then you have robert e. lee at stalemate around petersburg, detach a significant portion of his army. under jub al early they will go down by harper's ferry and be held up at the battle that saved washington, a national park where the confederates cannot on here. it was a one-day thing, almost certainly the u.s. capital would have fallen except for this battle slowing down the confederates for the day. i don't know what jubal early and 10,000 soldiers would have done with washington at that time but it is a nonissue because eventually early will fall ban to the shenandoah valley where grant has had enough. he puts one of his most actionable commanders in sheridan who had a temper on him, a little guy, who is going after early's army in a terrible campaign, the shenandoah campaign where the third battle of winchester alone, seen here, will actually result in more casualties than jackson's entire valley campaign by triple. after that the union will follow up with another victory at fisher's hill and here at cedar

but he was really good as an aggressive general and that's to robert e. lee chose. -- who robert e lee chose to do this. there is a nice plaque down there. after the war, he was the gung ho southerner. he never took the oath. he went out to texas where he thought the war would be kept going. that did not happen. he went down to mexico. that didn't happen. he wound up in canada. in 1868, he wrote one of the first memoirs of any civil war general and then somehow he got back here and he spent the rest of his life living in a hotel room in lynchburg and he was one of the originators and certainly one of the strongest proselytizers of the lost cause theory, which i think you know. i think he also had probably the best beard of any retired general. so, june 13, 1864. lee starts his bold plan, 3:00 in the morning. wake the troops up. they sneak out through the defenses in richmond and i think you probably know union intelligence was not great during the civil war. in this case, the union did not know that they left early and they got it all wrong. i will get to tha

jubal early, he gets communications from robert e. lee on july 22. robert e. lee is full into the midst of the siege of petersburg in richmond against the army of the potomac. him, he stay out in the shenandoah, you can stay as long as you want to make sure the troops under horatio wright, 18,000 men, make sure they don't show up back in petersburg. day, early is going to send his cavalry out in force and they are going to drive the union cavalry back to winchester. they're going to capture several officers. from these officers, they are going to learn that horatio wright headed back to washington a couple days ago. jubal early wastes no time and he gives the order for his army to go on the offensive against george crook the following day. the vanguard of his army will be stationed around a village three miles south of winchester. the senior officer of the infantry division is colonel james mulligan from chicago, illinois. he was very popular and well-known during the civil war. one of his fellow division commanders noted that he was perhaps more popular out of

as far as the confederates were concerned it's a step in an entirely new direction only with robert e-lee support of the beginning it 1865 they come around and other people to speak in the confederacy as a whole long story short that only passes legislation in the final weeks of the war a small number of men are recruited and may have marched down broad street in richmond likely they are not give it weapons that shows how much trust was placed in them and likely did not see any action on the battlefield it is a white man's war. and the fact it takes the confederacy as long as it does to pass this legislation reminds us how committed you were but with the black men in the united states through early 1863 and of course how the war is evolving as they make this move. the bull starting out from the same point from very different places. and harper's weekly. of course this is what you think will happen if the confederacy recruits black men as soldiers this is the publication poking fun at the confederacy no one knows about by confederate soldiers and here's the case for decades in the postwar

this whole campaign is being driven by robert e lee and the confederate army of northern virginia. with lee and his army fresh off of victory and momentum on their side, yes, they were tired. pushing north of the union soil, they have many things they hope to accomplish in the state of maryland. if i have to sum it up in one potentially war winning victory over union forces on union soil. greatest traits is a sense of timing. the longer the war goes on, the greater the north has a chance of victory. coming into maryland has advantages for lee and his army, but overall he is hoping to defeat union forces on union soil. in a moment when the north has suffered several setbacks. what about the other commander in this campaign? it is fitting we will talk a little bit more about george mcclellan in our talk today, with mcclellan spending the night in the house. in early september with confederate momentum on their side, it is the exact opposite for the union army of the potomac, which in a september of 1862 did not really exist especially as constituted here , at antietam. with the union

i like to compare him to robert e. lee. was a gentleman. no one ever accused early of being a gentleman. he was hard drinking. he at a high-pitched voice and he was famous for cussing. he hated women because of a bad experience with a woman at west point. he was misogynist. he was racist. he did not get along well with his fellow officers. he did not get along well with the men. but they had a grudging respect for him. a veryu know, and he was aggressive general, which is probably widely chosen for this. on the other hand, there were lieutenanther generals available for him at this point in the war. and because of that arthritis , lee, lee he had called him "my bad old man." even though he was older than early. and by the way, he did not judge terrain very well. he was not very good on tactics. certainly not on strategy. but he was really good as an aggressive general and that's to robert e. lee chose. there is a nice plaque down there. , he was the gung ho southerner. he never took the oath. he went out to texas where he thought the war wo

that robert e lee's father-in-law, george washington custis had been they adopted child of george and martha in washington and he styled his home in arlington and opened it up to the public as a tribute to our nation's first president. i also did not appreciate the old guard history. the old guard is literally the old guard. it goes back to 1784 and has fought in every major war up through world war ii. it's only become a ceremonial unit since 1948. so i did not know that deep and rich history but i learned at altering the research for this book and i hope everyone will enjoy that. >> is readers will find outcome of the senator not only serves in the ford theater, but then he comes back and you are doing this work and you are receiving the fallen as they come into dover. i asked you during our radio time today if the families were allowed to meet the fallen when they would come to dover and you said no, not until later to make yes, that's been a change since i was at the old guard. i served in 2,072,008. that was at the height of the surge in the first of 2007 the first eight or ten m

assault and in charlottesville with the neo-nazis there is an old church in alexandria virginia were robert e-leeand george washington so they took down the plaque of robert e-lee. they also took it down of george washington which is completely insane but that represents the drift of the argument of our founders and national heroes to defend our rituals and symbols one reason i am so irritated to disrespect because men died for the flag with the history of the war to carry into battle and armed where that comrades took this incredibly seriously multiple men died defending the flag where lincoln gave the gettysburg address the battle of fredericksburg and then handed the flag over to another sergeant who was wounded who took it to another officer so he could wrap it around himself as he died so these go very deep so to be truthful about our history yes we have national sins but we should not be teaching history of repression and woe but the glorious story of the three people living in a blessed land. i will leave you with one last quote that captures how deep these cultural attacks are and even if

generals robert e. leestonewall jackson, and jeb stuart. >> there is a type of ceremony that surrounds the valorization of these guys. >> reporter: a few years ago california-born kahinda wiley came face-to-face with them for the first time. what did you see? >> i saw a spectacle that felt dreadful. i mean, it almost felt like it was designed to be menacing. to be in a black body walking through the streets of richmond and to see something that signifies the enslavement of your people, that's a little bit more heavy-duty. >> reporter: the 42-year-old artist decided to answer with a monument of his own. on tuesday, wiley's 27-foot-high bronze sculpture of a young black man on horseback was unveiled at virginia's museum of fine arts. the new statue was celebrated by virginia's governor ralph northam, who was mired in a black face scandal earlier this year. >> today we say welcome to a progressive and inclusive virginia. >> reporter: and by rich month's mayor, levar stony, who wanted the confederate statues re

and he tried to check out the biography of the confederate general robert e lee. it shows an amazing amount of cheek and wet. and for trying to use the whites only section of the library, wyatt t walker had the police called. his first of 17 arrests over the course of his career as a civil rights activists. that's one of the items we have on view in the exhibition. wyatt t walker became very close friends with dr. martin luther king jr.. they first met at an inter-seminary conference in the early 1950's. walker became king's right-hand man. they found the christian southern leadership conference. and organize many of them nonviolent mass protest activities that mark the civil rights movements of the 1960's. martin luther king referred to walker as the cleanest mind. including the birmingham campaign of 1963 and the march on washington. we have an early letter from martin luther king to white t walker. in march against segregated schools that walker was organizing here in richmond. it's signed mike. only dr. martin luther king's closest friends referred to him as m

longstreet in july 1863, here at gettysburg, in the army of northern virginia, commanded by general robert e. lee. >> general lee was looking for a great victory on union soil. >> but the federal army holds the high ground. after two days of failing to break through, lee orders a controversial attack, an assault on the center of the union line. general pickett's troops are assigned to break through the middle. [ march plays ] so, earl, right now, we're on the confederate side. >> yes. in fact, you're moving pretty much along the ground that pickett's division came across. you'll see how the ground slopes away here, and then you start up a steady slope up to where the trees are. there were union cannon along the whole ridgeline. they're high, they're elevated, they can see what's coming, and they can sweep the ground in front of them. >> they had the edge. >> they had it, and they used it. >> pickett's men advance directly into heavy fire. the union guns mow down the rebels. what did the scene look like after? >> well, this field that you're seeing out here was littered with dead. it was just a sc

. >> ...an innocent man who is sentenced to death by a judge th a name none other tha robert e. leeey. >> yes.t >> whappened with that case? >> it's a really fascinating case for a lot oreasons. first of all, it takes place in monroeville, alabama, which is the community where harper lee grew up and wrote the beloved vel "to kill a mockingbird." and that community celebrates that story. they embrace that story. they romanticized that story. t when i got involved in walter mcmillian's case, a black man wrongfully accusedil ofng a young white woman, it was almost as if they couldn't make the connection. he was actually miles from the crime when the crime took pla, surrounded by dozens of black people who could confirm his innocence. and he was largely prosecutedad because he hadn affair with a young white woman, which provoked people to see him as this dangerous person. he was convicted and sentenced to life without paroley the jury, and the judge overrodery the verdict of life animposed the death penalty. and he spent the next six yearsa on row for a crime he didn't commit. i got inv

petersburg public library in 1951 and he tried to check out a biography of the con rat general, robert e. lee. i think shows an amazing amount of cheek and wit and for trying to use the whites only section of the library, walker had the police called a eed was arreste. his first of 17 arrests over the course of his career as a civil rights activist that's one of the items we have on view in the exhibition. walker became very close friends with dr. martin luther king r jr. they first met at an interseminary conference in the early 1950s. and walker became king's right hand man. they together helped found the southern christian leadership conference and organized many of the nonviolent mass protests activities that mark ed the civl rights movement of the 1960s. martin luther king referred to walker as the keenest mind of the civil rights movement. walker jazzed many of the major activities including the birmingham campaign of 1963 and the march op washington of 1963. and a as a sign of how close dr. martin luther king and walker were, we have a, an early letter from martin lewiser king to walke

history i knew that arlington and the old guard had their origins in the civil war that had been robert e lee Ãb it had been his wife's plantation and he lived there with her through their life but i didn't know all of the origins of it. i didn't know france stands at arlington national cemetery had been the first Ãbhad been the adopted child of george and martha washington and had styled his home at arlington and opened it up to the public as a tribute to our nation's first president. i also didn't appreciate old guard's history. nold guard is called the old guard literally the old guard. it goes back to 1784 and fought in every major war. through world war ii. it's only become ceremonial unit since 1948. i didn't know that deep and rich history but a large role during research for this book and i hope everyone will enjoy that. >> as readers will find out the senator not only serves in the foreign theater but then comes back and you are doing this work and you are receiving the fallen as they come into dover. i ask you during our radio time today if the families were allowed to meet the fall

wilderness when grant decides to do what no other union commander had done to that point when facing robert e lee, not so bad but turned south toward richmond in a series of battles. if you guys want to argue about that, i would like to hear that argument. >> i wouldn't argue but richmond fits my paradigm of the war. that is part of the larger campaign, to destroy this army, not to take richmond, in the campaign, shared the valley. the same thing in vicksburg, pushing. and digging toward the confederates. the cruel irony of people of vicksburg, no one is there to combat the raw yankee divisions that are all over the area burning corn and stealing cattle and shooting mules and carrying back to camp everything edible to start out the garrison. sherman learns to fight like that and take that kind of battle and fighting to georgia. that is the big outtake of the battle itself. he fought in a different way and i read sam's book. it could be a companion piece, a real deep difference. hard war torn apart it vicksburg and here in vicksburg is pursued as relentless resolve. when you see grant going into m

. >> democrats demanding the governor remove a statue of robert e lee in the capital.resswoman jennifer weston and donald mc eacham say countless virginians would better represent our commonwealth. the statue of the confederate general donated in 1909 as part of the national statuary hall collection. ralph northron plans to push. a convenience store clerk and air force veteran fighting for his wife shooting and armed robbery suspect after he was pistol whipped in a california star and oliver caught on camera. the clerk says he kicked in as he reached for gun in the drawer to defend himself. >> i kind of protect myself. i'm lucky to be alive and my coworkers are alive. rob: received 12 staples in his head but is expected to be okay. carley: the estranged husband of missing connecticut mother jennifer dulos speaking out. rob: he claims his in-laws oh him $1 million despite their claims. laura ingle has more on the family feud. >> reporter: before connecticut mother of 5 jennifer dulos went missing at her husband was arrested for hindering prosecution and tampering with e

as an african-american and descendant of robert e. lee. it's hate and racism. she knows it. represents the full 180 of the republican party who is just decided and we saw it perfectly well on display during the impeachment hearings. they have taken leave of senses and leave of facts and truth. and decided we're all in with trump. we're the party of trump. facts don't matter. truth doesn't matter. and what's so shameful about this is there will be a day when there's not a donald trump as president. and the thing for nikki haley and the young members who are young enough who will be around in ten years, we have video of her saying one thing and then the other. i promise you should she try to run for president, there will be plenty of people to remind her that she decided to fall in with a racist false narrative. for the in part to sell a book and number two she decided to be a defender of the president. because she thinks like many others that's the way to go now. >> i want to bring you in. let me play another clip. i want your reaction. the interview with beck about the media

and said that a as african-american and b as someone as a kessadescendant of robert e. lee.t she represents though is the full 1al 0 of the republican party who just decided and we saw it perfectly well on display during the impeachment hearings. they have taken leave of their senses. they have taken leefave of fact and truth and decided you know what we're all into trump, we are the party of trump. facts don't matter, truth doesn't matter. and what's so shameful about this, though, is there will be a day when there's not a donald trump as president. the thing for nikki haley and a lot of these young members who will likely be around in let's say ten years we now have video of her saying one thing and then the other. and i promise you should she try to run for president, there will be plenty of people there to remind her she decided to fall in with a racist false narrative for i think in part one because she's trying to sell a book, and number two, she's decided to be a defender of the president because she thinks like many others that's the way to go now. >> okay, so matt,

happened with lincoln's other generals is they would attack into virginia and fight somebody, usually robert e. lee, and get defeated and then they would turn tail and go back to washington. grant does not do that. he keeps moving forward. some people say he is nothing but a butcher. but consider the number of people who died under grant and the number of people who died under lee. and look at the proportion of both. you will see grant is hardly a butcher. he is using his facilities, what he has. and he is a great man when it comes to finding supplies for his army, which is something we don't talk about. craig: they did not always agree, however. i'm going to put up another picture here of a character. this is our friend, john a. mcclernand, who was a war democrat. lincoln needed war democrats in his coalition to keep the country together. mcclernand comes to lincoln and asks permission to raise an army on his own and take the army down the mississippi river and capture vicksburg. he was from illinois, like lincoln. this would open the markets to new orleans and so on, so there are economic as well

generals robert e. leeremony that surrounds the valorization of these guys. >> a few years ago, california-born kehinde wiley came face-to-face with them for the first time. what did you see? >> i saw a spectacle that felt dreadful, i mean, it almost felt like it was designed to be menacing. to be in a black body walking through the streets of richmond and to see something that signifies the enslavement of your people, that's a little bit more heavy duty. >> reporter: the 42-year-old artist decided to answer with a monument of his own. ♪ on tuesday wilye's 27-foot-high bronze sculpture of a young black man on horseback was unveiled at virginia's museum of fine arts. the new statue was celebrated by virginia's governor, ralph northam, who was mired in a blackface scandal earlier this year. >> today we say welcome to a progressive and inclusive virginia. >> reporter: and by richmond's mayor, levar stoney, who wants the confederate statues removed. >> i don't believe they should be on grand boulevards like mon

the offensive was part of a larger strategy by general robert e. lee to draw the union army's attention and resources away from targeting the confederate capital of richmond, virginia. in the five minutes, andrew warren talks about her book "the a." mr.f norman minett mineta joins the discussion to share his experiences. and we will visit the waterford college classroom of mr. mark debateho talks about the of whether to injure world war ii. america," a"reel film documenting events in manyar europe, and confrontations between soviet aligned nations and western european countries. that's coming up, here on american history tv. >> i want to thank c-span. you know, we are celebrating our 22nd year. celebrating -- congratulations, c-span. they cover congress from gavel-to-gavel and they do not make any spin. it's just what it

the offensive was part of a larger strategy by general robert e. lee to draw the union army's attention and resources away from targeting the confederate capital of richmond, virginia. the mosby heritage area association is the host of this event. >> i want to thank c-span. you know, we are celebrating our 22nd year. c-span is celebrating 40 years, this year. congratulations, c-span. [applause] they are the ones -- they cover congress from gavel-to-gavel and they do not make any spin. it's just what it is, and isn't that nice, not to have talking heads tell you how to interpret what is going on. you do a great thing for our country. thank you for being here tonight.

hill, black students in robert e. lee school. i'm going to wrap this up. point two, my great-grandfather, we have a family lawyer who told me this story two years ago and he's 90 something so i'm running out of time. my great-grandfather helped grant get around vicksburg. we know this, we can't prove it to the parks service, they won't put it in the display, but they do acknowledge a slave helped him get around vicksburg in the civil war. what we need is the court case that this white lawyer took to the mississippi court to get my great-grandfather's freedom. i need a student. all you law people to help me find that and remember that the courthouse is burned so it's difficult. and the last question for anybody in the room can talk to me outside, i now have 3,000 plus names of relatives from my dad's 50 years of work. how do we visually display that so that people can see their connectivity? right now, it's on 50 sheets of paper. so >> all right, so i'll respond to your first two questions. and we funded an equitable development plan through preservation vi

we finally got the names changed at ap hill, black students in robert e. lee school. i'm going to wrap this up. i know you're hurrying. point two. my great grandfather, we have a family lawyer who told me this story two years ago and he's 90-something, so i'm running out of time. my father is from vicksburg. we know this. we couldn't prove it to the park service. they won't put it in the display but they do acknowledge a slave helped him get around vicksburg during the civil war. what we need is the court case that this lawyer, this white lawyer dabney took to the mississippi courts to get my great grandfather's freedom. i need a student, all you law people, to help me find that. and remember the courthouses burned, so it's difficult. the last question for anybody in the room that can talk to me outside, i now have 3,000 plus names of relatives from my dad's 50 years of work. how do we visually display that so that people can see their connectivity? right now it's on 50 8x11 sheets of paper. [ applause ] >> i'll respond to your first two questions. and we funded an eq