one is, by december 1862, robert e lee is robert e lee. s not just the son-in-law of george washington, robert e lee had gone to any confederate court said i don't want to go through with this, i shouldn't have to go through with this, i seriously doubt whether any bridging effect confederate court would have stopped him. if he wanted to derail the whole process, who would stand up impact of general we? the other interesting thing is that lee persists moving forward with the emancipation. not only emancipate slaves but a slave family he did in his own name which he was not obliged by the custis estate for emancipating. we can have 1863, robert e lee is slave less. what's more, he's battering jefferson davis. he sank the confederacy must emancipate us slaves because otherwise we're never going to have any time standing in the eyes of the rest of the world but spring of 1865, he's advocating emancipation of slaves. the confederate army. on both terms, it's easy to say while he was doing this out of pragmatic reasons, not because he felt moral

now let must turn to robert e. lee. mary chestnut first met robert edward lee just before the war at the white salter springs in western virginia where he brought his wife who was plagued by rheumatoid arthritis and they came to the sulphur springs to benefit from her bathing in the hot springs there. there is one of the few things that could give her relief from the steady march of that terrible disease. mary chestnut is of course one of the most famous diary keepers of the confederacy. remembered that a man riding a beautiful horse joined us wearing a hat with somehow a military look to it and she said, he sat his horse gracefully and he was so distinguished at all points that i very much regretted pushing the name. mary chestnut was intrigued by this man. who was he? where did he come from? well, it was explained to her he was robert edward lee. chestnut marvelled. everything about him, she said, was so fine looking that the word which came unbidden to her mind was perfection. she said there was no fault to be found e

one is by december 1862 robert e lee is robert e lee. e's not just the son-in-law of george washington hospice. if robert e lee had gone into any virginia confederate court and said look, i don't want to go through with this. i shouldn't have to go through with this. i seriously doubt whether any virginia confederate would have stopped him . if he wanted to do due process who was going to stand in the path of generally? the other interesting thing is that lee persists in moving forward with this emancipation. and not in a cusp of slaves but emancipating them one slave family that he did in his own name he is not obliged by the state to emancipate. but in the beginning of 1863, robert e lee is flavorless. and what's more he's badgering jefferson davis. he's saying the confederacy must emancipate its slaves. because otherwise where never going to have any kind of standing in the eyes of the rest of the world. by the spring of 1865 he's advocating the emancipation of an important of slaves for the confederate army. on both terms is easy to s

whoever thought of robert e. lee asco a development officer? and yet robert e. this remarkable talent for shaking apples out of the trees. and especially the apples of -- trees. he gets old time abolitionists like henry ward beecher who sponsor meetings in new york city for the support, encouragement and fund raising of washington college. by the time lee dies in 1870, he has taken a college which was almost defunct, and he has made it an educational powerhouse, rivalling the university of virginia. he so remakes washington college that after his death trustees rename the place as washington and lee university. and that is ana tribute to the fact that the place probably would not have survived had it not been for the presidency of robert e. lee. >> we just have a couple more minutes tonight the, so i think we're going to spend just a little bitte of time talking abt the legacy of robert e. lee after his death. there's a great question from the audience here from dale, and he says his father's from lexington, virginia, the burial place of lee and stonewall jackso

one is bite somber of 1862, robert e. lee is, robert e. lee. he's not just the son-in-law of george washington custis. if had robert e. lee gone into any virginia confederate court and said there look, i don't really want to go through with this. i shouldn't have to go through this. i seriously doubt whether any for junior confederate court would have stopped him. if he wanted to do real the whole process, who is going to stand in the path of general lee? the other interesting thing is, that lee persists in moving forward with this emancipation. and not only emancipation of the custis, but emancipate's that one slave family that he did own in his own name. which he was not obliged by the custis estate to emancipate. by the beginning of 1863, robert e. lee is slave-less. and what's more, he's badgering jefferson davis. he's saying, the confederacy must emancipate its slaves. because otherwise we're never going to have any kind of standing in the eyes of the rest of the world. by the spring of 1865, he's advocating the emancipation and recruitment

it's in robert e. lee's report. so there's the value of it as perceived by robert e. lee, while george meade, when meade found out that sickles was out of position, wrote -- or is attributed to have said, the ground that sickles was on was neutral ground, the enemy could not occupy it for the same reason that his own troops could not. there is the title of tonight's presentation, huh? you see where i'm going with this? neutral ground. george meade assessed it as neutral ground. is out of robert e. lee looking at it for artillery, you have sickles agreeing with robert e. lee, you have george meade assessing it as neutral ground. there's the question of, is it logical to consider it as a valuable position and did either general lee or sickles overstatement that. and we'll come back to that. now, i'm not going to do the battle here in powerpoint, it's very hard to do civil war battles with powerpoint presentations, i think that's why so few people actually do it. so we'll skip ahead. you guys know what happens. longstreet attacks the union left flank with great vigor, lit

then i said lincoln, grant, robert e lee.aw a lot of nodding their i said look, you may not know who these guys are, you may not know any details of their life for when i said their name, and image brought into your head and attached to it whether historically right or wrong, some characteristics. that's the influence i'm talking about that permeates to the levels of the uninitiated. they're going to have an opinion in their minds i about important figures of the war and i want to emphasize everything i am talking about pertains to those campaigns, those times that transcended themselves and become almost symbols of things. the battle of trudeau's elbow probably would make it but gettysburg, sherman's march, appomattox, i think they all fall into those categories. i think in many of those cases, influencers help fill in memory blanks on the veterans who try that. i've made some changes in the morning and i have arrows here and arrows there. look, there's another force that helped shape them. there is a process that happened a

both robert e. lee and dan sickles overestimated it. and lee actually used peach orchard/emmitsburg road to spearhead a bigger disaster on july 3 called pickett's charge. but did sickles knowingly act out of intentional disobedience? i'll leave that to you to decide. which comes back to this guy, because, damn it, i've had this guy come up to me at the he found the presentation and say, that was fine but i still don't like dan sickles. and again i will say, i was not trying to get you to like dan sickles, but what i do hope you come away with is a better appreciation of the story of, you know, kind of what i talked about, the three phases, his role in the battle, his role in the historiography, and his role in the preservation, and as i said at the outset, i think it's important to understand all of the phases of dan sickles' career, love him or not, hate him or not, love to hate him or hate to love him. with that i think we're almost out of time. see you in the queue at the back of the room. thank you. >>> download c-span's new mobile u

robert e. lee in front of general longstreet the enemy held the position from which if he could be driven it was thought our artillery could be used to advantage in assaulting the more elevated ground beyond. guess what? robert e. lee wanted that position for artillery i would say imagine that robert e lee being out guest by dummel dan sickles, right? i do have a friend who always says well, you know, even a blind squirrel can get a nut sometimes so there's that possibility too, but all joking aside. it's very clear from robert e. lee's reports that he valued this position for artillery very much, you know kind of the chancellorsville fear that sickles had in the first place. so so, you know in a couple prominent historians have kind of said no lead didn't do that sickles made that up, you know? no that's not true. and i'm not i'm not gonna name his story. it's good. i don't do that. i'm a nice guy, but some prominent historians have written it's sickles manufactured the confederates interest and t

then on the civil war to programs on robert e lee at 3:00 p.m.caroline director of the university of virginia center for civil war history discusses her book and the war the unfinished fight of lee's army after appomattox which examines military and political uncertainty in the weeks following the end of the civil war. at 4:10 p.m. eastern "new york times" columnist alan with his book robert e lee, the confederate general's life is detailed from refined upbringing and virginia's high society and long career in the u.s. army through his experiences during and after the civil war. exploring the american story watch american history tv, saturday on cspan2. >> next a hearing on domestic terrorism with homeland security and fbi officials. witnesses addressed several topics including the rise of white supremacy, civil rights and the role of social media. they outline the agency's efforts to combat these issues before the house intelligence committee. this is about an hour and a half.

i have a lot of thoughts of robert e. lee. e a book one day saying robert ely was not wrong. and then to have a reason for doing it. that may not have worked. that may not have been successful maybe not the best choice. that he had a reason but he didn't just do because he felt like at that because it made sense and i think that is something we read a lot sometimes it is just a simple explanation that i thought that word work i teach at kennesaw why did sherman attack there? because if you punch your way through you can and the campaign quicker and by the way with grant and his boss and friends bogged down in virginia he punches his way through it looks like he is successful when the other guy is not. isn't that fine when you can rather than their face and say i got this done? what you still doing up there? i heard on tv the other day rather the radio and joan said when so much calvary came, porch joe stoneman can't catch a break. [laughter] so much calvary. no. that is not the original says. somebody asked me at the sesquicent

. >> robert e. lee. >> robert e. lee, a number of the generals that he ended up fighting against. that's where the interesting intersections between all of these guys and these battles because they have fought with each other before. and so he had these established relationships. at grant's funeral, to show you how well respected he was across the land, a million people show up and line the streets and they bring out their old uniforms. and they line the streets of new york city. and his pallbearers are two union generals and two confederate generals at the ends of his life. and that's the relationships they had that went back all the way to the mexican-american war. >> lincoln wasn't envious, but he looked over his shoulder at some point and saw grant and thought, oh, my gosh, this guy might run for president against me, right? >> yeah, he did. grant, he thought that he was that popular and he was that popular. with the american people. but grant never had that aspiration. he really didn't want to run for political office. he was asked all the time to run for president. he said t

so robert e. lee, in front of general longstreet, the enemy held a position, from where he could be driven, where we thought that our army could assault more elevated ground beyond. that's it. robert e. lee -- i do have a friend. all joking aside -- very much the fear had at the first place. a couple prominent historians. brought up, -- i'm a nice guy. manufacture the peach. orchard it's in robert e. lee's report. so there is the value of it. while george meade wynne meade found out that sickles was out of position. attributed to have said, the ground that sickles was on was around, the enemy cannot occupy it for the same reason that his own troops could not. that's the title of tonight's presentation. do you see where i'm going with this? mutual neutral ground. neutral ground. so you have robert e. lee, you have dan cycles agreeing with robert italy. you have george meade assessing it as neutral ground. so it's the question of, is it logical to considerate, in a valuable position. and either lee or c

alleging that the organizers used the controversy over the removal of a statue of confederate general robert e. leehe alt-right together that summer. >> what was it like to have these protestors marching through your neighborhoods? >> well, it was frightening, because most of us have never lived through something like that, right? but at the same time, this is a community of african american people that went through jim crow. >> reporter: andrea douglas is an art historian, teaching the history of charlottesville and its confederate statues. ises there is every reason why the alt-right would come to charlottesville. it was a confederate space. >> reporter: she believes we need to examine why they were erected in the first place. >> they were resurrecting their heroes who fought to maintain the lifestyle of the south. these objects were memorializing an ideology that was largely grounded in enslaveent. >> reporter: earlier this year, the virginia supreme court ruled in favor of removing the robert e. lee statue. now for many in a community still haunted by the summer of hate, the civil trial may bri

defended at cedar mountain and pulling back from that battlefield surrender the initiative to robert e lee. lee will see is that immediately and begin to capitalize on all that it will provide him. the second manassas campaign continues to unfold, row and the army of virginia plummets brother, many men feel they are needlessly sacrificed after the defeat of cedar mountain, they are not be supported. ... >> by the middle of the month of august hope is beginning to learn that these objectives are set upon pressing his army and he began to make that series of decisions that are going to be to what will happen at the end of the month. but by the second to the last week of august, john pope starts make mistakes but he said pretty well in this campaigns of our other areas held at cedar mountain and he is holding some of the strategies and some of the campaign objectives that houston gave him but by august 25th of 26, he has gone completely off the rails and the stress of this command and the stress of the objectives, all that subject that we talked about is weighing on him heavily. john pope is

when that proclamation comes out, with robert e. lee labelling pope as miscreant. many will argue that pope's command becomes lee's objective. lee may have had other plans for the summer of 1862, but upon that, pope is lee's primary objective. we'll get this miscreant out of virginia and then we'll deal with this. [ applause ] thank you. >>> weekends on c-span 2 are an intellectual feed. every saturday, american history tv documents america's story. and on sunday, book tv brings you the latest in nonfiction books and authors. funding comes from these television companies and more, including media com. >> the world changed in an instant. the media comwas ready. internet traffic soared and we never slowed down. schools and businesses went virtual and we powered a new reality. because we're built to keep you ahead. >> media com, along with these television companies supports c-span 2 as a public service. >>> how did the suffragests win the vote? in a virtual discussion with the u.s. capitol historical society, lucinda rob and roberts, heirs of two prominent political f

. >> when he stands up for robert e lee, stand up for robert e lee, i will be really impressed. as always. the ingraham angle brought an investigation about dozens of vets being left by outside a va hospital, one of the most exclusive enclaves. we have an important update. (tiger) this is the dimension of imagination. ♪ ♪ team a few weeks ago this show exposed how dozens of vets removing intents outside the veterans administration. raymond arroyo visited the site. what he found was shocking. >> a unique homeless in camp and, tents are emblazoned with american flag. it is a camp made up entirely of veterans. they run it like a military outpost complete with chores and drop off locations but these vets are fighting a new battle. welcome to veterans grow. in 1887 this 388 acres was donated to the federal government to house disabled veterans in the art of brentwood. during the korean war, 4000 that's call this place home but since then it hosted a parent park, ucla baseball diamonds, even a dog park. today the veterans can't get in. they are out here on the street. robert reynolds

eastern, "new york times" columnist allen gelzer with his book, robert e. lee, the life. details from a refined upbringing in virginia's high society and long career in the u.s. army, through his experiences during and after the civil war. exploring the american story, watch american history tv saturday on c-span2. >> get c-span on the go. watch the day's biggest political events live or on demand anytime, anywhere. on our new mobile video app. c-span now, access top highlights, listen to c-span radio, and discover now podcasts all for free. download c-span now today. >> the u.s. supreme court heard oral arguments in the united states v.zubida, a case on the state secrets privilege and torture at various cia black sites. under the state secrets privilege, the federal government can restrict access to information and legal

army and he outranked the other guys johnson and robert e. lee and he outranked all of them but the government was like with these guys and field commanders so they're going to get higher than you and has created a problem for the rest of the war between johnston and davis, president davis printed and will really manifest itself in the story today and they did not get along and they did not communicate well and led to a lot of confus. he was real concerned with break so far this amazing. there he is, joe johnston predict now to pick up the story after in the winter of 1862 in n manassas across the river from washington and georges rebuilt the union army had johnson can read a map and he knows the u.s. navy is a lot more powerful than the confederate navy and he can transport people down in the river in virginia and come on in behind him pretty met actually is mccullough's plan and he plans to go to a place and behind johnson and wants to become to him. and he realizes is a possibility so he pulls his army back behind and davis is not happy about

eastern, "new york times" columnist with his book robert e. lee, a life, the confederate general's life is detailed from refined up bringing in virginia's high society and long career in the u.s. army through his experiences during and after the civil war. exploring the american story. watch american history tv, saturday on c-span2. >> the u.s. supreme court heard oral arguments in united states v. --. of a man accused of being an al qaeda anotherive. under the state secrets privilege federal government can restrict access if it is believed disclosure will be a threat to national security. -- through june of 2022 to issue a ruling in this case

war ii to the iraq war share their experiences of war and then on the civil war, two programs on robert e. lee examines military and political uncertainty in the weeks following the end of the civil war. alan has his book, robert e. lee, it is about his long career in the u.s. army during and after his experiences in the civil war. >> watchdog and business groups testified about online marketplace fraud including the rise of organized retail crime. the senate judiciary committee held a hearing. it is about 1.5 hours.

the civil war to programs and robert e lee, director of university virginia under for civil war historyhed fight. it examines portable uncertainty weeks following the end of the civil war new york times columnist, alec with his book, robert e lee, the confederate generals life in detail from refined up bringing in virginia's highest his society. his career in the u.s. army in his leadership defining the confederate cause during the civil war. watch american history tv every weekend. find a full schedule on your program guide or watch on time online anytime see standout work. ♪♪ >> c-span on the go, watch the days political event live or on-demand anytime, anywhere on our new video app. c-span now. access top stories. all free. download c-span now today. ♪♪ >> sunday on in-depth, with conversation with author and new york times columnist off on republic and politics and conservatism in america. recently released book, deep places talking about its five-year struggle with mime disease. other titles include the decadent society, privileged bad religion. join the conversation with your phon

that disrupts this rigid worldview for instance why did president eisenhower have a portrait of robert e lee in the oval office and why, in human biology, either only two sexes, what of jacob blake, michael brown, and george ford hadn't resisted their arrest and if rittenhouse didn't deserve the right to self defense, who does but they instead stay inside their own cocoon. notes of questions, no hypotheticals, no independent thought, no critical thinking, just ranting. >> to make a hero of rittenhouse is appalling and disgraceful. >> you will not be spared because the victims of kyle written notes were white. >> the kyle nelson verdict, acquittal shared by the far right even as it strikes fear in the hearts of communities of color. >> all of this was unfair and untrue. he's not only not a racist, the only thing kyle written now seems biased against our riots. >> i'm not a racist person. i support the blm movement, i support peacefully demonstrating, i believe there needs to be change. there is a lot of prosecutorial misconduct not just in my case that other cases and it is amazing to see how

in 2017, i was watching federal confederate leaders come down in my hometown in new orleans and robert e. lee and justin davis and i was watching the statutes and down from lifestream and maryland and thought about what event that i grew up in a majority black city in which they work more always to the slave slavers in the same two people. and means i had to go down the boulevard to get to the grocery store and i had to go down jefferson davis boulevard. my middle school was named after them and my parents lived on the street because of the things we knew, the names and economic so they were just symbols and reflective of the stories that people tell. in the stories shape the narrative the narratives shape the policies and the policy shapes and materials and conditions in people's lives in this not to say that taking down and all statute of robert e. lee are making federal holidays going to suddenly wake you up, but it is to say that all of these things are part of an ecosystem of stories and ideas and narratives that help shape how we understand what is happening over the course of american

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you think about m it most of the great generals starting with hannibal and rommel and robert e-on —- robert e. leehington wasn't a great general that handed up the winner but ater some point he understood the basic strategic reality that became all-consuming and crucial in he didn't have to win the war.ar the british had to win the war it's a a lot easier not to lose as long as he kept the continental armyg in tact. tayedd him, the british cause and he was right about that but there is a kind of resilience to him and to the ordinary troops in the continental army, my real heroes in this book a film about ten - 15 percent by the way work african-americans. and they are the ones whose deserve the real credit. and set seven or have your long marathon. and it is a war that is more, barbaric and then we imagined. we had matthew grady photographs of this war as we did of the civil war we think of it differs differently. mid artists. we think of it differently but more americans died in the american revolution in per capita than any war in american history stay in the civil war and if you get to understa

>> zachary taylor, robert e. lee a number of the confederate generals at the audience of fighting against. that's where the interesting intersections between all of these guys and battles because they have fought with each other before and so they have these established relationships. i will jump forward again. it grants funeral just to show you how well respected he was across the land a million people show up in new york city and lined the streets and they bring out their old uniforms the union and confederate uniforms and they lined the streets of new york city. his pallbearers are to union generals into confederate generals. at the end of his life and that's the relationships they have that went back all the way to the mexican-american war. >> in the book you cover the fact that lincoln wasn't envious but he looked over his shoulder at some point and saw grant and said oh my gosh this guide may run for president against may, right? >> yeah you did but grant thought he was that popularity was that popular with the

hundreds of white nationalists gathered in charlottesville four years ago to protest the removal of a robert e. lee statue. one woman died after a self-proclaimed hitler supporter drove into a crowd. >> we are beyond thrilled with this result for our clients today. >> this verdict today is a message that this country does not tolerate violence based on racial andel are religious hatred in any form. >> both attorneys for the plaintiffs announced that they would retry the federal conspiracy charges. >>> and overnight, nasa launched a spacecraft to test a plan to save earth from a possible asteroid disaster. >> three, two, one, zero, ignition, liftoff. falcon 9 with a dart mission -- >> the spacecraft lifted off on top of a spacex rocket from a base in california. it's scheduled to crash head on into a small asteroid at 15,000 miles per hour next fall. the mission will explore whether slamming a spacecraft into an asteroid can nudge it into a different direction and prevent a potential doomsday collision with earth. >>> a missouri man who spent more than 40 years in prison for a crime he did not commi

each had a page on the page, every transgression was listed in the nurses plant page for robert e. leestly blank pages for others as well and lee was not the only one in those circumstances and there was no such book at the naval academy and a lot of those, no specific it demerits system. and if you transcribe them somebody would have them marched just as one of the punishments at west point was to spend x amount and a number of hours marching back and forth and that was a punishment occasionally applied and i don't think they had the same system whereby you can look in the book and counter demerits so it is hard to know. >> actually, there are two sorts of things, one is bad behavior, your shoes are not find information on your legs because you're absent without leave these are transgression title by nonjudicial punishment as is: it can result in all sorts of things, retraction of liberty, confinement in the yard, we don't have a campus monthly of a yard, navy yard. so this kind of things and the other one is of a course honor and anything that touches upon your honor, that is not han

he's discuss his newest book, robert e lee, a biography of the figure that a lot of us think we mightw but might uncover new and interesting insight in the book. as i said earlier, if you haven't purchased your copy, it was just published yesterday to congratulations, allen, we're excited to have you day after publication day. you could purchase a copy from atlanta history centers museu

. >> who is the man behind the confederate general, historian recently talked about his book, robert e. leeund himself and he also yard for security. thirty his father had denied him and so well most of these consumers •-ellipsis west point but the army as they had receded their taxpayer provided college degree i could resign and go into private engineering practice are some of the profession, lee stays with the army as the one certain profession and paycheck that he could count on. a huge factor in this pursuit of independence security and perfection, was arlington and it was as much to protect arlington for his family as it was for virginia could just resigned commission and refuse the offer of command. that's not the only factor predict the other factor lease decision if was the expectation that there would be no war after all. hard as it is for us to appreciate this, as we are looking from the present backwards, in april of 1861, handyman after the secession of the southern states, even after the firing and he was still by no means clear that the crisis would only result in a civil war

near the battle of in mississippi, there were pictures of blacks mobilizing in new york, from robert e. lee confederate forces, and a scene of stalwart african american volunteers, heading to a recruitment office, were prominently displayed as full page images in'harper's weekly'and the new york illustrated news. the latter engraving was all the more striking in light of the incendiary pictorial reports in that newspaper following the emancipation proclamation in january. a full page fifth avenue seen showing affluent black new yorkers common during, as they ignored the privileges of their white reverend, unquote. moreover, and the aftermath of the riots, the sacrifice and bravery of black soldiers was featured in pictorial coverage of the massachusetts regimen, when they attacked fort wagner, south carolina. the coverage of the august 15th issue, of the new york illustrated news, presented the capture of a confederate lieutenant of a skirmish near view for, south carolina. near the rebel officer was a powerful african american private serving in the first south carolina colored volunteers.