pickett's charge up cemetery hill, i think you're referring to that.ee with what john just said about the importance of gettysburg. and there's another caveat i think that's important about gettysburg and it's in our frame of reference of talking about wars, many americans, not going to go to normandy, they're not going to see the bulge, they're not going to visit the battles of the pacific but you can go to gettysburg and can you stand there on a hot july day and through the heat and bucolic countryside, can you still sense the cost of war and it's critical. and you can learn a little bit about the history of the cost of war, which i think is important for all americans and american presidents to understand. pickett's charge was basically a suicidal run up the side of cemetery ridge. >> you stand there and you go to so many battlefields and there's no way for you to recreate it but you stand at the top and you look down at pickett's charge and you just gasp. >> you look down and you can envision 12,000 to 13,000 confederate soldiers rushing up that hi

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when pickett was charging against the union front, stuart was coming around the rear with the idea that they would cut the union forces in half. custer actually prevented stuart from carrying out his part of that strategy, because he got himself out from under kilpatrick's orders. farnsworth, on the other hand, was ordered to make a suicidal charge by kilpatrick, and he even questioned kilpatrick and said, "are you certain you want me to do this?' kilpatrick insisted, and farnsworth, only a few days after his appointment to the rank of general, was killed, along with many of his men. custer somehow was able, even under a leader like kilpatrick, to not only keep himself alive but to play a distinguished role. c-span: are there any original notes that he kept, general custer? >> guest: oh, many. he was quite a correspondent in many long letters to his wife in which he discussed and to his family, discussing his battles and his experience in the field but in addition he, of course, wrote many military reports. and at the time of his death, he was writing his civil war memoirs based on his

. >> what do you say, general pickett -- >> that's the other side. >> what do you say when the argumentnaires will find ways to avoid the taxes and this is really a middle class tax increase and there aren't real spending cuts? that's the instant reaction from boehner's base. >> it's not a middle class tax increase because nothing is happening to the middle class. it's raising rates on those with incomes of a million dollars and above. are these people actually going to pay this money or not pay this money? there's a lot of stuff in the tax code that has to be fixed to solve the warren buffett of paying less than his secretary. this bill will not fix any of them. for the people in the million dollar brackett, they will pay more taxes. >> why don't republicans -- you know the numbers on this. warren buffett talked about a 30% minimum tax rate. i mean, that would raise a couple hundred million dollars. >> 160 billion over ten years. >> that's pretty significant stuff. it's not raising taxes. it's getting 30% instead of paying at 14% when middle class americans are paying at double that ri