grant and robert e. lee. great commanders, and the confederacy who faced off against each other, unfortunately, u.s. grant one, but are we going to take down the lee portraits when cadets are studying that library, they don't know who u.s. grant proposed, some fictitious opponent, who can't be named like a harry potter villain? if we taught these politically correct liberals a little more history, maybe they would realize that blm, marxists, and critical race theorists actually sound just like john c calhoun, the great 19th century defender of slavery because they always reduce people to the color of their skin. with nothing but their race. they repudiate -- they repudiate the principles of the declaration of independence and the statesmanship of abraham lincoln, which is one reason why, this summer, they started tearing down statues of robert e. lee and stonewall jackson, but pretty quickly, they went on to statues of washington and andrew jackson and u.s. grant and abraham lincoln, and when they are tearing

during stuart's time there robert e. lee arrived in 1852 and served as the military academy's superintendent. around the same time fitz hugh lee also arrived. stuart was honored for his equestrian and cavalry skill during his time at west point. he graduated 13th in a class of 46. he served in the u.s. regiment in texas, saw action in kansas territory when it was bleeding kansas, and was wounded during a fight with cheyenne warriors. in 1859 he was in washington, d.c., securing a patent for his saber hook. it's at that time john brown's raid occurred at harper's ferry and he joins robert e. lee and helps to identify john brown and also signals the u.s. marines to attack the engine house where brown was hiding out. on april 22nd, 1861, ten days after the fire hit on fort sumt sumter, stuart promotes to captain. he resigns on may 3rd. on may 10th, one week later, he commissioned as a lieutenant colonel in the virginia forces and helped organize the first virginia cavalry ej regiment. he's promoted to full colonel on july 16th,

if you write a story on robert e. lee, i hope you will show or expose to people how many black people that robert e. lee has in his family. the reason i brought that up is because of the confederate statue and how these statues are being torn down. one thing that concerned me as i inc. in corporate america -- is , noink in corporate america one wants to tear down corporations. it with statues, it is a start that may at least let people know that if we take down statues that symbolize oppression or hatred or ,isagreement based on principle maybe we can transfer that into the corporate struck -- corporate structure. my father was a veteran. he fought in world war i and world war ii. i brother was a veteran. brother was ay veteran. he fought in iraq. he served as military police. up.my brother cannot get he was affected by agent orange. it is horrific to see somebody who gives their -- gave their , memorythis country going bad, and you cannot interact with them and let you know how much you love them because they have been d

after robert e. lee takes command, he asks stuart to go scouting. and this will be the first right around the call, and also called in the -- right. stuart and his calorie get more experience, notably in the second round campaign, especially northern virginia and the invasion of maryland, in the autumn of 1862. so let's change the slides here, and on the screen, hopefully are able to see that to the left we have a map of stuart's two comedy rate. so both rates are a ride around the army. and it helps to know, a little bit about the chickahominy rate. it occurs between june 12 and 15, 1862, right in the middle of the peninsula campaign. , they capture 165 union soldiers. 260 horses and meals, and very supplies. they write approximately 150 miles. most importantly, they are able to confirm the information that lee wanted to know. his right flank was vulnerable. they face no serious opposition, the union cavalry was decentralized in their approach to trying to combat them a little bit. stuart did clash with troops commanded by his father-in-law, the. s

what robert e. lee will do is carry his army back across the po to potomac, and they fan out across western maryland to block the different crossing points of the potomac river to make sure that lee does not get his army back into maryland and continue the campaign, but by september 20th the campaign is going to come to an end and of course, just two days later after the campaign in maryland does conclude, you have one of the most important political actions of the entire war and perhaps even of all of american history and that is the emancipation, proclamation. at least president abraham lincoln is going to announce to the country the preliminary emancipation proclamation on december 22nd which will be a war-changing measure and it signals to the confederacy and the citizens of the united states just how the war has changed in the year and a half and how it will continue to change and will forever change the united states as we know it. >> so there is a lot of political background and political pressur

he received word from general robert e. lee that they dmoucouo longer hold the confederate army. he sent his family on the road for their protection. jefferson davis would follow. he would soon catch up with his family below the florida state line if is where a federal mountain unit was placed on his family. he moved back up here to ft. monroe and incarcerated in his very cell. some people and why. he was indicted on three federal charges. one for treason. two for come police sit accompl. he had to be in a place where his last residency occurred and that would be in richmond if is here that he will stay for four months and he will remain incarcerated here for almost two years. he would never see his day in court. he would never be acquitted, and he would retire and write his m memoirs. >> many folks in the united states, decided that that was not going to be the best way to heal the nation. to try jefferson davis with the fear that he might be acquitted. might cast a shadow over 3.2 million people going to war and over 750,000 of them losing their lives. at the conclusion of the

an 1865 but jefferson davis received word from general robert e. lee that they no longer could hold the army back from richmond. with that news, jefferson davis adjourned his cabinet and sent his family on the road for protection. jefferson davis would soon follow. he would only catch up with his family right above the florida state line. it is here where a federal mounted unit was able to capture him and his family. jefferson davis was placed on a boat and moved back to fort monroe and incarcerated in this very cell. some people ask why. the main reason is that jefferson davis was indicted on three federal charges. 1, treason. two, complicit in the assassination of abraham lincoln. three, the mistreatment of federal soldiers in prison by the confederate states army. in order to answer to those charges in federal court, he had to be in the place where his last residency occurred, which would be richmond, the white house of the confederacy. it was here he would stay four months remain informed morale incarcerated for almost two years. he would never see

robert e. lee's plan for july 2nd is a massive confederate attack on the right of his line. he's going to utilize the two divisions of james longstreet's corps that are on hand, the divisions of john bell hood, and he's going to add another division under the command of h. anderson with a created third corps. these men are going to attack up the emmetsburg road, rolling up on the left flank of the army, pushing them out of position on the ground just south of the ridge line itself, and hopefully by the end of the fighting on july 2nd, lee would have secured his victory at gettysburg. that would be the main confederate focus for the battle on july 2nd. robert e. lee needs to ensure that no union reinforcements will come to assist their comrades in arms. ules men will make the assault and pin the butterfly to the board of the reinforcements to bolster his line that is going to be under attack. the orders are to proceed in tandem with the main confederate attack. the assume goes forward and fighting t

and so to me, i don't care if it's a george washington statue or a thomas jefferson statue or a robert e. leel need to comee down. >> tucker: yeah, they all need to come down. and because we sort of nodded and said maybe they do, we shouldn't be surprised that those ideas, which are poison, have infected our military. of course that was inevitable. at the united states military academy, west point in west point, new york, there was, now a push to get rid of l buildings named after general robert e. lee. he was a bad man, they said. he needs to be erased. senator tom cotton is supporting a petition to stop this, now. he joins us to explain why. senator cotton, thanks for joining us. you know that you're goingha toe called names for this, so rather than ask you, i will just give you a chance to explain why you're doing it. >> well, tucker, i get called names a lot. it doesn't bother me any. what does bother me is when you have woke politically correct liberals were trying to erase history. look at west point. west point is not just ary military academy. it is essentially a museum to the united

do you think -- what should have robert e. lee have said to his men? what if the union had been tougher on confederates? how do you think this would've played out? that's not to avoid your question, but to say, we don't know. we do not know what would have happened. i can tell you that reconstruction was abysmal. even tell you in detail why. i can also tell you in some ways it succeeded. for john robinson, is he better off than he was before? is that a great measure? his life could have been better if you have been able to get land from former slaveholders. are there limitations? absolutely. aren't there limitations to all revolutions? did the terms go far enough? who am i to say? i don't know. i can tell you that for every , john robinson, there's a multitude of people who had nowhere near the options that he had. you could easily say it didn't go far enough and that promises of freedom were broken for them. instead, they have to fight for what wages they can get while former slaveholders, landholders are fighting over how low they can get their wages

in 1865, jefferson davis received word from general robert e. lee, commander of the army of northern virginia, that they no longer could hold the federal army back from attacking the city of richmond. with that news, jefferson davis adjourned his cabinet, sent his family on the road for their protection. jefferson davis soon after that would follow. he would finally catch up with his family right below, right above the florida state line. it is here where a federal mounted unit was able to capture him and his family. jefferson davis was placed on a boat and moved back up here to fort monroe and incarcerated in this very cell. some people ask, why? the main reason is that jefferson davis was indicted on three federal charges. one, for treason. two, kples complicit in the assassination of abraham lincoln and mistreatment of prisoners. in order to kansas the charges in federal court he had to about a place where his last residency occurred and that was in richmond, the white house of the confederacy. here he will say four months, remain incarcerated he

but robert e. lee needs to ensure that no union reinforcements from the right and of general greene's line it will come to assist the arms, along cemetery ridge in the positions occupied by the union army south of the ridge, itself. so the is going to order his second corps commander, to create a diversionary attacks on union armies right. those locations culps hill and cemetery hill. by doing so, then and will do a diversionary assault, they will basically pin the butterfly to the board, if you. well of all of these available reinforcements, that general greene may be able to shift from his, lying to the other end of the line, the left end of the union lying, to bolster his line that's going to be under attack. the orders are to proceed with the diversionary assault on the cemetery, hail and tandem with the main confederate attack. what about 4 pm in the afternoon or july 2nd, the main confederate assault goes forward, and fighting more takes place in such famous places today as little round, to have

living in one of the reformed states of one of the former confederacy and two blocks away from the robert e. lee statue, i think president trump should be looking at statues of robert e. lee and jefferson davis and others. he has a huge fan base out there that want to build statues to him, but the clearest and easiest way to get those torn down is to try to undermine the legitimacy of the institutions of the united states. that's what i argue in the piece and i feel that strongly. this is quite a radical move the president is making. it's not a close election. i mean, it is certainly close in the last 50 years, it's one of the five closest, but it is probably the fifth closest in the last 50 years. a few questions -- i'm the least important guest in today's panel. we have about 18 minutes left and as you are looking forward, when do you think things start to move? when do you think things need to start to move? secretary chertoff, at the beginning, yousaid there's a lot going on and it's not essential right now but is it next week, is it the week after? when should security briefings happen for

secession might have proved a fractal impossibility, but the bowed to whatly robert e lee called theorth superior numbers and resources. the soldiers had lost, their principles they thought, remained under vanquished. unvanquished. no analogy is perfect, never before have i seen a memorial like that in germany of the second world war. i noticed in a recent book called learning from the germans which pursues the analogy i am making now. ofcarved or cast figure hitler's himself looms above a has donety as lee above virginia's capital. of course the statues of richmond's monument avenue were not meant to honor their novel subjects. reminder of who was once more in charge. now of course, that is changing. it is very subtle as we have all seen in the news. decided to remove the confederate memorials, stonewall jackson, jefferson davis. an injunction against the removal has been thrown out, the may now beceeds done. the enormous statue of robert e lee remains because the state owns that and the work is not yet done, but many of us have seen pictures of the changes made to it this summer an

the enormous statue of robert e lee remains because the state owns that's, and the legal work is not yet done. but many of us have seen pictures of the changes made to it this summer, and know that the circle around it has become a space where african-american dance troops have been performing. and where graffiti artists have been at work. the south's own work in confronting is past and is present, that eventually took public firm in selma and birmingham, at a greensboro lunch counter. even at jimmy carter's church in planes. it happens now in montgomery's new national memorial for peace and justice, which tries to record every mention of the director, but also in dutch also spoken of series of contextualizing plaques placed next to the sites associated with the confederacy , including plaques that document the labor of slaves. that school has also decided to remove its own confederate memorial, the statue memorializing an army unit that was raised on the campus. to move it from the place where everybody in. the campus must see it to a cemetery. i think some of this work of confronti

and they looked at robert e lee for the founding father. right now here. and are up and going campus. and for maybe four days ago. there was a family out there i dad and mom and two kids and two teenagers. when they got close to it. it is about the men what fought fought and died for that. one thing i remember from my writing. it was very much anti- racist in slavery. why is this such the buy in the nation. man was a human trafficker. it's a good question. i think some of those mom humans like the one on campus in oxford. really gives us the real divide -- divide there. that are meant to enshrine these individuals. but then the ones that are everywhere. that are confederate dead. you think are they sound a little bit more anodyne. there was a soldier. we are honoring our doubt that. in the moment after the war. the great historian of the civil war talked about how they had two major tasks. the one was the full investment in citizenship. into a multi racial democracy the reunification of the right -- white americans. given the moment and you are getting it

so what robert e. lee will do it take his army back into virginia. the army is fanning out to try to block all of the different fjords to make sure that lee does not get back into massachusetts and continue the campaign, but the campaign will come to an end. just two days later after the campaign in maryland, you have one of the most important political actions of the entire war and perhaps of all of american history and ththat is emancipation prokical icalprocl. it is a war changing measure and it signals to the confederacy and the citizens of tunited states how it has changed and will continue to change. there is a lot of political background and pressure to what is going to happen in the valley in late october and early november of 1862. and this picture very well known, a very famous picture, taken in early october of that year during abraham lincoln's visit underscores the growing divide between abraham. and you see him there on the right side of the forecast. lincoln will come up to visit the army of the potomac. he wants to see the field and g

if you write a story on robert e. lee you will show or expose to people how many black people that robert e. lee has in his family. the reason i brought that up is because of the confederate statue and how these statues are being torn down. one thing that concerned me as i inc. in corporate america -- is , noink in corporate america one wants to tear down corporations. it with statues, it is a start that may at least let people know that if we take down statues that symbolize oppression or hatred or ,isagreement based on principle maybe we can transfer that into the corporate struck -- corporate structure. my father was a veteran. he fought in world war i and world war ii. i brother was a veteran. brother was ay veteran. he fought in iraq. he served as military police. up.my brother cannot get he was affected by agent orange. it is horrific to see somebody who gives their -- gave their , memorythis country going bad, and you cannot interact with them and let you know how much you love them because they have been damaged b

steal a march on the army of or northern virginia, get between robert e. lee and the confederate capital, potentially find some ground that was favorable and be able to defeat lee before the winter set on, and that was a bad season for campaigning. just a few days after informing lincoln of that fact, on october 24th and october 25th, mcclellan began to lay out the tenets of his plan. it was essentially this. again, looking at a map of the loudoun valley, you can see between those two orange lines there on the map. the left line is the blue ridge mountains and the right line is the bull run mountains. everything between that is the loudoun valley. mcclellan's plan had his army march swiftly. they would march with ten days worth of rations during this campaign, because mcclellan realized that his army might be cut off from its supply base. armed with that, the union army was going to move into columns. the left column consisted of the second and fifth corps. their objective was to march along the eastern base of the blue ridge mountains and sees each of the mou

is living in one of the reform states, i would argue two blocks from the robert e lee statute, donald trump should be lookg at statues of robert ely and jefferson davis and others, heas a huge, the clearest and easiest way, is to undermine the legitimacy of the institutions of the united states. that is why argue and i feel that strongly. this is quite a radical move the president is making. it is not a close election. it is close in the last 50 years it is one of the 5 closest, but is the fifth closest of the last 50 years. the least important test in today's panel. as you look forward, when do things start to move. at the beginning a lot going on, it is not essential but is it next week or the week after, the president-elect or vice president when should security clearances be issued? >> not that it wasn't important to start happening, it should have happened yesterday. the more time that passes, the greater the damages, the biden team is largely composed of a lot of experience so they may not be totally current but have a feel. simply meaning it would be greater and greater risk as

in terms of place, we obviously have robert e. lee's estate does a good job of acknowledging the role of freeman's village in this part of the talk. there are some other camps that i think the library does a fine job of looking at. kind of recording some of that work. also, the churches, the ame churches in d.c. do a great job of kind of remembering and understanding african-american experiences in the district. so i think that there's certainly an effort to do that. i think it's been a fine effort thus far. as we see, there's so many ways that you can sort of mark place and understand it. in terms of your second question, yes, so in the book project, i have a chapter actually on black girls and schools. it's really fascinating, because there are -- the schools for black girls emerge leading into the war. the mayor of washington, he kind of gets worked up about it. he basically -- he says that these schools are -- these schools for black girls are a threat to the union, which i was like -- that feels hyperbolic. right? but it just goes

in terms of place, we obviously have robert e. lee's estate which does a fairly good job of acknowledging of friedman's village. in this part of the top. there are some other camps that i think the anacostia library does a very fine job of looking at and kind of recording some of that work. also, the churches, the ame changes in d.c. do a really great job of kind of remembering and understanding african american experience is in the district. so i think that there certainly is an effort to do that and i think it's going to -- it has been a fine effort thus far. but as we see, there are so many ways that you can sort of marketplace and understand it. in terms of your second question. yes, in the book project i have a chapter on black girls and schools. it's really fascinating because there are these schools for black girls that emerge kind of leading into the war. the mayor of washington kind of gets really worked up about it. he basically says that the schools for black girls are a threat to the union, which sounds like, it feels hyperb

that they should have won the war had the nerve to go to gettysburg, where they were laid low, robert e. leeost bigly, as trump might say. my guests are staying with me. >>> and up next, what is all this leading to? as we just teed up for you, will trump save his final pardon for himself? >>> plus, republicans are targeting raphael warnock's faith in the georgia senate run-offs, which as president barack obama makes clear, are crucial for democrats. >> if the republicans win those two seats then joe biden and kamala harris will not be able to get any law passed that mitch mcconnell and the republicans aren't willing to go along with. >>> also, how covid is ravaging native american communities, especially in the dakotas where the virus is out of control. back with more of "the reidout" after this. diarrhea. pepto® diarrhea is proven effective to treat symptoms, and it also targets the cause of diarrhea. the 3 times concentrated liquid formula coats and kills bacteria to relieve diarrhea. while the leading competitor does nothing to kill the bacteria, pepto® diarrhea gets to the source, killin

and they hole up there for a while until robert e. lee shows up as the head of a company of u.s. marines. and lee doesn't mess around, and he orders the storming of the engine house, and brown is taken prisoner. he's nearly killed. and he would have been killed if one of the soldiers -- actually, an officer entering the engine house, hadn't been in such a hurry to join the force going north, he reached for a saber, and instead of getting the real saber, he got a ceremonial saber. when he whacked john brown over the head, he just folded in two. it left a scalp wound that bled like crazy, but it didn't kill him. so if it had killed him, then the john brown story would have ended right there, and it would have had nothing like the effect it had neither in the north or the south. but it didn't kill john brown, and he loves to stand trial. >> the trial is just a pretty dramatic, almost surreal scene at points. he's wounded, as you said, during the capture, and he attends the jury selection and the trial from a cot that's rolled in day by day. [laughter] and, you know, every now and ag

should quickly note overgaard -- beauregard, all of those men could have learned a lesson from robert e. lee and working with jefferson davis. you have to think how lee -- believed that civilian authority needed to be informed. the key is deference. lee, the language he employed in writing to davis time and time again, he made sure davis never felt that he was being snubbed. scott: right. peter: there will be no snubbing of jefferson davis. i think it is one of the share that lee and grant in common. both of those generals certainly had egos. they knew where to check their show deferenceo to political leadership. that is one of the reasons i think they were successful. they created a culture within the army and with political leadership that enabled them to do things they thought were going to lead them to victory. i think lee was always trying to guide davis to where he wanted the strategy to go. he wasn't always successful. he wasn't completely successful in the gettysburg campaign. i think lee's thinking was sound. davis gave in to the politics of the moment. you've got to execute this ca

. >> who is robert e. lee?n virginia. >> yes. >> reporter: i started off confidently. >> who is napoleon? >> reporter: he was a guy with a complex. >> yes. it's looking good. >> reporter: but then... >> emily balch? >> reporter: she is not the woman who wouldn't go out of her house in massachusetts and wrote poetry? >> no. she is a nobel peace prize winner. >> reporter: nor could i identify jody william, a nobel winner for her work with landmines, or the first woman elected to congress and the only member to vote against american involvement in both world wars. >> mo, don't feel back. it is always safe money. i can always count on american education. >> reporter: for 38 years, colman mccarthy has been trying to give away that $100 to the more than 30,000 high school and college students in the washington, d.c. area who have taken his course in peace studies. a former columnist for the "washington post," mccarthy has spent his life preaching and teaching non-violence. >> and there are options to be able to conqu

but to listen to what robert called the whispering gallery, led by general robert e. lee bullard, colonel alan garear and the -- and formalized in the disgraceful army war college report of 1925, here's what he had so say, blacks could do nothing -- i'm sorry, could do everything but fight. they were only dangerous to themselves and women. and there was much, much more maligning and disparagement from grear who signed the document from general baloo which told blacks don't go where you're not wanted. no matter if you have the legal right to do it, you can't do anything that will cause trouble, or we'll deal with you. the war college report, all officers agree without exception that the negro lacks initiative, displays little or no leadership, and cannot accept responsibility. they're also rank cowards in the dark. nonetheless, and we would never guess this fact, that some 70 black soldiers received the distinguished service cross during world war i. the nation's second highest military honor and that at least eight african-american soldiers were nominated for the medal of

but to listen to what they called the whispering gallery, lead by general robert e. lee bollard. and the informalized in the disgraceful army war college report of 1925, here is what he had to say. blacks could do nothing -- sorry, could do everything but fight. they were only dangerous to themselves and women. there was much, much more meligning and disparagement. and he also signed a document, bulletin number 35 that said blacks don't go where you're not wanted. no matter if you have the legal right, don't do anything to cause trouble or we will deal with you. all officers agreed that the negro lacks initiative, little or no leadership, and cannot sep responsibility. they're also cowards in the dark. none the less, and we would never guess this fact, that some 70 black soldiers received a distinguished service cross in world war i. the nation's second highest military honor. and that at least eight african-american soldiers were nominated for the medal of honor. the highest such honor. that no black received the medal of honor during the war speaks to it's importance as an coll

preserves the place where property lee surrendered to you and s grant -- surrendered -- where robert e lee surrendered to you as gra youyulyssus s grant. and what life was like in this village after the war. >> i'm starting in front of perhaps one of the most famous court houses in the united states, appomattox courthouse. the name is pretty confusing. courthouse in is a building like the one behind me, and it's situated in the village of appomattox courthouse. appomattox court house the village is famous because it's more generally surrendered to ulysses as grant on april 9th, 1865 effectively bringing about the end of the civil war. this little town has a lot of history. today, we would like to talk a little bit about why appomattox courthouse is so famous. we'd like to talk a summertime about some untold stories. as it stands, the courthouse is a village complete with a tavern, stores, lawyers offices, and homes. the town was not more than 130, 140 people in 1865. it is an unlikely place for two large military forces to meet, general luis army in northern virginia and general grants mul

>> is a confederate scout robert e. lee. >> that was one of her favorites? >> absolutely. >> he is an irish immigrant and i was interested to note there. >> getting a real good close up on the board so folks can see i it. you mentioned him even earlier. >> he was born four years into this century he has a tremendous influence and those that are influence for the good. and then you can't explain it. we could never figure how to get it. >> he passed away four years after the interview 2005 texting and from dubuque iowa i am currently reading the origins of discontent by isabel wilkerson she has now appeared on q&a on sunday nights and booktv as well and available at booktv.org teeeight on - - type name in the search function at the top of the page. good afternoon and welcome to book tvs. >>caller: thank you for taking my call i was tempted to call in an earlier with a woman who talked about the government agency like the cia. i have had a bizarre life like to share my name if i can because i am a vietnam era veteran from the heartbeat of america and also whist

robert e lee, u.s. grant, >> i thought kevin was one of your favorites? absolutely. who wasvo he? he was an irish immigrants. he became a lawyer. and i was interested in the military because he done a hitch in the british army as a corporal. he was a marvelous gentleman. he was killed in franklin and the laster of the war. >> we get a really good close-up on that board so folks can see from not such a distance. check off you mentioned him earlier. >> he was a born years into this century. chekhov had a tremendous influence on the writing of the short story. all short story writers influence for the good. >> he had a talent that you could not explain it. we used to try to figure out how he does these things. we could never figure how he did it so good. and shelby foote passed away four years after that interview in 2005. text in dubuque iowa, i'm currently reading cass the origins of our discontent by isabel wilkerson. i highly recommend it she write writes. isabel wilkerson has now appeared on our q&a program on sunday nights. and on book tv as well. all available @booktv. just ty

it old confederates outcome birthday party when i was about 11 years old with all of my friends robert e lees. grants, i read similar work labor and was your favorite berries what. >> guest: absolutely he was in arkansas immigrant who became a lawyer and i was interested in the military because he had done a hitch in the british army as a corporal. could we get a good close up on that board there so folks can see it you mentioned earlier. >> host: he was born four years into this century. but he is as modern today as he was when he was writing. checkup had a tremendous influence on the adding of the short story. all short story writers they influence for the good. >> checkup had a talent you cannot explain it. lisa try to figure it how he does these things. we could never figure how he did it. he was so good. >> he passed away four years after that interview in 2005. gail texts in from dubuque, iowa. i'm currently reading cast the origins of our discontent by isabel wilkerson. i highly recommend that she writes. isabel wilkerson hasasom now appeared on sunday night and on book tv as well. al

forest, robert e. lee, u.s. grant. >> some of these -- one of your favorites. >> absolutely. he from arkansas, and i was immigrant. he became a lawyer and was interested in a military because he had done a hitch in the military army as a corporal. he's a marvelous gentleman. he was killed in franklin the last year of the war. >> can legitimately close up on that board just so folks can see it not from such a distance? why checkoff? >> he was born four years into the century but he was as modern today as when he was writing. he has a tremendous influence on the writing of the short story, all shortlu story writers influence for the good by checkoff. he had, he had a talent that you can't explain it. walker and i used to try to forget how we does these things. we could never figure how he did it, he so good. >> host: and shelby foote passed away four years after that interview in 2005. dale tweets in or a text from dubuque, iowa, i am currently reading cast the origins of our discontent by isabel wilkerson. i highly recommend she writes. isabel wilkerson has now appeared on our

this movement was ordered by robert e. lee -- robert e. lee, and it put the men and horses to the test. we will be digging a little deeper into that. i usually like to give an outline of where we are going with the presentation. it is pretty straightforward today and it's going to be some traditional military history. we are going to be looking at aspects of the long route that the cavalry took on the raid. we will take a look at some of their civilian interactions and then close it out by talking about the far reaching repercussions of the raid itself. so i think it's a good idea to start with some stories about the people involved. since we are going to take the high overview look today, we are going to talk about some of the leaders at the top. we are going to start off with george mcclellan, who should be on the far left of your screen. i'm hoping it will translate that way for you. here's a little overview. many of you might be familiar with him. they're also might be something new, or at least a good reminder, as we are getting starte