>> the question is, how did sherman -- come up with the idea for sherman's knots or sherman's bow ties is what they're sometimes called. what he's asking about are the twisted rails when the union troops would wreck rail lines, the confederates too for this matter, the confederates employed this prior to the atlanta campaign. you get thousands of infantry men to stand next to a rail line, and all at once they would rip up the crossties, separate with hammers the iron rail from the wooden crossties, pile up the wooden crossties in huge heaps and create bonfires, lay the arm rails on the end of the bonfires. when the center of the iron rails turns red-hot, the union soldiers would grab it, i was rereading this the other evening, i wonder if they used gloves? they must have been pretty hot. they take the red-hot rails and twist them around trees, which would make it extraordinarily difficult for the confederates to straighten out and reuse. there's some good photographs taken of this process downtown. your question is one i really can't answer. my gut feeling is that it wasn't sherman tha

sherman. is sherman a war criminal generally focused on two events. they focus on the march, obviously, which i'll talk about, but they also focus on his expulsion of civilians from atlanta. so sherman's army took control of the city of atlanta on september 2nd, 1864. they weren't planning to stay for very long but he did want his men to use their time in the city for sort of recharging to rest a little bit after the rigors of the campaign to take atlanta, and he didn't want his men distracted by either confederate operatives or women and children. he didn't want to have to feed women and children, and he didn't want to have to leave any men behind to hold on to the city of atlanta when he pulled out of the city. so he famously ordered civilians, unionists and confederates, out of the city, and gave them ten days in which to comply. it was about 1200 people who were affected by this. many people have used his september 12th, 1864 letter to the mayor of atlanta in which sherman famously wrote t

i think that -- i don't think sherman was mean. i think that sherman was clear-eyed. which is to say that i think sherman recognized that the way you stop a war is you make the war too costly. and that in so doing, he also really did believe that he was saving his men, because -- look, his men, they thought the march was great. they loved it. you know, they had more to eat than they normally did. they marched less each day than they normally did. with very few exceptions, nobody ever shot at them. from sherman's perspective, saving his men's lives while bringing the war to a more rapid close, so i -- i don't think he's mean. i think he's -- he has a job, and he's willing to do what it takes. >> could you speak to how, in 1864, northern papers were covering the march, and were there lincoln opponents to pointed out anything different than had been happening? >> that's a great question. there's very little coverage of the march itself, because from november 15th, until he's right outside of savannah, there's almost no news coming out of the march. the northern paper i'v

sherman realized this. and he wrote to mcpherson, i regret beyond measure you did not break the railroad. sherman realizes that there's a big opportunity that's been lost here. on may 14th and 15th, the first major battle of the campaign is fought at rasaka. a place that's just recently been opened as a state park. the battlefield's beautifully preserved. both armies are fortified there, during the over land campaign, these armies are constructing log and dirt works. both armies launch attacks at rasaka that fail. tactically, then, the two-day battle is a draw. but at the operational level, sherman scores a great victory by getting across a river just south of rasaka, and gets one division across at a ferry site, and threatens the western and atlantic, south of versaka and forces johnson to retreat. johnson retreats, and you can look in the middle of your map now. he retreats down to the vicinity of the small town called castle. there he hopes to lay a trap for sherman. the road network is such that sherman

how did sherman come up with sherman's knots, or sherman's bowties as they were sometimes called.what he's asking about are the twisted rails. when the union troops would wreck rail lines -- or confederates, for that matter. you get thousands of injured of infantrymen to stand next to a rail line and they would lift up the crossed eyes, separate with -- cross hammersparate them with , pile up the ties into huge ands and light bonfires when the center of the iron rails turned hot, the union soldiers would grab it. i was rereading this and thought , i hope they used clubs because those would've been pretty hot. they would take the red-hot them aroundist trees, which would make it extraordinarily difficult for the confederates to straighten out and reuse. there's some good photographs taken of this process. your question was one i really can't answer. it wasn'tling is that sherman the device to this but something that engineers and soldiers came up with. it had been employed prior to this time. sherman had wrecked railroads in , the meridiassippi meridiantion -- expedition. that's a

that being said, where sherman -- sherman's men and sherman himself and african-americans is a really interesting question. i love paul's formulation that sherman's army was one of the great armies of liberation. they are not really very willing liberators. sherman was not -- certainly not a fan of racial equality or after the war of according civil rights to african-americans. he did not -- he was perfectly content as they went on to plantations to have his men liberate the slaves and announce they were free and he was always telling them to stay put because he doesn't want them following after his army and of course, he's unable to prevent african-americans to follow his army and by the time he gets to atlanta to georgia there are probably 25,000 on african-americans who have followed his army and he doesn't want them. he's perfectly willing and there is a section in his orders to take able-bodied african-american men and put them in his pioneer core and have them work as teamsters and things like that. he does not want to have to feed women and children and elderly people and he tr

>> the question is, how did sherman -- come up with the idea for sherman's knots or sherman's bow ties is what they're sometimes called. what he's asking about are the twisted rails when the union troops would wreck rail lines, the confederates too for this matter, the confederates employed this prior to the atlanta campaign. you get thousands of infantry men to stand next to a rail line, and all at once they would rip up the crossties, separate with hammers the iron rail from the wooden crossties, pile up the wooden crossties in huge heaps and create bonfires, lay the arm rails on the end of the bonfires. when the center of the iron rails turns red-hot, the union soldiers would grab it, i was rereading this the other evening, i wonder if they used gloves? they must have been pretty hot. they take the red-hot rails and twist them around trees, which would make it extraordinarily difficult for the confederates to straighten out and reuse. there's some good photographs taken of this process downtown. your question is one i really can't answer. my gut feeling is that it wasn't sherman tha

>> the question is, how did sherman -- come up with the idea for sherman's knots or sherman's bow tiess what they're sometimes called. what he's asking about are the twisted rails when the union troops would wreck rail lines, the confederates too for this matter, the confederates employed this prior to the atlanta campaign. you get thousands of infantry men to stand next to a rail line, and all at once they would rip up the crossties, separate with hammers the iron rail from the wooden crossties, pile up the wooden crossties in huge heaps and create bonfires, lay the arm rails on the end of the bonfires. when the center of the iron rails turns red-hot, the union soldiers would grab it, i was rereading this the other evening, i wonder if they used gloves? they must have been pretty hot. they take the red-hot rails and twist them around trees, which would make it extraordinarily difficult for the confederates to straighten out and reuse. there's some good photographs taken of this process downtown. your question is one i really can't answer. my gut feeling is that it wasn't sherman that

sherman. thomas, in fact, had won the first major military victory in the west up in kentucky in 1862. he had performed superbly at chickamauga, actually saved the union army at chickamauga, as many of you probably know. thomas' troops had shattered the confederate lines at missionary ridge. thomas was an impressive soldier. some historians argued thomas would have made a better commander of the federal armies during the atlanta campaign than sherman. but -- but thomas did not have a very good working relationship with ulysses s. grant. brook simpson actually alluded to this yesterday in his talk when talking about the tennessee campaign in 1864. and then thomas also had a reputation as being a very slow, very methodical soldier and that caused sherman some frustration during the atlanta campaign, actually. so thomas is a very, very important subordinate, but he's an army commander during the campaign under sherman. the second largest of sherman's armies was his old command, sherman's old comm

sherman's coming. he's really -- he's welcomed by white southerners because of the fact that he did not support equality for african-americans. and he wanted in fact a very soft piece for the south. so going back to his time at lsu and his time earlier when he had been in the army in the south, he loved the south. he loved southerners. southern whites. let me be more clear. thank you all very much. [ applause ] >>> friday night on "american history tv," slavery and the cinema, beginning at 8:oo eastern, with a look at the depiction of slavery and films since the 1930s. then the 2012 movie "lincoln" and its portrayal of the debate and passage of the 13th amendment. and a discussion about the 1939 movie "gone with the wind" and its depiction of southern society, friday night, beginning at 8:00 eastern, here on c-span3. >>> this weekend on "american history tv," we take a look back 200 years ago this week, when british military forces set the white house and the capitol on fire. we'll also hear about brit

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because normally, sherman didn't decide to save savannah, sherman said, look, you can surrender, or i'm going to shell you into submission. he gave them a choice. and savannahans said, we're going to surrender. in fact, they earned the enmity of every other place in the south. because they were weak and they gave up. that's just the nicest way i've ever heard that played. >> i'm just going to -- a quick question. of course, natchez does the same thing. but i have another question. in 1863, confederate troops went out of their way, in fact, arrived late at gettysburg, because they're busy burning down thaddeus stephens' house. chasing free blacks all over pennsylvania and rounding them up. is there anything equivalent in sherman's march that says -- does his army target politicians' house, do they march out of their way just to seek revenge against particular politicians and are they rounding up any white confederates and enslaving them? >> no, i wouldn't say they go out of their way, but sherman takes a particular delight, and he has a long passage about it in his memoirs about camping

how did sherman come up with the idea of sherman's knots or sherman's bow ties, as they're sometimesalled. what he's asking about are the twisted rails when the union troops would wreck rail lines, the confederates, too. you'd get thousands of infantry men to stand next to a rail line and all at once they would lift up the cross ties, separate with hammers the rail, the iron rail from the wooden cross ties, pile up the wooden cross ties in huge heaps, create bonfires, put the iron rails into the bonfires. and then when the center turns red hot, they would -- union soldiers would grab it. i was rereading it and i thought i wonder if they used gloves. those ties must have been pretty hot. but, anyway, they would take the red hot rails, red hot in the center, and then twist them around trees, which would make it extraordinary difficult for the confederates to straighten out and reuse. and there's some good photographs taken of this process downtown. it was something that engineers came up with. but that's a great question. i don't know where it originated. i don't know if we actually kn

and sherman, too, marking the letter private and confidential. sherman will say, your letter of april 4th is now before me, and affords me an infinite satisfaction, that we are now all to act in common plan, converging on a common center. looks like enlightened war. most specifically he will say, like yourself, you take the biggest road -- or biggest load, and from you shall have thorough and hardy -- or from me you shall have thorough and hearty cooperation. i will not let side issues draw me off from your main plan in which i am to knock joe johnston and do as much damage to the resources of the enemy as possible. i think william tecumseh sherman understands what is expected of him in the coming campaign. and joseph johnston's army of tennessee is indeed to be the first target for sherman's combined army group of the military division of the mississippi. and he'll later summarize this strategy by saying he was to go for lee, and i was to go for joe johnston. that was the plan. the confederate armies would be the first target. but there had by 1

his strategy had been to fight on the defensive inflict casualties, punish sherman, weaken sherman. and then as sherman's army got near atlanta. that army weakened by these casualties would fall prey to johnston's successful counterattack. johnston believed his strategy had worked. he also believed that jefferson davis had deliberately withheld resources, so that johnston would fail. davis didn't care anything about the confederacy. all he cared about was embarrassing joe johnston. this was johnston's basic approach. it wasn't long after that, early the next year, when hood submitted his report, which was a total reverse of johnston. johnston had not been heavily outnumbered. he had chosen to retreat, to abandon these strong positions in north georgia. he had lost some 22,000 men. johnston claimed he had lost only about 10,000. johnston's army had been demoralized. johnston had passed up many opportunities to strike at the enemy, and the army was so weakened in numbers and moral that not even hood could win success when he replaced johnston. these two views of the campaign which for

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sherman. you can read lots of stuff. what a nut. left them with william sherman.re you kidding me? why would he leave this stuff with william sherman. i thought the same thing until i read this letter. it is from st. louis 1875 to anna. my most precious one. i am to dine today with mr. cost and tomorrow with general sherman. he called last evening and paid me quite a long visit. he asked me to dine today but my being engaged forbade my so doing. he then said our names share association in history and he wanted to know me. he also asked if i were alone. you see you would veteran in the same box. he said during our conversation he couldn't account for grant's actions towards the south and asked me a few things about the south. general sherman has written a book. i think and i want to get it. he was very kind and courteous. i shall post him fully as to the affairs to the south. then he met sherman. had dinner with sherman. here is one you guys will get kick out of it. here is another letter. in this letter -- i will show you. that was that letter. look at this. this

sherman's army. he continued as a division commander under grant in the entire vicksburg campaign. he did well. the fall of vicksburg, smith continued in division sommand, but in the 16th corp which did primarily occupation duty in western kentucky and west tennessee. the rear areas of the army of the tennessee. this was not all just administered duty, this occupation duty included suppressing confederate raiders in that region. it included a certain amount of .ombat, but not too much not in a large-scale and no major battles. 1864, innter of january of 1864, sherman was tasked with leading a raid from vicksburg eastward into mississippi to strike at the confederate logistical base and meridian. for that purpose, sherman decided to use contingent from force,h core, as a field aswould use the 17th corps well as a 16th. aj smith again wound up having a division of force that marched on meridia and successfully and returned to vicksburg. then, immediately after a thedian operation, guerrillas, smith's d

we have heard talk about general sherman. he marches to georgia under the lieber code and there are times when he orders the execution of his own troops for violating its. there are northern troops, for instance -- sherman's office was finding a covered wagon full of things american soldiers had taken from southern homes to read sherman orders the trial of everyone connected with this wagon and he simply burned the entire wagon. he does not know who they belong to, but they are not going to belong to american soldiers. and as we learned earlier today, the lieber code protects scientific instruments, books, etc.. after the american revolution, americans contribute -- complained about the way the british treated american pow's. after the war, americans, particularly southerners, complained about the way a british treated americans captured during the war of 1812. at andersonville, as at any of these camps, you could be certain there was a reasonably high death toll because of disease, because of the not very well understood way

, he said something to the effect of general sherman, for a man of your rank and reputation you have a shocking bad hat. and sherman didn't necessarily take offense to it, but he said in response to agent brown, he said, well, brown, you have a decent hat, i will swap you. and brown said, done, and they traded hats. and brown took this particular hat with him, sent it home to a nephew in massachusetts as a trophy, as a memento. and that's where it remained until 1970 when the collection of the military order of the loyal agent of the united states, which was a veteran organization after the civil war, sent their collection to us here. mollus, which was the veterans organization, every state had a mollus commandery, which was made up entirely by union officers after the war. and just like a v.f.w. is today, more or less the same thing. and they would have these grand halls in every state that they would collect war memorabilia, be able to meet, just like veterans do today, to talk about their experiences. and often you would find pictures of these halls just decorated with all of thes

she finished the conversation. >> after calling bill starns, sherman moore continued to contact him.n asked me to get in contact with the warden and ask for his release. but i just feel like if you commit the crime, you should do the time. i just can't bring myself to go about that procedure. it was a bad day in mine and my family's life. i'm sorry he has to stay in prison for what he did, but that's just the way it is. >>> next, on "lockup: extended stay." >> it happened eight years ago on february 24th, 1999. >> sherman moore comes face to face with the mother of someone else's victim. >> i can't say i understand how you feel, but i can understand your loss. it really shook me up. there's no justifiable reason to take a life. it's how i look at life. especially now that i live with a higher risk of stroke due to afib, a type of irregular heartbeat not caused by a heart valve problem. i was taking warfarin but wondered, could i focus on something better? my doctor told me about eliquis for three important reasons. one, in a clinical trial eliquis was proven to reduce the risk of str

daniel patrick sherman was the father of william brian sherman, the 7-month-old who was found dead near livermore in april. police say the boy's mother, ashley newton admitted to stabbing the baby to dead and cutting her own wrists. she survived and is expected in court next month. police have not said how daniel sherman died. he was not considered a suspect in the baby's death. >>> oakland is trying to shutdown a single room occupancy hotel. the city attorney filed the west grand hotel. they call the hotel a public nuisance and say it is the center of drug sales. they found numerous building and fire code violations. h there is mold and cockroach infestations and nonworking toilets and showers. >> well, how much should your children be taught about sex in high school. coming up next, a curriculum that goes too far for some bay area parents. >> dozens of passengers and men, women and children come together for one heroic act. the video you really need to see. >> and this basketball star and grad jeremy lin is tearing it up. >> here is jimmy kimmle jie. here is what is coming up for you

sherman is the one that says all war is moonshine and hell. he has looked into the face of hell in his march from atlanta to the city. he said it. but he is saying it in form not words. three dimensional form in a way that you never forget once you know to look at that face. he is being led by victory and that is a beautiful young goddess with wings. the model for that young woman was an african-american anderson and she is the goddess of victory. she is not glowing with joy of triumph. she looks dazed and in a trance of some kind. there is a mystery about it. that sculpture was created by a guy who was dealing with makers and rubbish and trucks coming. he doesn't mean the trucks we mean. this huge statue working with heavy steel super structures inside the statue and taking it off to the bronze boundary to have it cost in bronze and shipping to it america and up to the studio in new hampshire where it was guilded and brought down. he had a deal with complicated and difficult practical problems and employees that numbers as many as 15 at a tim

daniel patrick sherman was the father of william brian sherman, the 7-month-old who was found dead near livermore in april. police say the boy's mother, ashley newton admitted to stabbing the baby to dead and cutting her own wrists. she survived and is expected in court next month. police have not said how daniel sherman died. he was not considered a suspect in the baby's death. >>> oakland is trying to adown m occupancy hotel. the city attorney filed the west grand hotel. they call the hotel a public nuisance and say it is the center of drug sales. they found numerous building and fire code violations. h there is mold and cockroach infestations and nonworking toilets and showers. >> well, how much should your children be taught about sex in high school. coming up next, a curriculum that goes too far for some bay area parents. >> dozens of passengers and men, women and children come together for one heroic act. the video you really need to see. >> and this basketball star and grad jeremy lin is tearing it up. >> here is jimmy kimmle jie. here is what is coming up for you tonight. >> hi.

daniel patrick sherman was the father of william brian sherman, the 7-month-old who was found dead near livermore in april. police say the boy's mother, ashley newton admitted to stabbing the baby to dead and cutting her own wrists. she survived and is expected in court next month. police have not said how daniel sherman died. he was not considered a suspect in the baby's death. >>> oakland is trying to shutdown a single room occupancy hotel. the city attorney filed the west grand hotel. they call the hotel a public nuisance and say it is the center of drug sales. they found numerous building and fire code violations. h there is mold and cockroach infestations and nonworking toilets and showers. >> well, how much should your children be taught about sex in high school. coming up next, a curriculum that goes too far for some bay area parents. >> dozens of passengers and men, women and children come together for one heroic act. the video you really need to see. >> and this basketball star and grad jeremy lin is tearing it up. >> here is jimmy kimmle jie. here is what is coming up for you

then there's the sherman statue, which is in new york city, he questioned statute of general sherman.us a victory leading him to 59th street and fifth avenue, gilded, magnificent piece. i think the greatest questioned statute in the country. been there's the memorial for admiral farragut which is in madison square in new york city. again a superb piece and made in paris, as was the sherman statute. then there's his home which is the national park site where you can see just about everything. he did coins, all kinds of things. so he's conspicuous. john singer sargent paintings of course are in most every museum as our mary's paintings. i would say james fenimore cooper's novels everywhere in america, still read in school, still partner,. >> host: is cooperstown named after him treasury know, after his father. his father founded the town and he grew up in. c-span: go back to john singer sargent could you talk a lot about him. >> guest: there he is. c-span: what was his age? >> guest: he was an american prodigy. he was a gifted, notably, astonishing the gifted painter when he was still 1

i've never seen a sherman tank. i remember -- we went by truck. i remember when we got there, the sergeant called out my name. and told me to follow him. he took me to a tent. we walked in and told the tank commander, here is your driver. that was it. and we were there -- i can't recall. we left the first part -- sometime in november. we left and went to new york. and then we >> we got on the boat in november. days to that boat seven scotland. we got there a day before thanksgiving, the night before , but getting back to that boat. -- i was sick for seven days, so i knew i was not a sailor. to our surprise, our cooks had already arrived. we had a full thanksgiving dinner. after the first of the year, the battalion broke up and each company went a different way for different training. my company, the company, went to a lake in the interior of .ngland, great yarmouth when i got there, we were going to train in floating tanks. i thought, i don't know who came up with this. the england dutch english said it was going to be a secret weapon. i wished at

years later, there is a guy named ludwig sherman in germany. -- in england,k race war.ed it is laterauded by the nazis as a primer on race. which do not cease thought was a good example, so much so that sherman is later presented a medal by the nazis for his work on race -- he includes writings of hotze. here is the connection. this guy from mobile, writing on race, is later referenced in german works that are later praised by the nazis, who of course are the all-time infamous proponents of racial inequality. words -- what we write, what we say, can be dangerous. this sentiment is a dangerous sentiment. i do contend the south had little chance of losing this war, if it is a long more, unless they get an ally. to that extent, the work hotze tried to do as far as gaining recognition is valuable. if that had worked, there might have been a different outcome early on. who knows. that is a speculation. the other thing is the racial part. as the war becomes hopeless, you see not just hotze but a lot of folk in the self inking toward that postwar world. slavery has been that legal 200 years

just had a crew of four and the sherman tank has a crew of five.then we transferred down to the south part of england and got sherman tanks. called them dd tanks. and we trained there. till the latter part of may. i don't know the dates. then we drove up to -- i think it was plymouth port. when we got there, they loaded us on the lct, landing craft tank, would accommodate four sherman tanks. we loaded right then. my tank was the first one on so i would be the first -- or the last one off. the company commander's tank was the last one off. we was on the landing craft with him. and i guess i should tell you that d-day was supposed to be the 5th of june. the weather was pretty well controlling when it was going to be. because of the high water, the rough water, in the english channel. but we went out the 5th -- the night of the 4th of june. we got partway out. and got orders to turn around and go back. and the process of turning around, our lct ran into the battleship "arkansas." but we got back. and i thought -- hoping anyhow, maybe, i guess, that th

>> you know, the funny thing is that myself and sherman alexie, the writer of smoke signals, you know, were dreaming about making this movie that would somehow catch fire, and next thing you know, it... it caught fire and it hit. and ten years later, it's still the movie that i'm best known for, and i think it's because, you know, when you have a "coming out" type of, you know, party or whatever it might be, that's what people, you know, really see. i mean, i've made five or six movies since then, and done television-- like law and order and friday night lights, but people still remember smoke signals. and i think the lasting effect of that movie was that it was another land marker in native cinema-- if there is such a thing. you know, in the early 1990's, when dances with wolves came out, it taught a whole generation of native actors that they wanted to be performers in the industry. and with smoke signals in 1998, what happened was-- at least what i'm seeing now-- is that there's a generation of native american men and women that are saying, "we are filmmakers, we are directors, we

i never seen a sherman tank.but i remember when they -- we went by truck, and i remember when we got there the sergeant called out my name and told me to follow him, and he took me to a tent and we walked in, told the tank commander he said here's your driver. that was it. we were there, i can't recall. we left there the first part -- sometime in november we left. and went to camp shanks, new york. and then we got on the boat and in november. was on that boat seven days, to scotland. and we got there the day before thanksgiving, the night before thanksgiving. get back to getting on that boat, i was on that thing seven days and i was sick seven days so i knew i wasn't a sailor. we went down to camp shank, new york. we got there at thanksgiving day. to our surprise our cooks had arrived. and we had a full thanksgiving dinner. after the first of the year, the battalion broke up and each company went a different way for different training. my company, b company, went to a lake in the interior of england, great yarmou

when sherman heard this, sherman who had a low opinion of congress and newspapers, sherman wrote to grant, i hope you will make it a death penalty for any congressman -- or for diplomatic reasons, grant did not do that. another reason why grant went with that army was its commander. george mead was seven years older than grant. he was a dedicated soldier but overly cautious. his army had done nothing for the last ten months. meade had a violent temper which he could not control. and when unleashed, said one officer, it sounded to one like cutting an iron bar with a hand saw. grant also knew that he had been appointed to initiate and arm a hopefully successful campaign. thanks to the advent of the telegraph grant could oversee all military theaters as easily in the field, as he could from a desk in washington. as to reactions from grant from inside the army of the potomac they were varied. captain oliver wendell holmes jr. stated there was quote a little jealousy, a little dislike, a little envy, a little warmth of confidence, all however are willing to give him a full chance. for if he su

when sherman heard this, sherman who had a low opinion of congress and newspapers, sherman wrote to grant, "i hope you will make it a death penalty for any congressman who enters your town for diplomatic reasons or otherwise." grant did not do that. another reason why grant went with that army was its commander. george meade was seven years older than grant. he was a dedicated soldier but overly cautious. his army had done nothing for the last ten months. meade had a violent temper which he could not control. and when unleashed, said one officer, it sounded to one like cutting an iron bar with a hand saw. grant also knew that he had been appointed to initiate a long and hopefully successful campaign. thanks to the advent of the telegraph grant could oversee all military theaters as easily in the field as he could from a desk in washington. as for reactions to grant from inside the army of the potomac, they were varied. captain oliver wendell holmes jr. stated that there was "a little jealousy, a little dislike, a little envy, a little want of confidence. all, however, are willing to give

and defeated john sherman cooper in 1954. so their careers intersected in a competitive way toward tend -- toward the and of barkley's life. so cooper was my early role model and so those are the two portraits that i have up in my office. some people are surprised i had a democratic majority leader in my office. but i thought he was of that significance that i was willing to reach across the aisle in a bipartisan gesture and welcome barkley to my office. on these remarks i've done on senators, they are a little bit like a college lecture. this is not about current events. this is about the past. and so whatever your views are of what is going on right now, what i think we allingt to do -- we ought to do today is turn off current affairs and go back and talk about one of our most significant figures in kentucky in u.s. history. professor tom appleton and jim clouter have contributed to this as of course has alben barkley the third who i've already discussed. >> our common wealth has had a our commonwealth has had a rich herita

it would accommodate four sherman tanks. we loaded right then. my tank was the first one on, so i would be the first one -- or the last one off. and the company commander's tank was the last one off. we was on the landing craft with him. and i guess i should tell you that d-day was supposed to be the 5th of june. the weather was pretty well controlling when it was going to be. because of the high water, the rough water in the english channel. but we went out on the night of the 4th of june, and we got partway out, and they got orders to turn around and go back. in the process of turning around, our lct ran into the battleship arkansas. but we got back, and i thought that -- hoping anyway, i guess, that they would take a couple of days to repair it. but the navy went to work on it, seabees, i guess they were, and by midafternoon, they packed up and told us that we were ready to go. and we went that night. and when we got out in the channel, the water was still rough. and sloshing up over the lct. it was a flat-bottom boat. and it was pretty bumpy

for a look at what media mergers may come together, alec sherman. -- alix sherman. >> i'm comped. --ig deals are off the sale for the time being -- table for the time being. i can't fully rule it out. consensus is to wait and see what regulators decide on the two big deals. getr the distribution deals approved or rejected, then we will start to see content deals. >> fox-time warner is a lot of fun to talk about. and we will. as far as actual deals that look likely to happen in our lifetime, what are we thinking? >> right. this is going to be a progression. it is unlikely that we will see . large chunk like time warner >> rupert pretty much said we are not doing this. he said, forget it. >> maybe he comes back a year or two later. time warner may not want to sell to him a year or two later. if he does sell to fox, it is admitting defeat. what are you hearing on the street? >> look to smaller content companies. mgm.lions gate, these of the companies that are thinking to themselves, we dodged a bullet with fox-time warner, but we still need scale to compete with the big content companie

sherman avenue if you're heading out the door.bridgestone avenue. 5 near the philadelphia international airport, no construction, no incidents to report. that's good news. a lot of the major roadways are quite right now. chris? >> four minutes after 4:00. happening later today, philadelphia will roll out the red carpet for the democratic national committee. as the city makes its pitch to host the 2016 democratic national convention. and a live look here at the center. in a few hours it will be lit up in red, white and blue to greet the dnc officials who are arriving for a two-day visit to philadelphia. philadelphia hosted the republican national convention back in 2000. a former dnc chairman said the city was a front-runner to host the dnc that year but the rnc picked it first. a decision is not to be made until later this year or early next year. >>> we're working to get more information on an off-duty police officer killed in a motorcycle crash near harrisburg. tracy davidson is live in our digital operations center. >> we've co

we'll hear about general sherman's march to the sea through georgia as well as joseph e. johnston who led confederates in the summer of 1864. also a look at confederate weapons manufacturing in central georgia during and after the fall of atlanta. that's all coming up thursday night here on c-span3. >>> 200 years ago on august 24th, 1814, british soldiers routed american troops at the battle of boydens brg just outside washington, d.c. the victory left the nation's capital wide open to british forces who marched into the city and burned down the white house and the u.s. capitol. you can learn more about the burning of washington during the war of 1812 this thursday from author and historian anthony pitch at an event hosted by the smithsonian associated. our live coverage starts at 6:45 p.m. eastern. and more next saturday, august 23rd as we take you live for a panel discussion on the events of 200 years ago. that's live at 1:00 p.m. eastern here on american history tv on c-span3. >>> next on the civil war, author cethen levin discussed the role of the u.s. colored troops