lincoln relieved mcclellan of command soon after the battle of antedum in late 1862 and the mcclellan's fled to europe for a time to escape his hhumiliation. when they returned, they spent much time in the 5th avenue hotel in new york city, the well-known haunt of the most fervent anti-lincoln democrats who convinced mcclellan to run for president against lincoln in 1864. after he lost that election, they fled together again to europe. we know for certain that george loved nelly, but did nelly love george? those his biographers state that as fact, the answer is not obvious in my opinion. i tell the tale of her youthful passion and engagement to the future confederate general a.p. hill, which was cruelly thwarted by her mother. but i found even more convincing evidence of her ambivalence toward mcclellan in her behavior during the war, and later in the life after her husband died. unlike many civil war widows, nelly abandoned responsibility for defending mcclellan's reputation after his death. nelly left her husband's legacy to the not so tender mercies of a very misguided literary execu

lincoln goes to mcclellan's house in desperation one day. mcclellan is out. lincoln says, i'll wait. he waits and he waits. and mcclellan comes home, hears from his valet that lincoln is waiting, and he goes directly upstairs while lincoln sits in his parlor. and then he sends his servant down to tell lincoln that he is indisposed and going to bed. lincoln just goes back to his carriage, and the secretary says mr. president, how can you stand that kind of disrespect? and he said "i would hold mcclellan's horse if he would bring me victories." >> the most surprising thing to me about lincoln is that he didn't lose it all the time. why didn't lincoln just pick up mcclellan, who was one-third his size and just jam him into a pickle barrel? you think of anybody being under that kind of strain blowing up, exploding, but lincoln keeps stoic, reasoned calm. >> he had an incredibly thick skin. not all of our presidents have been like that. >> lincoln managed to suppress his own ego. he refused to quarrel. he was committed to a cause above and beyond his party and him

one morning lincoln got up to visit mcclellan's army, and the first thing mcclellan did was to presentologizing or explaining what had happened. it was a letter telling abraham lincoln he must not say anything about emancipating slaves, to make sure that he has a commander of all the armies that he trusts, namely me, george mcclellan. lincoln takes the letter, folds it, puts it back into his coat pocket, goes back to washington and tells his cabinet that he is going to emancipate the slaves. he's also going to effectively take command away from george mcclellan. >> soon after the battle of antietam, lincoln issues what's called the preliminary emancipation proclamation. it's a warning and it basically is saying to the confederate states that on january 1st, 1863, i'm going to declare that slaves in seceded states and places that are in rebellion are now free, but this won't apply to you if you give up arms and decide to come back into the united states between now and then. >> the abolitionists and radicals rejoiced. others lamented and feared. they tried to persuade him to withdraw it

to these critics, johnston was the real mcclellan of the west. he took to battle unless he could be certain of victory, and since those circumstances never obtained, he seldom, if ever, sought battle at all. and also like mcclellan, johnston feuded with his own government, and there became the rallying point for enemies of the administration. now johnston does have his defenders in the civil war community then, as well as now, but their support is often a product of their admiration -- less a product of their admiration for johnston, and more of using him as a blunt instrument to which to assail jefferson davis. davis' determination to defend the confederacy everywhere they argue, made it impossible to defend it anywhere, and the confederate president's presidency made it important to promote and protect personal favorites, weaken the army and also made a contribution to confederate defeat. because johnston favored acting on the defensive, his view, that view they insist was the more realistic one, and his ineffectiveness in the field was less hi

mcclellan. >> george mcclellan was not necessarily immune to thoughts of having one slave country andee country. he would have canceled the emancipation and seen if we could have restored what we call the status quo antebellum, america with slavery in the south permanently protected. >> after everything that happened, would lincoln like the decision to be made by someone else on the future of this country, on the future of slavery? no. >> ultimately lincoln's position on universal abolition is irrelevant. if he cannot turn the war around by november, he will lose the election and all hope for a united free nation will be lost. >> announcer: this cnn original series, "lincoln: divided we stand," is brought to you by consumer cellular, where low rates and award-winning service are just the beginning. we're all born with 2.5 billion heartbeats, that makes you a billionaire. ♪ so let's not waste the fortune within us... invest in the people you love. invefor 175 years,eats in new york lifeis. has been helping invest in people act you love. on their love. so they can look back and say, "we

also the mcclellan committee of the united states senate. the records represented where gambling was occurring, not only in the state of nevada but throughout the united states. >> you can watch this, and other programs on the history of communities across the country as c-span.org. this is american history tv, only on c-span3. >> sunday, smithsonian secretary lonnie bunch and documentary film maker ken burns discussed the complex challenge of telling america's story. here is a preview. >> america has certain creation myths. it is important to keep those myths as our northstar. let us be that. while let us also recognize that we have a long way to get there and, that in order to get there, you have to understand your history. understand the complexity. the dark moments. only then do you understand the resiliency. >> i agree, i think the great anxiety and all of this is to not have a kind of soviet set where you throw everything and select a new history as if nothing ever existed. i understand, well people could feel anxious about that, i don

also the mcclellan committee. of the united states senate so the records represented where gaming was occurring. not only in the state of nevada, but throughout the united states. you can watch this and other programs on the history of communities across the country at c-span.org cities tour. this is american history tv only on c-span 3. you're watching american history tv every weekend on c-span 3 explore our nation's past american history tv on c-span 3 created by america's cable television companies and today we're brought to you by these television companies who provide american history tv to viewers as a public service. sunday on the presidency paul sparrow director of the franklin d roosevelt presidential library and museum looks at the personal and political partnership between franklin and eleanor roosevelt. here's a preview. so they were a dynamic team with tremendous influence on the american public and the public was fascinated by them this here. they are sitting in the front yard of their home of frank

joining us with more is tom mcclellan. tom, good to see you you've had your share of really good calls on market timing. you are predicting what you say is a scary feeling dip next week why? what do you see in the charts? >> starting this week and it actually started last week, and i want to say scary feeling as opposed to scary actually. hopefully we can do just a little bit of damage to prices, but a whole lot of damage to people's confidence and get them all thinking that the sky is falling and we're all going to die so we can get a nice bottom put in in terms of sentiment what i'm seeing, first of all, is a great leading indicator that i have shared with my subscribers for several years based on some really wonky data coming out of the commitment of traders report they look at the net position of the commercial traders of fed funds futures, which is an interest rate product. and these data about what the commercial traders' positioning is as a group tends to give us about a five-month leading indication of what the sto

mcclellan was famous for this, so naturally he became one of early's frequent targets for humiliationbut early also lam basted and i like this quote, so i will share this one. quote, it is well-known that banks always saw things with very largely magnifying glasses when stonewall jackson was about. similarly, early used primary sources to show that his command of the historical narrative of the valley campaign surpassed his contemporaries. considering that he wrote his memoirs while on the lam this achievement is notable. his first memoir made use of his aid and a bevy of annual reports published by the u.s. government printing office. now, how early managed to get all this stuff to carry it with him on the lam on horseback as he road out of the confederacy and made it to mexico, i don't know. but he had all these things. once early settled in canada, he began soliciting reports, diaries and other communications from numerous officers he had served with particularly his adjutant general john warwick daniel, and early's brother and aide, captain samuel early. jubal then used the same n

grant was no closer to richmond that summer than george mcclellan had been two years earlier. while republicans made excuses. northern democrats began searching for an 1864 presidential candidate who would quit this awful war. and indeed in midsummer, as many of you know, president lincoln admitted that he expected to lose the presidential election. jefferson davis' strategy was working. the union army was held back at every corner and if the two major southern armies could just hold their own until the november elections, northern public opinion would end the civil war and the confederate dream would be accomplished. this is a high-watermark of the war. and it lasted three months. three months. the time it took for northern military might to affect a complete turnaround. the navy got the first headlining when on august 5th, they seized the port of mobile, alabama. a change of commanders in the army in atlanta proved disastrous. soundly defeated in each engagement who had abandoned the deep south great supply center. in virginia, grant calmly put a strangled hold on lee. he em

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mcclellan also serves on the board of johnson & johnson, one of the vaccine makers here. it's great to see you. when you hear dr. fauci say that, what is your take away from that? my take away is he doesn't want people to get caught up in a statistic. he just wants people to go out and get a vaccine. >> that's right, get a vaccine as soon as it's available. and people who want to get vaccinated keep in mind it's not going to be too long before you get a chance to do that. we were up to 2.5 million shots per day. the supply of all the vaccines are going up in the weeks and days to come, so we should be able to get to 3.5 million or more shots per day with the supply coming. we're already over 100 million americans who have gotten at least shots in arms and that number is going to increase significantly. that's why we're seeing i think this reduction in the spread of cases despite people going back out some more, but this is still a period where we need to be very cautious. we're not at high levels of immunity yet. >> you know from your days in the federal government you're

mcclellan. and philip sheridan of course was extremely aware. of the circumstances under which he operated and the pressure that he confronted. and so sheridan was going to be that pragmatic cautious commander that lincoln grant and stanton wanted him to be and sheridan wrote very simply of this. he said i deemed it necessary. to be very cautious. and the fact the presidential election was impending made me doubly so. i could not afford to risk disaster. i determined to take all the time necessary to equip myself with the fullest information. i always tell individuals there's this very delicate balancing act that general sheridan has to maintain. so sheridan certainly doesn't want to go out and prematurely engage early and risk a defeat. but it's also not a good idea for sheridan to do nothing. and so after about a month. of military maneuvering between harpers ferry and fishers hill located just south of the strasburg in what one union soldier referred to as a quote-unquote mimic war. president lincoln was getting a little bit anxious. because

in that 1864 election most would say overwhelmingly they came down on the side of lincoln and not mcclellan. who was the that is absolutely true and as a footnote to that because of the way that the constitution in illinois was soldiers in the field were not one of the states, illinois was not one of the states that could vote in the field those there were some that were able to get home and vote, but that was the only way they could do that. now we mentioned while ago that one of our viewers this afternoon is who chimed in from yemen. angela says greetings from germany. and follows up to brad's questions says brilliant question. she would like to expand that to whether there are any letters where the writer and the recipient were on different sides of the conflict. who not in the letters that i read? i do have a few letters where they wrote to an uncle. that was like in another regiment or fellow soldiers that were perhaps in another theater war, but no i didn't. for this sample of 165 that i used. i didn't have an instance like that. that's it. that's an interesting thing. mark asked. did

tv station, and robert kennedy was the chief counsel of senate rackets committee headed by john mcclellan carried those hearings live. mrs. kennedy always can get and i got to know her that way. a few years later we got an invitation to hickory hill. it was a lot of fun to go to hickory hill. >> what was hickory hill? >> that was the kennedy home in mclean, virginia. lots of stuff going on, lots of interesting people and it was a lot of fun. you got identified in the paper as being a friend of the kennedys. we were a friend of robert and ethel, and i covered roberts campaign in 68 through the ambassador hotel and the assassination there. but it was inevitable that i would get to know edward and when he came to this and i was covering him as a capitol hill correspondent. never was i as close to edward as it was to robert. but anyway, we were friends and a slightly confrontational way. so that whether they thought because of his past history with robert kennedy that would be an easy our on teddy, i think they sort of felt that but i think they should have known better. and so when the time

unfolded that what happens at seven days has profound implications for the emancipation proclamation if mcclellan had had maybe been a little more successful maybe things would have turned out differently, but instead of seeing everything as a steady march and i've found at that sometimes difficult for students to turn off to stop at that moment and pretend that they don't know what comes next in order to assess why figures made the decisions that they did right? that's a very good point. i want to ask a question and i'm gonna give it to each of us. i i guess we'll go the order i see you on my screen. so i'll go to craig first and then tamika and then jack and carrie and you know, i'm looking at your wonderful backgrounds and all of the books that we all have in our offices are living rooms where we're sitting we need to all take this snapshot that you know, there's that rate my screen or rate my room thing where they tell you how good your books look in the background, but as we think about teaching, what are the readings that you most enjoy assigning the read the books or the articles or the au

mcclellan. >> bill: in a moment today marks dr. seuss's birthday. he would be 117 years old.cross america. harris faulkner, big interview on the "the faulkner focus". hi, harris. >> harris: thank you. coming up as you say i sit down for an exclusive interview with kayleigh mcenany, former press secretary for president trump. it is her first interview since leaving the white house and she opens up on a bunch of topics including what it was like inside the white house the day of the u.s. capitol riots. her complicated relationship with the press and being a new mom as press secretary. "the faulkner focus" top of the hour. my psoriatic arthritis pain? i had enough! it's not getting in my way. joint pain, swelling, tenderness...much better. my psoriasis, clearer... cosentyx works on all of this. four years and counting. so watch out. i got this! watch me. real people with active psoriatic arthritis look and feel better with cosentyx. cosentyx works fast for results that can last. it treats the multiple symptoms of psoriatic arthritis, like joint pain and tenderness, back pain, an