corinth, mississippi. two of the south's longest trunk railroads cross the at corinth, the east-west road, the memphis and charleston. the only complete rail line in the confederacy to link the mississippi river with the atlantic seaboard and the north-south mobile and ohio, linking the ohio river valley to the gulf of mexico. corinth was quite simply that spring the lynchpin containing the confederacy's efforts to hold the mississippi. after ascending the river a national army under general ulysses s. grant at pittsburg landing its front encompassing shiloh church. while western confederate forces led by general albert sidney johnston concentrated by rail to corinth to rendezvous for the offensive johnston plan to lead against grant. the military issues confronting these combatants proved not to be the mere possession of the field or even the vital cross-roads but involved the defeat of their respective major armies and the ultimate possession of the mississippi valley. grant's mission, sever the western

pope on the mississippi river. and so on. neither hallek nor curtis anticipated that a limited campaign, a campaign intended to neutralize price, to push price out of missouri, had, had would take that this campaign would take the army of the southwest out of missouri and into arkansas. sometimes happens with military operations or any kind of operation, the whole thing had taken on a life of its own. curtis was exhilarated at the success of what was his first independent command. he was no spring chicken. he was in his late 50s by now. it had been a long time since west point. and now at last he was gaining the military recognition, the glory, if you will, that he had always dreamed of. and the last thing he wanted to do was simply say -- good enough. turn around. and return to missouri. when curtis learned that price and mcculluck were no longer in front of him but, in fact, had retreated south into the distant boston mountains. curtis paused to consider the altered strategic situation. he now faced the two largest rebel ar

especially the civil war west of the mississippi river. his most recent book is field of blood, the prairie grove campaign from the university of north carolina press. it received the fletcher-pratt award of the new york civil war roundtable for the best book published on the civil war in 2010. and the j.g. ragsdale award of the arkansas historical association for the best book published on arkansas history that year. ridge," which we are here tonight to hear excerpts from, "civil war campaign in the west," university of north carolina press, "vicksburg is the key, the struggle for the mississippi river," university of nebraska press, and "the virginia militia in the 17th century," louisiana state university press. let's give a good saline county welcome to dr. william l. shea. [ applause ] >> i understand that i am honorable to everyone in the room and possibly this part of the county. before i begin my canned presentation will somewhat tie me to my notes, i want to point out this masterpiece of cartography. almost arkansas. what the arro

sherman said to secure the navigation of the mississippi, "i would slay millions." on that issue i am not only insane, but mad. what lay at stake was immense. and history records the resolution and valor of the soldiers engaged. three of every four untested raw recruits proved all a divided nation could have asked of them in a war still less than one year old. shiloh proved in the end two battles. each strained suspense of two days of bitter fighting. first day witnessed johnston unleashing a surprise attack to destroy grant's army before it could be reinforced by a second union force under general buell. grant's men held on fighting for time, darkness and buell. although he inflicted massive carnage on his enemy, johnston proved unable to achieve the desired victory. a failure to conquer many conclude still haunts the destiny of the confederacy to this day. for johnston perished, struck down by a stray bullet, he simply bled to death. when battle resumed next day the exhausted southern troops under general p.g. t. beauregard, a man of immense courage and he proves

he denew ted the upper trans-mississippi. only in south louisiana and texas where he could not -- the tentacles of his command did not quite reach that far. only these portions of the trans-mississippi were unaffected by this -- what do you call this anyway? this -- it's almost like a hit and run burglary, except that van dorn was burglarizing his own war effort. okay? no surprise, a few months later, when thomas heimann is named commander of arkansas, he arrives in little rock in may and sends this telegram to president davis. i found here, little rock, almost nothing, nothing. nearly everything of value was taken away by general van dorn. what am i supposed to do? this is the legacy of van dorn. not just the defeat at pea ridge, but the abandonment of the trans-mississippi to the enemy. the federals and other officers could not believe it. for a few months, they thought this was some sort of a ploy. finally, in late spring, it dawned on them that the confederates were gone. not only was there no more threat to st. louis. th

so we will not see personhood of mississippi for at least a couple more years. so let me transition into what we definitely will be seeing. and i'm going to start out in the state of north dakota. on the june primary, june 12th, there will be a religious liberties ballot initiative. it's a very broad, wide-based initiative that will legally make it that you can discriminate based on your religion. it can go as far as birth control refusal or denying a muslim couple to rent an apartment that you are the landlord. this is a primary that people will be voting in, because there is an open senate seat. so that's the first one. and obviously, our organization and everybody in this room does not want discrimination, and especially with the refusal fight that we're still going through, actually. this is something that we will be watching. now, moving on to florida, there is a privacy and public funding ban. this was placed by the florida legislature last year. and what this basically does is public funding is -- it will deny public funding for abortion. we don't know, w

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in the fights on the mississippi "the arkansas" lost 25 men killed and 28 wounded. the scene around the gun deck up on our arrival was ghastly and extreme, wrote a masters mate. blood and brains bespattered everything while arms, legs and headless trunks were strewn about. the exploit was praised at the most brilliantly ever recorded. that seems a little bit over the top but it was acutely embarrassing to farragut and his fleet admitting they were caught with their britches down. farragut reported the incident to wells with what he confessed was deep mortification. farragut was determined to destroy "the arkansas" whatever it took. he led his own fleet down river past vicksburg hoping to blow the crippled "arkansas" out of the water but couldn't spot her in the gathering darkness. this failure only whetted farragut's wrath. he intended, he said, to try to at the stroi her until my squadron is destroyed or she is. there's no rest for the wicked until she is destroyed. farragut persuaded a reluctant captain davis to send one of his clads under the vicksburg guns to ra

there are people in mississippi named turnips it's one of the reasons we made him a lead defendant. anyway it was a dramatic. trial in fact and the key moment of drama happened with john turnip seed on the stand he was one of the seven member mississippi state textbook board five of whom had voted against our book including him there were five whites and two blacks on the board i think you can figure that one out. and he was asked by the assistant attorney general for the state of mississippi why did you vote against this book which is a good question because there was a good book and he had us turn to page whatever it was when eighty nine i think where there was a photo of a lynching now mississippi in fact had more lynchings than any other state it's a matter of history and it's important and it makes a difference in how society operates but he said and i can quote him exactly i committed to memory when it when he said it he said now you know some ninth graders especially black male ninth graders i pretty big and we were at least i worried that teachers especially white lady teach

i think you were the director of mississippi mississippians for healthy family campaign. it was the main campaign to defeat 26. we the feminist majority foundation worked with students across the state through the students voting no on 26 campaign. and megan is currently the i should get this correct i know it's a mouthful i want to make sure i have it correct. ballot initiative and opposition research manager at planned parenthood federation. she has worked all over the country on ballot measures, prior life working to defeat anti-union initiatives. please welcome to the stage, megan darby. [ applause ] >> hello, thanks for having meechlt i'm here to give you an idea of what we think will be on the ballot, what has been defeated so far. but starting off, i did have the opportunity of speaking nine weeks in mississippi last year, which was a little life-changing. little tiring, and a little surreal when i think about it now because we had such a huge victory, we wereere 30 points d three weeks from election day. five days before the election, independent poll came out tha

the issues were the defeat of major armies and the possession of the mississippi. the stake was immense. on june 10, 1862, william tecumsee sherman wrote his wife, i think the mississippi, the great artery of america, and whatever power holds it, hold the continent. and a little later in 1863, he would say, the valley of the mississippi is america. little wonder that sherman pronounced shiloh one of the most important victories that has ever occurred on this continent. he also considered it the turning point that made possible all our western campaigns. new orleans author, george washington cable dramatically captured both the decisiveness of the clash and the emotion of the day, when he famously wrote, the south never smiled again after shiloh. shiloh stand in a class by itself. >> very well said by these fine, distinguished historians. it is a pleasure to be here and indeed, thank you all for coming. i am going to talk a little bit about some new information about the battle that has developed recently. the battle of shiloh has long been known as the pearl harbor

we are working the phones and called down to mississippi this morning. her son claims to have won the mega millions jackpot, but now linda is not sure if he won or not. she called a local tv station in jackson, mississippi about the story. yesterday, he claimed he was not one of the winners of the $656 million jackpot. he says that a friend played a joke on him and created a fake ticket and tricked him into thinking it was real. now, he believed it was real. he bought 23 lottery tickets at the 7-eleven store. his mother contacted news media. >> he wants to put a million dollars in my bank account right now. >> i'm going to go up the road and everything. >> today at 2:00 p.m., the maryland lottery director will discuss the win. the winning tickets were sold in maryland, kansas and illinois. back to you. >>> all right. a westport winner claims that she won the jackpot. she is silent this morning. however, her attorney held a conference for wilson, she is claiming that he has the ticket. however, her attorney has not seen the ticket. >> i cannot say with an

corinth mississippi, where they junctioned. you can see the interplay of railroads and the river which in 1862 was a viable interstate highway. brings about the concentration of major military forces. armies of the united states, under the command of ulysses s. grant and don carlos buell, both moving to form a juncture here on the tennessee river, and the confederate state western forces under albert sidney johnston concentrating now in and around corinth to hold the railroads for the purpose of holding the valley, defending the valley. and that's what brings in all this activity here at this location in the early spring of 1862. what you would have seen here was, in shifts, steamboats coming in, offloading personnel, as well as all of the elements of what it takes to wage war, all of their equipment, food, tents, you name it. so it would have been very noisy as this massive offloading of personnel, animals and equipment begin to come ashore and go up on top on the plateau which is known as shiloh hill -- across the landscape h

we're talking about former mississippi governor haley barbour. on his way out of office, he pardoned those men. he repeatedly refused to answer simple questions about his actions. all those killers got their first big break when they were chosen to work as servants at the governor's mansion for the governor, then they were pardoned. according to a report from the mississippi attorney general's office, two even got car buying help from the governor's wife. governor barbour disputes that. as we said, "360" has uncovered another facet of the story. more evidence that calls the entire process to question and suggests there was a rush to pardon the people before checking the facts. this one concerns the pardon of harry bostick. for his third dui, he was pardoned for his third dui, even though he was suspected of committing a fourth dui at the time. governor barbour's office says they didn't know that fact before they pardoned him on the third dui. tonight we know otherwise and we'll have more on that. another example it seems, the governor or his offi

farragut would have preferred to attack mobile before going up the mississippi. he was a blue water sailor. never very happy confined by river banks with mud or sand bars uncomfortably close under his keel but his orders specified priority for opening the river before attacking mobile. so he informed wells in early may i have sent seven gun boats up the river to keep up the panic as far as possible. the large ships, i fear, will not be able to go higher than baton rouge. in fact, as we'll see in a moment, they did go much higher than that but he at that time thought they could not. while i sent the smaller vessels under commander samuel phillips lead, also a virginian, a distant cousin but also a loyal union commander, the smaller vessels under commander samuel phillips lead as high as vicksburg. these force the surrender of baton rouge. when lee reaches vicksburg and demanded its capitulation the c confederate military governor there sent a cheeky reply. mississippians don't know and refuse to learn how to surrender to any enemy. if commodore farragut or the bri

ticket. >> reporter: well, i just got off of the phone with the mississippi mom. it is a big mistake there. i just spoke to her. today the maryland a lottery director will speak about the win. it happened today at 2:00 p.m. in the meantime, the mega millions controversy has take an new twist. now, this mississippi mom is claiming that her son is the mega millions winner from maryland. now, that rumor started on tuesday. and linda called a local tv station about the story in mississippi, but wednesday her son, michael claimed that he was not one of the winners of the $650 million jobbing jackpot. he said that the friend played a joke and created a fake ticket. now, he believed it, because he bought 23 lottery tickets at the 7-eleven store. his mother started contacting news media before he knew it was a trick. >> he said, mom i hit the lottery. i said, i know, i've been trying to tell you that. i can almost cry, because i'm so happy for him. >> now, this whole thing has been a nightmare. the winning tickets were in maryland, kansas and illinois. back to you. >> tha

expand on what mississippi state and other universities are already doing? >> yes. the idea of this, what's called nnmi, this initiative which is in our budget this year one time out of nist, and the idea of this is to really work hard on the advance manufacturing of the future of this year, next year, years beyond this because we're the leader in the world in manufacturing and advance manufacturing, particularly. we are the leader in manufacturing. but advance manufacturing is where this sector, as you know from mississippi state, is going. and so what we have to be very smart about is the very best advance technologies for application in manufacturing. and the reality is technology is going to be a big part of this. and we have to work with these outstanding universities. so this nnmi initiative is to bring together just what you're describing. the outstanding universities working in this area. the outstanding private sector leaders that are working in this area, working in the labs with nist. national institute of standards and technology. and the plan is to buil

abortion provider left in mississippi.he one last abortion clinic in the state. targeting that clinic with new regulations it probably cannot meet so this bill will use the power of state government to drive that clinic out of business. usually people who support extra bills like this don't admit they are driving to drive abortion providers out of business but the republican governor in this state is perfectly happy that's what he is trying to do. >> i think it's historic. today you see the first step in a movement to do what we campaigned on. to say we're going to try to end abortion in mississippi. we're going to try to continue to work to try to end abortion in mississippi. this is a historic day to end that process. >> if the law has its intended affect, the republican controlled state government will have banned legal abortion in an american state. it will be virtually impossible, if not actually impossible to get a legal abortion in mississippi. governor romney, are you for it or against it? this is the state where t

in other words, the greater mississippi area. the teams you might work with there would absolutely be a place where there would be special strength that you would bring and other places around the country. so the idea is to do this. and we want to move as fast as we can on this. >> mr. secretary, we also are very proud to have in my district a newcore steel plant. and they've gone through a lot of difficult times, you know, when the demand for steel fell below 50%. they still didn't lay off a single worker. it's a great story there. while the market has gotten better and you touched on this with mr. butterfield, you know, a surge of imports and rebar from other countries are kind of stopping this recovery in its tracks. and so, you know, my understanding is there are certain countries as we sort of touched on that do not have a natural economic advantage to produce steel and some even import steel scrap from the united states in order to produce their steel products. it does seem some of these governments in these countries may b

mississippi. very good. mississippi. mississippi which today i think is the poorest state, or you know, maybe arkansas is the poorest and mississippi is the second poorest. well, you know, in this period mississippi is the wealthiest state. it's a state that's full of farms and plantations and slaves. and of course, the crop that most of these slaves are raisinging and the slave owners are profiting from, is what? cotton. right. this is t cotton is being raised all over the region and it is in fact the largest export for the whole united states. it's one of the cheap engines of the whole economy. and that cotton goes principally to one country, that country is -- great britain, right. the textile mill owners in england want american cotton. it has a reputation for being very fine cotton, high quality cotton. so, there's a lot of money at stake here. there is a lot of wealth at stake. and even though the 19th century is called the century of emancipation because that's when so many societies finally turn away from slavery

phil bryant bryant is the proud supporter of a bill that could effectively shut down mississippi's only abortion clinic which is located in the city of jackson making abortion de facto illegal in the state tell the service this bill doesn't sound all that for cody and would require abortion providers to be certified o.b.-g.y.n. ends and have admitting privileges a local hospitals the problem is that the jackson clinic only has one physician with admitting privileges at a local hospital mississippi hospitals have the right to refuse admitting privileges and two of the city's hospitals have fundamentalist christian leanings so basically this would leave the state with one licensed physician able to poor perform abortions on the july first deadline brian decided to take to the airwaves to defend this bill on the american family associations radio show it was here that this really took a weird trip down the rabbit hole the first he managed to portray this legislation as a triumph for women's health even though he has made it no secret that he intends to rid his state of abortions. personhoo

one example is -- comes from kate foster of nachess, mississippi. she witnessed a former slave attempting to take a seat among white members of the congregation. and she blamed this boldness on the influence of union soldiers. and she wrote this. "i should not be surprised if some one of our enemies had sent him to the church as an insult to us." foster, however, could not escape the weakening of control the slaves in her home, and she grew to even resent them. she wrote this. "ned and mae, who are household slaves, basically, are still with us, but they do not work. ned goes to town every day after something connected with the devil, no doubt. ma tilde left last night. we think all will go. who so ever it pleases their majesties." chloe tyler whittle felt a lot of resentment, as well, and directed -- which she directed toward the union government overseeing african-american soldiers in her hometown of norfolk, virginia. and she wrote this. "yankees, in theirin so lens and wickedness have armed the negros. a regiment have come to pollute norfolk wit

our goal needs to be to end all abortions in mississippi. i believe the admitting bill gives us the rights to do that. >> this is your life when your party at the federal level and at the state level and in hearing rooms and in state houses and even on the presidential campaign trail is constantly and tirelessly and relentlessly waging war on women's rights. you don't need the democrats or the media to help give you a reputation for that. dude, you have earned it. you guys are earning it every single day. either own t. don't be afraid to run on your record, or stop doing it. those are your choices. >>> joining us now is karen finney, a columnist for "the hill" and msnbc contributor. it's good to see you. thank you for being here. >> good to see you, too, rachel. >> as somebody who has been a professional in this field, how would you respond to reince priebus' argument about the war on women. he says it's fake, as rid dike cue louse as the republicans waging war on caterpillars. >> they don't believe in science either. we're going into scienc

because they are in the state of mississippi. and be against person or.so i think we were the least loaded on because we did create a culture of doubt that some people were not comfortable voting now, but they definitely were not comfortable putting this into law. and i'm happy to report that they did try a couple maneuvers in the state legislators this year to try to get person to back up and running, and it has been defeated. so we will not see personhood in mississippi for at least a couple more years. [applause] so let me transition into what we definitely will be seeing. and i'm going to start out in the state of north dakota. on the june primary, june 12, there will be a religious liberty ballot initiative. it's a very broad, wide-based initiative that will legally make it that you can't discriminate based on your religion. it can go as far as birth control refusal or denying a muslim couple to run -- grant an apartment that you are the landlord for. there is an open senate seat. so that's the first one. obviously organization and nobody in this roo

i have called down to mississippi and spoke with linda.er son michael claimed to have won the mega millions jackpot, but this morning linda is shot sure. according to the "baltimore sun." linda called a tv station in mississippi about the story. by wednesday michael claims he was not one of the winners of the $656 million jackpot. he said that a friend played a joke on him. created a fake ticket. now, michael believed it, because he actually bought 23 lottery tickets at the 7 luhr. his mother -- 7-eleven where it was sold. his mom contacted the news media. >> can almost cry, because i'm happy for him. >> today at 2:00 p.m., the maryland lottery director will discuss the win. the winning tickets were sold in maryland, kansas and illinois. >>> the orioles will be at camden yard this afternoon. >> yes. indeed, at 3:00 today and tomorrow the birds will be playing the twins. the game time is 3:05. if you are going to the game. you will receive a 2012 schedule and a car magnet. do you want to do this one? >> keep going. >>> okay. 500 lucky fans

we will not see personhood in mississippi for at least a couple more years. [applause] let me transcigs into what we will be seeing. i'll start out in the state of north dakota. on the june primary, june 12th, there's a religious liberties ballot initiative, a broad based initiative that you can legally discriminate based on your religion with birth control refusal or denying a muslim couple to rent an apartment that you're the landlord. it's a primary people vote in because there was an open senate seat. that's the first one. obviously, organization and every in the room does not want discrimination, and especially with the refusal of fight we're still going through actually, this is something we'll be watching. now, moving on to florida. there is is a privacy and public funding ban. this was placed on by the florida legislature last year, and what it does is deny public funding for abortion. we don't know, we're still exploring what this really means, but it could impact public employees' private insurance because it's paid for by public funds. it could tak