunge which i enjoyed reading by myself. and isn't jolting being a writer is being a good reader. the main thing is to keep testing yourself against other writers that are better than you. that is what caught on as a writer permanently the risk of having to say i don't know why i bother. i think there are certain aut

then there in the the middle on this course is general mcclellan, president lincoln's worst general. the man from whom heed a one point asked to borrow the money since the general appeared to have no you for it and was a defeatist. ran against lincoln later as a pro slavery democrat. may have had secret simple pays with the other side. makes me laugh because on his horse he's still pointing south in the wrong direction. a little reminder of our history. >> i tend do work at night and may not have gone to bed until 3:00. the next writing day will not start until noon but if you had to average a day it would blow like this, get up, try to inhale some coffee, forcing myself to eat oatmeal for cholesterol purposes, before lunchtime i wouldn't get much done except answering e-mails. and fending off whatever had accumulated. the world of telegrams in anger. just coping with that. and then have lunch which i do reading by myself. the essential thing for being a writer is bag good reader. the main thing, never tire of saying, is to keep testing yourself against other writers who are better t