the army potomac notched on that day a clear victory. flushing robert e lee from maryland and ending his to bring the war north, perhaps even into pennsylvania pennsylvania union soldiers when it was all over, confronted a staggering on the antietam battlefield. the landscape was otherworldly almost surreal. if phantoms from the spirit world could ever come forth bewilder mortals. one union brigade commander insists it sure never was their time or place or site so seasonable men their eyes as they survey the mangled bodies littering, the field, the odors of burning animal flesh, annexing their nostrils, the death moans of, wounded men drumming in their ears war, its glories. one ohioan remarked. but it has 10,000 demons in these human tortures that makes eyeballs ache. the heart bleed, the lips and the brain real indeed the sensory overload showed that this soldier tantalize ingly described for us exacted often a physical toll. corporal bernard f blakeslee reported that many soldiers detailed to the burial parties from his regiment the n

the army of the potomac marching on that date a clear victory, flushing robert e . lee's maryland, and ending his bid to bring the war north. perhaps even into pennsylvania. union soldiers, when it was all over, confronted a staggering spectacle on the antietam battlefield. the landscape was other-worldly , almost surreal. if phantoms from the spirit world could ever come forth to the welder mortals, one union brigade commander insisted, sure, it never was there time or place or site so seasonable. men distrusted their eyes, as they surveyed the mangled bodies littering the field, the orders of burning animal flesh annexing their nostrils, the death moans of wounded men driving in their ears. war has its glories, one ohio and remarked, but it has 10,000 demons in these human tortures that make the eyeballs a, the heart bleed, the lips palsy, the brain, reel. indeed, the sensory overload this soldier tantalizingly described for us exacted, often, a physical toll. or for bernard f. blakeslee, reported that many soldiers detailed to the burial parties from his regiment

a pivotable moment for the army of the potomac. typically, we narrate this period of the war as being very demoralizing. right? antietam will be followed up after the fiasco at fredericksburg. and there we hear of more accounts of this wave of demoralization that crashes through the ranks. and i just do not see it. because a couple of things happen. one, this is the first sustained encounter with the visceral realities of war. but two, this is also the moment where you get the antiwar democrats. and as these soldiers are mourned in place, and especially after fredericksburg in those winter encampments on the north banks of the river, they are receiving news from home and learning about this mounting antiwar opposition and it clarifies for them exactly what is at stake in the war and they begin sending resolutions back home who want to fight this war to a glorious can conclusion. it fractures. but these two experiences, i think the aftermath of antietam and the aftermath of fredericksburg and the coincidence of these events with gro

about talking about mcclellan and the writing him for his poor generalship of both the army of the potomac and from the time that he was general and chief of all the union armies. poor mcclellan has been bashed around a lot. i do not know if any of us up here will take his side as we go along in this debate. i certainly won't. mcclellan was a superior general who simply could not find a way to feel prepared enough to beat the enemy. he consistently and constantly complained that he was outnumbered by confederate forces under joseph johnston 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 fired mcclellan, but, gosh, it took a long time to reach that point. but, during that time, i think lincoln was learning quite a bit about being a commander and chief and about his armies, and also about war. which despite having served briefly in the black hawk war

because what grant proposed was taking the army to the potomac and landing it not at fort monroe but at suffolk, virginia, and then marching it inland through north carolina, cutting off railroads and supplies into richmond. that's what grant really wanted to do. and halick wrote him back and said that will not fly. it flies in the face of military doctrine, it uncovers washington, and the president will never allow it. and that -- by that time grant becomes general in chief. and only then after that notion has been rejected does grant develop the overland campaign, that straight ahead washington to richmond plan which fit perfectly into the president's view of warfare. joe harsh said years ago that part of r.e. lee's brilliance was learning how to manage jefferson davis. i think part of grant's genius is learning how to manage the expectations and the needs of abraham lincoln. >> so i think we make a -- i think we make somewhat of a mistake to limit the discussion to mcclellan and grant when we assess lincoln as commander in chief, not that i disagree with what you just said. but si

so they're going to start marching and sail up the potomac. and the decision is not made while they're marching. once they get to the fork as to which way to go. so that's how they get. and they're still debating which is going to be the target. absolutely. and reminds me of my favorite other books of yours is george washington's final battle about the effort to create washington, d.c. and it takes a long time for that plan for the city to come to fruition. so it makes perfect sense it took ten years to build it and years and years to for it to become the city that we know and love absolutely. so i think it makes some sense that it's know a little yeah, a little less enticing, but they do make that decision and thanks for plugging the book of course absolutely wonderful stuff but so they make the decision they've reached that fork in the proverbial road and they decide to go to washington. what happens next so they decide to go to washington. the debate between ross and coburn, this it's too easy. in fact, ross says to leading us into a trap.

and some suggested that the assassins had crossed the potomac and were endeavoring to make their way to mosby's rangers. indeed lewis powell alias lewis payne who attempted to assassinate secretary steward. had been part of mosby's command. he had deserted in january of 1865. is reason to believe that perhaps mosby is involved in all of this. yet again we head back to winchester. where general winfield scott hancock was charged with compelling mosby to surrender. even before lincoln's assassination hancock had forwarded to mosby copies of that exchange of letters between grant and lee. had offered the rangers the same terms that had been offered to everyone else. but the possibility of assassins escaping through the valley had heightened hancock sense of urgency. not just where mosby was concerned but for any and all on paroled rebels. hancock now instructed his provost marshals to include information that had not been included on those parole passes that were printed at appomattox. even at lynchburg and farmville. now you can see this parole pass looks much different than that that

and although the potomac region has always been dried, the recent extreme lack of rain place you'll note was to let the government to declare a most emergency. during the summer months, the commercial of a cost of production continues unabated. rodrigo mondanca, an agricultural scientist by trade keeps flashing for the people's right to drink more so the, when the single, when the, when a rivet drawings up, it throws the whole ecosystem out of whack. and they, yeah, no, we don't have an operation. clouds no longer form and it rains. even let, let you know you way. is the navy then to take in seeking either low. she glowed a lot. wasn't going to go because i mean something it's so b is that the water cycle here has been disrupted by the big of a condo produces, and we'll see any of this damage to the ecosystem is completely irreversible. man after that. and then you complete them and say you've ever seen the go on of the days when small farm is group beams, cone, and potatoes. now, as a cato, mona cultures dominate the landscape for many years. we're pretty good on his comrades full again

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monuments to the country because if you look outside the right side of the plane you look overo the potomacer and soul a load of small monuments over the rolling hills of a place called arlingtonle national cemetery. these things do not run on autopilot they require each generation of americans when tested to step up and defend freedom and yes in certain instances to put on the uniform for the last full measure of devotion and service to the greater cause. we are not doing justice to cetheir sacrifices if we allow e country to continue its dissent. we have the responsibility to step up and fight back and to reverse the country's decline and give the country a new birth of freedom so now is the time to do it. f the time for excuses is over. we are not going to get a mobile mulligan on the 202014 election. when we had 50 senators in 2021 barely other majority in the house. the way the society functions if you stand up for what's right and exercise r leadership you could be a governor or presidential candidate or running for city council, you could just bern a concerned citizen and a mom going

well, here it is necessary, on your words, to recall the statement of the president of the potomac foundation, philip karber, you remember, at the beginning of this year. who said that you ukrainians say that we the united states do not give you enough, but you yourself did nothing to have it all yourself, as my great-grandfather said when he the combi docks came to uncork and told grandfather to give it to the sukiyru and say, this is my ax, where is your ax, things like this continue in ukraine, unfortunately, they continued until the beginning of this russian-ukrainian phase of the war, which has been going on for centuries, let's say it honestly . why did this happen? you know, once such a question was already put to me, and not only to me, but also to other former heads of the antonov state enterprise. after all, it was, well, i don't want to say military, it was political, a political choice of the time leadership of already independent ukraine. anyway, at that time, you know, the aircraft carrier cannot be deployed. er, on the spot, how can you do this with a formula 1 car, it will sti

i'm an expert on tech and he joins us from potomac, maryland in the us, a welcome to the w. yup. disease 1st attack in ankara for years. a tell us about that. is long running conflict with the p k. k. well this conflict has been floated 21984, and the turks have been very active in going after the p k. k in the condo mountains in iraq. and clearly this faction of the p k. k has determined that now was a good number to strength. there are obviously political reasons for the p k. k to want to strike, to undermine any efforts on the part of the turks to repair their relations with their western allies. things along those lines. but the suicide bombing aspect of it is something actually quite new for uh, for the p k. k. it's not something that we haven't seen a progression of violence over time. but this is actually something, you know, something ominous that suddenly there has been a suicide attack in the part of the turkish capital. yeah. what, what does, what does this new tactic? tell us this other side of desperation as well. it certainly is on an escalation uh, on the part

very conflicting signs of this home on potomac court in san jose. >> one many people know that the home is for sale and just behind at the sign on the fence as it's unsafe to occupy surrounded by chain-link fence and warning signs. the san jose home isn't even close to move in. ready this sign in particular, letting the public know that the home had been used as a meth lab. go to the keller williams realty web site, and you'll find that the home is listed for more than 1.5 million dollars. realtors, 8 hanna has an office just 3 miles from the home and says it's a sellers market. but this listing price surprises him. if they do achieve this 1550 1000 that they're asking for, that's a home run. honestly, i'd be very surprised if they get. this was the scene back in march when the home's owner was arrested for having explosive material and police investigated for possible narcotic activity. the properties description online is transparent with the fact that the home is currently in an active meth lab and meth contamination, that the home will be transferred to a new buyer and its current s

went to the neighborhood today to see what state that houses very conflicting signs of this home on potomacrt in san jose. >> one many people know that the home is for sale and just behind at the sign on the fence as it's unsafe to occupy surrounded by chain-link fence and warning signs. the san jose home isn't even close to move in. ready this side in particular, letting the public know that the home had been used as a meth lab. it seems like the sellers confident about how much the house is worth go to the kellmr williams realty web site and you'll find the home is listed for 1 million, 550,000 dollars. that's up 125,000 from just a few days ago. realtors, 8 hanna has an office just 3 miles from the home and says it's a sellers market. but this listing price surprises him. if they do achieve this 1550 1000 that they're asking for, that's a home run. honestly, i'd be very surprised if they get. this was the scene back in march when the home's owner was arrested for having explosive material and police investigated for possible narcotic activity. the properties description online is transpa

now usually the criticism stops when it gets to the potomac, just outside of washington dc, where there has been vice partisan support for israel. we've seen a handful of democratic left leading congress. people come out and say that the support needs to end. but in general, it's bi partisan. well that got flipped out. it's had all of a sudden when that your former year's president, donald trump, was speaking to a riley in florida last night. listen to what he had to say. but i'll never forget . i'll never forget that b, b. net, yahoo, let us down. that was a very terrible thing. i will say that. and so what i see sometimes, so the intelligence you talk about the intelligence. so you talked about some of the things that went wrong over the last week. they've got it straightened out because they are fighting, potentially a very big force. they're fighting potentially around. and when they have people saying the wrong things, everything they say is being digested by these people because they're vicious and they're smart. and so he's now call it have a loss which again the us considers a t

if you look out the right side of the plane, over the potomac river, nondescript monuments, and and iturred to me, the most declaration of independence, and require each generation of americans, and to risk your life and give the measure of devotion and service to the greater cause. we were not doing justice to their sacrifices and their memories, if we allow the country to continue its dissent. we have response ability to step up, responsibility to fight back and responsibility to reverse this country's decline and give the country a new birth of freedom. now's the time to do it. the time for excuses is over. we are not going to get a mulligan on the 2024 election. i don't want to be in a situation of recriminations and the democrats get in again and end of doing greater damage and think about the damage they have done when they had 50 senators, barely majority in the house and they were able to do all this damage but when we have majorities republicans don't do squat with the majorities, how do we keep letting this happen? we all got to do our part. the way the society functions, whe

and she's bitten by potomac fever. probably the most deadly fever in the history of mankind. she goes over to spain during the spanish war in the 1930s. and she becomes deeply involved with british espionage in during their civil war. she then goes to for special operations executive mr. churchill's little plaything of spies in occupied europe. in the beginning of the war in vichy france. and she does a very credible job, so creditable all that a gentleman by the name of william stephenson, head of security operations throughout the entire western hemisphere. you know, his biography, a man called intrepid. he will her the most important spy of world war two, four, two reasons, one for himself and england and one for general eisenhower. power and operation torch, the invasion of north africa. what she does is there's a log jam on capitol hill. gee, that sounds familiar. and senator arthur vanden berg is an old curmudgeon. and he's not going to on lend-lease. in the spring of 1941, i'll be darned if fdr is going to get lend-lease over my vote. cynthia goes to pay him a midnight

the final moments of his speech just two weeks earlier, sputnik dived into the frigid waters of the potomac river to a passenger of an air florida that crashed into the 14th re bridge during takeoff from what was then known as washington national airpo. we now know it, of course,s the ronald reagan airport. sputnik became overnight celebrity and thmea replaye heroic chant for millions of americans on the evening news, the white hoe invited sputnik and his wife linda to sit next to first lady nancy reagan in the house gallery during reagan's address and, the president concluded his speech by identifying sputnik as an example of the spirit of american heroism at its finest. even as he honored publicly, reagan also the young government employee, to represent what he called the, quote, quiet, everyday heroes, unquote, who sacrificed their time and their energy to revitalize the american spirit by pointing out sputnik to those in the house gallery and to millions of americans watching at home. reagan helped his audience visualize what. he was describing the ideals of a modern american hero were

the final moments of his speech just two weeks earlier, sputnik dived into the frigid waters of the potomac river to a passenger of an air florida that crashed into the 14th street bridge during takeoff from what was then known as washington national airport. we now know it, of course, as the ronald reagan airport. sputnik became overnight celebrity and the media replayed heroic chant for millions of americans on the evening news, the white house invited sputnik and his wife linda to sit next to first lady nancy reagan in the house gallery during reagan's address and, the president concluded his speech by identifying sputnik as an example of the spirit of american heroism at its finest. even as he honored publicly, reagan also the young government employee, to represent what he called the, quote, quiet, everyday heroes, unquote, who sacrificed their time and their energy to revitalize the american spirit by pointing out sputnik to those in the house gallery and to millions of americans watching at home. reagan helped his audience visualize what. he was describing the ideals of a modern amer

let's bring in mark avallone of pa potomac wealth. we see the fed deciding not to hike at the next meeting come up in the next meeting. that is the latest opinion. do you agree? >> there is a lot of truth to that. you have terrible headlines across the world. we have the ukraine-russia war and the tragedy in gaza. the stock market now rallies and that comes down to the fact that interest rates drop due to the flight to safety. there was pillow talk coming from the fed heads yesterday. they where underscoring they wee near or end of the hiking cycle the. jay powell is the number one factor that could tilt stocks to the positive if the fed continues this pillow talk and sweet rhetoric and whispering what the market investors want to hear and then we see the stock market rally. short of that, i think there is caution. >> to your point, four speakers spe from the fed speaking later today. we have earnings growth for q3. earnings growth still. does the rise for oil prices change your mind about the q3 earnings? >> it will help earnings in

> during may may trip to tons with the support of the armed forces of ukraine i signed a contract potomacound truth and facts of ukraine to the global community and i continue in a role of tv spokesperson. >> how is this not a skit? remember this is the psycho who said this. >> next week, the teeth of the russian will gnash harder and their mouth foam in frenzy as the world will see a favorite kremlin propaganda justice will be served. if you look at putin's mouth you'll notice blood drips from it. he's a vampire carrying out genocide against ukranians and russians alike. put i bathe's in the blood of children and enjoys it. >> she writes like yoko ono sings. this brave soldier remains inspiration to everyone proving behind every great woman there's a man waiting to try her shoes on. the weird thing is not that she's trans. she's a american spokesperson for the ukranian army. that's the weirdest thing. >> yeah, i think it's sort of darkly humorous, unfortunately that ukranians look at america and go they've got to get billions of money out of this country. what is a thing that get america

economy in today's meeting is only about access to drinking most of the, of this community in the potomac region, water residency, it has been ration for use with the flow. you mentioned to us a few hours a day as governor producer wants to improve the infrastructure for drinking water to bring about change sea level when he already saw with the normal whoever would enter to the digital able dental and if that glass. and if it's important for residents to organize and stand up so that ryan is in miami, and i'm here to support the social movement. went to help with the transformation, but mostly on, you know, movement associated those who have up until now being among the power list. and that have noticed in the beginning to take the reins in the administrations and institutions funding for the benefit of the pool. as it'd be see all that and kind of seen enough now you would rico speed had to just social is meant for the right towards that to 20. 21 is low knowing that there's a lack of clean drinking water in the region. all that it's being contaminate by waste water from launch corporat

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