by pickett stopping him, he asked for support from the infantry. he did not like the answer that he got, but he gets the union fifth corps attached to him. pickett, realizing the infantry was coming to support the cavalry, withdraws to one of the most obscure little crossroads you will ever come across. five roads that intersect in rural dinwiddie county, known locally as five forks. you can go out here in prince edward's county and find five forks here. you can go to every county in virginia and find that intersection. but at the one in dinwiddie george pickett is going to set his men into trenches, running east-west, right through it. to his back, three miles north of there, is the southside railroad. he gets a message from robert e. lee, and the message says, simply, hold five forks at all hazards. it is really the second line of the message that pickett should have read because the second line says protect the road headed to ford's depot. protect the southside railroad. protect the supply line. but pickett reads the order, translates it literal

pickett died. >>> the fbi and philadelphia police want your help finding a man who they say robbed a number of local banks in february. this is the photo here. rashon mitchell. there's a $10,000 reward leading to his arrest. he's held up four banks. three happened in the past week. police consider mitchell armed and dangerous. >>> well the main road to a philadelphia neighborhood is getting a whole new look. >> that's right. a sneak peak at the changes coming to germantown avenue. that's next. >>> plus, the high tech way that a delaware community is trying to cut down on crime bill. >> it's a bit chilly but skies are clearing out. we'll see a lot of sunshine to move the temperatures up. your hour-by-hour forecast when we come back. >>> today, april 15th marks the boston mayor a thorn bombing. boston mayor marty walsh is declaring april 15th one boston day and asking people to do random acts of kindness. just last week a jury convicted dzhokhar tsarnaev. next week they will decide whether to sentence him to life in prison or the death penalty. >>> opening statements in the colorado mo

the two, pickett died. >>> today in philadelphia, several thousand are calling for a $15 minimum wage. nbc 10 was at the mcdonald's at broad and allegheny in north philadelphia. workers walked off the job and joined student demonstrators. this afternoon there will be rallies at temple university and on penn's campus also a march on market street bridge. power should be back on at the former revel camesino by tomorrow after three generator trucks arrived at the casino yesterday. the atlantic city is fining each day the building is without electricity. officials say no power makes it a safety hazard. it went dark last thursday after they could not come to an agreement with the power supplier. >>> new this morning, a school in camden county is the resirp yent preciprecipient of an environmental world. they got nearly $5,000 for the school's project called working together to save the planet. students in 6th through 8th grades will participate in different program like reducing plastic use and controlling outdoor air quality. >>> new information in the germanwings plane. an update as they

investigators say he was involved in an argument with tour manager javon pickett and crew member ericker. boykin then allegedly stabbed the two men. pickett died. >> a judge will decide if a former philadelphia police officer will stand trial in a murder case. david howard faces a preliminary hearing on charges of witness intimidation and making terroristic threats. it the involves the shooting death of william blount in april of last year. police found his body inside a van in the cayouga area of the city. >>> it was the "nbc 10" investigators who told paul moriarity about a prank that he ultimately became a victim of. it's called swatting. that's when somebody calls in a false 911 report sending s.w.a.t. teams in to a home. they told the assembly man about what happened to a millville family. that's when moriarity decided to work on some legislation to make the prank a crime. and this weekend somebody called 911 saying there was a shooting at moriarity's house in washington township. police called moriarity at home and demanded that he leave his house with his hands up. >> he came r

i think i think pickett's charge in some sense is a moment of frustration. he feels like he's running out of time. if you go back to chancellorsville. he is furious that he manages to escape and a lot of confederates think that hookers final position is a pretty strong position. he was planning to order a frontal assault against that position. but hooker withdraws that night. in some sense for can make the greatest mistake he says are really for making a mistake if you make. >> he did. he did. he was asked that question directly. he did say that he thought at this.it was better to begin to enlist african-americans in the fight. you have to include emancipation as part of the deal because people would not fight unless they get emancipation. better to have them fight with us that the going to be fighting. so he does take that you. >> i believe after the war there was a lot of pressure only from generals and officials at the former confederacy to write his memoirs and procrastinated. of course he died in 1870. i was curious i was curious to always there any pre

pickett died. >>> the search continues this morning for a man who philadelphia police say has robbed several banks. this is rashon mitchell. authorities are offering $10,000 for information that leads to his arrest. he robbed four banks and one in springfield, delaware county. three happened the past week including the t.d. bank in university city. you should consider him armed and dangerous. >>> it was the "nbc 10" investigators who first told new jersey assembly man paul moriarity about a prank that he ultimately became a victim of. it's called swatting. they call in a situation and it sends s.w.a.t. members to a house. they told authorities about what happened to a millville family. this past weekend somebody called 911 saying there was a shooting at moriarity's house in washington township. police called him and demanded that he leave the his house with his hands up. >> they came to my front door. i can't tell you what it was like to walk out your front door and have a bunch of police officers with rifles pointed at your house wearing flak jackets and helmets. it's pretty scary.

along with anderson and pickett also was confederate cavalry. so in the federal army general george gordon lee's three army corps, humphrey second corps fifth corps and wright's sixth corps. they will be following here the army mentioned in the confederate white house pictures, he will be following basically what is route 460. now, at the beginning of this campaign, the federal army had 76,000 effectives by the time they get to appomattox they will have 63000 with a loss on this entire campaign of 8,600 men. that's the union army. on the other hand the confederate army ran between 55 and 58,000 affect i was. general lee will surrender about 30,000 of his men at appomattox and casualties will number 48,000, most will be prisoners as we'll talk about tomorrow at sailor's creek. when lee pulled his army from richmond and petersburg they were all to consolidate and move on here amelia courthouse. runs along richmond and danville railroad and goes on through here and crosses the south side railroad right here at burkville. remember that is what lee h

along with anderson and pickett was was the confederate calvary. in the federal army you had general george gordon mead three army corps, and other groups, and they will be following for the most part here the army of the james. following what is basically route 460. the army had 76,000 effective and by the time they get to appomattox they will have 63,000 with a loss on this entire campaign of 8600 men. on the other hand the confederate army ran between 55,000 and 58,000. general lee will surrender about 30,000 of his men at appomattox, their casualties will number 28,000. most of those will be prisoners as we talk about tomorrow at sailor's creek. when lee pulled his army they would all consolidate and move upon here. amelia courthouse you can see runs along the richmond railroad and then crosses the south side railroad at burkeville. that is what he hoped to have supplies waiting for him. when he gets to amelia courthouse he expects to find ration trains waiting for him there through some mixup they are not there. lee decides to spend a day in t

the great heroes of this union were pickett's charge. not broke americans -- heroic americans in central pennsylvania. the new york age tried the central reunion to the current situation of african-americans jim crow and disenfranchisement. their view was about the national syndicate. they were talking about newspapers and business. they wanted business between the sections. that is why they wanted reunion. they were the ones for african-americans actions being there and the african-american veterans say a lot of the white veterans were not pleased with things like the rebel yell and the way confederates behaved. they were at the reunion, but they really weren't on board with the idea that it was a lovefest. really, they were very -- they gave a totally different story. you would get none of this if you had read, as i read, "the washington post." "the new york age" had a different take. prof. varon: as powerful as the reconciliationist narrative was and lost cause narrative was there is a counter argument present and we shouldn't imagine

this is day three action of pickett's charge, they come back to the place where 50 years earlier theyad been shooting at each other and now they are sitting side-by-side. in the same place. so, let's see how these men define reconciliation. one of the things that really struck me when i was doing research on the gettysburg battlefield for my dissertation and book was the way in which contemporary events fine -- define how americans understood the civil war. so we can get deep in the weeds and we can talk about civil war memories and union and confederate veterans, but step back with me for a second and think about what is going on in society writ large. reconciliation takes place, it is the 25th anniversary of the american civil war, what is going on in the u.s.? >> segregation. jennifer murray: segregation has set in. and the famous supreme court case that defines segregation, as legal, issued in 1896, plessy versus ferguson. separate but equal. so the united states has legally become a segregated society. so the rise of jim crow in -- and segregation parallels this reunion of northe

. >> i am on side of pickett's charge. >> hundreds of main that made him immortal. >> a suitcase fullirlooms left. >> a fast talking conman comes to down. >> he dressed well, he was glib of tongue. >> forcing general's heir into battle over his "strange inheritance." >> what was your reaction? >> i was pisd. >> it donned on me i was ripped off.

. >> jimmy: this next one was sent in by joseph pickett in green bay, wisconsin.king out some tv listings and came across this one right here. james and the giant -- oh. [ laughter and applause ] >> steve: hey-oh! >> jimmy: honey, get out of here. your favorite movie? no, it's not. hold on. i'm not going to put on gorilla hump or something. [ laughter ] this next is one from derek sorino in belmont, california. it's an interesting article he saw online. four simple exercises you can do at your desk. [ laughter ] yeah, that one looks pretty easy to do at your desk. if i saw someone doing that, i'd be like, should i come back later? [ laughter ] this is so easy to do. it just takes two minutes of your time. [ laughter ] you can't do that at your desk. >> steve: no. >> jimmy: and take off that onesie or whatever you're wearing. >> steve: yeah, why are you wearing that to work? >> jimmy: you put a suit on. >> steve: where do you work at? >> jimmy: i don't know where he works. >> steve: the onesie factory? >> jimmy: yeah. works at cirque du soleil apparently. >> steve:

this is day three action of pickett's charge, they come back and now they are sitting side-by-side. so, we will see how these men to -- define reconciliation. one thing that struck me when i was doing research was the way in which contemporary events define how americans understood the civil war. we can get deep in the weeds and talk about civil war memories, but step back with me for a second and think about what is going on in society at large. it is the 25th anniversary of the american civil war, what is going on in the u.s.? >> segregation. jennifer murray: segregation has set in. the supreme court case that defines segregation, plessy versus ferguson. separate but equal. so the united states has legally become a segregated society. the rise of jim crow in segregation parallels this reunion for northerners and southerners. so answering frederick douglas's question, what does peace among whites bring? it brings segregation and jim crow. segregated memories for a segregated society. and let's see how they play out in the late 1890's. late 19th century. one of the very tangible way

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