and he moved subsequent to the battle of second manassas into maryland where lee had taken his army in northern virginia. on the 13th of september, 1862, he came across a marvelous he came across a marvelous coup special order 1891 outlining how lee was conducting his campaign. mcclellan has sent this message down to washington, lee has made a gross mistake. i have his plans. i'm going to defeat him. i'll send you trophies. and then came in rapid succession the battle for the south mountain on the 14th of december where mcclellan's battle went into battle cheering, less than two weeks after they'd been defeated at second manassas. they seized passes over the south mountain and fought lee on the bloodiest civil day in the civil war, along antiem creek. he should have soundly defeated lee's army. part of his army wasn't even employed. that would be fitzjohn porter's fifth corps. but later on the 17th as they held a little council of war many of the generals said let's go after lee again. remember, general, my corps represents the last reserve of the last army between lee's great force an

person who had commanded maybe 200 troops all of a sudden commands 92,000, fought for seven days second manassas, or second bull run, sharpsburg/antietam, and then fredericksburg. i think he saved the confederacy. he transformed war and warfare. without robert e. lee, factor him out of the equation, and the war was over in the summer of 1862. despite all of his best efforts, mcclellan would have captured richmond. and i think lee was an effective emancipator. about lee's personality and personhood, i close with stuff that somebody will get. lee once wrote his daughter that i am always wanting something, i am always missing something, which is certainly true. robert lee sought something indeed. i'm always wanting something, he decreed, but he tried really hard like the rolling stones' bard and found you get what you need. thank you very much. >> okay. ladies and gentlemen, we're passing out the ballots now. and emery's going to take a couple of questions. while he does that, if you can record your vote, then at the end of his questions, we'll take a quick break and turn in your ballots as you wal

i was wondering if you would care on comment on jackson's actions in the second manassas campaign and also the fredericksburg campaign which concluded in 1862 and whether you feel that it enhanced his qualifications for man of the year or was he just a really superior super subordinate executing lee's work. >> all three of those jackson did very well. in fredericksburg was pretty much a set piece, the most rigidly set piece battle of the war in the east. sharpsburg involved a lot of movement, but not nearly as much as chancellorsville. second manassas was a masterpiece, jackson's execution of the joint plan that he and lee had crafted and certainly contributes mightily to the success of the confederacy. there's a very interesting quote from lee that pertains to all of this, and that is in the fall of 1862 when the confederate congress finally had authorized the creation of the lieutenant general's rank, northerners never did it get that far, they created corps legally and lieutenant generals to command those corps. in acknowledgement of jackson's failure, although the public didn't re

then of course during the summer the confederate victories in the seven days and second manassas and invasion of kentucky especially of maryland by robert e. lee's army revived that prospect of european recognition. they were prepared to go ahead but awaiting the outcome of lee's invasion of maryland and lee's defeat or at least being turned back after the battle caused them to back off again. i think there were two points in 1862. the first one was in the spring and faragate victory was a major factor in causing them to back off then and then six months or so later and that turned out to be the closest confederacy ever got to european recognition. >> do you think it was a mistake for faragte to press to vicksburg as soon as he did after the victories at new orleans? >> i think he thought it was a mistake but he was under orders to do so. after capturing new orleans he had sent a message to washington implying that he was going to go after mobile next and immediately got a reply from washington to follow his initial orders that gaining control of the mississippi valley was far more i

i was wondering if you would care to comment on jackson's actions in the second manassas campaign, the antietam campaign and also the fredericksburg campaign which concluded in 1862. and whether you feel that it enhanced his qualifications for man of the year or was he just a really superior super subordinate executing lee's work? >> well, all three of those campaigns jackson did very well in. fredericksburg, the battle was pretty much a set piece, the most rigidly set piece battle of the war in the east. federals attacking, confederates resisting without a lot of movement. sharpsburg involved a lot of movement but not as much as subsequently chancellorsville. >> fredericksburg senior the joint plan that he and lee crafted and it certainly contributes mightily to the success of the confederacy. there's a very interesting quote from lee that pertains to all of this. and that is in the fall of 162 when the confederate congress finally authorized the lieutenant general's rank. northerners never did that far. they created corps legally officially and lieutenant generals to command those co

manassas. look at this second line now with all the lightning from western pennsylvania and especially into west virginia. this is marching east. and behind it in ohio and kentucky, yet another potential third wave of moisture we'll be looking at. and here you go with a local look, everything starting to sweep east of washington d.c. cumberland into garrett county now, looking at a little lightning your way. here's a live look at doppler 9,000 hd. there are the showers returning to western maryland, so another couple of hours they'll be back here. south and east this stuff is racing quickly away from us, east d.c. seeing the heavy showers now. this stuff is moving east at about 45 miles per hour. weather service put out a little marine statement about that, but east and south towards oxford and cambridge dealing with the heavy showers there, also seeing it now just about out of calbert county, st. mary's county, the southern half of the county seeing the heavy stuff, but up towards mechanicsville, you're about done. and down through the northern neck, gotta get through this, maybe another 30 min

the first round this morning and the second in the evening. 40 degrees the district, 37 in manassas. looks like we will have warmer air so we expect only liquid precipitation today. 54 the high temperature. rain showers through lunchtime. -- 50 for the high temperature. a break in the afternoon and first part of the evening for the rain showers. west virginia and ohio, yellow and orange indicate heavier rain embedded within the storms. it is a big storm system dumping heavy snow in parts of the upper midwest and just rainfall for us today as that lautrec's to our north. we are on the warm side of it. in terms of overall accumulation, three-quarters of an inch of rain around the metro area. a good soaking. we need that this time of year. we could use a nice soaking of rain. any yellow that we see on the screen indicates the potential for around and may be over an inch particularly if in parts of west virginia and western maryland. three-quarters of an inch around the beltway. southern maryland according to this model about 0.7 inches. going into tomorrow, clearing with sunshine, scatt

second. first sprinkle in leesburg and across the potomac and into western montgomery county. 46 in leesburg, 45 in gaithersburg 37 in manassassidents of the advisory for the metro area and points south until it a cry a.m. we will then have sunshine this afternoon, low to mid '50's. you will notice the wind gusts in excess of 20 miles an hour. here is the wider view of the satellite and radar composite. we are trying to predict the outcome of a storm that has not even organized yet. but it will as we go into tomorrow, over north texas. rather southern texas. the circulation will become more organized as its tracks to the northeast. there are still several possibilities for the storm track. the exact track is very critical in determining how much snow we get and where. in terms of precipitation type, snow is more likely than rain with this situation. tomorrow partly cloudy, pleasant a great saturday. on sunday it is a matter of exactly where, when, and how much. i do think it's likely we could pick up a trace up to two inches. 30% chance of 3 inches to 6 inches. and% chance of 6 inches or more. i will be updating that througho

second half of the day here. >> radar, we are quiet at the moment you can see showers moving in from the west and sort of looking more impressive here in the past hour. lees burg. sterling, manassasu will get rain next few hours the prime time for the rain showers will be noon and 6:00 p.m. tonight. >> regan national, 43, 43 dulles, 42 fredericksburg cooler there, north and west hagerstown 36 degrees, afternoon highs expected to be upper 40s. to 50s. we are not concerned with anything wintery cloudy showers in the forecast, 50 degrees, 4:00 p.m., sunshine returns tomorrow and more mild temperatures on the way to start the weekend and then things get interesting, we will talk about that in a few minutes. >> look forward to it tuck. >>> hey, julie. >> all right guys, getting busy if you are travelling virginia, not only is it a 20 minute commute annandale towards 66 with lanes open, we have problems to report travelling inbound, clara barton parkway, approaching the bridge. southbound george washington parkway continuing towards the key bridge authorities checking for accident activity, slow going inside the belt way, toward potomac crossing, 395 open for business slow the belt way