they're mass notifications and the petersburg campaign and the petersburg an appomattox campaign really misses a fundamental reason why the north won and the north, there's no city in the entire south that can compete with boston, philadelphia and new york. manhattan already has a population of 810,000 people in 1860. and many of the far-sighted southern leaders and men -- you are bane men of wade hampton knew that war was a losing proposition, but i'm getting ahead of myself because before i go to the human side of leadership, i'm stressing these revolutions and information travel distances collapsing and it's an entirely new mindset, and oh, by the way, other thicks happen that we would regard as such a big deal, but were. in the mid-1850s, mrs. demerist in new york she and her husband ran clothing businesses and hats and everything else, she invents the paper pattern for dress making and it's a revolution to american women because suddenly you can buy these pre-cut paper patterns and a woman in minnesota and rural minnesota can order a pattern and she's dressing the latest styles fro

it's building up and eight miles west of petersburg. at that point, the confederate agents come in and ignite an ammunition barge and it's devastating. the blast is incredibly destructive. it throws locomotives into the air and overturns them. at that point city point was considered by some the busiest harbor in the world. it was so busy with all these goods flowing in. there are acres and acres of caissons and cannons. there's also a street of bordellos. the wealth of the north is fulling coming into play. the civil war breaks the south as an economic power. it makes the north as an industrial power even though there are massive debts to be ale al alleviated. after this incredible explosion which is supposed to shock grant and maybe convince him that he can't win, within 24 hours the harbor is operating again. within 48 hours, it's fully operational. the wealth of the north is such in material and man power, that if you can do that -- and the army on the petersburg lines never experienced a significant shortage because of that. at that

petersburg did.que to this theater. ♪ >> japanese ballerina will perform in act two. arina does not look pleased. >> arina, comes here. do it again. no, >> she's been wobbling on her landings. two hours later, it's curtain time. lyubov alives at trrives at the. ever since she was a child she's dreamed of a theater like this. unable to contain her excitement, she arrived an hour before curtain time. ♪ >> arina has been a ballerina with the theater for three years. she will share the stage with her fellow dancers. ♪ >> she hopes this will be her chance to make the next big leap as a ballerina. ♪ >> the first time to see a ballet performance in her hometown, fond memories of her days as a prima ballerina return. ♪ >> act two of "giselle" begins. ♪ >> arina sees her cue. ♪ >> here she dances with her ballet fellows. ♪ ♪ [ applause ] >> the show comes to a close. >> translator: it was my first performance in that role. i was really nervous. i made a lot of mistakes during rehearsals, but i did okay, so i'

union rights, if we're locked in petersburg in a siege, it's a matter of time.ut because of his pride, he cannot quit. lee knows the war is lost and he will not give up. and he hinds behind the idea that only president jefferson davis can decide that. he can't be the one to make a decision. and by the time the break through comes, he still doesn't want to be the guy who surrenders the south. and he keeps killing his own soldiers because of his pride. i know that's not a popular view. and i said i admire this man incredibly. but the war was lost and lee knew it and couldn't give up. and so the bloody road from petersburg to appomattox was paved with corpses that didn't have to fall. but anyway, it's done now. you can't change it. lee, we'll never know what he felt, if he felt any guilt about it. he was a hero of the south. the only thing i fault him for -- i only fault him for that sin of pride. and when you come down to the issue of leadership, of military leadership throughout history, if there is one quality and awe, the greek classists knew it already, if the

so on july 6th they order one division to leave the trenches of petersburg. that is james b ricketts. he had been shot in the chest. recovers and goes on. so if you need one man to do the job he is a good choice. his men will leave petersburg and load onto steamers and make their way to baltimore. that day he says he will not until there is a necessity for it. there is nobody except this hodgepodge of soldiers there. he is still kind of doing the sand counting. here is the union division. so that will continue to delay the union response. wallis has broken that middle department barrier. he has decided he is not going to be there, which is on the right hand side of the map. he decides we'll slow them down here. he sends the rangers up to the mountain passes to hold the passes. so what's going on interesting is that the confederate army is bradley johnson's brigade. what you have are unionist virginians fighting against marylanders. those rangers are not ready to fight the confederate veterans. so they fall back. johnson will follow them. so the fighting will

early moved away from petersburg with about 8000 men. healing set with other confederate forces in the valley, so by the time he gets the lynchburg, he has got 15,000 men are so under his command. over the course of june 17-june 18, early will win the battle of lynchburg, send hunter reeling back into the valley of west virginia. has a decisiony to make. to keep anstanton eye on david hunter to see what he is going to do. from stanton, early has a couple different choices. andan stay in the valley babysit it, make sure no union forces move into attack resources. he can return to the army of northern virginia, which is getting really engaged around petersburg. or he can move north, down the shenandoah valley. so on june 28 from stanton, early will make his decision. he will write to robert e lee, saying, i decided to turn down the valley and proceed according to your instruction to threaten washington, and if i find an opportunity, to take it. that is is objective, admitting his objective is to march on washington and take the capital cit

petersburg. on tape from the ed sullivan theater in new york city, it's stephen colbert! ( cheers and applause ) ( band playing ) >> stephen: hey! how are ya? thank you, ladies and gentlemen! ( piano riff ) thanks, everybody! welcome to the "late show," i'm your host stephen colbert. folks, i know it's comedy show but i have some sad news tonight. as of 10:48 p.m. eastern last night, the g.o.p. healthcare bill was pronounced dead of terminal sucking. ( cheers and applause ) yeah. i clap when i'm heartbroken, too. you cover the pain. it was always a long shot because the republicans control only all three branches of government. ( laughter ) can't be expected to do everything. the final blow was delivered last night, when utah senator and man failing to get anyone to raise the roof, mike lee, and kansas senator and grey alien who found a can of bronzer, jerry moran, released statements opposing the bill at the exact same time. it was the rare case of simultaneous no-gasm. ( laughter ) it is hard t

petersburg.you think of russia, you think of one thing - - late night comedy. ivan urgant is russia's most popular and only late night talk show host. he was gracious enough to invite me on as a guest of "evening urgant." but before i took to the kremlin-sanctioned air-waves of state-run television. i first wanted to hit the streets of st. petersburg to learn a little bit about the russian sense of humor. what's like a classic russian joke? >> the crow flies. >> stephen: the crow flies. >> and it smacks into the stop sign. >> stephen: oh, the crow smacks into the stop sign. >> and then it says, schlagbaum, baum baum... it's the sound of hitting the stop sign. and that's the word that indicates the stop sign itself. >> stephen: oh, so the stop sign makes the sound of the stop sign. >> of the crow hitting the stop sign. >> stephen: okay. now that i've heard from the people, i wanted to hear from my comrade in late night. so i sat down with ivan urgant himself to discuss the obstacles he faces doing

petersburg, russia, you know where we're going here. >> are they going the distance? let's hope so.rsburg skyline and they are there just to chill but before they get to chill too long, something raises the hair on the back of their necks. >> oh! security! >> the cops didn't leave. this is private security. they are after these guys, five of them. they take off running, and three guys are hemmed up by two security guards. one dude slips past. he gets away. now it's just two left. >> they got so many people. >> one may argue the thing they're doing wrong as well as the breaking and entering part. >> the obvious. logistically with five people you're going to get caught. >> you can see this one security guard risking his neck sliding down the roof a little bit as one of the guys scoots along the bottom edge here. the kids have already said look we will leave but the security guards i believe were looking to grab somebody and haul them in. the kid jumps down to a lower level, makes a run for it. the security guard runs after him, after sliding down the roof that gives our guy with the c

host: any of the monuments in petersburg, florida? caller: it is my understanding i don't know for srn understanding the tampa city council disgustingly allowed one of the schools named after one of the confederates to remain named the confederate, so-called hero and i'm disgusted with that. say take all the confederate monuments down throughout the south and the country. one other thing i want to add, nationalists white ho rallied, i want to talk one second about the torch light parade they did. from, the nazi gotten into the german 1933, they got him into the german government and the nazi celebrated in berlin light parade. that is who they were copying. the man who murdered that woman charlottesville, was himself, said by his own former high chool teacher, to be a hitler lover and sympathizer with the nazis. rioted, white who of whom who one murdered this young woman, who had a history of sympathizing downtrodden and hurt and victimized and discriminated she was a decent human being. the man who murdered her, had a sympathy with hi

not all wait until you hear what other nazi crimes russia has committed into it you fifteen some petersburg goes to one of the most gatherings of ideologues europe has seen now it seems a shame to ruin the papers theories but the event was not state sponsored it was organized by one party not even the russian parliament with white nationalist gathering in charlottesville just a few weeks ago does that suddenly make the state of virginia a safe haven for nazis no war but sure one right wing form in the country obviously mean russian evil knows no bounds and after all no one else has hosted such an event. we love our race how motivation comes from the hearts. say an american black walked into this room that person really more to all of us than any of us is to each other well we're in the dark now so let's keep digging what else you got washington post kremlin mouthpieces of ensues yes tickly promoted the views of america neo nazis and white nationalists what is that even based on what listen to the actual words spoken by the russian president on the issue of those who say russia is for white

of knowing this to put it a little bit after all i was a great friend as a subset and i was in petersburg which is my city and it's not that big so if you meet people you know. well i was once introduced on a boston radio program as being the only woman in the world who had been kissed by ronald reagan and let me put it. i had to do it i had to say but it was very it was in church and that's really only because of the old days in in petersburg so personally i always wish him well i know how hard. you know how hard a job it is not ok in foreign policy. how much responsibility if the policy so i always watched with. equal opportunity you always put emphasis on personal relationship get and trump wants to fix just that actually can person to person contact between leaders actually turn around the whole relationship i mean would that you know reagan did it. and he wanted very much to do it and he bleeped he believes believes in personal relations that's matter of record he always thought that if people could speak face to face you could go much further than any other way and he put that into

had to say but it was very it was in church and that's really only because of the old days in in petersburg so personally i always wish him well i know how hard. you know how hard a job it is not ok in foreign policy to write. how much of. the policy so i always watched with. equal opportunity for you always put emphasis on personal relationship get and trump wants to fix just that actually can a person to person contact between leaders actually turn around a whole relationship i mean would that you know reagan did it. and he wanted very much to do it and he bleeped he believed believed in personal relations that matter of record he always thought that if people could speak face to face you could go much further than any other way and he put that into practice i'm sure you know that none of his advisors perhaps except perhaps mr schultz wanted him to meet at all with mr got myself they didn't want it you know why they said he wasn't up to it reagan he was not up to it well reagan simply said i wanted to and i will and he was supposed to very strongly by his wife. nancy who was all for it so

game to us when it comes to traditions of what it's listen we have in this conversation at the st petersburg international economic forum where the northern caucasus republics are well represented there trying to attract investors and draw tourists to their region and if there is a beautiful goof of northern caucasus resorts in your opinion could this scandal we've been talking about negatively affect the attractiveness of your region to investors in this film the correct me if i'm wrong but you rely not only on russian investors. but on the european investors as well you talked about differences in mentality when they hear what you are seeing here don't you think it may frighten them well if we lose investors or tourists who subscribe to this. beauty thing is this what you called it but it's ok because we don't need this investment and we don't want those tourists or the if but europeans oh share these values by the way i understand but then again if this is what makes them happy it's up to them it's their life. it's a wonderful thing v.v. they have parents who go by numbers behrendt number

will never be europeans i don't quite agree with you there maybe it's because i was born in st petersburg and we think of it as a european city and we think of ourselves as europeans as well that's up to you. know clearly we are a part of europe but our mentality will never be european i want to ask the record if i was ok let me rephrase my question we know that unemployment is quite high in english i may be wrong but i think the latest figure was about forty percent still your job distribution is quite unusual because more than half of you people live in rural areas and tourism could be quite helpful in listing your economy but if that's what my definition tourism requires openness and tolerance to other lifestyles even if you don't share them or don't approve of them over the dozen tourism is not just about showing your country to others it's also about looking at other countries. for that. begin you're asking about gay people no not necessarily it's either you're part of the gay lobby no. of course it is an attractive place and it's important for us to get tourists to go there all sort

a lot of people consider writing on the wall after petersburg falls. you are right. thank you very much. yes, sir? this is the question, 1861, colonel robert e. lee was offered command of all union forces. what would have happened if he said yes? a veryers: this is speculative question. this is the kind of questions my students ask, what you really think, dr. myers, about what would have happened? i will say this, and winfield scott made an assessment much the way jefferson davis did when second united states calvary and assess the officer corps and what he had, as robert e. lee was seen the most proficient by winfield scott, but on the other hand, jefferson davis did not feel that way. he felt colonel albert sidney johnston was the best. if you look down that officer a pretty good officer list. the captains and the commander some of the best guys you will see during the war. you have a kernel and lieutenant colonel, there are different perspectives on this, and jefferson davis set that unit up. opinion. differing that does not answer the question, but i hope it give

most of that shower richmond and petersburg and high pressure builds in. we're dry.ed again a little shower activity into south of us around front. look at trend on temperatures. this is super nice. today we will be huge and 5. let's humid this afternoon. tomorrow or 82. low humidity. friday 80 low humidity. is it a we're 7. low humidity. you this i go on. 78 how about that for sunday. was not on there sunday looks good too, couple showers ahead of the front. few showers time to time this morning not surprising not a big deal and not enough to wet the pavement in some places that's about. it bigger front is to the north west of us. you can see a couple sprinkles and showers caught up in the flow. weekend forecast looks fantastic. look nice saturday and great sunday. i don't know how you differentiate the two days to be perfectly honest, erin c como. i've been talking to off to the side. >> i'm waiting to tell you about this mess. forecast. get to make good plans to enjoy the sunshine. nice mild temps. rights nobu crashes to report on 66. look at this we have police l

attacks which unfortunately the authorities could not prevent was of course that bombing in the st petersburg metro which took the lives of sixteen people that was of course also an attack on a public transport facility. but they opted to go thank you and we'll keep the press about story and all the rest at the top of the hour stay with us. with this manufactured. to the public will. the ruling classes protect them so. the family. lives. the room signal. is. just shown patrolled by. enemy troop movements of. the river. and. troops of militants have joined forces. those groups need to clear their determination for an independent state in the philippines. to two months of fun. keeps finding hidden weapons and explosives. used to live. in the. act had. a clip of glee state that the abuse really made it to contracts awarded to k.b.r. represents the most blatant and improper contract of abuse i have witnessed during the course of my professional career it's suspicious on how go to move big contract because dick cheney before he became vice president was c.e.o. of halliburton he left. with twenty m

many of these men who had been at petersburg and been in the crater referenced this as the worst fighting they had ever been a part of. they felt this was worse than even being at the crater. for these men, they wore this as a badge of honor. it would be as if someone would meet someone today who landed at omaha beach during d-day. was in the current afghan or iraq wars. this was a place of honor. this was something that people would hold in high asteam that you would actually fought at ft. fisher and survived. there are three other battles with more medal of honor recipients in it. we are number 4. which makes this a very hollowed ground. hallowed ground. >>> you can watch this and other programs on the history of communities across the country at c-span.org/citiestour. this is american history tv only on c-span3. for the first time in nearly a century, a solar eclipse is working its way across the u.s. and we're simultaneous casting nasa's tv coverage now on c-span. and at 4:00 p.m. eastern we want to hear from you about the solar eclipse. join us live on c-span. >> c-span's voices from

it is an opportunity to steal petersburg and they didn't do it. again, i don't know how one explains that. i'm sure brooks and owners have ideas about it. i truly don't. it is a mystery to me because there is a combination of factors there. >> but meade cannot be held accountable for the fact the crossing of the james operation does not result if the fall of petersburg. but i want to point out something. john hennessy is exactly right. words that stick in my mouth. will have [ applause ] because one of the comments that we're going to go back and then cross the james later on. but we're going to go back a little bit to may. after the movement starts from the wilderness to spotsylvania. and there's a traffic jam along the way between warrens infantry and sheridan's calvary and this famous encounter where meade meets grant and complains about sheridan's action and sheridan is complaining and grant smiles and sheridan said if you give me the calvary i'll rip jeb stuart and he said that, and well let him do it. and he sends him off and he does whip st

extensively named joshualdier lawrence chamberlain, he was profoundly disabled after the battle of petersburg in his hips and groin, but it was all underneath his clothing. so, no one really knew. it wasn't something people assumed about him when i first saw him. he carried shrapnel with them all of his life and lived until his late 80's. >> he died 50 years after he was initially wounded. his mobility was impaired, he was sick a lot of the time, repeated infections. >> what we know about some of the -- now would be called ptsd. thethey begin to identify psychological impacts of war? >> that is a tricky question and one at the center of my dissertation project and we talked about a lot yesterday on our panel. freud. an era before certainly, people in america are not the key about the trauma as a psychological condition. when physicians in the civil war used the word trauma, they meant physically. but i do same time, they were deeply aware that men were coming back from war changed and the changes were not good. they knew they were coming back and that something had happened to them, but they

petersburg florida about the debate over federaconfederate monuments and efforts to remove them. watch c-span's "washington journal" on thursday morning. >> you're watching book to be on c-span2, top nonfiction books and authors every we can. tv, television for serious readers. >> throughout the year book to be on c-span two an american history to be in c-span three visit u.s. cities to tour their literary and historical sites and to talk with authors, tonight a book tv in prime time we want to show you some of the stops we made. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> wendy guthrie lyrics, and the plane crash happened in 1948 the news report when across the country, woody guthrie was in new york at the time of course one of the great rebellious folk icons that he is, he heard the news report and he really was upset at the omission of his name. he himself traveled to the san joaquin valley's in the 30s and 40s so he was aware of the plight of the migrant farmworkers. he was upset, he said that's not a way to treat our brothers and sister so he wrote a poem about it. in his poem he attempts to res

the forty seven year old director has take was taken sorry into custody on she stay in st petersburg. where he's shooting his latest movie? june suburban occult was welcomed with cheers by his supporters as he arrived in the moscow courtroom. devotion there to direct was arrested on tuesday. he's been charged with embezzling more than a million euros of cultural state funds. so critical of rejects the charges and as criticism orchestration carroll believes the accu. whom project was complete. and the money is. state was. his role is not directed the state funded google since etcetera brenda called has been out for. and if you. being a campaign of lg bill team writes his used is working to lash out at what he sees. as the growing role of the state and hutch in russian society. and this is not the first time he has faced court. in july the bolshoi theater council the ballet directed by sarah brenda cough. just three days before the opening night. the ministry of culture bonds the performance on grounds of homosexual propaganda. the move prompted many in moscow's alt seem to speak out ag

petersburg, florida. the games will take place at tropicana field, home of the tampa rays. astros series against the mets could also be played there. the decision will be made later this week. >> a lot of moving parts here. >> yeah. more than we can keep track of. >> for us, slow sunshine tomorrow, then we're looking at an isolated storm on thursday. and yes, harvey is going to bring showers our way. friday night, at least friday afternoon, into saturday, possibly even sunday morning. >> that's wusa9 at 6:00. the cbs evening news is next. did you know slow internet can actually hold your business back? say goodbye to slow downloads, slow backups, slow everything. comcast business offers blazing fast and reliable internet that's up to 16 times faster than slow internet from the phone company. say hello to faster downloads iwithnentereet spds up to 250 megabits per second. get fast internet and add phone and tv now for only $24.90 more per month. our lowest price ever on this offer. but only for a limited time. call today. comcast business. built for business.