potomac commander. he's gonna we'll get to that in a minute. but he is going to be supervising the army the potomac directly, but from a distance he's going to be supervising a couple of other other small armies and peripheral campaigns. that he hopes will pay off for him. one of those is going to be in the shenandoah valley now. we've seen the shenandoah valley before we saw jackson was out there and made a real headache. for the union in the spring of 62. well grant's going to send an army into the shenandoah valley. small army, which he hopes will keep the confederates from using the shannon to a valley to distract from his main campaign. and hopefully will distract some confederate troops out there himself. he's also going to send another small army on a campaign somewhat similar to what we saw mcclellan do back in 62. that is approach richmond from the rivers going to off the map here. but the rivers well, yeah right here. james river right there now mcclellan, you know went up the york river and t

the potomac. lee tries to drive warren back, figures out, here's a part of the union army separated from the rest of the union army by a waterway top to bottom creek. let's grab them and he has jubal who's now commanding the confederate second corps coordinate with richard herron. anderson, his command, the confederate first corps. so they can attack warren along parallel roads, one on old church road, one over on shady grove road. that thing doesn't work out at all mainly because early and richard herron anderson despite each other and end up calling each other all sorts of names are never able to coordinate their warren is able to escape that trap and basically the union army gets a good foothold below tied apart them like creek but now it gets really interesting the union forces in the shenandoah valley were defeated obviously at the battle of newmarket back around the 15th 16th of may. that stopped sigel and that branch. by the way, my friends, vmi, tell me that there were five or six vmi sold

john stonewall part and in outmaneuvering the of the potomac. okay. yeah stop the stonewall jackson the idea of jim knows the details and certainly better than anybody does. i know but what the lead is divides his army and he sends well back up a little bit. lee and stonewall jackson are having a conference trying to decide what they're going to do and look at the the right flank of the union army. and that's that's anchored on the rappahannock river. but then they look on the right flank of the union army and they see that is in the air. it's not anchored to anything. now, the man oh, howard, was in charge of the 11th corps believes think that he really is anchored in those woods that nobody can get through. but what basically happens in this battle is just by two miles, two and a half miles in front of the union. stonewall jackson moves troops around and smashes into to the end. the right flank of the of the union position. and it's what they talk about in naval parlance, crossing the t you know, this is what happens. and he rolls up the 11th corps

the potomac has at last found a general can handle it and has stood nobly up to its terrible work inspite its long, disheartening list of hard failures. confederate confederacy side john b jones, who i might add in the fifth grade, i want you to know that i actually slogged my way his entire diary. yes. and i look back on that and wonder why haven't read that again july 8th. we have sad tidings from the west. general johnson telegraphs from jackson, mississippi that vicksburg capitulates on the fourth instant. this is a terrible blow and has produced much despondency. if lee falls back again, it will be the darkest day for the confederacy we have seen yet. so jones richmond is learning about vicksburg before they do gettysburg. interesting have how information is traveling henry adams would write to his father who is the minister to great britain july. 23rd 1863. the disasters the rebels are unredeemed by even hope of success. it is now conceded that all idea of intervention is at end, meaning intervention. colonel gorgas. most of you've never heard of, but he was the chief of ordnan

both the army of the potomac and for the time that he was general chief of all the union armies poor. mcclellan has been bashed around a lot. i don't know if any of us up here will take his side. we go along in this debate. i certainly won't. so you could. mcclellan was a superior general who simply could not find a way to feel prepared enough to meet enemy. he consistently and constantly complained that he was outnumbered by confederate forces under joseph johnston and and later robert e lee and all of this was delusional or as we say today based on bad intelligence. so mcclellan certainly is at the center, at the core really of, lincoln, especially in the way that lincoln dealt with him up until the autumn of 1862, when he finally lincoln finally mcclellan. but gosh it took a long time to to reach that point. but that time, i think lincoln was learning quite a bit about being commander in chief and about his armies and also about which despite having served in the black hawk war in illinois and in the 1830s, lincoln didn't really have a firsthand knowledge of of war. and he was very

the potomac river would come up to the base of the monument. people would complain, it was nasty, smelly, and people said we're going to fill this in for a public park. she does down to the national mall in 1883 and she rides to the top of the washington monument which is still under construction. she has to ride the platform elevator which the workmen used to carry the materials to the ton and it was a platform elevator that had a cage, an open sided age with pulleys that would-- she sees this area that is just the kings of potomac park and says one day this is going to be the largest and most beautiful park in the city for future administrations. this tells us by the time she went to japan a few years later, she already had in the back of her mind an idea of a place in washington that would be perfect for a park of cherry trees. so that forced me to kind of rewrite the whole structure of my book because i thought, oh, i can-- you know, the last third of the book will be about the cherry trees, but suddenly, this pushes that story because then

so, helen taft and william howard taft were very interested in the development of potomac park. by this point, the land had been filled in and they were starting to develop the park. they were quite advocates of the project because they both believed in the idea of having a large beautiful park for public recreation. so, she'd been trained as a musician and decided she was going to build a stand along the river and that it would be a place forr public concerts and people from all walks of life around the city could come there and enjoy the music. well, this sounded a whole lot like what eliza had already been proposing in terms of creating a cherry tree park along the river.s so once she heard about the plans, she sent her a note seeking her encouragementnt to include cherry trees, and helen taft, who actually lived in japan for a while, she had a great appreciation of japanese culture, jumped on the idea. so, suddenly these two women are partners in this project. so it was very exciting for me to find some documents in my research that i hadn't seen published anywhere else that

that is just the beginning of potomac park. and she said in her column, one day, this is going to be the largest and most beautiful park in the city, a place of magnificent use in future administration says. so this tells us that by the time she went to japan a few years later, she already had in the back of her mind an idea of a place in washington that would be perfect for a park, cherry trees, so that forced me to kind of rewrite the whole structure of my book because i thought, oh, i can, you know, the last third of the book will be about the cherry trees. but suddenly this pushes that story because then we begin to see the evolution of her vision. so she came back to washington and she goes to the to the men that are in charge of the parks, the city's parks, the army corps of engineers. and she suggests that you should plant cherry trees along the potomac. and they listen to her. they heard her out and then they ignored her. these were army corps of engineers, air officials. they had been trained at west point. they were v

. >> let's go back to 1942 roosevelt loved with a three presidential's in his times in the potomac. book on the right is oakland california today. secure as hobbies it's a place to go get away from the white house helicopter squadron existed, that got to find somewhere drivable nearby. interestingly because of the new deal, bring us out of depression and part of the work projects are the progress administration on the conservation corps put money back into the country i rebuilt a lot of the roads and parks. you place in maryland, also known as camp number three. rose was given three sites nearby to visit. he went to all three when he came to camp number three he looked at it and said this is it. and here's the first and this is my shangri-la. joe roosevelt amended chandra law applying a utopian mysterious place of the mountain. he had that whimsical nature about naming things bridget that's what its name. as mail president eisenhower renamed after his grandson, camp david. that is how we know it today. >> you describe kempton for a lot of our viewers and listeners who i'm sure have

on the potomac we have a model of that steamboat in the state museum collection. some people have referred to him as the engineer in the country west. virginia has been a lot of firsts in production manufacturing throughout the history of united states. one of the leaders is homer lock and china company that produced more china at one time than any other company in the world today. you would know it for fiesta where and fiesta were is a huge collector's item, but they also are very big in dinnerware. west virginia not only stops with china, but they go with glass. as one of the top producers of glassware of anywhere in the world. michael owens developed the first automated bottling plant here that was in a production glass bottles. they also right across the highway, was led by owens ford in charleston which was the largest producer sheet glass of anybody in the world one time. when you talk about virginia leading the way and in manufacturing, coal is one of the resources that has shaped the history of virginia. it goes back it actually ties a lot of the things th

in this case, but just down the road, in the army of the potomac, you've got general joseph hooker. he is celebrating christmas and his new promotion by doling out whiskey rations pretty widely. so can see in two cases, both in fredericksburg or fredericksburg in 1862, you have general really controlling the ebb and flow liquor rations at the top. that's pretty. most of the time the decision about rations passed down the chain of command. so the implementation varies lot by who's in charge. so if a colonel or a major in your chain of command is a teetotal, you're probably not getting any rations. and other times your company officer might have the authority to ladling out whiskey. and so basically what this means is you have a lot of low ranking officers making decisions about what constitutes exposure and what constitutes fatigue. so when men had to march for, there are plenty of commanding officers who thought that a ration of whiskey would stimulate them, so to speak, for the journey. this doesn't work that well. there in plenty of cases whiskey and other forms of liquor are resp

in this case, but just down the road, in the army of the potomac, you've got general joseph hooker. he is celebrating christmas and his new promotion by doling out whiskey rations pretty widely. so can see in two cases, both in fredericksburg or fredericksburg in 1862, you have general really controlling the ebb and flow liquor rations at the top. that's pretty. most of the time the decision about rations passed down the chain of command. so the implementation varies lot by who's in charge. so if a colonel or a major in your chain of command is a teetotal, you're probably not getting any rations. and other times your company officer might have the authority to ladling out whiskey. and so basically what this means is you have a lot of low ranking officers making decisions about what constitutes exposure and what constitutes fatigue. so when men had to march for, there are plenty of commanding officers who thought that a ration of whiskey would stimulate them, so to speak, for the journey. this doesn't work that well. there in plenty of cases whiskey and other forms of liquor are resp

the creek which emptied into the potomac and channeled it started north of here and that was one placethat burroughs and whitman would go. here we have a very fanciful -- it was just painted in 2000 night but i just came across it on the web site of the creek. i don't think it looked this beautiful. whatever. it's a lovely painting. whitman being whitman and being quite and visionary with writer ideas and was very happy to act as a father figure. and he encouraged burros to go beyond purely scientific observationyo and nature and to use poetic language. burroughs the course had to have some kindgu of talent and evidently was a major reasons his riding was so beautiful. and whitman believe that only a personal vision could do justice to natural history and this is in keeping with the times in the writers of that period. you inject yourself into the natural world in order to give the compelling portrait. he had a bit of an ambulance on whitman to according to scholars. burroughs again had the eye for a scientific detail and encouraged him to pay more attention to it. these two guys were

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was definitely there and so this creek, which started and actually flow down and emptied into the potomacere was then channelized along the mall but it started north of here. that was one place that burroughs and whitman could take theirr walks. here we have a very fancy portrayal and this was just painted in 2009, just came upon the white house associations website this week in front of the white house and i don't think that it looked this beautiful. [laughter] but you know, whatever, it is a lovely lovely painting. and right, i should not advance like this but i will. so whitman, pushing whitman quite in visionary writer has certain ideas about writing and was very happy to post sort of act as a father figure with burroughs and he encouraged burroughs to go beyond purely scientific observation and his nature of writing makes this with a poetic language. and burroughs of course have submitted talent to do this but evidently, it was a major influence on him one of the reasons his writing is a beautiful. and they believed that only a personal vision could do justice. the natural history an

the corporate 19 global potomac has also affected the crowd, was economy damage and tourism investment. the interest of this week and only 60 percent of a true page. and most of those are a monopoly. so any kind of travel outside the cities can be a major challenge in the town of rusito. worship is twice as early as 5 am to 10 discharge. yeah. many. right i'm i know you're in the yeah. you're in the the grass. yes, you're pretty soon. sessing out anything about a saturday. yeah. to get the best signal. so the trees alexandria as you have realized, the tree of establishing their own eventually go check the . the congregation is small, does the new change, the service, and the financial offerings, and more to know for the to please, to survive on alexandria show, decide to try and to they're fully for why need to repeat to other towns and physicians that might be on the list mine yet has been the game with me as the most of the but the weather will not be in their favor. the main line means the sub groups of the capital. one unimportant operation is getting underway under close surveilla

the edge of the escarpment, the rise in the land there that marks the end of the flood plane of the potomac and he was well positioned to take walks, which is what he d & n this case, he would be walking up into what would become mt. pleasant, along what was actually the 7th street turnpike, later georgia avenue, and reaching rock creek and the tributary piney branch. so he could do that easily and that led to a number of essays that he wrote and his fishes nature book. it's interesting because it's about whitman and his first nature book, and he in this book had an essay about springtime in the capital and his observations and he talked about piney branch and this is what struck me when i was doing some research into the history of piney branch. burroughs was quite taken about it. he said it's a small noisy brook, flowing through a great valley of beauty and picturesqueness with oak, chestnut and beech and abounding in dark recesses and hidden retreats. he says that's the creek is where he goes every spring to hear the distinctive song of the rereturning wood thrush. the wood thrush, by th

kim strassel and her potomac watch column says is joe biden electable. democrats bet on a weak horse in 2024 presidential race sure his opponent is even weaker. goes on to say it's increasingly difficult to tip toe and the president's disturbing decline. long vacations, early nights, confusion, mumbling, bizarre statements. a june poll found 71% of likely voters, including half of democrats think mr. biden is too old to be president. robert, do you agree with jason that biden may end up not running? >> absolutely not. i was recently at the white house, he's absolutely running. he's showing his first ad into the gop debate that fox is running in the eight swing states. i saw the article and those points really have nothing to do with him being president. he's president biden today, he's not candidate biden and campaigning does not start for an incumbent until towards the end of the year so you will not see the whole idea of candidate biden that jason kind of was referring in his article and kimberly was, you know, for a while. he has a day-to-day job and

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those monuments to heroism is potomac and on the far shore the hills of arlington national cemetery withl, civil white markers bearing crosses or special david they out of two only a tiny fraction of the priceha paid for our ofreedom. each one of those markers is a monument to the kind of hero i spoke of earlier. their lives and in places called the wood, or wrong, omaha beach and halfway around the world, chop hill, the reservoir and 100 christ patties and jungles of a place called vietnam. under one such marker lies a young man, martin left his job in a small town barbershop in 1917 to go to france with a rainbow division. there on the western front he was killed trying to carry a message between battalions under heavy artillery. they found a diary. he had written these words america must win this war. therefore i will work, i will save, i will sacrifice. i will endure, i will fight cheerfully and do my utmost as if the issue of old struggle depended on the loan. the classes today did not require the kind of suck because we were called upon. it doesho require best efforts d willingness

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and if you ride by the by way of the potomac which many people did you and you probably know the side of mount vernon which is way above the river. it's very prominent you would have seen the cupola and you would have seen. this long porch or piazza tears the italian word, which again was a completely unfamiliar feature. which would have suggested that this isn't just any old house it is the house of somebody who is important. and somebody who is creative. somebody who has a very specific idea. of what they want their house to look like? and i think that is really significant. this is in a painting from the probably the early 19th century. here's the plan of mount vernon you have on this side. here's the piazza and you see all the columns observes a little bit blurry. here's the plan of the house itself. what you see here in elevation and then on either side, this is the interesting part you have these curved. walkways that then connect to outbuilding is one of which is a kitchen. here to on either side, so what is trying to create is a symmetrical or balanced composition of parts of

so, on the water side, you saw you would see -- and if you ride by where the potomac, which many people did, and you probably know the sight of mt. vernon which is way above the river, very prominent, you would have seen the cupola and you would have seen this long porch or a piazza, to use the italian word, which again was a completely unfamiliar feature, which would have suggested that this isn't just any old house. it is the house of somebody who is important and somebody who is creative, somebody who has a very specific idea of what they want their house to look like. and i think that is really significant. this is a painting from the early 19th century. here is the plan of mt. vernon. you have on this side, there's the piazza and you see all the columns, and here is the plan of the house itself, what you see here in elevation, and then on either side, this is the interesting part, you have these curved walkways that then connect to out buildings, one of which is a kitchen, on either side. so, what he's trying to create is a symmetrical or balanced composition of parts of the house.

so if you're a stomach or a new potomac, you need something else because at o, without that thing you are essentially a mundane person and shy, pronounce that as well. so the on july the 8th 1941 german troops entered the stony of from the south. soviet soldiers and civilians full of the enemy courageously on the stony and soil go with thousands of casualties sold out the federal home to us want to but we are giving you $52.00. i get that. i'm not sure if i see it or what city of even that's the beauty we bought, the what is pushing it during the years following the soviet victory, a large number of monuments loveless and burial sites were rented to on of those who had fallen in the wall at the vs. just another. however, recently, many of them have either been demolished vandalized or completely neglected part of good enough that we sold the, the of those who do the best because the ones who left to the memory so as to prevent rewrite history and re make consciousness compile for the why it's because the good for you to, to see if those are the i'm action or that seeing welcome back t