presence the physical of robert e. lee on the field or in camp can be striking. countless soldiers and civilians comment on his soldierly bearing. and his magisterial the parents. even for the carefully comported, an encounter with lee the awe-inspiring. freemantle, ael battle tested that are another crimean war who spent three months for the confederacy and watched the army of northern virginia's campaign and the summer of 1863 commented on lee 's cingular billed. lee is 56 years old, tall, broad shouldered, very well made and set up. a thorough soldier appearance. is manners are most courteous and full of dignity. he is a perfect gentleman in every respect. i imagine gnome has fewer enemies or is more esteemed. he never wore a side arm with the army of northern virginia. he was photographed in richmond during the latter half of the war carrying an impressive custom-made parisian import officers sort gifted to him from hearyland admirer in 1863, seems to have really want a weapon during the course of campaigning. his weapon was his mind and his physical charisma.

robert edward lee of virginia. for the last five years i have been a professor at washington and lee university where robert e lee is very. has become a bit of a cottage industry over the last years for folks. i have dealt with a lot of issues related to lee an historical memory over the last few years. career intarted my the academy i was at the national park service ranger. i live in chancellorsville on the battlefield. i spent a lot of time thinking about robert e. lee. today i want to talk a little bit about lee, one slice of his military career. the moments when he was in the greatest personal danger on the battlefield. had beenobert e. lee commander of the confederate army of northern virginia for precisely 1041 41 days when he of a onehe staff confederate battle flag in his own hands to rally the fleeing remnants of his army at the battle of sailor's creek. lee was personally placing himself in the line of battle to lead his soldiers. on reaching the south crest of the high ground at the crossing of the river overlooking sailor's creek, the disaster that it overtaken our army was in full view. general mahone

robert edward lee of virginia. for the last five years i have been a professor at washington and lee university where robert e lee is very. has become a bit of a cottage industry over the last years for folks. i have dealt with a lot of issues related to lee an historical memory over the last few years. career intarted my the academy i was at the national park service ranger. i live in chancellorsville on the battlefield. i spent a lot of time thinking about robert e. lee. today i want to talk a little bit about lee, one slice of his military career. the moments when he was in the greatest personal danger on the battlefield. had beenobert e. lee commander of the confederate army of northern virginia for precisely 1041 41 days when he of a onehe staff confederate battle flag in his own hands to rally the fleeing remnants of his army at the battle of sailor's creek. lee was personally placing himself in the line of battle to lead his soldiers. on reaching the south crest of the high ground at the crossing of the river overlooking sailor's creek, the disaster that it overtaken our army was in full view. general mahone

historical narrative to substantially redeem his reputation and position himself as chief authority on robert e lee's army of northern virginia, when robert e. lee died in 1870. incredibly, as early as 1866, he earned accolades from many southern and northern newspapers for his proficiency as a general and as a military historian. by 1869, the former confederate general hill proclaimed jubal early "near to the hearts of this other people than any other man." the story of how jubal early orchestrated his comeback from failure in the shenandoah provides us with new insights as to why confederates lost the war, but won the battle for historical interpretation. xveral of the most entrenched confederate arguments about the civil war often termed, the lost cause, arose directly from jubal early's pleading in the four years that he roamed in exile from 1865-1869. every time a breathless student of the civil war utters the phrase "the confederacy was defeated solely because of inferior manpower and materials," early's ghost threads another plume into his grave. when one and critically -- lee, or the fateful

in june 1864, robert e. lee once again demonstrated considerable confidence in early by promoting him to lieutenant general and dispatching him on independent commands with the army of the valley, the old second court stonewall jackson. early was the drive union soldiers from the valley and relieve pressure from the petersburg richmond front. the 1864 shenandoah valley campaign began well for early. he defeated union general david hunter on june 10, 1864 at lynchburg, before proceeding down the shenandoah valley, going north, to clear it of federals. early continue to fill the instructions by crossing the potomac into maryland, where early defeated a small federal force on july 9. he then threatened the u.s. capitol on july 11, before withdrawing back to the valley. during his u.s. invasion, he gained notoriety for issuing a ransom order on towns in maryland and pennsylvania. middleton yegor's town, , and frederick offered cash. but as many of you know, chambersburg pennsylvania , called his bluff and calvary un

wilmington fell in and robert e. lee surrendered his forces. he was forced to abandon petersburg in early april and retreated westward. he was forced to surrender by u.s. grant on april 9. that was only about six weeks after the fall wilmington. most historians focus their or inion on virginia terms of the seaport in charleston. wilmington played an incredibly important role during the war. not many people know about fort anderson. they hear about the forts guarding wilmington during the civil war, to hear about fort fisher and understandably so. the site of the two largest naval bombardments of the war, the largest amphibian operation in american history up until world war ii. we have this great earthen fort that is very important in guarding the city. we are here at the historic site of the national trust for historic preservation. the draytons were an important south carolina family. they play critical roles in the formation and development of the colony of south carolina. and in the formation of the nation itself. in fact, if you follow the

also from robert e. lee, as audacious as he was, i think when all is said and done, robert e lee never fully understood what it was that john mosby was doing. i don't think it is any different than a number of conventional officers. in today's military. they don't understand conventional warfare, they just don't get it or they don't want to get it. lee was audacious, absolutely. did he push the envelope? absolutely. but i believe when all was said and done, he was a conventional officer and he was also i think to a certain extent a gentleman of the old school, who really -- mosby didn't fight fair. a lot of union officers complained. he doesn't fight fair. he fought to win. did he fight dirty? i don't know, i guess that depends on what side of the cold -- colt .45 you were on. when all was said and done, lee didn't understand what mosley was about. a couple of different times, generally complained to stuart that mosby was fighting with too many small groups. this decentralized way that he operated didn't mak

guest: i read that robert e. lee a type of malaria pre-civil war that would revisit lee particular during the end, he did not campaign -- it disabled him. >> that is interesting. i know nothing about it. what you're describing, a type of malaria that is serious enough to recover on a regular basis and cause fevers and those kinds of things and incapacitate you, seems to be clearly what bragg had. guest: thank you very much. he talks about carbuncles appearing on his hand. big blister. that came from treatments he took for malaria which had mercury in it. yes it. guest: i'm andy o'donnell from indianapolis. why did the military name a fort for this confederate general? a great question. i don't know. i didn't look at it. if you look across the southern states a lot of world war ii era and post-world war ii era military bases are named after southern generals like fort hood. etc.. i don't think it necessarily had anything to do with whether they were perceived as a good or bad general. if you can name a fort after her

britannia rented out , rooms to borders during the civil war and she was a cousin by marriage to robert e. lee. lee stayed here at to her place when he came back to washington to meet with general grant when grant was president of the united states. during the civil war, britannia had a number of family members who were fighting for both sides. one story that is especially interesting is the story of william warden williams and his cousin. we walk over here to see an image of them in their confederate uniforms. williams was in the union army for a time and was on general winfield scott's staff, but was suspected because of the close family relationship with the lee's, of ferrying information to them and was jailed. after he was released he joined the confederate army. fast-forward to the summer of 1863 when they are down in tennessee. union uniforms. into a union fort in franklin, tennessee and say they are here to inspect the fortification. the commanding officer is a little suspicious but let's them complete their inspection. after the inspection they leave and someone realizes they are impo

there has been a lot of conjecture. 1863, robert e. lee begin moving his army into pennsylvania. he would be facing the union army at the potomac. lee had defeated hooker soundly at chancellorsville. hooker was still in command. intimidatedbly been a robert e. lee because he kept badgering the administration for more troops. something the administration was willing to do. three days before the battle began, general hooker was relieved of command and his successor was george gordon meade. he was prepared to bring the fight to pennsylvania. of woodlot at the time of the after the cavalry fight that started the battle, union infantry came to replace general buford. the fighting was on. in the woodlot, some of the toughest fighting took place. the monument behind me is the monument to the infantry. if you ask any civil war soldier what his military home was or what unit he belonged to, he would likely have responded with his regiment. they were raised locally throughout both the north and south had you were likely to find sets of brothers, fathers friends, high school business associa

holding their hand up 12-year-old daughter, looking at robert e. lee atop her beautiful city that she owns. there's no way you can look at that girl and convince robert e. lee is there to encourage there. there's no way think she'll feel inspired and hopeful about his story and how he got up there and why he's still there after all of this time. these monuments reveal to her a future of what her future is limited. the great travesty of all of this one that we can't seem to recognize. even at this moment her potential is limited, yours and mine are too. looking at the issue from that child's eyes is where the truth comes into truth. this is the moment what we know what is right and what we know what we have to do. i driven by those monuments thousands of times. it wasn't until i got this perspective. from her eyes that i knew and i could not personally walk away from this truth as i now saw it to be. you see these monuments lost cause represented an institutional effort to perpetuate white supremacy. it has chested for a long -- it has existed for long

on april 9, 1865, general robert e lee met ulysses s. grant in the village of appomattox courthouse and surrendered his army of northern virginia, effectively ending the civil war. next, we visit the museum of the confederacy in appomattox to see items related to the surrender. we also toured the museum, looking at the war's aftermath. >> welcome to the museum of the confederacy appomattox. i am the site director here. our museum has been open for almost three years now. we are an extension of the museum that was originally founded in 1890, opened in 1896 in richmond. we house a lot of the artifacts that were from the confederates. we will tell you about how we got some of those artifacts. here, we kind of focus on appomattox since we are in this location. one of the things people ask us about is why appomattox? why did lee come here to surrender? it was not his original intent, of course. lee, on his retreat from petersburg, had been looking for supplies. his goal was to find supplies for his men and turn south to meet with general john

last month, new orleans removed a statue of robert e. leetatue, the last of four taken down in the crescent city. during a recent speech, mayor mitch landrieu pointed out these statues tell only 'part' of history. mitch landrieu, new orleans mayor: these monuments ignore the slave slavery it stood for. diane: what some call the struggle between heritage and hate stretches beyond new orleans. recently, vandals struck a st. louis monument honoring confederate soldiers and sailors. the city's mayor wants to have a removal plan for that statue by the end of june. residents of brandenburg, kentucky, celebrated their new confederate soldiers of the american war statue -- the same statue removed from the university of kentucky six months earlier. southern heritage also stands in baltimore, where the city is considering the removal of its confederate statues following in the footsteps of new orleans. for "matter of fact," i'm diane roberts. soledad: garrett epps is a writer, lawyer, and teacher who grew up in richmond, virginia. he says the venerati

holding the hand of their 12-year-old daughter, looking at robert e. lee, atop of the beautiful city that she owns. there's no way you can look at that little girl in the eye and convince her that robert e. lee is there to encourage her. there's no way for anyone to think that she's going to feel inspired or hopeful by his story. or how he got up there. and why he's still there. after all of this time. these monuments reveal to her a future where her potential is limited and capped. and the great traffic esty of all of this, one that we can't seem to recognize even at moment, is that if her potential is limited, yours and mine are too. so looking at that issue from the child's eyes is is where the truth comes into focus for us. this is the moment where we know what is right and where we know what we have to do. we have to walk away from this truth. i've driven by those monuments thousands of times. thousands of times. it wasn't until i got this perspective from her eyes that i knew and that i could not personally walk away from this truth as i now saw it t

he will talk about confederate general robert e. lee. first, for the next 10 minutes , we will visit fort anderson and explore the civil war that a field in wilmington, north carolina. -- wilmington, north carolina. [crowd noise] >> left to right. zero interval. >> rolling thunder. fire. [applause] >> we are standing on the parapet, or the crest of fort anderson. it was the largest confederate fort in the war -- in the interior that guarded the western land approaches in the river approaches to the seaport of wilmington. confederates got good intelligence the attack was finally coming by october of 1864. they knew the attack was planned against fort fisher. fort anderson's garrison was depleted to send reinforcements. he might've had a company or two of troops here. there were two attacks on fort fisher. won at christmas of 1864. two and half weeks later they returned with a slightly scaled-down naval task, more soldiers, and this time they were determined to capture the fort. after two and a half days of bombardment, the second largest

grant and confederate general robert e. lee. this talk was part of a daylong seminar on civil war leadership, posted by longwood university in farmville, virginia, and appomattox courthouse national historical park. it is about one hour. >> thank you, patrick. our last speaker and in the afternoon is william davis. mr. davis is from independence, missouri. has a bachelor and masters from sonoma state university. many of you may know him as longtime editor of civil war times illustrated, back in the 1970's and 1980's when it was the only popular civil war magazine. its heyday, the best years of it in existence. it still is obviously. he is the author and editor of 60 books related primarily to the civil war, but also 19th-century southern u.s. history. 60 books. few, hisse just a first book was a history of the new market campaign, which i still think is a model small battle history 40 years after it was written. i think it's one of the best small battle history's ever written on the civil war battle. biography of john c breckenr

recently on c-span, new orleans mayor on the removal of a robert e. lee statue. >> to actually layout the reasons why the statues were erected in the first place, why we were taking them down, and what we could do to recover from the h-old battles that had divided us for so long. because of new orleans possible light in that dark time of our history, we were after all one of the country's largest slave markets, i felt that i hand others in the city had a special responsibility to help our nation continue to move through racial discord. >> actress muska hargitay at a bipartisan task force aimed at ending sensual violence. >> to here words like you said, dehumanizing. these lives derailed. the way that lives go off track. kits sitting on a shelf. these are people's lives sitting on a shelf. children getting derailed. like, i was on this track and cannot even make sense of what has happened to me. we have been letting perpetrators go by not testing and saying, we don't care about this issue. randncer: and senator paul. >> with something even more important t

. -- robert e lee surrenders. the only comment is that he says you have gotten a lot greater. >> -- they said sheridan's there, bring him in. >> i guess we are still how meade tries to present himself. we should emphasize private letters to his wife. i think we have forgotten something that is more fundamental and that is about philosophy. i think scott is 22 it and you -- ieed -- meade as a more think scott's point to it in using meade as a more -- he came to an understanding that civil war armies were indestructible. he came to that conclusion, one that lee never reached. sherman certainly did. i don't know about grant. i think for us to really understand the decision in the field was the recognition you -- they recovered pretty quickly. he had seen that time and time again so he understood the limitations of what an army could achieve. that to me explains the conservatism that you mentioned. it is a great concern for the welfare of his men in a way that he never had that person's ability before. meade andere i

recently on c-span, new orleans mayor mitchell andrew on the removal of a robert e. lee statue. out thetually lay reasons why the statues were erected in the first place. why we were taking them down and what we could do to recover from the age old battles that have divided us for so long. role in of new orleans' that dark. were afterory, we all, one of the country's largest slave markets. i felt that i, and other people in the city, had a special responsibility to help our nation continue to move through racial discord. force aimedsan task at ending sexual violence. >> to hear stories and the words you said, dehumanizing these lives derailed the way that lives go off track. kids it sitting on the shelf. these are people's lives, sitting on the shelf. getting derailed. ofldren getting derailed what this life is supposed to be. i was on this track -- can't even make sense of what has happened to me. we have been letting perpetrators go by not testing these kids and saying we do not care about this issue. senator rand paul on the proposed arms sale to saudi arabia. >> we will disc

the confederate general's name, the questions about moseley wood, what about shreve wood, and robert e. leeschool. >> do you see the whole thing happening again with lee high school? >> potentially. and that's why we want to make sure we're doing it right this time. >> doing it right now. >> doing it right. it's complicated because the community is split. >> two members in favor of the name change she they would compromise to keep just stewart and get rid of jeb. the vote is scheduled for july 27. >>> we're following reports of at least one person dead, and ten injured from this is the damage here. right now, crews are searching through the rubble for anyone who might be trapped. this quake was also felt in western turkey, including istanbul, but no serious injuries have been reported there. around here it is the heat, the heat, and the heat. >>> and a little more humidity. we're going to add that in. just a bonus. >> a little something extra. >> but not lasting long. we're going to be okay by wednesday. a live look outside. it is our live weather cam. it's still toasty. 91. which is why we

we also have here in this room a death mask of robert e lee. after lee left appomattox in 1865, he returned to richmond to his wife. they then moved out to lexington, virginia, where he was president of washington college for the next five years. he passed away in 1870, five years after his surrender. this is one of the death masks. the image behind him is an image of appomattox courthouse. you can see the ruins of the burned out courthouse, taken after 1892, when it burned. this had been the county seat up until that point. as we showed you on the map before, this village was built on the stagecoach line. the railroad line did not come through the village. it was a few miles away, where lee was trying to get to. after this courthouse burned, they built a new courthouse and moved the county seat to where it exists today, near the railroad station in the town of appomattox. this gallery focuses on the confederate veterans. many of them were wounded during the war action and lost limbs. some of them had prosthetic limbs like this made. when this w

reporter: robert e lee led the army of the confederacy, the site in the civil war that wanted to keeplavery. now it is the battle over his memory that is being fought. surrounded in controversy, and -- his and three other statues have been removed. while we were in new orleans, we spoke to many people fighting for the monuments to stay. >> these people were good people. they lived and died for a reason. why should we just forget it? reporter: there was for the defense of the institution of slavery. >> but they are wrong. what is really the big story here tonight is the youth standing behind us who are convinced that these good people are all neo-nazis, and that we are all racists, and they have been screaming at us all night. >> get the hell out of new orleans. >> and they have no clue about history or anything that happened. and it is a problem. reporter: but why such opposing views about what should and shouldn't be represented on the streets of new orleans? well, it is partly down to the fact that even this day, there are such different ways of teaching things like the civil war an

terms of the beloved, is it really true that jubal had framed on the wall a special letter from robert e lee in his office? and what does that mean? >> i actually don't know. it was an appendix in his memoir . his friends, like charles button, who i mentioned, published it in the newspapers. it certainly was widely known, and early treasured it. what does that mean? i think exactly what you would guess. too early, this was probably one of the most significant pieces of paper that he had ever received. because while others had for sake of him and did not believe in his abilities anymore, his intelligence, lee still there, and he made it very clear that he was removing him with reluctance. i think early treasured that. they were friends. >> other questions? question is mostly for professor cushman. you talked about there's a lot of nostalgia and romances asian -- romances asian -- roman southern culture. >> during the war, it is not yet past tense. through the valley campaign, he is feeling elated. ,e did suffer from rheumatism quite badly, and he was stricken during the seven days, but i thin

announcer: recently on c-span, new orleans mayor mitch landrieu the removal of a robert e. lee statue. >> to actually lay out the reasons why the statues were erected in the first place, why we are taking them down and what we can to do to recover from the age old battles that have separated us for so long. because of new orleans' role in that dark period of our history, we were, after all, one of the country's largest slave markets, and other people in this city had a special responsibility to help our nation continue to move through racial discourse. >> actress marisa hargitay. ,> to hear these stories, words like you said, dehumanizing, these lies are derailed -- of these lives are derailed the way lives are off track. lives sittingle's on a shelf getting derailed, children getting derailed of what is this life supposed to be? i was on this track, cannot even make sense of what has happened to me. and we haven't been letting the perpetrators go by not testing his kids saying we do not care about this issue. >> and senator rand paul on the arm sell to saudi arabia. >> we will

announcer: recently on c-span, new orleans mayor mitch landrieu on the removal of a robert e lee statue. >> to lay out the reasons why these were erected in the first place, why they were taken down, and how can we can recover from the age-old battles that divided us for so long. because of new orleans' role in period, we reduced the country's -- i felt that we had the responsibility to have our nation continue to move through racial discord. announcer: actress maresca hargitay. >> to hear words like "dehumanizing," "derailed," the off track.ves go these are people's lives sitting on a shelf, getting the rail. derailed, ofing what is this life supposed to be. , i cannothis track even make sense of what has happened to me. and we have been letting perpetrators go by not testing these kids and saying we do not care about this issue. announcer: and senator rand paul on the proposed arms sale to saudi arabia. >> we will discuss something more important than an arms sale. should we be actively involved? should the united states he actively involved with refueling the saudi pla

robert e lee led the army of the confederacy, the side in the civil war that wanted to keep slavery.unded in controversy, his and three other statues have now been removed in the city. while we were in new orleans, we spoke to many people fighting for the monuments to stay. these people were good people, they lived and died for a reason, you know, why should wejust forget it? why? but for some it was for the defence of the institution of slavery. ok but they are wrong. what is really the big story here tonight is the youths standing behind us who are convinced that these good people are all neo—nazis and that we are all racists and that they have been screaming at us all night. chanting: get the hell out of new orleans. and they have no clue about history or anything that's happened. and it's a problem. so why such opposing views about what should and should not be represented on the streets of new orleans? well, it's partly down to the fact that even to this day there are such different ways of teaching things like the civil war, of slavery and segregation in schools in this city. h

landrieu on the removal of a robert e. lee statue.hyo lay out the reasons the statues were erected in the first place, why we took them down and what we could do to recover from the age-old battles that divided us for so long. because of new orleans's role in that dark period of that history , we were, one of the largest countries -- slave markets in the country. i felt i and other people in the city have a special responsibility to help our nation continued to move through racial discourse. a bipartisan task force aimed at ending sexual violence. >> to hear the stories, words like dehumanizing, lives derailed, the way the lives go off track. these are not kids sitting on a shelf. these are people's lives. sitting on a shelf, getting derailed, children getting derailed of what is this life supposed to be? and i cannot track make sense of what has happened to me. we have been letting perpetrators go by not testing these kids and saying, we do not care about this issue. >> senator rand paul on the proposed arms sale to saudi arabia. >>

through the battle of gettysburg and after the battle of gettysburg the union army is , chasing robert e. lee back down south. they clash in skirmishes outside the town of hagerstown, maryland. it is there that rick dahlgren loses his leg. he gets shot in the leg, and due to the severity of the injury, they have to amputate it. for some reason, the leg is brought to the navy yard, is encased in a lead case, and is placed in the wall of the foundry with a plaque over it which reads, "within this wall is deposited the leg of colonel dahlgren, usv, wounded july 6, 1863, while skirmishing in the streets of hagerstown with the rebels after the battle of gettysburg." it is in the wall. ulrich dahlgren is killed later on in the civil war. he actually receives a prosthetic leg, joins the cavalry, because he can't be marching anymore, so he is on horseback, and takes part in a raid on richmond in 1864. he was killed in the raid outside richmond near the county march, 1864n 2 during a raid to try and free union soldiers. there is a scandal that comes out because on his body, papers are found that basic

of the beloved, is it really true that jubal had framed on the wall the dismissal letter from robert e lee and what does that mean? kathryn: action don't know. knows.r if gary it was an appendix in his memoir. his friends, like charles button, who i mentioned, published it in the newspapers. it certainly was widely known, and early treasured it. what does that mean? i think that is exactly what you would guess. to early, this was probably one of the most significant pieces of paper that he had ever received. because while others had for sake of him and did not believe in his abilities anymore, his intelligence, lee still did, and he made it clear that he was removing him with reluctance. i i think early treasured that. i think they established that relationship. elizabeth: other questions? in the middle there, jack, as well. >> my question is mostly for professor cushman. you talked about there's a lot romanticization of southern culture. is this something that comes back in retrospect? stephen: during the war, it is not yet past tense. through the valley campaign, he is feeling elated. he

. >> recently on c-span, new orleans mayor on the removal of a robert e. lee statue. out thetually lay reason why the statues were erected in the first lace. why we were taking them down and what we can do to recover from the age old battles that have divided us for so long. roleecause of new orleans in that dark period of our all one we were after of the country's largest slave market. and other people in tita specia responsibility to help our throughnue to move rachel discord. a actress marisa hargitay on white partisan task force and ending sexual violence. words like dehumanizing, the way that lives go off track. people lives sitting on a self, getting derailed. derailed ofting what is this life supposed to be. even on this track, cannot make sense of what happened to me. we have been letting testingtors go by not these kids in saying we care about these issues. >> and senator rand paul on the proposed arms sale to saudi arabia. >> we will discuss something more important than arms sale. should the united states be actively involved with refueling the saudi flames

recently on c-span, new orleans mayor on the removal of a robert e lee statute . >> to actually lay out the reasons why these statues were erected in the first place. why we were taking them down and what we could do to recover from the age old battles that had divided us for so long. and because of new orleans role in thatdark period of our history, we were after all one of the country's largest slave markets . i felt that i and other people in the city had a special responsibility to help our nation continue to move through racial discord. >> actress maresca heart attack at a bipartisan task force aimed at ending sexual violence. >> to hear words like she said is humanizing. my life derailed, the way my life went off track. you do not kiss sitting on a shelf. these are people's lives sitting on shelves, getting derailed. children getting derailed of what is this like supposed to be? i was on this track. i can't even make sense of what happened to me and we have been letting perpetrators go by in a sense saying we don't care about this issue. >> and senator rand paul on the proposed ar

change because jeb stewart was a confederate letter, they might be asked to change the name of robert e. lee high school. >> do you see the same thing happening with lee high school? >> potentially. that's why we want to do it right. it's complicated because the community is split. >> reporter: but then there's shreve road elementary. named after george shreve, a confederate leader. so you can ask, where does the school board stop? but school board chair, sandy evans believes the jeb stewart can be changed by itself. i think that this is the stewart community has had a discussion for two years about what we want for that school. not everyone agrees, obviously. it's very contentious. >> reporter: very, very contentious. both sides are split on this. the jeb stewart district, you've got the facts. the school board now says it will vote july 27. reporting live in falls church, peggy fox. >>> we pivot now to images like these that plague images across d.c. we shot this in the u street area. today, kicking off the greatgraffiti in its place will be an expansion of murals d.c. that's an effort to

. >> recently on c-span, new orleans mayor mitch landrieu on the removal of a robert e. lee statue. >> to actually lay out the reasons why these statues were erected in the first place why we were taking them down, and what we can do to recover from the age old battles that had divided us for so long. because of new orleans role in that dark time in our history, we were after all, one of the market.s largest slave i felt that i and other people in the city had a special responsibility to help the nation continue to move through racial discourse. at atress maresca hargitay task force aimed at ending sexual violence. >> to hear the stories, words like you said, d humanizing. these lies derailed, the ways they go -- lives go off track, these are people lives sitting on a shelf, getting derailed, .hildren getting derailed what is this life supposed to be. --as on this track, it can't i cannot make sense of what has happened me. we have been letting perpetrators go by not testing these kits and saying we don't care about these issues. >> and senator rand paul on the proposed arms

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it's good for people to render that flag wasat flown by robert e. lee and when he surrendered he put it away. it wasn't flying over washington and lee when he was the president of their. best president was there. it was a response to the civil rights movement in the 1950s and that's what it represents. when i was going to school in atlanta most of the state flag , of georgia was the battle flag of northern virginia. it was flying over the state capitol was teaching in south carolina. i am glad people are finally looking at that issue more or less in the face although there've been 100 plus protein -- pro confederate flag at rallies. i don't know how big. scattered around the south. >> and there will continue to be. but i don't want us to forget or underestimate the power of the families. the families of emmanuel nine. >> i don't think we will. >> and their unbelievable acts of forgiveness. >> christianity. >> and christianity. absolutely. thank you. >> you will have to fight it out [laughter] the noting that the texas state board covering textbooks and

. >> recently on c-span, new orleans mayor mitch landrieu on the removal of a robert e. lee statue. the reason why these statues were erected in the first place and what we can do to recover from the age old battles that have divided us for so long. and because of norlin's role in that dark period of our history, we were one of the largest slave markets. i felt that i and other people in the city had ace national response ability to help our continue to move through racial discord. >> maresca hargitay at a bipartisan task force aimed at ending sexual violence. >> to hear these words like you said. dehumanizing, lives derailed, the way that lives go off track. these are not just things sitting on a shelf good these are people's lives, getting derailed. children getting derailed. can't even make sense of what has happened. and we have been letting testingtors go by not these kids in saying we don't care about this issue. >> senator rand paul on the proposed arms deal towards saudi arabia. >> we will discuss something more important than an arms sale. whether we should be actively invo

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he is currently at work on a book on the development of the mythology surrounding robert e. lee and sherman. he will be sharing with us some of his more recent work on henry halleck. [applause] john: i thought i was dead. what was i going to do? thank you for being here so early on a saturday morning. this is great. you --ng to talk to imagine scheduling a talk on henry halleck this early in the morning. i appreciate everybody being here. thats quite a while ago the henry halleck book came out. , it wasne to a meeting one of these history conventions. we exchange the usual pleasantries with people and then you get down to the usual question, what are you working on now? then you wait for response. i ran into a colleague. i told him i had just started working on a biography of henry w hallock. it happened to be but robertson. he laughed and said john, you will never finish it. you will die of order him first. -- for him first. first.dom death was not high on my priority list. i really had more can create concerns and the concerns really i had finished a book on sherman and he wro