what grant is going to do is something no other commander did since robert e lee fought. he's going to keep the initiative. it doesn't matter what happened. grant is going to keep pushing staff. that is going to apply pressure on robert e lee's army. this strategy is going to keep riding down the confederate army. he is going to utilize the woods for about 12 miles from where we are to nullify grant numbers of 123,000 or so. what we have is you're going to see some -- from chancellorsville to gettysburg. we saw man-made roads. we saw fortifications, but they don't actually dig fortifications. he is going into open country. to paraphrase one officer, he essentially said by the third day they are in pregnant. they seem to do the three days work in less than 24 hours. these men are going to be digging. they are going to be constantly digging. those are going to be very impressive. it will take place less than a month later. as the campaign of evolved, lee has to adjust tactics, as do the union forces, and both sides have to dig in. and the american civil war, you stood should

i grew up near robert e. leepark, and i knew there were several civil war monuments, but this is one after another. and including one to confederate nurses, by the way. there's even an entry for john brown's raid. that might strike you as odd, but you need to remember that he planned his raid in maryland and stayed at a farm owned by a family named kennedy. what's striking about the entry on the raid is it doesn't tell you why john brown raided harper's ferry. it just says john brown raided the arsenal at harper's ferry. there is no mention of the thought of freeing the slaves. none of that. none of that as it slides. >> as a good thing? >> oh, no. it's almost encyclopedic. let fee get the facts down and let's be done. in fairness, most were done like that. >> it's odd they would have commemorated that. >> it, too, is part of the -- john brown is part of kind of a segregationist memory, because everyone agreed that john brown was crazy, right? in my high school history textbook, we had a picture of john brown and

in case you're wondering robert e. lee at this point is a glorified military sidekick to president jefferson davis. it was les partnership that change the civil war with any other single factor but for now he is another general with a sketchy record. jackson won his battles when hopes were at their lowest with the confederacy needed in a war it was losing proof the notions of the southern character were not just romantic dreams with inferior resources jackson with his brilliant campaign give that to them. and 120,000 union soldiers muscled their way up near the 55,000 confederates. but jackson was coming on the train to save the city and the confederacy. that is what people in the south saw. with unrealistic expectations to put on two divisions of exhaustive men as exhausting as the campaign may have been. into a month after his arrival in the summer of 1862 the capital being threatened a defeated union army with the greatest military disaster with the battle of manassas. people would ask what got me interested in stonewal

grant say to robert e lee when they first met? >> they first talked about the mexican war. ey had been fighting on the same side. grant told me that he remembered meeting him. lee said he didn't remember meeting him. at the time of the mexican war, lee was senior to grant. both of them made important contributions to american victory in that war. after that the next thing after they talked about the mexican war, lee told grant maybe we should get down to the recent business we came here to do. enough small talk. grant sat down and wrote out the surrender terms. >> he wrote about himself? >> he did. >> did he know what he was going to write down? >> he had it in his head. they were generous terms. they paroled the confederate soldiers and said a few go home and observe the laws in places you live. >> when he left that long train of union soldiers, what did they do? did they stand up? did they salute him? >> they tipped their hats in recognition of a worthy foe and a gentleman. >> lee went on to be president of washington lee university. >> that's right. it was renamed washing

to see whether anyone can guess the right answer here -- which president pardoned robert ely -- robert e. lee? does anyone know? after the end of the civil war, robert e. lee told his troops, "lay down your arms, go home, swear allegiance to the united states," which he did, and he reapplied for united states citizenship. it was gerald ford who pardoned him. so i am 100% on that one. >> many tv shows and movies center around washington, d.c. i would like to hear your opinion on whether or not this accurately depicts the city and all of its beauty. >> that bruce willis movie that i love, "live free or die," and he comes to washington, d.c., in that movie. i actually never, ever watch tv shows that are set in washington, d.c. people have told me that my cover looks a lot like the netflix show "house of cards," which was unintended, but "house of cards" is filmed in baltimore. for me, i have lived here for 30 years, and it just bothers me too much. i watch murder stuff -- tbs murder mysteries. but if it brings in tax dollars, why not? revenue, why not? >> the washington monument is off-center, a

robert e. lee has to point in the war been a sort of glorified military sidekick to president jefferson davis. that will soon change, of course. it was lee's partnership with jackson, in fact, that changed the civil war in the east in 1862 more than any other single factor. but for now lee is just another general with a sketchy civil war record. to the south itself, jackson had won his battles just when hopes were at their lowest. what the confederacy had desperately needed in a war it was obviously losing was a myth of invincibility, proof of notions of the courageous southern character were not just romantic dreams, proof that with inferior resources, it could still win the war. jackson, with his brilliant underdog valley campaign had given that to them. that train he was riding on june 19th that i mentioned a few moments ago was headed to rich where at that moment 120,000 union soldiers faced a mere 65,000 confederates, one of the biggest mismatches of the war. it was thought on both sides that

grant and robert e lee. rosecrans, but people like george henry thomas and others who fought in the western just were not discussed much. that has changed in recent years. thele have looked at campaigns in middle tennessee, west virginia, and people have looked at these campaigns and have generally been favorable to rosecrans. but no one seems to string them together, and very few people into the political dimension. i'm going to close with two things. , should we do anything about this? recently, didn't have a statue anywhere. he does have one in ohio. last september, citizens in his home county dedicated a statue to him, north of columbus. if you're ever in that area, you should go visit it. it's a great story how local people decided to do something. it's a very handsome statue, also. does he have a statue in washington? no. why doesn't he have a statue? well, i think in part because he lived too long. if he died in 1870, he may have gotten a statue. general thomas, who died in 1870, has a statue. but he

davis twice tried to persuade robert e. lee to go south and take command of the troubled army, but lee convinced the president that is was more important for him to remain in virginia. in october, davis himself made the trip to georgia to sort out the problems between bragg and his suburb nats. every -- subordinates. every several pain philadelphia confrontations davis decided to keep bragg in command. one reason for that controversial decision was that the logical alternative bragg was johnston. davis had tried to get johnston to take direct command of that army back in the spring, but of course that hadn't worked and now davis was so angry at johnston that a renewed offer seemed impossible. but after bragg's disastrous defeat in chattanooga in november, the pressure on davis from all quarters, most quarters, at least next, in the south to appoint johnston, became overwhelming. davis first tried -- well, he did actually name general will rum hardy to the both but hardy turned it down because he didn't feel up to the task of le

these were verses and davis's waning confidence caused the present to recall robert e. lee and install him as his top military adviser assorted general in chief in richmond. one of these first activities in that capacity was to instruct general thomas j. jackson, that is stonewall jackson, to carry out the virgin mary attacks in the shenandoah valley which of course jackson did with famous success. nevertheless mcclellan increased the pressure with the buildup a large army at the tip of the virginia peninsula 75 miles down the keynes river. .. >> he had his own army of about 60,000 men. instead of attacking, he brought up his big guns and methodically prepared to polarize the defenses with heavy artillery. now, despite having been overruled by davis, he still intended to evacuate the yorktown lines without a fight. he delay that until mcclellan was ready to open with this artillery. he favored to keep them informed at the last minute on may 1 when he told the president that he must allow the next night and davis was shot and it would mean the loss of folk and the ironclad v

. >> rose: some of that was robert e lee too. >> well, lee and davis saw eye-to-eye on many strategic issues. >> rose: and then whatever happened to gettysburg -- >> well, davis completely supported lee both before, during and after the gettysburg campaign. i think where lee would have been critical-- critical of davis might have been in davis's decision to replace joseph johnston as command of the second largest confederate army and to replace him with john bell hood and to support hood's aggressive counterattacks against sherman. there are some other decisions that might be questioned by jefferson davis but you can say the same thing about lincoln, you can say the same thing about any leader in a war. >> rose: who was jefferson davis's greatest general? >> lee no question about it. i think there's no question that lee was the greatest general of the confederacy. >> rose: was he the greatest-- was he a better general than -- >> i don't think so. maybe tactically, could manning armies on the battlefield itself. but i think grant had a broader strategic vision of what was necessary to

like some of that is robert e lee. >> lee ann davis saw eye to eye on many issues. >> davis of portedee before and after the campaign. where lee would have been critical of davis might have been in davis decision to replace johnson as the command and replace him with with hood. there are more decisions that may be questioned. you can see the same thing about lincoln and any leader in the war. >> who was his greatest general? >> lee, no question. lee was the greatest general of the confederacy. >> was he better than grant? >> i don't think so. maybe tactically. commanding armies on the battlefield itself. grant had a broader rich nugent vision of what was necessary to win the war. it was stronger in his understanding of the importance of logistics then lee. when grant became general and was responsible for all union armies he was in the right place. >> why did lincoln choose grant? >> grant had proved himself to be the most successful general. he worked his way up from brigadier general. he had been successful at every level. he didn't give lincoln any kind of trouble the way so many g

washington's portrait watched over the president of the confederacy and his generals, such as robert e. lee, while they planned strategy and held their councils. the confederate first lady was heavily pregnant with their sixth child, this would be winnie, and worried about her husband whose delicate constitution was not baring up well under his enormous responsibilities. he noticed his angular sharp features becoming more prominent by the day. the stress had taken a toll on the president who recently begun to look much older than his 56 years. his wife watched carefully over their four young children, margaret, maggie and poly in the family, jefferson davis jr., jeff, william how well, billy, and the youngest joseph emory known as little joe. although she could hear gunfire in the distance, she fervently wished she could keep her children safe at the executive mansion which had been her one oasis of peace since they moved in in august of 1861. the mansion was a stately and gracious home originally built in 1818 for john broken bro an aristocratic virginiaen who was president of the bank of

from here, and there are people in my home state who still get teary when you start to talk about robert e. lee gives a damn about jefferson davis. (laughter) he was the president of the confederacy. i'm not saying anything about your book, it's a great subject, but why don't we love davis? >> well, davis was at the top of the chain. somebody has to be blamed for defeat, and the buck stopped at the president's desk. >> stephen: he said that, originally, didn't he? the buck stops here. >> harry truman said that. >> stephen: he was the harry truman of the confederacy. >> that's correct. (laughter) >> stephen: question about davis, great confederate or the greatest confederate president? >> he was the only. >> stephen: i'll put you down for greatest, because they don't have greater-greatest here. growing up in south carolina, i know the civil war wasn't primarily about slavery. >> mm-hmm. >> stephen: why did davis feel they had to secede? >> because the civil war was about slavery. >> stephen: economic issues, states' rights but not slavery. >> mm-hmm (laughter) davis said lincoln's election repre

is a civil war photograph of slaves owned by robert e lee. it is owned by the national park service. byit was recently discovered the keen eye of a local volunteer. incredibly, a second photo of this woman, selena gray, was recently discovered by a national park service volunteer. on the back of the photo, an inscription reads, "general lee's slaves." on saturday, it will be on public display here for the first time. undoubtedly, her children will see it. >> she was the housekeeper for general lee, and the great granddaughter of martha and george washington. left her get married in their home, in the parlor where they got married. -- they let her get married in their home, in the parlor where they got married. on general lee's arlington estate, that is were this photo was taken 150 years ago. how this strikes me is how presented selena and her daughters are in this photo. selena was an incredibly courageous woman. she said to save this place and save these priceless heirlooms of what was then a confederate general. slave, though she was a she

with hearts sitting on the platform waiting for the robert e. lee -- that's a great title. the poem's not so good, but when -- [laughter] when you get to the point that your titles are more interesting than your poems, you know you should have laid your pencil down. [laughter] city on the -- horace had a farm outside of rome and spent all his time there are, most of his time there. 70 years and what's left or better still, what's gone before? a couple of lines, a day or two out in the cold, and all those books, those half-baked books, sweet yeast for the yellow dust. like you, i'm sane and live at the edges of things. countryside flooded with light, sundown, the chaos of future mornings just over the ridge but not here yet. i shall be released. there's a consolation beyond nomenclature of what has passed or is about to pass, though i don't know what it is. but someone somewhere must, and this is addressed to him. come on, long eyes, crack the book. thumb through the pages and stop at the one with the golden script. breathe deeply and lay it on me, that character with the lu

robert e lee's army draws a lot of its supplies from eastern north carolina. any force in eastern north carolina threatens that line of communication. they want to launch a counter offensive in the spring before the main fighting starts, which is expected to start in may. robert houck coordinates and offensive with the albermarle. in mid-april, houck with about 10,000 men is going to go towards plymouth and attacked. meanwhile, the albermarle will come out. she will announce her presence with authority. the two union steamers are going to engage. the albemarle almost sinks herself in the process. the miami is going to withdraw. two days later, plymouth falls, surrendered in a combined army-navy attack by the confederates. all of a sudden the roanoke river is back open to confederate traffic. a few weeks later after consolidating their gains, the albemarle and union navy will go at it on the roanoke river just downstream of plymouth. as the albemarle gets the better of the fight going after these union double enders is going to explode one of them's boilers, fo

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office, i was sitting there looking at the records and i got a call from the judge whose name was robert e. leeshould not take this case. all of it was so surreal because the evidence of his innocence was more overwhelming. this case took place in monroeville, alabama if you go to that community you see all the memorabilia, there's a leading citizen put on a play each year, all the streets are named after characters, there is this romanticized fascination with that story. >> and here it was playing out again. >> where an innocent black man was being convict ed. >> this is 1993 that he is exonerated? >> that's right. >> this is not 50, 70 years ago? >> no. >> one of the things that's so important about the book and the work you're doing, it calls attention to individual stories and your grandmother. you say she once said, you can't understand most important things from a distance, you have to get close. do you think that is why opinions on the death penalty are where they are? i mean, they basically haven't moved in the last couple months when we talked about botched executions and a host of oth

alsoonfederate army realizes the importance of north carolina, particularly because the army in virginia, robert e lee's army, draws a lot of its supplies from eastern north carolina. any force in eastern north carolina threatens that line of communication. they want to launch a counter offensive in the spring before the main fighting starts, which is expected to start in may. the commander in the area, a man ck, coordinatesu an offensive with the albermarle. in mid-april, houck with about 10,000 men is going to go towards plymouth and attacked. meanwhile, the albermarle will come out. on april 16 as the confederates approach, she will announce her presence with authority. the two union steamers, the miami and the southfield, are going to engage. the albemarle almost sinks herself in the process. that then there is a twist and le pops back to the surface. in miami is going to withdrawal. two days later, plymouth falls, surrendered in a combined army-navy attack by the confederates. all of a sudden the roanoke river is back open to confederate traffic. a few weeks later after consolidating their gains, t

robert e lee gives an order to jeb stuart in 1863. he wants to find out what the union army is up to. this does not sound like an strange order to stuart. he has done it before. he can do it again. he takes his troopers out for a ride around to gain information. nothing about this seems strange or out of character. the problem is that generally is ill, ill physiologically and he had actually had a heart attack at this period. he also suffered from debilitating bouts of dysentery. he was still grieving the death of his daughter anna. anna had been born with a large disfiguring birthmark on her face, and a childhood accident had left her blind in one eye. this added to her further disfigurement. those of you who are fathers and mothers know that if you have a child like that, they are special to you. lee knew that she would need him in a way that his other children did not. and then she died and he was not there. he was additionally still missing stonewall jackson. he was less than his usual self. to suggest that he might have been a ta

davis twice tried to persuade robert e. lee to go south and take command of the troubled army but he convinced the president that it was more important for him to remain in virginia. in october, davis himself made the long trip to georgia to sort out the problems between brad and his subordinates. after several painful conversations and confrontations, davis decided to keep brad in command. one reason for this controversy will controversy will the session is that the logical alternative to brag was johnston davis tried to get johnston to take the right command of the army back in the spring but of course that hasn't worked and now they just was so angry at johnston that it renewed and seemed impossible. after disastrous retreat with pressure on davis from all quarters to johnston became overwhelming. davis tried that he didn't feel up to the task of leading that afflicted organization. so in the end, davis had nowhere else to go than johnston who became the army of tennessee's new commander in december 1863. johnston said the w

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. >>> the national park service unveiled a rare photo today of one of robert e. lee's slaves.woman who helped save his arlington home. celina gray was the head housekeeper for lee and his family. she worked at their home, which now sits above arlington national cemetery. this picture of her and her two children was found on ebay. a british seller stumbled upon it at a yard sale. and a nonprofit bid $700 for it. gray is credited with saving heirlooms in the home. the photo was only the second-known photo of slaves at arlington. >>> another teenager shot and killed by police and it spoorar another protest in missouri. why this case is a vivid reminder of the michael brown >>> a new york city police officer is facing accusations of stealing more than $1,000 from a man he stopped to question. it happened a few weeks ago. but video of the incident was just released a short time ago. >>> here's another story we want to tell you about. you may not get to take a selfie with ellen and other celebrities. but you can pay to have an academy awards experience. it's available in the 2014 ne

grant and robert e lee had pummelled each other, outside of richmond, near rich p monday in virginia, grant lost 60,000 men in that period, in the midst of all that carnage, abraham lincoln was renominated by the republican party for president. and he was put on a platform pledging a constitutional amendment to abolish slavery. if any of you have seen the wonderful spielberg movie "lincoln," you know how that turned out. although his nomination was unanimous, he wasn't really well liked by every member of his party. the radicals were trying to get rid of him. before lincoln's renomination, the treasury department secretary used patronage, putting people into helpful positions that may have been able to help get rid of lincoln. john charles freemont refused to drop out of the race. he actually was the first republican candidate in 1856 and freemont was threatening to divide the republican party if lincoln didn't drop out of the race. what better patriotic day to hold a convention, and the democrats saw how badly the war was going and they thought, maybe we should wait and see how much

it was a long, hot, awful summer. 1864, ulyssese of s grant and robert e lee had pummeled each other outside of richmond, near richmond and virginia. grant lost 60,000 men during that time. in the midst of all that carnage, abraham lincoln was renominated by the republican party for president. platformt on a pledging a constitutional amendment to abolish slavery. if any of you have seen the wonderful spielberg movie "lincoln," you know how that turned out. although his nomination was notimous, he was necessarily well-liked by everyone in his party. the radical wing of his party were doing everything it could to get rid of him before his renomination. the secretary of the treasury as using his position treasury department secretary to use patronage, putting people into useful positions who might be able to help get rid of lincoln as a republican nominee. and after lincoln was nominated, a major general named john charles fremont refused to drop out of the race until september. so fremont had actually been the first republican candidate for president in 1856, and he was threatening to

one other great example missing, robert e. lee, commissioner at the s.e.c., in the '80s, i was on the hill, said with regard to cellular telephony, 1978, '79, what a frivolous waste of spectrum people use it for telephone calls. a sitting commissioner of the fcc, not even 40 years ago. commissioner lee, not trying to disparage him, folks at at&t saying, and i think in the '60s, never get within 100,000 cellular phone, cellular phone this size and gonna cost you, $20 a minute, yeah, 100,000 of them. this size and you know, 700 million and basically, you know, $60 a month unlimited, gonna get 7 billion of them. the way it works. >> nobody predicted that even the inventor of the cell phone, marty cooper, admits freely, such a wonderful fellow, no idea what was coming. >> why this factor, 1934. in 1934, they didn't worry about are we predicting the future, going against the market right in the future? are these technologies? what they basically said is we are going to create an agency and an agency is going to have expert tea expertis

away at the time of the crime and one of these really outrageous cases, the judge whose name is robert e. lee represent him. we found out one outrageous thing after another. it was all juxt opposed. and yet there is this disconnect. they were comfortablewalk watching this incident african-american man be convicted and sentenced to death for a while i crime he didn't commit. >> the evidence was contrived, many knew about this? >> there was a horrific murder. they couldn't solve the crime. i think there was so much pressure on police and prosecutors. what seemed to get him in trouble, he was having an affair with desmon women. there were all kind of witnesses who could confirm he didn't commit this crime. he coerced a man to testify against him. he coerced these interviews. >> water your story? how did you become a lawyer? >> i grew up in the a poor rural community in the south. i remember when lawyers came into our community to open up the schools. >> that never left me. within i was in law school, i went to the deep south, found people literally dialing for assistance on death row and seeing

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