robert e. lee, leaving richmond, saved one pristine uniform and a presentation at sword. for something. [laughter] he's going to put it on to go meet general grant. the question i would pose to you, as far as i'm willing to get into someone's head, did he know when he left richmond at petersburg, did he know what was going to happen? i leave that question rhetorically for you to decide. grant, for his part, has been on campaign. he is muddy, riding around sheridan's forces opposite gordon. gets a message from lee, "find a place in appomattox. i will meet you there." "send it on this road, i will be there." after some searching, being palm sunday, april 9, the courthouse is locked. after some searching the end up in the parlour of one wilmer mclean. general beauregard's headquarters. he says "the war started in my front yard and ended in my parlor.' lee goes in. grant, when he shows up in the early afternoon, has brought a retinue of staff officers, generals along to witness. they step in. it's a ve

perhaps again because of that stunted childhood that was forced upon him, robert e lee will form very few friendships. his closest friends will be his cousins like caches lead. sius lee. his closest friend was jack, a fellow officer. he will die in his 30's and lee never finds another one to replace him. he will write to one of his young son saying how sorry he was that he had made so few friends because he had no one with whom to share his joys and his sorrows. he advises his sons, meet more places, make yourself a and a congenial family in the world that he never had. other hand has friends all over the place. this is one of the things that grant will be faulted for. sometimes he was not a good judge of his friends. he is happy-go-lucky, affable. life seems to be easier for grant. girls. grant love for goingl known miles to go to a dance. too.ure lee did, but there's no evidence of any teenage romances or infatuations. when we finally decides to get serious about it, he identifies his distant cousin and courts until they arene married. when grand finally meets a woman he falls in lo

robert e. lee's surrender back to a post apocalyptic battle ground and turning entire neighborhoods to runl this has already claimed the lives of four others in the south. the massive ef 3 tornado that hit pensacola, florida with winds topping out at 155 miles per hour, the strongest of the year. and one person said his neighborhood resemblees a war zone. thousands of people up through new jersey are without power and thousands of flights have been canceled or delayed due to the storm. delta even brought pizza for frustrated hungry passengers after their flight was rerouted to syracuse. >>> as new york city saw rain and heavy wind strong enough to blow over this tractor trailer on the george washington bridge. and a vehicle burst into flames. and meteorologist bill karins

army colonel robert e. leetory changed here inside this building. >> brown is charged with treason, murder, and inciting a slave rebellion. >> this is, jamie, the building where john brown would be brought and tried. >> was it standing-room only? >> the courtroom was just jammed. brown's popularity had expanded way beyond the rather narrow field of abolitionism. >> as his trial focuses the nation, his conviction and death sentence irretrievably divide it. who supported him? >> he was referred to by people like henry david thoreau and ralph waldo emerson as "saint brown the just." >> a saint? >> but, in the south, he was seen as the devil. he was seen as a terrorist. as a result of john brown, people were now willing to go to war either to defend slavery or to end it. and america divided. and john brown produced the ultimate divide. >> december 2, 1859. knowing full well his belongings are being sought after as relics, he gives them to his guards. he also entrusts one with a handwritten prophecy. >> i, john brow

. >> robert e. lee? >> she said robert e. lee. >> dan got that one correct. >> geez, sara. >>> you never know. >>> okay, this university of and poet -- >> i missed the first part. >> -- he wrote this novel became a hugely popular movie -- dan, you know the answer? i'm >>> first we took you into the fire. then, into the ice. now amy journeys across the planet, taking you into africa's garden of eden. right in the midst of the great migration. like never before. tuesday, "good morning america" on safari live. >>> "good morning america" on safari live. it starts tomorrow with our own amy robach. it's the epic event. trabs port all of you at home to one of the most breathtaking natural wonders of the world. >> this looks, as horrible as that sounds, this looks really, really cool. tuesday on "good morning america," for the first time in network history the viewers will be able to choose their own adventure. amy robach joins us live tomorrow morning from tan zahn ya with more on this. >> giraffe. >> lion. >> hipppos are very aggres

highwayw, you have lee connected with the robert e. lee family. the lee family goes back a long way. had slaves, did not treat them well. so you need to know the firm range. one of the concerns i have about how we do american history as we want to find heroes, put them on pedestals, and not have feet of clay. by understanding they have feet of clay, you understand they are human, like we are. there are people in my family, i don't like what they do, but i love them. we go to a certain degree, one way or the other. here is a complicated person, there are problems but there are things that they do well, too. and we need to embrace all of those things, all of us human beings. >> on the issue of problems with having a true dialogue, i agree with this woman. the problem seems to be a great impediment to dialogue is people in public are disinclined to say what they really feel for political reasons. could there not be a graduate program, a thesis perhaps, where people in small groups are developed. white and black. all black. all white. they have an oppo

this was robert e. lee's house. more precisely, robert e lee's wife's house. right across the river in virginia, what is today arlington national cemetery. lee's wife leaves early in the course of the war. the federal government moves on to the property and uses the mansion itself as a headquarters building. they begin burying troops there. this is in 1861. in 1864, the federal government officially takes title to the property. why? because robert e. lee's wife hadn't paid her taxes. there is a tax act that require owners pay their taxes and pay them in person. she failed to comply with that. so the government takes over her property in 1864. it is after that that we get the beginnings of our arlington national cemetery. 1863, note that, in at the mansion but also on the property the federal government , had erected a number of buildings as a so-called contraband camp. the image here you get is one of the larger buildings. -- i do not know how well the image scans from where you are sitting, can you --l what people have their have there? >> they are reading som

he wants a second chance at robert e dolly, -- robert e. lee, but his staff is not very sanguine about his ability to lead. tell us what happened with the morale of the leadership of the army of the potomac. >> when burnside comes up for , at plan for a new campaign the end of december, a lot of the corps commanders and vision commanders within the army do not support this. franklin,m would be and wasa mcclellan man behind the scenes of bringing mcclellan back to command of the army since two of his division commanders -- since two of his division commanders to washington, and they seek a conversation with lincoln. newside is planning this campaign, and he will be a disaster again. lincoln sends word to burnside to suspend the campaign. burnside suspects what has happened, that one of his principal subordinates is gone to hide back. he comes to washington, he meets with lincoln and the advisor. burnside is angry. he goes back after this conference, which leads nowhere, and plans the campaign that buts to the mud march, after the fiasco of the m

>> robert e. lee? >> did you hear what she said? >> robert e. lee. i heard. >> dan got that one correct. >> geez, sara. >> you never know. >>> okay, this university of south carolina english professor and poet -- >> wait, i missed the first part. >> this university of south carolina english professor and poet wrote this novel that starring burt reynolds about a rafting trip. >>> first, we took you into the fire. then, into the ice. now, amy journeys across the planet, taking you into africa's garden of eden, right in the midst of a great migration. like never before. tuesday, "good morning america" on safari live. >>> and "good morning america" on safari live. it starts tomorrow with our own amy robach. it's an epic event. using the latest in virtual reality and drone technology that's going to transport all of you at home to one of the most breathtaking natural wonders of the world. i feel the need to break into toto's "africa" now. >> this looks, as horrible as that sounds, this looks really, really cool. tuesday on "good morning america," for the

army colonel robert e. leenged here inside this building. >> brown is charged with treason, murder, and inciting a slave rebellion. >> this is, jamie, the building where john brown would be brought and tried. >> was it standing-room only? >> the courtroom was just jammed. brown's popularity had expanded way beyond the rather narrow field of abolitionism. >> as his trial focuses the nation, his conviction and death sentence irretrievably divide it. who supported him? >> he was referred to by people like henry david thoreau and ralph waldo emerson as "saint brown the just." >> a saint? >> but, in the south, he was seen as the devil. he was seen as a terrorist. as a result of john brown, people were now willing to go to war either to defend slavery or to end it. and america divided. and john brown produced the ultimate divide. >> december 2, 1859. knowing full well his belongings are being sought after as relics, he gives them to his guards. he also entrusts one with a handwritten prophecy. >> i, john brown, am no

>> robert e. lee? >> did you hear what she said? >> robert e. lee, i heard. >> dan got that one correct. >> geez, sara. >> you never know. >>> okay, this university of south carolina english professor and poet -- >> wait, wait, i missed the first part. >> this university of south carolina english professor and poet wrote this novel that became a hugely popular movie -- starring burt reynolds about a rafting trip. dan, you know the answer. >> "the cannibal run," i'm kidding. >> yes. i was walking home. just picked us up two breakfast croissants for four bucks, when this bear attacked. with one swipe, it devoured one of theroissants. then jack showed up and took care of the beast, so i could escape. and that's what happened to your breakfast croissant. and yours? it survived. get two breakfast croissants forfour bucks. >>> first, we took you into the fire. then, into the ice. now, amy journeys across the planet, taking you into africa's garden of eden, right in the midst of a great migration. like never before. tuesday, "good morning america" on sa

one union general decided he never wanted robert e lee to ever return to arlington house. the way he ensured that this would not happen was he began burying union and confederate soldiers in robert e lee's front yard. that is how arlington national cemetery got started. they tried to ensure that general lee would never return was that they gave part of the plantation to some of his freed slaves. what these freed slaves did with the land was come up with a town called freeman village. as you can see, it was not exactly small. they had their own churches. they had their own schools. they even had their own hospital. able to find aen photograph of the people of freeman village in the national archives. that is where the cemetery took over freeman village. jesse: brian: the cemetery is freeman village. what happened to all of the free blacks? eventually, even though freeman village was the city unto itself, it brought in people from all around. truth ended up living there for a wild. -- four a while. eventually, the view they had hill, peoplell -- discovered it and they were ki

the county associated with robert e. lee's surrender back to a post apocalyptic battle ground and turning entire neighborhoods to runl bble. this has already claimed the the massive ef 3 tornado that hit pensacola, florida with winds topping out at 155 miles year. and one person said his neighborhood resemblees a war zone. thousands of people up through new jersey are without power and thousands of flights have been storm. delta even brought pizza for frustrated hungry passengers after their flight was rerouted to syracuse. >>> as new york city saw rain and heavy wind strong enough to blow over this tractor trailer on the george washington bridge. and a vehicle burst into flames. and meteorologist bill karins will join us in just a few minutes for the latest forecast. >>> and donald trump continues on the indorsement front, trump got his first congressional backing from new york's collins who previously backed jeb bush. california's duncan hunter who recently made news by vaping at a hearing said he would also support trump. >

the county associated with robert e. lee's surrender back to a post apocalyptic battle ground and turning entire neighborhoods to runl bble. this has already claimed the lives of four others in the south. the massive ef 3 tornado that hit pensacola, florida with per hour, the strongest of the year. and one person said his neighborhood resemblees a war zone. thousands of people up through new jersey are without power and thousands of flights have been canceled or delayed due to the storm. delta even brought pizza for frustrated hungry passengers after their flight was rerouted to syracuse. >>> as new york city saw rain and heavy wind strong enough to blow over this tractor trailer on the george washington bridge. and a vehicle burst into flames. and meteorologist bill karins will join us in just a few minutes for the latest forecast. >>> and donald trump continues to break into the evangelical base. on the indorsement front, trump got his first congressional who previously backed jeb bush. california's duncan hunter who recentl

historian and author william davis talks about the different upbringings of ulysses s robert e lee andhow their childhoods impacted their later lives.

a lot of people learn about robert e. lee and general sherman but this is really trying to focus on some of the every day life was like for the common solder. believe we were talking about snow last week.and it looks like we will get to enjoy these warm temperatures for a couple more days. coming up after the break... meteorologost daniel bonds will have your family's full forecast. 3 grab your coffee, your smart phone and turn on your tv for news 19 this morning. tomorrow protecting what matters most, your family. find out about a wireless security system that protect your home or business while looking out for the bad guys. plus overnight breaking headlines, traffic and sports. join us on air starting at 4:30 a.m. and chat with us on for news 19 this morning.3 3 3 it was a great day across the 3 area we hit 70 in columbia, 68 in sumter and orangeburg.here are the current temperatures across the state. it is cooling off right now, but not bad for the last day of january.our satellite radar parts of the 3 midlands, but we hav

the county associated with robert e. lee's surrender back to a post apocalyptic battleground, cutting houses in half, and turning entire neighborhoods to rubble. this has already claimed the lives of four others and spawned roughly four tornadoes in the south. the massive ef-3 tornado that hit pensacola, florida with winds topping out at 155 miles per hour. one resident says his neighborhood resembles a war zone with trees, cars and debris scattered everywhere. thousands of people up through new jersey are without power and thousands of flights have been canceled or delayed due to the storm. delta even bought pizza for frustrated hungry passengers after the flight that was to land in new york rerouted to syracuse. >>> as new york city saw rain and heavy wind strong enough to blow over this tractor trailer on the george washington bridge. and a vehicle burst into flames as winds brought power lines right down on to it. getting covered in snow in indiana. a fire broke out after power line lines came down in illinois. and meteoro

the obvious ones were jefferson davis and robert e. lee. they would write out long lists of cabinet members and confederate diplomats. quite sure that it had been more than booth. that was part of their belief thisw whether or not these men were responsible had assassin e assassinated the president. thank you. sgr we hear a lot about this one. we hear as much about kennedy and very little about the other two. this may be off topic. it may not be your area of expertise. do you have any idea, would that consider cataclysmic in their time and why did he hear so little about those? >> garfield in 1881 rand mckinley in 1901, the first reason that scholars give is that lincoln and kennedy died immediately or almost immediately. i follow this couple up through reconstruction till the end of their lives. i'm not sure i can explain this. she's devastated, utterly devastated. i followed her through the whole story. she wrote so much about lincoln. there's a sense of at the immediate moment, i think garfield and mckinley were devastating events but th

but he married off but then it became robert e. lee. in the civil war then you will see in read a little bit about montgomery. . . >> part of it broke away. >> yes, in 1846. >> could you just give a bit of background about that. also, cast in concrete. i understand no longer exist. >> how interesting that you should bring that up. this was called in 1846 and it was because of, as i suggested, there is some evidence at least that it is because of the great slave trade that was going on in alexandria, virginia at the time. and if alexandria were a slave part of a slave state and not part of the district where slave commerce was becoming illegal, then at that point you had to, you would be free to engage in your selling. that was part of what the retrocession was about. the other part of your question quite intrigued me because as a matter of fact, there have been people who have been head of the senate committee on the district of columbia who have floated the idea that there should be a new exception in this sense return to the normal st

it was the end of the war, and general robert e. lee was leading the victorious southern troops he had the south win the war? - he didn't want the people to guess how the picture would come out. - what? asking him to make pictures on the outside wasn't far enough. he should have made them way outside. - [gracie] he did! he went on location and made a jungle epic. - in africa? - no, in a parking lot in glendale. - did that look like africa? - it certainly did, except for the automobiles, but he explained those in the dialogue. - how did he do that? - in the middle of every scene, one of the natives would stop and say, "what are automobiles doing in jungle?" and the other one would answer, "autos taking detour, freeway full of elephants." - say goodnight. - [gracie] goodnight! - [george] goodnight! (applause) - ronnie, what's wrong with you this morning? - yeah, you hardly said a word to and from the airport. - i'm worried. i got something on my mind. - [gracie] what's her name? - [blanche] what's her name? - kathy shaw. (audience laughs)

on americanok back history and i hear about general sherman, grant, robert e lee, stonewall jackson, going to macarthur and patton -- the generals, areican a very rich personality. it today, they don't stand out as conspicuously as they did in history. how do you explain that? how does that affect our military? dir. holzer: do any give that a try, professor? prof. mcpherson: i'm not sure i understand the question. are you saying that generals today do not have the same kind of image and colorful -- >> yes. prof. mcpherson: in the civil war and world war ii the generals of the 2 wars that you mentioned were the two biggest wars this country ever fought. they are going to float to the surface, the dominant personalities. now, with brushfire wars, minor remotelyhing anywhere similar to the scale of the civil war or world were to come you're not going to have these people being thrown to the surface. iraq and vietnam. iraq, 5000 orn: 6000 american soldiers died? 750,000 died in the civil war. huge difference. it will create a huge difference in image. the role that these people play in a

robert e. lee surrendered to ulysses grant at this courth >>> and welcome back to "gma" on a saturday morning. happening right now, the democrats heading to the polls in south carolina this morning. the polls give hillary clinton a big edge with a strong lead among african-american voters, but bernie sanders is vowing to fight on no matter what happens. >>> and the gop still feeling shock waves this mornini after new jersey governor chris christie's bomb p shelshell endorsement of donald trump tag-teaming marco rubio who is trying to take on trump days before super tuesday. >>> oprah winfrey is losing a lot more than just inches off of her waistline thanks to weight watchers. the media mogul is now $29 million lighter in her bank account after weight watchers shares plunge to just $4.54 a share friday. that is a 29% drop. a lot of people did not t e that comi. >> i think she views it as a long-term investment. >> yep. >> she's got a ways to go there. >>> coming up on the show this morning, jennifer

the county associated with robert e. lee's surrender back to a post apocalyptic battle ground and turning entire neighborhoods to runlbble. this has already claimed the

they marched to harpers ferry where they meet lieutenant colonel robert e. lee. you know the rest of the story. brown will be trapped in the fire engine house. it will be charged by the marines. brown will be captured, the hostages will be freed. brown will be brought to charlestown, placed on trial. thus in two weeks after his capture, by the 2nd of november, 1859, john brown is found guilty, two weeks, by a jury of your peers, not his. murder treasonf and inciting slave insurrection, all three of which are potential death penalty crimes. brown has failed. he failed. he came to harpers ferry to commence a war he did not lead. he is an abject failure. people died. the mayor of the town was killed. other citizens were killed, people were wounded. brown's army was decimated. he was an abject failure. brown himself believes it is -- but i think the interesting thing about brown is, he did not die at harpers ferry. that sword blade that marine thrust in him did not penetrate the body but bounced off. most of you know the story. the blade, the marine who strike him, t

the county associated with robert e. lee's surrender back to a post apocalyptic battle ground and turning entire neighborhoods to runlbble. this has already claimed the lives of four others in the south. the massive ef 3 tornado that hit pensacola, florida with winds topping out at 155 miles per hour, the strongest of the year. and one person said his neighborhood resemblees a war zone. thousands of people up through new jersey are without power and thousands of flights have been