marshals were injured including 28 injured by a gunshot in their lights that took place in oxford. nonetheless, james meredith attended graduated, became the first african-american to graduate from old myths. in 1964 the same year as freedom summer, goodman and, sorry, sherman, and of course 1965 was the passage of the voting rights act but still citizens council swain mississippi. so somewhere in 1966 james meredith decided he was going to initiate what he called the block against fear. he couldn't get the backing of any of the major civil-rights organizations, so he started out by himself with two friends who controlled into accompanying him walking from memphis tennessee to jacksonville. two and half days and to what he was shot in the leg and at that point, martin luther king and other leaders of the movement saw right opportunity, step in, picked up the block. james meredith rejoined the walk. 20 days later walking into jackson mississippi with 15,000 people, thus marking the end of the white citizens' councils. now, that could suffice for my introduction talking about the pow

marshals were injured, including 28 who reinjured by gunshot in the riots that took place in oxford. nonetheless, james meredith attended, graduated, became the first african-american to graduate from ole miss. 1965 was the passage of the act, as it is arraigned in mississippi. in 1966, james meredith decided he was going to initiate the walk against fear. he couldn't get the backing of any major civil rights organizations, so he started out by himself with two friends who he controlled into accompanying him, walking from memphis, tenn. to jackson, mississippi. 2-1/2 days in to what he was shot in the leg. at that point, martin luther king and other leaders of the movement sought a right property to step in, pick up the walk. james meredith rejoined the walk 20 days later, walking into jackson, mississippi, with 15,000 people, thus marking the end of the white citizens' councils. that could suffice for my introduction, talking about the power of one person committed to making change, but the reason i was in mississippi was a year ago, the president's national debate council decided o

here we were, it was 1968 in oxford and i was sitting there at the instruction of my tutors at oxford, studying the roles of who are the soldiers in the hundred years war. in the 14th century and i'm thinking to myself, what does this have to do -- is this the life i want to lead. to i want to be monastic and squirreled away in a library. i have enormous respect four the great historians and the kind of work that goes into creating great history. but i that i'm more actionary. i want a life that's more social interactionive, talk to more people and i want to be able to contribute something to the world around me. so the switch, just the switch of disciplines is already thinking i could have an academic life, the life of the mind at the same time be preparing myself for public service and a contribution to certain. >> charlie: did isaiah berlin ask if you were a hedge huge or a fox. >> he didn't at that time but that was a wonderful wonderful essay and i use that metaphor all the time. >> charlie: how do you use it. >> i gave once an entire speech to i think it was the graduating senio

i went to oxford university on scholarship for one year. one day on assignment in montana, i saw my opportunity. you can imagine how the end of the world affects house prices. i was covering a cult which at that time about 3,000 people strong in a county that only had 10,000. people were literally selling their houses foregoing underground and riding out a nuclear hole owe cost. >> i was betting against that  hall cost. >> it's no aspen. it's a down on its heals railroad town. a lot of hippy, intellectual artists settled there. it was an easy life and sort of misbehave out of the limelight. it has attracted a few celebrities. a lot of these places out west, they come in on their private jets, take a car to their ranch and get out. that's not true of brokaw. some other folks, you'll never see their face. it gives the place a representation. it's a low-earning, hard earning town. your ex-wife was margo kiter's daughter. >> yes. we have now divorced. we have two kids. 10 and 7. where are they now? >> they are in livingston. charlie is in the

alex jones's latest, "losing the news" the future of the news that feeds democracy, published by oxford. >>> mr. jones is a pulitzer prize-winning journalist who wrote for "the new york times" from 1983 to 1992. he's the author two previous books, the patriarch and the trust. he's currently the director of the center on politics and public policy at harvard university. to find out more, visit hks.harvard.edu. >>> alex jones america, new york city 2009. we are here with publisher ret basic books. john, what is the publisher do? >> the publisher is a title i have. i ron in print at basic books so we have editorial marketing, publicity, design and i end up making the final decisions. i say a lot of yes or no all day long. >> wendi say yes or no to? >> whether we are going to acquire a book, how much we're going to pay, what resources we will put into promoting it. the final call on which jacket, a lot of a over become i like his jacket better than not want to get a bunch of small decisions all adds up to the decisions but a bunch of small ones along the way. >> how long have you been in bo

it is a very discreet scholarship to oxford. i have no idea how that process had occurred, what they had picked me, but it really saved me. >> was this after you have lost the rhodes scholarship? >> after. >> losing that rhodes scholarship contest had what kind of an impact on you? >> well, i was the kind of kid who went from competition to competition, a blue ribbon to blue ribbon, a trophy to a trophy, thinking it was going to be a yellow brick road ending in the stars. the rhodes scholarship was the first tournament of merit that i resoundingly failed at. i thought, i have come up against something i cannot do. i did not enter the next round and i was bewildered. >> why did you mentione joyce carol oates? >> i took an academic class with her. she was also a great friend. she used to have me bartend at her house when she threw a party. it was by letting me into her home and showing me her office and showing me the books on her shelf, that i thought this is a job done by people, not by people in the sky. that trust and simple f

he is now professor of historical theology at oxford. >>well, the cosmological argument in its simplest form would say, "look, everything that happens seems to have a cause, we traced this back and in the end we are to see there is an infinite progression of causes or the buck stops somewhere. and the place where it stops is called god. >it could stop with something that is self-existing and self-explanatory. can you live with that? >>i can live with that. what i tend to say to myself when thinking about this, is "look, one of the great themes of modern science is the quest for a grand unified theory, a theory of everything. why is that so important? well, because it's a theory which explains but does not require explanation. now what you see in modern physics is that this feeling that there has to be something behind everything, which explains everything we can observe. and in many ways that is analogous to this whole argument, the distance of god. we see many things which have explanations and those explanations point backwards. is the

from the university as well as a postgraduate degree from harvard and is an associate professor at oxford university. he is married, has two sons. mr. president, thank you for coming to the wilson center and we look forward to your comments. after he speaks, there will be an opportunity for questions and answers. [applause] >> my government, ambassadors, distinguished ladies and gentlemen, this is a great honor for my colleagues in for me to be here this morning in this very important think-tank. i want to express my gratitude for this invitation. every day, by a repeat before my fellow citizens one very simple frame. i do my best to repeat, morning by morning, evening by evening, because i understand that every government has a duty to convince the fellow citizens of the necessity to have important and at the same time simple goals. the goal we are looking for in columbia is to convert columbia into a country with the highest level of confidence. confidence is leading our country. when we support confidence, -- we support confidence on three pillars. investment with social responsibility

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the senior editor with oxford, susan what are some of the new titles? >> would be thrilled for the we have a range of new books and i think i will talk more about political ones than the ones that have applications. real enemies i know there's a lot of talk about conspiracy theories see them all the time on the internet. this is the author who spends time saying what does that mean for american democracy and how does the fact there have been a conspiracy theories over a long period of time what does that mean about americans and what they think about their government and do they trust government? it looks at pearl harbor, the fear of using government and what happened after the kennedy assassination and there is huge literature and it comes up to 9/11. unfortunately it will never go away so the author spent a lot of time and internet sites and to set for research. >> host: what comes naturally? >> has won two awards it has worked for 20 years on this a book on i miscegenation lot. she said it was an important topical issue by the time she finished did i

i wanted to go to harvard or yale and go to oxford or cambridge. in my senior year i got to go to cambridge. i applied for rhodes, fulbright and i didn't get any of those fellowships. i was black junior year phi beta kappa and i was couple ma assume laud. i was from after lay cha, i figure they give it to my because there was only one of me. it was humiliating, stressful i turned down for all the fellow. i figured i was being artificial not true to myself. finally i decided i was down to the last fellowship. i decided to go in and be myself because what more could i lose. to my astonishment i they gave me mellon fellowship. i called my parents and my father fixed up the phone n those days you didn't have two phones. you had extension phone. remember that? daddy put mom on the extension phone. mama got on. mama, daddy never believe it, never believe it, got a mellon fellowship i'm going to university of cambridge. i'm first afro-american, as we said then to get a medical mon fellowship. >> you're first negro to get mellon fellowship, yeah, daddy. hu

philadelphia and it looks like we have 1 cell towards lancaster, that will continue to move west of oxford. we're starting to see breaks in the clouds, but they were very gusty thunderstorms. back to the west things are quieting down. showers over parts of virginia. looks like we have to deal with the damage that is out there. talking about damage reports, the line of storms have pushed across the state cutting through the middle of the state. we can see this was wind damage. this was a report of structural damage, where there were reports of trees on houses and cars, but it looks like fol folks -- hail reports there. talking about those hail reports, an inch and 3-quarter-sized hail. that's golfball-sized hail. bel air a quarter-inch hail. also we saw the wind damage in. we have a picture of hail that was taken up in baltimore county on the eastern portion. you can see the quarter. just under quarter-size hail. it came down pretty good over there in parts of baltimore county and into hartford county. a closer look at how long the storms will be sticking around or if we'll be getting more.

the strts were led ashe cortege move through the town of would invesit to oxford. some men we all killed within hours last week. go to he you with us on bbc world news. the first africa leader to answer in court ofharges of crimes against humanity, the former president of leria, has sai the accusations against him are lies. the attractions of life in europe and may be losingheir sheen for illegal would- migrants. the lates figures show that last year 9000eople tried to enter the ropean union from africa illelly. compare that to the peak in 2006 were more than1,000 made that precarious journey by bo. our correspondent s be to the island to nd outmore. >> on ptrol with the spanish coast guard behind us is the tourist resort and head is e authentic ocean. it is a preferrednd prilous gateway to eope for illegal migrants. today, the horizon i clear. the fragile boatsrom africa are becoming a ra sight. over th past few yearsthe number of illegal grants making it to these shores h fallen by almo three-quarters. that trend connued this year. during apriand may of this year

he said compared to sarah palin, the rest of us are like oxford graduates. >host: on the line. >caller: as far as experience, what we have in the white house does not have a drop of experience. a loser. host: sarah palin is unlike any other modern american figure. epiphenomenon all her own. the controversy that swirled around her and the surprise pregnancies, the blood feuds, the tawdry in-laws and others, give her family a singular status in the rose gallery of political rhetoric. it makes roger and bill clinton seemed like avatars now. that is what the article goes on to say. now massachusetts on the line. caller: now about the interview's sarah palin gave to katie couric. she was asked whether she knew of any supreme court decisions. she said she did not. it was just before that, the alaska supreme court signed exxonmobil -- find expert on globagave exxonmobil a fine of r billion dollars. exxonmobil appeal to those u.s. thsupreme court and the reduced the fine to $500 million. that means she knew about that supreme court decision. she is more for the oil companies than she i

hit la plata into waldorf hit ntcao t lverio calvert coun hec oat thecrhe b achos athe bay toward oxford and cambridge. let's go up towards where that aclicoerid cist . ese storms aren't as strong but heavy downpours. o tinterstate 70 east of yernto biderick and ola.umc is olccbium this is all moving to the east at about 15 miles ur being pushedbiba pushed along by a f rontal system that's crossing the area squeezing out a lot of ntthat moisture but het lightning and heavy downpours e arincausg big problems on the roadways tonight. i can't imagine that didn't contribute to the accident but we'll leave that to the investigators to find out. >>> a close call for a golfer today during these storms. 42-year-old danny shantz, the golf pro at congressional country club was on the course when a lightning bolt was struck. he was not hit directly but was injured. he's in serious condition tonight. >>> a few hours after that a gaithersburg family also had a close call. their house struck by lightning caught on fire. the grandmother and her 8-year- old grandson were inside. they did make it out in

it's one of six that's been brought back to bse at r near oxford to be refitted an adjusted, ready for theeat and dust of afghistan. they s they will be deployed some time before the end of the year b that may not be so enou. a report fromhe defense committee said a lack of helicopts in afghanistan is limiti military operations and putting soldiers' lives at risk. the m.o.d.on't confirm exactly homany helicopters are in ghanistan but the fleet includetroop carriers like chinookas well as lks, apaches. the repos say they they have to use gund transport when helicopr lift would be preferrebo for the outcome and the protection of our forces. the armed rces has risen by 60% in the past two yearsbut there has been grt problems introducing them into afghanistan, as the port ates it is unasible tourge helicopters into theater. >> the big problem whichhe committee reports atntion to isman power. you can't just uphe number of pilotovernight. that quires a reasoble period to train new you ed to recruit them. >> reporter: earlier tis mont 15 britis soldiers were killed in afghanist i justen days.

it's one of six that's been brought back to base at raf near oxford to be refitted and adjusted, ready for the heat and dust of afghanistan. the m.o.d. says they will be deployed some time before the end of the year but that may not be soon enough. this morning a report from the defense committee said a lack of helicopters in afghanistan is limiting military operations and putting soldiers' lives at risk. the m.o.d. won't confirm exactly how many helicopters are in afghanistan but the fleet includes troop carriers like chinooks as well as links, apache and sea kings. the reports say they they have to use ground transport when helicopter lift would be preferred both for the outcome and the protection of our forces. the army says the overall number of armed forces has risen by 60% in the past two years but there has been great problems introducing them into afghanistan, as the report states it is unfeasible to surge helicopters into theater. >> the big problem which the committee reports attention to is manpower. you can't just up the number of pilots overnight. that requires a reasonabl

antony's college and oxford era and he's taken an interesting approach. he chose to start the history in the 1500's, and his concept there was that that was when the ottomans first conquered the arable land and one of the defining characteristics of air and history is they frequently have been an occupied ethnic group, and so he decided that was the key -- rather than start with, say mohammed, which is where other histories have started, that this was the defining moment and what he would argue is that the arabs value history in ways that those of us in the west don't think about. first of all, the history is deeper and richer. for most of their history they were a dominant power and i think one of the things that's going on in the middle east now is arabs are seen that the west sort of looks down on them and that is something very inconsistent with history. so it's important to understand era of history if you want to unravel what happening in the land today. >> i know he lives in oxford england. would you bring him to the united states to talk about the

. >> host: here is the cover of the block the latest from alex jones published by oxford "losing the news" >> the perseus the books group and here at the book expo america of this year public affairs is doing something different susan mine berg is the publisher. what you doing? the group decided to take up a challenge that was to publish a book in the 48 hours on the show floor which meant from the opening day through thursday through saturday we will have a book party if you would like to stop by and celebrate broke the idea was to showcase a lot of things that are happening in publishing one is the way the electronic files for format and all different technology how much is opening new opportunities in publishing and bookselling? the other was to continue with the collaboration we're doing with other companies watts of companies with new ideas that can be very innovative from the book world when we announced this week that we would ask some to come help and many came to us before we had a chance to call them. do you want to help we have over 20 companies participating in this proje

he is very well connected in oxford, mississippi. rock on.nouncing federal funding in the city of philadelphia for law enforcement. they are up an arm because the big apple is not on the list. rick leventhal has a full report on this from new york. thousands of local agencies applied for aid, about 1000 were approved. why the disparity? >> there was not enough money to go around for all the people who needed it. philadelphia getting enough money to create or keep 50 law enforcement jobs, so they are a big winner. rochester, n.y., 630 jobs, and kalamazoo, mich., gets to cover the 30 officers. seattle, whose department was tested in 1999, making almost 600 arrests, and new york city, considered the no. 1 terrorist target in america, gets nothing from the program, sparking outrage from commissioners to mayors and other officials. bill: we have been the target of international terrorism twice. why would we not get the money? >> the department feels is being punished for success. major crime is down 14% over the last couple of years, and there has

çi think oxford street is still closed, and that is a major thoroughfare. it was pretty dramatic when we first saw these pictures. we do not know exactly what caused the fire. it started in an office building, a four-story building. the cause has not been confirmed by fire fighters yet, but the streets are narrow, and it is a miracle that the fire did not spread more. soho is in a real impact not only with business this -- offices, but bars and pubs. there was a lot of disruption earlier today, particularly with people walking around cafes. thankfully, some minor injuries with the firefighters, but fortunately, no major injuries. the story is pretty much over, but they are still finishing up here. martha: one teenager took his girlfriend to a hiking trip, but the date when quickly south when he suddenly slipped and fell over a cliff, dropping to a 30- foot free fall. his state says that she heard him on the way down hitting rocks. >>ç he lost his footing or something, but he fell and tumbled all the way down, maybe 35 feet. i was just hanging on, hoping th

this is abraham lincoln by james mcpherson published by oxford university press. i wish i had -- i should have brought my copy to show you all. i wish i had with me because you'd be amazed and i will tell you why in just a second. i can't begin to imagine how many pages have been written about the president of the united states and the bicentennial year of his birth many more millions of pages will be written so how could and author hope to capture the essence of lincoln from birth through his legacy and 65 short pages? and its loss 65 did pages, its 65 small pages. as mcpherson points out in the book of lincoln could deliver the greatest speech at gettysburg using only 272 words and speaking for just two minutes perhaps it is possible for a book that can easily be read in one sitting to help those of us who are not lincoln scholars better understand his life and legacy. mcpherson brings credentials to the effort. he's in a emeritus professor of history and won the pulitzer prize for battle cry freedom. he spent a lifetime studying the civil war and individuals as

i think the series of the oxford companions and oxford companion, american literature, the oxford classicalictionary, you can see every one of these represent a spot on have gone in and found it useful. and again, double shelves. every book on front there's another one behind. because where else are you going to put them. and the same applies over here. and then this is kind of i don't know how many people in america can claim to have a complete run of the book collector. now this is really a great quarterly published in the u.k.. it was established by ian fleming back in the 1950's and i have a complete, four of than a year and just again, double shelf to starting we back. they have been so useful. there are wonderful essays, articles, reviews. you want to know what is going on in the book world these books have been indispensable. this shelf here is an assembling point, a gathering point for books that will have some relevance to the book on paper. you're looking at books i picked up at secondhand bookstores. for markets, increasingly on line, but books i think will have some relevance to

and we went to oxford university together to give a lecture. and michael came with a cast. he has a broken foot suddenly. he always had some ailment, some bodily ailment. people will famously remember he was bit by a spider. and that would mean that a doctor had to accompany him. that was always odd, we always wondered who are these doctors. where do they practice? they never gave good answers. and michael was protective of their being around. i used to say to michael all the time, you know this is poison and this is going to kill you. he knew. once he came out very light headed and woozy, the next night he was having dinner at our home, friday night chabat dinner, and michael decides to stand during dinner. i said, why are you standing? he said, i took your advice and decided not to have the medication because i know it's bad for me. he always knew this was bad. there were always two michael jacksons. the outpouring of love you see, there was a soft, gentle side to him. he was a celebrity and he was a little bit different. he could be gentle and exhibit that spirit. if you

one little tiny shower up by oxford, pa. most of the action looks like it's going to be well to our north this afternoon and evening. we'll be probably quiet. but more stuff going eastern pa, new jersey. nothing around the baltimore region. to our west, it's quiet. we've got dryer air moving aloft. so our chances of showers are pretty slim. still possible there may be a pop-up shower. most of the activity we're talking about will come tomorrow night into early saturday. we'll have that forecast in a few minutes. kai? >> all right, bob. thank you. >>> let's check on the roads with sharon gibala at wjz traffic control. >>> well, we do have one problem on a major roadway. we have an accident, even though it's on the shoulder, it's causing quite a delay. the accident 295 southbound, causing a backup to the beltway. meanwhile, watch for a wreck. one in brooklyn, involving a motorcycle. richie highway. another at owings mills, reisterstown road. watch for slight delays on 95 northbound. between 895. the merge there, and the top si

marries and down toward cambridge and oxford. we'll see if we don't get a few more bubbling up buit qeret be quieter as our frontal system has pushed off to the southeast. 80 degrees now at reagan national. humidity 69%. check out the winds out of the south at 10 miles per hour. and it's that flow here out of the song and the south west the next couple of days that will keep us in the tropical heat around here. so it should be -- if y like summertime it should be nice this week. 80s in washington. 79 right now in baltimore. and you can see low 80s even in the mountains. winchester is 81. hagerstown is 80. ocean city is 83. nice looking down at the beaches a nice sunshine for the next couple of hours and than we'll see if rain showers move into the washington area. the thunderstorms i mentioned, see those racing off to the north and east, they are out of here. now a mix of sun and clouds across the washington area right now and out to the west toward ohio and kentucky, much quieter weather out there. a lot of sunshine. but it won'

the university of mississippi and oxford is third.he fourth party school is the university of georgia in athens. fifth, ohio university. by the way, the annual rankings also highlighthe country's most sober schools. brigham young university in utah topped that list for the 12th straight year. all we can hope is that there's a lot of learning going on. >> yes, in addition to partying. and recovering from those parties. >>> coming up on "news4 at 4," the price of being overweight. the toll obesity is putting on our health. >>> and new information about what may have led to the disastrous wrong-way crash that killed eight people. >>> here's some of the top stories making news on the web this week. >>> the driver of a minivan that barrels down the wrong side of a new york parkway and slam understood an suv apparently wasn't feeling well before the crash. eight people were killed in that accident and a young child is still in the hospital tonight. it happened yesterday in westchester county. the van's driver was killed along with four chil

woodrow wilson bridge, both the inner and outer loop between alexandria and oxford hill look good athis hour. >>> now to the latest on the investigation surround michael jackson's death. investigators have narrowed in on drugs used by the musician to fight his insomnia. several physicians who previbed those medications will now reportedly be questioned. michael jackson's family has yet to decide on a final resting spot. jeff rossen has more. >> reporter: now we've confirmed the l.a. county coroner's office has jackson's brain. at least a part of it. investigators are analyzing his brain tissue. it's uncommon but could help determine wh killed him. >> they'll be looking to see whether there is any evidence of prior brain damage, whether from drugs or trauma or post viral infection. >> on his official death certificate latoya provides all the information -- cause of death, deferred. she lists forest lawn cemetery as a temporary location. that doesn't mean he'll be laid to rest there. to be buried at neverland, the family would have to apply for special permits. nbc news has learned the

places like cambridge, i think, oxford, places like that. and here is some lightning associated with this as well. you can see all across the bay here into eastern portions of maryland, some southern portions of maryland as well making its way into delaware. here in the district, we are not seeing anything but some shower activity starting to push into our region so we are going to keep our eyes on this and see how that develops during the course of the morning hours. let's get back to graphics. we'll go to max 2. what we are seeing here is the cloud cover that is over the area and the movement of these little systems as they are coming through. some of them aren't so little. the one that we are seeing across the chesapeake bay is just the western portion of a pretty good coastal storm making its hua up to the north and west we see another system, an area of low pressu up across the great lakes and that is helping to push a cold front into our region. eventually, we'll get that cold front coming through here and that will lead to some more s

the players arriving in oxford on august 19th.college football r media days on espnews continuess on monday with the a.c.c., the , big 12 and the big 10.12 11 acoverage begins at 11:00 a.m. eastern time. all the news conferences and the coaches and the pertinent players from those conferences and plus thursday pac-10. same deal right here on espnews. we are the place to be. college football right around the corner. and with s.e.c. football media week wrapping up today, espn.com college football reporter mark schlabach has been in hoover, alabama, all week. he joins us now with his tick on what transpired. mark, i think i know the answer to this question, but what was the biggest story of the week there in alabama? >> well, obviously who didn't vote for tim tebow. i don't know if it's a surprise or a disappointment that that was the biggest story coming out of three days of s.e.c. media days, but it was the question asked of every coach, often the first question. we had to wait until friday of the last day today to find out it was

anyway, we got to the top and the pilot, a very well-spoken oxford graduate, pakistani airline--air force captain, and he said, 'now when you get out, move very slowly. at 18,000 feet, you're going to have trouble breathing. and really, we should have oxygen masks at this height. we don't have those individually. just move very slowly or else you may pass out.' so we were following these instructions to move very slowly. we didn't have very far to move anyway. this little, tiny platform on which we landed and the direct fall away into the deep valleys below. from this site you can see the soviet union and india and pakistan, afghanistan. incredible. and the--and it was a very clear day up there, fortunately, for the helicopter flight. but as we started to move away, the engine was still running and the--my cameraman said to the camera--pilot, 'would you turn off the engine, please. we really can't hear over that engine roar.' and he said, 'oh, no, no. i can't turn it off.' he said, 'if i turn it off, i'll never get it started again at this altitude. and--and we only have one other helicop

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the book is "almost a miracle" published by oxford university press. you can learn more about this library, download the audio podcast by visiting us at pritzker military library.org. i'm a traci. thanks for joining us. [applause] >> and we are back for the webcast part of the program. john, step back up your. i have one question to follow up and we will get to a couple others as we go. you said that georgia was the first falling state in the revolutionary war. is there any repercussions today because you're from atlanta. you live in atlanta. is there any repercussions of georgia today for that? i mean do you see anything different in georgia that you see in any other southern states? >> no, actually i think borst georgians are aware that there was a revolutionary war. the revolutionary war was consumed by the civil war in the south. . . in front of the courthouse there is a statute of a soldier, not a revolutionary war soldier, a confederate soldier and he is facing north to protect the south against what some old-line seveners always referred to as t