it was to orangeburg. >> yeah. >> george trennam paid for that. he bought a school in orangeburg and had the orphans moved there. >> but also i was wondering about the christmas day ambush. it was part of that siege of charleston. and also i thought they came down to start off with. >> they did a lot of movement along the river. i think you're referring to the confederates would sometimes establish mass batteries along the river and try to ambush union vessels. they caught one, the isaac smith. she was caught in that ambush. and then she later became a warship for the confederacy. and then became a blockade runner. and unfortunately for the south, ran aground off of sullivans island. but there were movements in the summer of 1864. there was like a five-prong attack not directly on charleston but against james island, johns island. and these federals did send units up the river, and, again, as you mentioned, to break the railroad between charleston and savannah. >> but they never broke the railroad between charleston and savannah during the war. >>

i remember when we were planning our first march in downtown orangeburg. i remember at midnight ruling in that mimeograph machine printing stuff out that we gave to couriers who ran to the dormitories and back then you couldn't go on to girls dorms after 9:00 but we had a young lady come to the windows and we were stuffing those mimeograph notices for them to put under the doors of students saying we are going to meet at 12:00 tomorrow and we are going to march. 2000 people showed up. today we have twitter and we have facebook, we have all the social media stuff and i believe if we were to organize ourselves using social media and we wouldn't have to worry about this other foolishness that we get off the internet. let's put some stuff on the internet that will speak to the pert -- people of ferguson missouri. get to the polls by 7:00 this evening so we won't have to march at midnight. that's the kind of thing we have to do today. use the tools that we have. we have great tools to communicate but everything else. we can text, what do we call it, texting. le

was the emcee of a gala for historically black claflin university which is this my hometown of orangeburgina, i was having a jolly old time with a serirapist? i'm having trouble squaring the allegations with the man i was with that day. many people may be experiencing the same. cosby has spent his long ground breaking career in the entertainment industry being such a good guy. how could he possibly be such a bad guy too? i would like to believe the man i met is incapable of such montsrous acts, but his stoney silence is making it hard to keep the faith. to your point, i think he needs to say something. and that puts it in perspective why people are having a hard time talking about this. he has done amazing transformative things for society. his life and his work means so much to so many families and to black and white americans in terms of understanding each other and bridging the gap, fair? >> no doubt, he broke barriers. look, he has to answer this at some point, these allegations continue, it's not one or 10. >> and you don't know if it's a pile on. >> the argument i say it so carefull