, gary gallagher says that lee in the army of northern virginia are a lot like washington and the continental army in terms of its importance. how powerful was that impact on the west? >> what do you mean by the impact of that in the west? >> well, you talked a lot about his leadership, his inspiration, his bravery as motivation for the troops. >> okay. >> and they were almost idolizing of him. >> yeah. >> and i'm wondering what the western troops felt, or did they feel an impact of that? that charisma, i guess. >> i think the instability atop the western armies makes it very, very difficult for those armies to have the same -- even if they had had an equivalent commander, an equivalent battlefield commander to robert e. lee, it made it very, very difficult to have that amount of instan instability at the top of the command structure that lee develops a little over 1,040 days that lee commands the army of northern virginia, there's a real close bond there. you see this happen throughout history comparatively. not just washington's army but napoleon with his own army as well, t

lee writes a general order to the army of northern virginia, the soldiers of the army of northern virginia and basically it recounts everything they had done from the seven days through cedar mountain 2nd manassas and south mountain and sharpsburg. in the end, this is what lee says about that very quick, incredible turnaround that the army of northern virginia is able to start in the eastern theater of the war. it says history records few examples of greater fortitude and endurance than this army has exhibited, and i am commissioned by the president to thank you in the name of the confederate states for the undying fame you have won for their arms. lee is looking at this positive tiffly. but the last sentence, the second to the last sentence of this order is this. and you cannot help but reading it and hear when you read it in lee's voice a sense of disappointment. that his offensive campaign into maryland, his offensive battle at antietam had filed and this is what he said. "much as you have done, much more remains to be accomplished." thank you all very much, i'd be happy to answer any q

he never wore a side arm with the army of northern virginia. he was photographed in richmond during the latter half of the war carrying an impressive custom-made parisian import officers sort gifted to him from hearyland admirer in 1863, seems to have really want a weapon during the course of campaigning. his weapon was his mind and his physical charisma. he was the campaign strategist. it was his duty to devise the battle plan by watching, directing the units to the most awareness andonal observational skills were finally attend and noted by colonel freemantle. general lee was self-aware, realizing his personal presence at the proper moment could inspire his men to impressive battlefield performance. inh the attrition rate the officer corps reaching dangerous levels by the summer of 1864, his personal attendance would be critical. many confederacy senior commanders have been severely injured or killed while leading armies in the field. lee was presented with his opportunity when general joseph johnson was grievously wounded in the shoulder and

lee and the army of northern virginia than get a stalemate, a draw. and robert e. lee and the confederate army of northern virginia are not in the business of fighting for a stalemate. they're looking for one more battlefield victory to achieve confederate independence in september of 1862. go back a few months from september of 1862, a picture that i'm sure all of you have seen, union siege guns at the siege of yorktown on the virginia peninsula on april and early may of 1862. so often when we talk about the siege of yorktown, the focus is on the union army. the disconnect between george mcclellan and abraham lincoln about union strategy perhaps the slowness of george mcclellan, the hesitancy to attack, frontal attack with thousands of his infantry and the great story of prince john mcgruder doing his theatrics to try to bluff the union army. so little do we look at what the confederate reaction is to what george mcclellan has planned. robert e. lee at this point, his military adviser to jefferson davis in rich mpd. lee is in almost daily exact with confederate co

lee is the one who takes command of the army of northern virginia. look what he does three weeks after he takes command. crenshaw, know, doug who is somewhere in the crowd, has just written a book. he strikes. he attacks. look at where he does it. army for the most part, throughout the war the confederacy will be outnumbered. he knows one thing. he has to keep the initiative but also in order for him to win decisive battles he has to take his cues from napoleon. napoleon was often outnumbered as well. at thee of your troops point of the spear then the enemy can put. where does he choose to attack? george mcclellan in the union army are divided. split. by the chickahominy river. robert e. lee masses his troops north of the river where mcclellan has less men and that is where he strikes. troops, more troops at the tip of the spear then what the union army can do. robert e. lee will constantly look to get around that enemy's right flank, turn it and drive it out of position or maybe worse, or even better in the's mind -- try and destroy it. this quote o

they all make the statement how easily they could have destroyed the army of northern virginia. in the case of two of those men, they were not in the battle of antietam. they didn't destroy it, and they didn't drive it from the field. and meade knew those things. but also that story has really resonated, and that's another one of those things that damages meade's rep talgz that he could have reached out. if he had just reached out and attacked, he would have ended the war. so the episode of the post-vicksburg exchange lincoln had with grant, remember the administration had a war effort had been forging -- i've often been struck by this commitment to war, new policies that emerge and the disconnect between that and lincoln's impatient as it related to military events. and i think what we see after gettysburg. and i'm not sure what the main stream was in bringing him into alignment, but lincoln's thinking on military matters often came into alignment on grinding policies the government had put in place at a prior time. so you see after the gettysburg campaign, you see meade with a

. >>> now, here on earth, if you drive route 28 in northern virginia, it's a mess. in fact, a stretch of the busy road in manassas is considered among the most congested in the d.c. area. that could be changing. adam tuss looks at the options. >> reporter: route 28, no matter what section you're driving on, it will usually look like this, whether you're here or here or here. the traffic on 28 is simply relentless. >> it's always this bad at this time in the morning. >> reporter: day after day after day. >> you just have to deal with it. >> there's no other way. >> it is really amazing to watch the traffic pile up along this section of the stretch between the prince william parkway through manassas on up to bull run has been called the single biggest source of congestion for traffic in all of northern virginia. and that's saying something. and now some are trying to identify a way to fix it all. there's talk of widening the road but that would likely take moving businesses and drivers aren't sold. >> you're going to make it worse. the more you widen it, there will be

rain showers developing out across northern virginia. 7:30, 8:00, rain with thunderstorms primarily acrossorthern maryland. this computer model updates each and every hour. last hour, it had that rain chance centered more on the d.c. metro area. the takeaway from that is rain chances will increase with time into your friday. we're in the upper 60s to around 70 degrees now. rainfall, we were about half an inch above average for the month. maybe a little sunshine here in the first part of the day. you will think of today as a mostly cloudy affair. rain chances increasing later on today. rain chances will continue on into your saturday. most of tomorrow's rain is going to be before until probably sometime next week. we'll talk about your sunday forecast which looks better but not 100% guarantee of being dry, chris. >> thank you, chuck. >>> we are getting you and your family ready for school. homework isn't done with just a pen and paper anymore. your kids can't get through the school year without technology. susan hogan has found great deals for kids of all ages. >> honestly, every single yea

lee's army of northern virginia was defeated. johnson's army of tennessee was defeated and surrendered. so they could. i think really what we meant up here was that, because of the ability -- what's the difference between waterloo and gettysburg? waterloo, the difference between waterloo and gettysburg is there is no railroads and so sort of supply system like you have during the 19th century in the mid 19th century in america to sustain an army in the field. so after the battle of waterloo, which is a different sort of battle too. sometimes people make that comparison and it's a silly comparison. but it's much more difficult for the french to be able to reconstitute their army after that defeat and the panic spreads. they can't reconstitute it well. civil war armies were better supplied and, in some respects, more resilient because of the sort of weaponry that they had, the logistical system that they had to support them and enable them to recover from really damaging battles. you think about the battle of gettysburg where lee's

he stayed fixed in northern virginia. the lees didn't travel except for his father and that was of course to escape debt. lee was never worldly. he had no interest to speak of in the affairs of the rest of the world or really even went what on beyond the confines of virginia, because that had been his world. when the war was over, i'm sure most of you know, of course, grant becomes president. when he leaves the white house, he will take off on a two-year-long tour of the world in which he nearly bankrupted himself. and he loved every moment of it. so that we have photos of him in egypt, in china, in japan. he'll be the first jimmy carter of a sort because as an ex-president he will broker a peace between japan and china over a local dispute. believe it or not there is still today just outside, in kyoto a monument to u.s. grant that was put up in the 1890s for the peace he made. it's still there today. he loved the world. lee never got over that sort of fixation on localism. they both have their prejudices, but they kind o

and the army of northern virginia never starved in petersburg, but they went hungry.here's a difference between being hungry and starving. and the officers most of them eat a decent diet to the end. but this hunger and despair and the letters from home and the letters from home are incredibly important psychologically in gutting the army of northern virginia. people are getting letters about losing the farm and by the way, friends writing about unfaithful wives and things like that. at that point, on a typical night, there might be 200 deserters coming across the union lines. what's really strange. obviously, it wasn't for the mcdonalds, but any rate, information becomes increasingly powerful. the union has balloons on a peninsula and other places where they are trying to spy. i think the key just to seek slightly from that, the key problem in civil war informatio problem. once you launch the attack, once the forces are engaged in close combat within a few hundred yards of each other, you lose control. for all the drums, bugles and flags, you can't see the flags in th

northbound 95 checking from northern virginia.good and dale city to the beltway flee free and clear occoquan to 495. that's a look at traffic. maureen back to you. >> coming up on "fox news morning" some of the largest companies notice world aintergity a stance against texas bathroom bill. >> and capital police want to know why first responders were september to wrong location in minutes after the congressional baseball practice shooting. >> a live look across the region. 4:57 and 7 degrees. back after this. z2fwdz z16fz y2fwdy y16fy >> today on "fox news morning" the search for missing woman and son and cousin comes to traj he can end. >> white house communications anthony scaramucci fired within hours of john kelly becoming chief of staff. >> live look outside. near perfect sunny day. temps in the low 90s today. great start to a new month. >> august already. where does the time go. glad you are spending your time with us this morning. good morning to you thank you for joining us i'm maureen umeh. >> i'm holly morris. >> i

and the army of northern virginia never stabd at petersburg, but they went hungry.here's a difference between being hungry and starving. and the officers, most of them eat a decent diet if not a lavish one to the end. but anyway, this hunger and despair and the letters from home -- and the letters from home are incredibly important psychologically in gutting the army of northern virginia and other confederate aerms. because people are getting letters from home about children dying, hunger, losing the farm and about friends writing to they will them about unfaithful wives and things like that. at that point on a typical night there might be 200 deserters come across into the union lines. what's really strange at that point there's still union deserters coming into confederate lines. but at any rate, information becomes increasingly powerful. the union of course has balloons on the peninsula and other places where they're trying to spy. i think the key, just to seek slightly from that, the key problem in civil bar battles is actually an information problem. once you l

now, if you live in northern virginia, you're done, i think for most of the afternoon, could be a couple of showers later this evening. right now the activity is just around the beltway and over towards parts of 50. seeing heavy rain, right over towards annapolis, heads up there, upper marlboro just got it. now, this boundary here, this line, it could actually see some showers fill in. we're bethesda area. watch out in those locations. i think we'll see more showers pop up in this region here between the bethesda area, dc. this is the area that i'm watching. this is where we're have the heaviest rain. right along 50. again, wet go of things. we've got a little bit in the way of lightning. you've got it there. and here is the area that i menti mentioned sunshine downtown, you can see the clouds and you can see the dark skies here with that rain to the north and east. 83 degrees after high temperature, winds out of the south at 17 miles an hour. they're giving us humidity out there, as well. 90 in leesburg. look at this, some weather. 83 dc after some shower activity, we'll continue to wat

we begin with a horrifying scene tonight in northern virginia. a mother and her two children allegedly held prisoner in their own home for years. >> the father of those two children now behind bars. we just learned of the arrest late today, but spotsylvania county deputies arrested kareem moore on saturday. jackie benson just talked to one of his neighbors. wait until you hear what he had to say. >> reporter: this house is just off a busy road but it's not near any other homes. take a look. every single window and door is covered over with some type of blanket or other covering to keep people see inside, to keep them from being able to see what was going on here. >> i have never seen that lady or those kids since they moved into that house, and that was before last summer because the grass was really tall. >> reporter: a nearby resident who asked not to be identified said kariem mohammad moore seemed intent on keeping people away from the house in the 6700 block of mines road in frederic fredericksen. >> i saw her walk but i've never seen her sin

a horrifying scene in northern virginia. a mother and two children allegedly held prisoner in their own home for years. the father of those two kids is behind bars this morning. spotsylvania county deputies arrested moore on saturday. news 4's jackie benson spoke with neighbors and asked if they ever saw anything suspicious. >> reporter: these houses off a busy road but not near any other home. take a look. every single window and door is covered over with some type of blanket or other covering to keep people from being able to see inside. to keep them from being able to see whaas >> i have never seen that lady or those kids in that house. and that was before last summer because the grass was really tall. >> a nearby resident who asked not to be identified said the man seemed inat the present time on keeping people away from the home. >> when he said she was handicapped, i told my husband, i saw a lady walking but i've never seen her lifted. i thought he was living there by himself. >> the sheriff's office says deputies were

the grocery chain, aldi, is holding job fairs this morning at three northern virginia locations. one of those job fairs will be held from seven a.m. until 10 a.m. at the aldi on richmond highway in alexandria. the other job fairs will be held from six a.m a.m.. at the aldis on gordon boulevard in woodbridge.. and liberia avenue in manassas. the company is looking for store associates, shift

we have got a mess in multiple spots around northern virginia. sam sweeney is live in checking things out for us, just a nightmare on the roads this morning. sam: are coming in from northern virginia specifically, the is backed up, it because of an accident that happened this morning that is already being cleared. thing alive look at the forward camera, this is just some of the traffic as it extends for miles down 95 to the center parkway. a 34 minute ride this morning, it doesn't look like it's went to clear any time soon and you get closer to the district. a long commute, let's go to some aerials. you can see the video here that we took of the two accidents that happened overnight. two tractor-trailers collided in that accident. serious stuff. we here that everybody is expected to be ok. onie wright is working track seven. larry: you can you traffic alerts anytime by signing up for our text alerts. autria: neighbors, forming a human chain in waste floodwater to save a woman who had gone into labor, pulling a woman who -- who is pregnant. she is

it's happening at northern virginia residents are fuming. >>> personal story who struggle with mental illness is resinating with law enforcement across the country. >> this is a battlefield and when you're dealing with ptsd, it's a battle. >> only on 4, his fight to stop police suicides. >>> a deputy's car now a hazmat zone after evidence he collected in an opioid overdose case made him sick, coming up, the quick action that saved his life. whatwhat made them believeace carthat a two-ton behemothhop? could compete in a track race? or that they could take on the elite in world motor racing, and win? we may never truly understand what drives mercedes-amg. but here's to another 50 years of it. mercedes-amg. half a century of driving performance. >>> neighbors in virginia are fuming, it may seem like a trivial issue for a few people. those who live there say it will cause some big problems and others, too. megan fitzgerald is on 24th street in north arlington explain the issue for the neigh

northern virginia bure more how they escaped and how they got out of the house. david. >> reporter: pat, how? that's the real question in all of this. it's an unsettling mood. you look at the house and you see it's a small ranch-style home, 1,200 square feet, sits on four acres, it's a good size property. a lot of it as you can see is pretty secluded. when police arrived here, deputies from the sheriff's office and as they came to the home, they were talking out front with moore. as they were speaking with him, they said at some point he became evasive with them. they noticed out of the side of the home, that's when his girlfriend and two kids rushed out. you heard it there. more than two years inside that house according to deputies. they weren't allowed to leave. they are shocked. a lot of them say they passed this house every day. >> i think most insane things i've heard in a long time, especially around here, two years. >> we don't normally have any problems around here. i've been here for like 19 years. >> we know that his girlfriend is in the hospital. we k

northern virginia borough -- >>reporter: late this afternoon, here on the alexandria campus of nova, cane says there's exponential things going on, but nothing more important than this, protecting the future of 800,000 young people. he's talking about dreamers who are protected under daca. that's the policy president obama put into place that gives legal status to those undocumented immigrants who were brought here as children. >> my name is ranalda and i came >> she immigrated with her family from ecuador. >> this is my home. i have lived here all my life. >> she says daca gives her legal status and in-state tuition. >> i'm a student at george -- i major in criminalology. >> her and 400 student was terrified that trump might get rid of daca. >> i'm afraid of him taking away doca and sending us back to our country. >> it's very scary right now because 100,000 students can be under deportation. >> mondoza was a doca recipient who attended -- where she earned a degree. >> i still have my sister. she is in high school. she wants to go to college. in virginia, we depend on doca to get in

if anything, however, jackson had just committed the army of northern virginia to battle before they'd become unified while at the same time, by committing the army of northern virginia to battle with his men, he's going to limit general lee's opportunity to maneuver in this theater. returning back to historian joseph harsh, he would lament this in his work on the maryland campaign and said, quote, victory would come, if at all, through bloody combat and tactical blunders by the end of me. there should be no heavy victory from easy fighting. by 10:00 p.m. on august 28, general pope received news of the fight that had taken place at brauner farm. the news he had heard is jackson had been discovered in grovely springs and engaged. the prospects of crushing jackson was certainly excellent. he drafted orders for august 29 based on intelligence and his orders drafted based on the belief that kings and rickets division that had been involved in the farm would block jackson's escape route and prevent any junction between lee and jackson. on segal's corps of the federal army was on henry house

the attack happened in northern virginia ig northern virginia neighborhood. "fox5" tisha lewis joins us live with the story, depart we're just steps away from where a 22-year-old woman was ambushed, abducted and nearly sexually assaulted as you mentioned tony it happened monday. i'm facing shopping plaza. to my right is apartment complex here along this busy roadway and to my left there is a pool. police are hoping that somebody saw something and can say something about this man. three days after the fact police have released this composite sketch of the man they believe is responsible for this attack and they're hoping the public well recognize him and hope de detective catch him and they release the stephen today latino late 20s, early 30s. brown hair hair and full be beard. we spoke with a resident that says more police patrols >> mostly feel safe i take precautions and try to use good judgment. unfortunately there's places and areas that probably aren't as safe as where i personally live. >> wow like to see more police in the area. >> probably, yes, i wou

this coming from northern virginia. e search for a person in these are live pictures from skyfox right now with fairfax county and virginia state police searching an area near i-66 and 28 in centreville. you can see some of those vehicles there on the bottom of the screen. it is pleased the person they are looking for was on a motorcycle earlier then ditched the bike and may be in the woods nearby. unclear exactly why they're going after that person but we'll stay on top of it and traffic is certainly backed up there. we'll share new information as we get it. >> busy morning, busy morning. >> yeah, right. >> and it's been busy afternoons the last couple afternoons. >> yeah. >> those thunderstorms are like clockwork. >> they sure are and it's kind of hit and miss. some of us aren't seeing them and then others are getting a deluge every day. the air mass will change for the weekend. whoa. >> powerful. >> that's ominous. >> yeah. we don't need that kind of alert this morning. we're calling it the weather forecast deja vu. >

jonathan: last night we told you about a northern virginia priest admitting to being in the ku klux klan years ago. alison: tonight a family is telling abc 7 he burned a cross in their front yard in t alison: new developments after a northern virginia priest admit head used to be in the k.k.k. 40 years ago, before he was a priest, william achison helped burn a cross at the home of a couple in college park. tonight they're speaking out about that ordeal that happened back in 1977. >> you see that on television or something like that but to have one, you know, in your yard, that much hatred in your heart. alison: he would later be charged with cross burnings and making bomb threats and making pipe bombs he served 90 days in jail. the family received $90,000 in damage bus he never paid them. >> you did know what you did. alison: they still want th earlier this week he admitted to his past and said he's stepping away from the church to reflect. jonathan: the pentagon will soon receive instructions on banning transgender americans from the military. when it comes to those currently in uniform

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prince george, northern virginia and on down towards maryland. here's a look at that monday commute. temperatures tomorrow in the 70s. we're probably not going to break that because of all the cloud coverage and rain we're expecting. those storms could be dumping some heavy rain at time and could be severe. i'll have more details in just a moment. >>> right now we have a condition of a teenager shot on a red line metro train. news 4 darcy spencer is live for us with what we're learning tonight. darcy. >> reporter: jim, we just got an update fro they are telling us the teenager remains in the hospital, but fortunately his condition as stabilized. that is good news. police also telling us they are following some very strong leads in this investigation. red line train service back to normal at the takoma station after a broad daylight shooting left a teenager seriously injured. >> very scary. >> reporter: police are still looking for these three persons of interest. police say the teen was shot in the stomach as the train pulled into the station abo

northern virginia bureau reporter david it so. >> working hard because it is after 5:00. he's checking out eclipse viewing spots. he's live in arlington, three stories off the ground. hey, david. >> reporter: i promise you, this is a legitimate assignment, okay. i'm going to explain in a moment why we're here in the roof top bar. but first we're made quite going around northern virginia, finding places for you to be wowed. >> this is what we're want for you. the chance to marvel, albeit safely at the sun. notice they've got on the special glasses, these little paper made glasses are really hot commodity for you all. >> it's what everybody wants. >> judy peterson, they ordered some 6,000 of the eye ware. she's been getting e-mails, phone calls. >> and people are checking me in the hallway saying, i know you must have a couple >> but if you're among the few thousand who signed up for the popular county viewing programs, you'll get a pair. those programs, by the way, sold out. >> we're had dozens of programs and then we're added more programs and then we're added capacity to

. >>> we're back now with a priest's confession that has stunned an entire community in northern virginia. revelations that the man leading the congregation used to be a member of the kkk. he's apologized to the community, but a family he's accused of terrorizing years ago says he hasn't apologized to them. now they want to know who helped him. nbc's tom costello has details. >> reporter: at saint leo the great catholic church in fairfax, virginia, the revelations have been jaw dropping. in a catholic newspaper, father william achedson confessed he had been a member of the kkk in the 1970s, writing, my actions were despicable. the images from charlottesville brought back memories of a bleak period of my life that i would have preferred to forget. in maryland, the butler family has been unable to erase the night of terror when he left a burning cross on their front yard. >> i will never ever forget that. we didn't deserve this. no one deserves this. >> reporter: he was convicted of multiple cross burnings, making homemade bombs and sending these letters to martin luther king's widow. threa

the northern virginia deputy who accidently overdosed. >>> first the cleanup continues for the third time in as many days after several severe storms. >>> good morning everybody. i'm erika gonzalez. you may be one of those people picking up tree limbs or dealing with flooding this morning. things are a lot calmer. yes, they are. let's get to lauryn ricketts with a look at what we can expect today. i think we slept through a lot of it. right, lauryn? >> you're right, erika. portion of it -- it's muggy and some fog out there. 76 is our temperature right now. we're going to continue to warm up. we're in the upper 8 0e 0s by noon. you can see a few scattered showers and thunderstorms over the last 12 hours. this was the afternoon into last night. we're clear out there now. the full forecast, only isolated storm this afternoon. we have some storms in the forecast, however, they might not be until later tonight. we're going to time that out and let you know if they're gone for the weekend. >> thank you, ma'am. see you then. we're following a developing story out of baltimore county where t

tomorrow afternoon, a little more coverage in parts of northern virginia. most of us do remain on the dry side. next the front door, looking pretty good. but the temperatures going back up there. 91 on your wednesday. 92 thursday and friday. this weekend, though, if you've got plans this weekend, or better yet, if you don't have plans this weekend, make some plans this weekend. that's right, get the kids out, make the barbecue forecast looking really good. next chance of rain monday. >> thank you. >> and in miami, i would be more worried about what's in that water. >>> still ahead, a good night turns into a bad one for max scherzer in miami. >> but first, here's jimmy fallon. [ inaudible ] [ applause ] >>> this is the x finty sports desk. >> the biggest news of the day is coming from miami. is that right? >> what's the word? >> yeah, it is. it was a historic home run, then some hurt for max scherzer and the nationals tonight. now, the nats' ace left the game after just one inning on the mound, leaving fans and the team a little uneasy. but scherzer did prov