>> robert e. lee, because of marrying into the family was seen in many ways as the arab george washington and there were several books to that effect. when robert e. lee decides to take up arms against the union that george washington helped found, they see this as a profound betrayal. and they see the whole family as dragged down by that. partially there because many of the other descendants in the family did fight that state. the majority fought for the confederacy and robert e. lee is quiet famous. and in the aftermath of the civil war, with the reconstructed government, there is not a lot of love lost for lee. they are even bringing him up again afterwards and the sentiment is very much against him. i think because of his association with the family and because of a country directed by northerners, they see him as a traitor. they are no longer as interested in the family. southerners who are revering robert e. lee are not that focused on his washington connections. they do talk about this but afte

>> robert e. lee, because of marrying into the family was seen in many ways as the arab george washington and there were several books to that effect. when robert e. lee decides to take up arms against the union that george washington helped found, they see this as a profound betrayal. and they see the whole family as dragged down by that. partially there because many of the other descendants in the family did fight that state. the majority fought for the confederacy and robert e. lee is quiet famous. and in the aftermath of the civil war, with the reconstructed government, there is not a lot of love lost for lee. they are even bringing him up again afterwards and the sentiment is very much against him. i think because of his association with the family and because of a country directed by northerners, they see him as a traitor. they are no longer as interested in the family. southerners who are revering robert e. lee are not that focused on his washington connections. they do talk about this but afte

what a robot robert e lee. they've had the chance from 65,000 soldiers. a very highbrow the new spring campaign is about to begin and you realize they thought they were going to win. the tremendous space. robert e lees and they knew the commanders very different than the situation grant was finding himself a in. we also think of him as a general that liked to maneuver and take the initiative and this time he couldn't do that. here's themy union army. lee didn't know what grant was going to do. whether they would attack him headg on or try to come around either side of him basically going down the river or up. he was also worried about the general single and butler in the shenandoah valley and down on the james river and was concerned he might have to send reinforcements to help support them so what did he end up doing was taking first quarter basicallyy a third of the infantry force moving it down several miles south to where the rest of the army was stationed so that it would be on the virginia central railway and either hop on the rail cars and as a part

they told us that robert e. leewas an honorable man, guilty of nothing but fighting for the state and the people that he loved, that the southern flag was about heritage and remembering those slain fighting to preserve their way of life. but, see, the thing about the lost cause is that it's only lost if you're not actually looking. the thing about heritage is that it's a word that also means "i'm ignoring what we did to you." i was taught the civil war wasn't about slavery, but i was never taught how the declarations of confederate secession had the promise of human bondage carved into its stone. i was taught the war was about economics, but i was never taught that in 1860 the 4 million enslaved black people were worth more than every bank, factory, and railroad combined. i was taught that the civil war was about states' rights, but i was never taught how the fugitive slave act could care less about a border and spelled georgia and massachusetts the exact same way. it's easy to look at a flag and call it heritage wh

be hanged as a war criminal. >> reporter: the man who ordered pickett to charge was of course robert e. leethe confederate forces. he's remembered at gettysburg by this giant statue. >> the idea was that lee was a hero. how ironic that a person trying to destroy the united states of america becomes the great american. >> i'd say the majority of folks around here would tell you in a heartbeat keep it pickett. >> reporter: danny clary is chief of the fort's fire station, where you couldn't turn around without seeing the name pickett. >> how do you feel about it coming down? >> sad. i understand why they're doing it. but it's been here a long time and it's going to take a lot of people a while to adjust. >> reporter: but it is now fort barfoot. after colonel van barfoot, who received the medal of honor for his bravery in world war ii. the first army base in the united states to be named after a native american. >> congress can pass laws and commissions can issue reports. but somebody's got to do the work. >> somebody's got to do the work. that's right. >> reporter: kyle gee runs the sheet meta

there were still battles being fought after the surrender of general robert e. lee to ulysses s grant in april 1865 at appomattox in virginia. there were still battles being fought as late as may of 1865 and june of 1865 in a state like texas. texas is the stronghold of a dying confederacy. what general order number three says is there will be absolute equality between blacks and whites in terms of property rights and civil rights. number two is that the free women and men should stay on their plantations and engage in labor contracts with those who formerly presumed to own them. number three, it says black folks should not try to go to military camps or engage in any kind of idleness. black people looked to number one and the idea of absolute equality between blacks and whites. there were some people throughout texas come ended galveston, who fled the plantations then, who did go to military headquarters, where you could get provisions and food and find out about your family. there were others who stayed. certainly celebrations happened that day. there are also tra

called a pro white rally here to protest charlottesville's effort to remove a statue of general robert e. lee> so the day unfolds, and it becomes very ugly. >> the violence included an apparent attack with a car on a crowd of peaceful protesters. at least one person was killed. one of the white nationalists uses his car to plow through a group of anti-racist protesters and kills heather heyer. >> you had some very bad people in that group. but you also had people that were very fine people on both sides. >> when donald trump defended the charlottesville protest by saying there were very good people on both sides, i think that was the key that opened the door to chaos in a sense. >> we will not be replaced! >> january 6th was a coast lesc moment for a lot of these groups, because they can all coalesce under the banner of being called by donald trump. whether they believe in trump as the president, whether they were there as proud boys and oath keepers because they're a militia that wants to take down the federal government, they were under the same umbrella. >> you have these insurrectionists

. >> jessica: it was italian tourists that took down robert e. lee?been banned, i couldn't get access. judge? >> jeanine: first of all, the guy is an idiot. number one, he puts his girlfriend's name, how does he know he is going to marry her, his wife -- >> jessica: when you are in love, you are in love. >> jeanine: in the future, she will know he is in love with this other girl. he needs to be prosecuted. they need to find out who he is purely historical landmarks are very important. why do people go places, touch it, carve it -- just look at it and enjoy it. >> jessica: jesse? >> jesse: i carved ""watters' world"" in the alamo. take a sharp right, knee-high, you can see it. no security at that place. >> jeanine: they don't, you are right. >> jesse: sources tell openly jesse watters prime time" they artie broke up. caught her cheating. >> jessica: on the trip? >> jesse: that couple is done. big mistake. i love making examples out of people. i am like the judge, i want to throw the book at this guy. no one is even going to sneeze near and antiquity if

you all know the confederates never or thought about trying to take fort monroeit's because of robert e lee, who was the main en whoelped to build fort monroe. he built anetrae fort, and he that it was a fool's fo try to and take netrle f and so because it was such an incredible and impenetrable fort, people kind of forgot about it. not it as an important instance nation that ended up becoming so important during the civil war. now, following lincoln's and i want to just kind of take you through a few other pictures and then i want to talk about what happens after lincoln's proclamation. i thought this particular really important and poignant because it shows what miries were doing and these were missionaries from northern. most of them were aboists, and they were coming down. they were providing food, they were providing education, were provieligious comfort to many the formerly enslaved . and this drawing was done of newport news after the big bethel battle. and you had a number of in that area. this and it's the oy picture i've ever of inside fort monroe. and those barracks, by the way,

confederates never or thought about trying t for monroe, and it's because of robert e lee, who was then engineer who helped to build he built an impenetrable fort, and he that it was a fool's folly to try to and tak impenetrable fort. and so because it was such an incredible and impenetrable fort, people kind of forgot about it. not it as an important instance nation that ended up becoming so important during the civil war. now, following lincoln's and i want to just kind of take you through a few other pictures and then i want to talk about what happens after lincoln's proclamation. i thought this particular g done by a missionary was really important and poignant because it shows w missionaries were doing and these were missionaries from northern. st of them were abolitionists, and they were coming down. they were providing food, they reding education, they were providing religious comfort to many the formerlyved people. and this drawing was done of newport news after the big bethel battle. you had a number of in that area. 's the only picture i've ever of inside fort monroe. and thos

their leader robert e lee and lee knew his men knew his commanders very different than the situation grant was himself in. we think of lee, though, as being a general who liked to maneuver, who like to take the. and this time he couldn't do that. he was sort of stuck. and here's why. here's the union army of the potomac rapid n river, lee's army in virginia. lee, know what grant was going to do with federal was going to go attack him head or were they going to try to come either side of him basically going down river or upriver and, then come around? he wasn't sure. he was also worried about general sigel. general butler. the army's there in, the shenandoah valley. and then down on the james river. and concerned that he might have to send reinforcements, support them. so what he ended up doing was taking general longstreet's first corps basically third of his insurgency force and his best moving it down to gordons ville several miles south of where the rest of his army was stationed, so that it would be on the orange and all i'm sorry, would be on the central railway and could either

and so you had institutions of learning orphanages and were brought into the system by the time robert e lee surrendered in april of 1865, there were about 40 schools throughout state. 15 served children from the ages of 10 to 16. the other schools accepted children who were below the age of so if you look at some of the numbers, all right, by the end of the conflict in 1865, pennsylvania soldier orphans, schoroughout the entire commonwealth, they admitted 1226 students. so again, to put this ia perspective, by the end of the war, 31,nnsylvanians had died fighting for the union. so this is under 4% of the total. but you can see therehain the next few years the numbers begin to rise quite now we say for certain, you know why this number is going up? is this a father who comes home is dealing with some battlefield ailment and dies and a mother care we don't know for certain but do see that really steady rise and increase whatever it is that brings children to soldier orphan schools in pennsylvania. i think it's important to understand that these children formed a pretty strong while they were

confederate occupati however to his credit, john pope had ably parried against all of those maneuvers by robert e. lee. lee became desperate to make a larger, bolder gamble. and that was, again, the movement that culminated there at bristow station on the night of, august 26th of sending approximately 24,000 confederate soldiers under the command of right flank, and severing pope's supply line, john hennessey thank you for the maps in this presentation. if you recognize these if you've been through returnable run, but this is a great move. great illustrating. again, jackson's movement around pope's army striking the manassasoad or following really the path of the manassas gap railroad. and then down to bristow station, of colee divided his in half by doing this. it was risky maneuver, but it was one that lee felt he had to take. it wasn't one that lee didn't have certain safety valves built into as well. but now, come the night of august six, john pope had found himself in a very situation and quite a reversal of fortunes from just a few days prior. john pope learned about trouble up rail line from hi

explicit only to carry on the traditions of robert e lee and by the time hoover joined in 1913 and 1914, some of its most famous alarms were some of the most influential segregationist cultural and political figures in the united states. one of them was a man named thomas dixon, who wrote a novel called the klansman that became the basis for the birth of a nation, which came out in 1915. the famous silent film glorifying the ku klux klan came out during. the time that hoover was in college. and kappa alpha, in its alumni network also had an enormous concentration of southern democrats who had come to washington in many of them to serve in the wilson administration, who spent a lot of time hanging out at the chapter house with the younger college boys. these are some images from the history of kappa alpha. that's birth of a nation and the klansmen are up there on the top. that's a picture from the 1950s when kappa alpha became instrumental in popularizing the confederate flag. once again as a symbol in part of southern white resistance to civil rights and as you can see from this documen

there were still battles being fought after the surrender of general robert e. leees s grant in april 1865 at appomattox in virginia. there were still battles being fought as late as may of 1865 and june of 1865 in a state like texas. texas is the stronghold of a dying confederacy. what general order number three says is there will be absolute equality between blacks and whites in terms of property rights and civil rights. number two is that the free women and men should stay on their plantations and engage in labor contracts with those who formerly presumed to own them. number three, it says black folks should not try to go to military camps or engage in any kind of idleness. black people looked to number one and the idea of absolute equality between blacks and whites. there were some people throughout texas come ended galveston, who fled the plantations then, who did go to military headquarters, where you could get provisions and food and find out about your family. there were others who stayed. certainly celebrations happened that day. there are also tragedies. w