they fought a battle against the army of northern virginia and their advancing. it was a hard battle casualties were high. i was i'm very unpleasant experience, but we won this battle. we're advancing now. how do you decide who wins the battle soldiers by the way, they're cheering here. i don't know if you can see they're waving their hats and cheering there was quite a cheer a grant was eager to get them to be quiet because we don't want lee to know where we're moving any place. how do you know who won a battle is it is the side that one the side that suffers fewer casualties you know, we haven't gotten to world war two yet, but if the side that takes the fewest casualties is the winner. then irwin rommel won d-day. right and the united states lost and currently bradley was thrown back into the sea and we'd all be speaking german today. well known not exactly but no that it's not how you figure out who wanted that it's who gets more of what he wants of the situation that he wants afterwards and the person who gets what he wants after the battle is grant. he's co

how close this was to the absolute other doom and end of the army of northern virginia can be seen by the reaction of robert e. lee, if anyone knows that the army of north virginia is in big trouble, lee would be the man, and he was. he knew what it was, and what does is he react in other desperation. the only reinforcement he can find, it happens to be the texas brigade. lee actually places himself at the front of this brigade and starts to lead them in an infantry attack. lee is going to lead, on horseback, the infantry. haven't we seen a high-ranking confederate general do that before? yes, we have! that was the end of albert sidney johnston. now lee is going to do that. i think what that tells me is that lee recognized that this is it. he is practically doomed at this point. so this is an act of utter desperation. what happens is the texans, the soldiers of the texas brigade, forced lee to turn back. they are shouting lee, to the rear lee to the rear. it's the first of a lee to the rear instance that occurred during this campaign. they actually grabbed the reins of lee's horse and

the army of northern virginia is reduced to maybe 30, 000, 35,000 infantry. consequently, lee is a potent defensive force. he is not an offensive force. he is a counter puncher he is not going to be able to exercise any offensive movements on his own. he cannot change the calculus of the war in virginia like he had done earlier in the campaign. if the morale of the confederate soldier seems very high, i have not seen any evidence for deteriorating morale any kind of a significant percentage in the common soldier of the army of northern virginia. they still believed in lay. as far as they are concerned, they had kick some yankee but between the james river. they were doing pretty well. richmond was still in their hands. you read all types of quotes, keep them coming. we are going to kill them all. i will be home by the fall. their morale was still very high at this point. to your point about the elon of the army of the potomac. a lot of those veteran regiments were replaced by agreeing units from the defenses of washington who had spent their military experien

would need an grant succeeded overwhelming beauregard's exhausted men before the army of northern virginia arrive? kershaw's division began its march to petersburg at 3:00 in the morning in a few hours later hill's men started tramping across the pontoon bridges at schaefer's bluff oilfields brigade left their trenches and followed and kershaw's footsteps. union forces were also on a move that morning reacting to these nighttime orders to convince support needed to advance. for course the 18th of seven benefit from north to south lurched forward prepared to engage in some places they met little resistance but most of the would-be attackers uncovered the abandon lines of the subsix line. lee told his corps commander to prepare a new attack on the harris line. the 18th and second core press forward but soon discovered that the rebel works on their front were well purported -- well-prepared and adequately manned in there'll efforts came to not. further south "the fifth quarter" never dance at all and they were stymied by a of line protection and profess that they had never received a mandator

virginia into the confederacy. one was he? hello robert e lee was born onto northerneck of virginia in 1807, he had grown up in alexandria, which was then part of the district of columbia. alexandria and northern virginia would only be retro seated in virginia in the 1830s long after left. most of his life thereafter they lived in other places. in georgia, st. louis, baltimore and new york city as an engineer. his father had been politically a federalist. though married into one of the foremost families of virginia, the cost of arlington, arlington overlooked facing the national capitol, not virginia. his in-laws allies the nation first of state loyalty "afterwards". we could not more in 18612 factors. first, harry lee for all of his revolutionary fame had been our clock husband and father and left family when robert was only six years old. the shadow harry cast over the lee name was one of robert struggles to redeem the broad street of perfectionism in his behavior. robert also yearned to briefly of his father's reputation and otherwise. he wanted independence and wa

virginia into the confederacy. but was he? although robert e. lee was born on the northern neck of virginia in 1807, he had grown up in alexandria, which was then part of the district of columbia. alexandria and northern virginia would only be retroceded to the commonwealth of virginia in the 1830s, long after lee had left. most of his life thereafter had been lived in other places. in georgia, st. louis, baltimore, and new york city as an engineer. his father, light-horse harry, had been, politically, a federalist. and had suffered for it politically. and though lee married into one of the foremost families of virginia, the custuses of arlington, arlington overlooked the potomac, facing the national capital, not virginia. and his custus in-laws were whigs who valorized the nation first and stake loyalties afterwards. what lee could not ignore, in 1861, were two factors. first, light-horse harry lee for all his revolutionary fame, had been a hard luck husband and father. and left his family for the west indies when robert was only six years old. the shadow that light-horse

but still, lee would order robert hoke's division, which had been loaned to the army of northern virginia by beauregard's army prior to cole harbor, to move to the pontoon bridge of the confederates at chapman's blacks. just in case those federals appeared on the south side of the river. by june 14th, as grant arranged his petersburg offensive, beauregard speculated about the location and intentions of their enemy. lee responded to an inquiry from president davis early that afternoon by speculating, quote, i think the enemy must be preparing to move south of the james. of course, lead news that some federals had moved self, and another large body had boarded boats at the landing. this could mean that grant was changing his base to harrison's landing, just like mcclellan did two years earlier. he could be re-supplied for another movement against richmond south of the river, north of the river, rather. all of those federals boarding boats might be some of these regiments that had their terms of enlistment expire and were heading home thousands were doing that. we have to be extremely watchf

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race and i thought that was interesting, sarah, how you finally saw a bipartisan coalition in northern virginia a lot of people who worked for the government. you might say swamp dwellers who were saying this is going too far. i'm wondering what you're seeing around the country. >> yeah, i think youngkin tapped into a rare issue that crossed party lines and it's difficult to find today. but the opposition to the woke school policies is rooted in common sense and it's a powerful issue because of that. desantis was really smart to get involved in all of these school board races because if anything this movement taught us that republicans neglected these important school board races for years and allowed them to be taken over by democratic bureaucrats and it was a wake up call for the gop and a lesson they should invest more in the really powerful local school boards, more resources to get common sense candidates in there. james: we have to leave it there. meghan markle dethroned joe rogan. in what? we'll tell you next. >> in you're an ambitious woman you have an ajean data committee -- ambitious

she traces the stories of these individual soldiers of the army of northern virginia, who are havingke decisions about where to go, how to get home, do i try to keep fighting, do i surrender, you will get a parole? do i go somewhere other than home? and, the beauty of the book is, we all know the end of the story, but when you read her book, you forget, for that little bit of time, that you are reading it, you forget that you know the end of the story, and you want to know what happens to these guys, and she doesn't only trace the stories of these men who serve in the army of northern virginia, she traces the stories of the people they encounter, white civilians, african americans, african americans who were on the confederate home front, others who have been body servant for white confederate soldiers. and so, you see all of these different stories unfolding together, and it paints a really complex and different picture than what happened at the close of the civil war, then i think we've had prior to this book. there were a lot of wonderful books, and it's, being on a jury is a real

and she doesn't only trace the stories of these men who serve in the army of northern virginia, she traces the stories of the people they encounter, white civilians, african americans, african americans who are on the confederate home front, others white confederate soldiers. so, you see all these different stories unfolding together and it paints a really complex and different picture of what's happened at the close of the civil war than i think we'd had prior to this book. there were a lot of wonderful books. and being on a jury is a really hard job, i've done it a couple times. you read wonderful books and you wish you could give a prize to many of them. in this case, carries book really stood out as saying something new, in a new way. telling us something different about the civil war than we had known before. >> right. i agree, wholeheartedly. and i do recommend ends of war, the unfinished fight of lee's army after appomattox. please buy it with your copy of a house built by slaves. >> i agree with that as well, thank you for that. >> yes, yeah. we're here to pylon, not to give people

and in northern virginia, water streaming down the tracks. conditions on the roads not much better. north of the u.s. capitol, emergency crews using an inflatable boat to rescue someone trapped in a vehicle. in nearby maryland, the town of riverdale earning its name. >> today is the worst i've ever seen it. we've never had it where we can't get out of neighborhood at all. >> reporter: storms flooding parts of tennessee. nearly four inches of rain submerging cars in chattanooga. >> we came, had to get our dogs out of the house and then move the cars over. unfortunately, one of them was parked there while it was waist-deep. so it's a little soggy now. >> this man kayaking what is usually 16th street. across the count ry, streets turned into rivers in albuquerque, new mexico. and after weeks of dry weather people in north texas finally seeing some rain just days after this massive land spout ripped across a town in the texas panhandle, winds topping 50 miles per hour. more than 100 flight also to be canceled. reagan was hit the hardest. >>> the otbig story this. it was reportedly an in

so the army in northern virginia was an army of slave catchers? we know a few hundred, if not more african americans from central pa were sent back to the slave markets in virginia. why is it that we look at -- the evening of july 2nd the man who shot at each other, they came to that spring not as enemies, but as american brothers. why is it that that fact prevails over the spangler meadow? on july 3rd, in indiana after it made an absolutely suicidal frontal attack, having to leave the wounded in the middle of that field, the men crying out through the afternoon for relief and health, and when finally their comrades went out there to try to carry them off the field, what did the confederates do? understandably so, they gunned down, shot down those men who were just trying to provide medical relief. and finally, why is that when we are at pickets charge, that we want to talk about our e lee, stressing that he was out front, which i'm going to add, he was not. saying, this was all my fault. we talk about that right in front of the virginia monument.

host: you're in falls church, virginia, northern virginia. is your area, your congressional district, a competitive district in 2022? you are an independent, so who would you choose? caller: it might be. i don't know. i will have to look at it. the mines keep changing, so i will have to see who it is now. host: all right. to connecticut, we will hear wendy on the democrats line. good morning. caller: good morning. thank you for taking my call. i am a democrat, and i feel that the democrats or the democrat party tries harder and cares more about the people, and i don't think the republicans do as much, and they block everything that the democrats try to do to make life better for american citizens. i believe in the separation of church and state, and i don't like how mitch mcconnell manipulates the supreme court so that it is taken over by the right-wing. host: so have the decisions of the supreme court become more of a political issue in terms of your estimation of how you may vote? caller: definitely in my estimation because i feel that our

go so, liz cheney is from northern virginia, and somehow found out that the only other member of congressresting is -- she decided to spend her time in congress representing something called democracy. >> everyone of us who has sworn the oath must act to prevent the unraveling of our democracy. >> on -- understanding the perils of our democracy. >> democracy is fragile. democracy is fragile. democracy only survives if citizens are willing to defend it. >> it turns out that democracy is like the boyfriend you have in another city: utah come up a lot and don't want him to show up if you can even meet him, but i think democracy showed up in wyoming. that was the sink's -- that was the biggest single defeat of an incumbent -- what's funny is that over at cnn, they are still defending democracy, but they have no idea what it is. turns out, democracy means "you shut up and submit tool of the people have not been elected, and in the case of liz cheney -- and for her, it's that people she represents -- don't like her. >> on wyoming, and what happens there, could add to a trend. that is election d

so, east in the border with tunisia and northern virginia is no stranger to wild fires . what's different this here? this year is the fact that it's in the area. it's very remote area because the area of the company last year, it was area where there is a lot of roads to get access. but the problem with these areas there is no road, no axis. it's a, it's a lot of trees in land. and of course, it's the area where forests and mountains and no axis, and the people get dropped in, especially in this so called the national reserve abrupt here, which is the animal reserve and also assume where a lot of visitors been get dropped. and we've seen recently the big drama, the small mother, we lost her 4 kids with her, get her and get dropped in the area code, which is for the south of august area. their gust a teach my guess, which is no cigarettes. it's not far from, from the move of at thomas ana, which is the national park. and it's, you know, situations where it's difficult. now, dramatic situation there. thank you so much sites she took in algeria for describing it to us. china

a disturbing development in northern virginia, we are learning that fairfax county schools, employing a middle school counselor previously convicted of a sex crime with a minor in this comes from in schools coast-to-coast including one teacher in utah that is on video talking about her classroom and nonwhite students. >> for the first time i'm going to be teaching at a majority white school and i am interested to see how how students and parents notice anything about my classroom, because it is built for nonwhite students and what i mean is that you interact with some of the materials that i have, no white kids are presented. >> clearly she wants her 15 minutes of fame, saying his daughter attempted suicide not once but twice after the school encouraged others to call her a boy and gave her a new name, not notifying the parents, the father is now suing the clay county school district who will join us along with his attorney tomorrow night and amid all of these efforts to indoctrinate your kids in school, turning them into woke activism centers, losing confidence in the schools, god fo

. >> tucker: liz cheney lives in northern virginia, always has.me reason she represents wyoming in the house of representatives. thankfully, it looks like she's going to lose re-election tonight in the primary, but she's going to be a lot richer. liz cheney got extremely rich, not representing wyoming. how did she do that? do they pay that well in congress? we've got the numbers next. >> tucker: it's primary night in the state of wyoming. you know what that means. it means that very soon liz cheney will have an endowed charity, writing a national for "national review," and releasing a book from simon & schuster called "democracy." that's just our guess. she'll lose tonight, because god exists. we want to ask the question, how did liz cheney get so rich? she's been a member of congress for six years. in 2017, her net worth was $7 million, a lot for someone with no skills, but that's what she has. now she's worth more than $44 million when we looked at her financial disclosure forms. probably an honest answer for this, but how did liz cheney make mo

uh, i now live in shannondon well in northern virginia a and there is a little stream running through, or maybe a big stream, which is called indentrik, a and indian stream. and literally at this place took place during the civil war in 862, and the battle between the forces of the north and the south, then defeated the yuan, but of course, the war ended. anyway, at the end of 865 the victory of the north. are you good you know, as a specialist in american history, what exactly is the civil war. uh, this time was the bloodiest war in the history of the united states, 600,000 people died in world war ii, by comparison, the americans lost on both fronts, that is, against germany and japan, more than 400,000. here is such a civil war. not in america right now. and i think that no normal person wants it, but i must tell you that the atmosphere is very tense, that passions are burning, that mutual suspicions are very strong. and i'm very afraid, like when we talk about international politics. i really don't care, looking at american domestic politics, that some kind of accident uh, the inc

will also keep working while she is under the weather as she prepares for the fall semester at northern virginiaollege. we here at "primetime" we wish her the best in her recovery. now, in between vacations, joe biden found a little time to actually too his job today. signing the democrats massive $740 billion spending bill into law. ironically the white house is calling the bill the inflation reduction act even though it does nothing to lower the cost for american families. now, don't take it from me. the wharton school of business at the university of penn said, quote: the impact on inflation is statistically indistinguishable from zero. so, that doesn't sound too helpful but, don't tell joe that. he has sold this legislation as a victory over special interest. but it's nothing more than a trojan horse for a massive democrat spending spree. even biden admitted he has been trying to push this agenda since day one. >> i'm going to take action that i have been looking forward to doing for 18 months. [laughter] [applause] i'm going to sign the inflation reduction act. >> sean: not sure what he was

. >> reporter: volunteers for the non-profit northern virginia family service packing up backpacks foroll on family budgets. >> you have food that costs more and gas prices on the rise and you still have to pay rent and perhaps purchase medications so on and so forth. >> reporter: according to the burro of labor statistics, the price of apparel is up 5.1% over the last 12 months and education books and supplies up 3.1%, stationary up 11% like notebooks and paper. still, after two school years interrupted by the covid-19 pandemic, one expert says most parents and caregivers are willing to spend. >> consumers really view this season as an essential category regardless of what is going on with the economy. >> reporter: the national retail federation said more than a third of consumers surveyed for the annual back to school report were willing to cut other spending to cover the cost of items for the school year. shoppers have tried to ease costs by starting earlier to spread spending out and avoid supply shortages. inside this high school gymnasium in prince george's county maryland, the s

they are so successful that parts of virginia and northern virginia and the shenandoah value as known as mosby's confederacy. your take away right here, your final thoughts for the guerrilla war. the guerrilla war is a series of ambushes and raids and irregular styles of combat. it is savage and chaotic and frenzied and disorganized. being a gorilla had its benefits. it offered you more freedom, closer to your homes and families, you could defend your communities. as you saw with laura's camp, kansas, it's going to pave its way for hard war. in hard war, everything can become a target, homes, farms, silos, these are the things that are aiding and abetting your enemy. fighting in the civil war is going to resolve more than the conventional battles we study. it's more than in the fields in the woods. and involves guerrilla fighting, naval operations, and referring operations. thank you all, i know i'm at time. i will answer your questions next time. thank you, all. tonight's speaker. i'm very excited to introduce her to you. she stuck to fay yarbrough tonight speaker, i'm very excited t

tom: she was born to northern virginia parents who played young yasmin the sounds of r & b, hip hop,the '70s brand of washington d.c. funk called go-go, none of which drove her toward early admiration for the acoustic guitar. yasmin: i thought it was the lamest instrument. i thought i was super corny. i thought singer/songwriters played it, and they played four chords and sang about their dog or whatever and that was it. [laughter] i did not think he could do anything substantial. tom: but beyond that, she had no models for the kind of solo acoustic guitar music she's now known for, a genre so often represented by white, male players. yasmin: i definitely still wish that i had someone to look up to who was doing what i'm doing now, just to kind of be a guiding light. someone i can point to and be like, you know, that's really cool. i can do that. tom: as for guitar music, her first love love was heavy metal, first encountered in, ll, the video game guitar hero. yasmin: guitar hero is an experience. you have a guitar shaped controller and it has five buttons that are different colors

lee's army of northern virginia pushed the union troops. back from just outside richmond to the washington dc camps like many of his harvard counterparts barlow assessed the unions and they all wrote to each other by the way. he assessed the unions war effort at the end of the summer of 1862 and found it to be pathetic indeed many of his wartime letters show him to be deeply pessimistic about the war two examples that i just want to give you if we are beaten. he predicted to one friend the north will give up another letter warned that the affairs of this country are melancholy. i think there is no prospect or hopes of success in this or my favorite line. i am in a state of chronic disgust. kind of like we're in today, right? he did not limit his disgust to the civilian leadership and along with some other junior officers in mcclellan's army. he expressed dismay at its defeat in the peninsula campaign and i love this one. it just shows he's very sarcastic. he's funny. he's not idealistic at all and in his letters, but he's he's funny. i thin

the army in northern virginia wasn't army, we know a few hundred if not more african-americans, they were sent back to the slave market in virginia. why when we got to gettysburg and look more, the man who shot at each other, they came to that spring and died not as enemies but american brothers. why does that prevail over matter? july 3 after they made a suicidal frontal attack having to leave their wounded in the middle of the field crying out through the the afternoon and when finally comrades went out to try to carry them off the field, what are the confederate duplex understandably so, they gunned down, shot down the men just trying to provide medical relief. why is it when we are at charge from you want to talk about his military career stressing he was out front which i want to add he was not, saying it was all my fault? we talk about that right in front of the virginia monument, it's a last stage and it's still there and why is it we don't select the facts of alexander haze, union general riding up and down the union mind for the confederate banner and here's the moment of red

he is the recipient of the 2008 joseph l harsh history award for the northern virginia association of historians and the clover recipient of the 2016 t michael miller alexandria history award from the alexandria historical society. his father served in the us army medical as a medical officer during the second world war and took care of many d-day wounded on their return to england later serving under president dwight eisenhower's medical staff. we were fortunate to have dr. holian. join us as a lecturer last year and in 2019. tonight dr. holian will speak on patton and rummel? the missing generals of d-day we'll have time for q&a afterwards and then we'll invite everyone to join us downstairs for a reception. and now ladies and gentlemen, madam and messiah dr. kim holian. thank you very much. when i was called earlier this year about doing tonight's program. i asked. what do you want? the program to be and they said something different. and something short well will definitely be different and we'll try to be short to leave more time for q&a which is just as important as what i'll be

she's going to teach in northern virginia.n't heard or seen much from the president since tuesday, when he briefly returned to the white house to sign that landmark legislation. he is on vacation and presidents get vacation more or less. you never stop being president, but the president is not seeking out the tv cameras in the way we had become somewhat accustomed to a few years ago. nancy pelosi was in san francisco thursday at the exploratorium museum on the embarcadero to celebrate the chips bill that helps bring computer chip production back to america. >> if we are going to be preeminent in the world, we have to have the full benefit of the best minds wherever they may be, and that requires education and again investment in research. >> meanwhile, the senate minority leader mitch mcconnell was in his home state as well, where he spoke at a luncheon about the upcoming midterms, said he wasn't sure republicans would be able to take the senate back. he said candidate quality had a lot to do with the outcome. the party's been

so liz cheney lives in northern virginia, always hasre pat cipollone for some reason. she represents wyomingg in the housee representatives. thankfully, it looks liket she's going to lose reelection fight inut the primary, but she's going to be a lot richer. rich, very rich. liz cheney got extremely rich not representing wyoming. how does she doo that?n do they pay that? well, congress we've got the numbers. it started in nineteen seventy two an avid young angler with a passion for fishing opened his first tackle, his father's liquor store. he's going to serve fellow anglers and provide great value for over 50 years. johnnie morris's dream has grown to serve conservation and all who love the great outdoors moving the roots of that process truly passionate, helping you build lasting bass, pro shops and voted america's best outdoor retailer. kerry and sherry. they started road, an apparel company for women who they wanted to create something that wasn't flowers and butterflies and paint. their business got traction and they needed financing to expand. we lost our local b

i know you used to serve in a sort of a swing district there in the northern virginia suburbs, kind of near where i grew up there in fairfax county. what do you think? it seems like a lot of these candidates are treating donald trump like beetlejuice try not to say his name too many times. what do you think? how should they handle this? >> well, certainly in the districts that make the majority, the swing and the purple districts, donald trump is an albatross, so you already have the situation in these purple states where, you know, as mitch mcconnell has pointed out, we have very poor candidates, in pennsylvania, ohio, georgia, and arizona where we may -- where republicans may lose the senates because of those election denying poor candidates. same goes in gubernatorial races, and in the house seats, certainly in those swing districts having donald trump in the focus again instead of being able to run against joe biden and the economy and, you know, gas prices and groceries as they certainly had wanted to, that is a big problem. so having donald trump in the news for the next 80 days,

and in fact, r p when you couple that with the experiences in northern virginia from last year, when i was a candidate where we saw in loudoun county a woman assaulted when the school board in fact moved moved a student from one school to another who had already been accused and convicted of an assault. this is why parents are losing faith in public schools. this is why last year all y across virginia, all acrossir virginia, you saw parentsgi matter signs. we are empowering parents in virginia today we passed legislation to give themo the ability to make decisions m with regards to their children wearing a mask not to actually have visibility in the classroom on the materialss that are being used to makehe sure they're appropriate and consistent with their values, not the teacher's values, but their values. this is about recognizing who has the strongest role inng educating children. and it is parents and then teachers, you know, we have these very important midterms coming up around 80 days. obviously, every candidate's going to talk about record high inflation and record high gask

hey so liz cheney's from northern virginia, but somehow she wound up as the only memberi of congress froma, wyoming. how'd that happen? well, nepotism, obviously, but what's interesting is that rather than represent wyoming, cheney decided to spend herde time in congress representing something called democracy watch. every one ofll us who has sworn must act to prevent the unraveling of our democracy understand the peril of this o moment for our democracy as the party of reagan, republicans have championed democracy. oc >>ra democracy is fragile. democracy is fragile. democracy is fragile. democracy only survives if citizens are willing to defend it. so it turns out democracy is like that boyfriend you've got another city. youy: kind of talk them up a lo, but you don't really want them to show up of the people to meet them. what happened to liz cheney last night? democracy showed up in wyoming and liz cheney suffered the single biggest defeat in a primary by an incumbent this century. so it turns out democracy is a cruel master. you've got to be careful, can whip riding bikes in the .

spent many months at a military base in new jersey, but finally they were able to resettle in northern virginia. >> i want to work. i don't want to stay at home. i want to sustain my family. >> reporter: trained as an engineer and lawyer, abdul attended a job fair in virginia where he met a representative from the hilton hotel chain, so impressed with abdul, hilton hired him as a safety and security manager. >> i love my job, and i love the environment of my job especially, and i am sure i will get more opportunity because this is the land of opportunities. >> reporter: after just one month, hilton gave abdul a performance-based raise. >> it makes me happy that my kids and us, we are breathing in peace, which is big thing for us. >> our three daughters, they're doing great job. i love them. they look like their ma, smart, clever and intelligent. >> reporter: the three daughters have now started the new school year thrilled to be back in the classroom. >> this year is going to be so much fun because i like math subject. i want to learn something because learning is so fun. >> reporter: and over