sherman;s order number 15 ropes off charleston to the st. johns river in florida for redistribution among free people. it's one of the most heartbreaking turns of reconstruction that this landed pulled out from under them and give back to their former masters. nevertheless they still make a way for themselves. in fact, a man in the 1970's said he could actually just barter in the south carolina sea islands for a long time until air-conditioning came along. then hilton head and all the resort is -- resorters. you have many free people making community that last. let's look at another example of land, one you may or may not know about what arlington cemetery used to be. lee's estate becomes one of the most successful refugee camps of the civil war. while robert e lee and jefferson davis are out trying to win a war there are free people on their plantation. they are giving it up and making communities there. the friedman -- freedman's village becomes a model community. it's a blueprint of how it's going to look. it is made by a black doctor. th

civil war generals and their wives john charles fremont, george mcclellan, william tecumseh sherman and ulysses s. grant wouldn't have been who they were. when i was in graduate school and learned that sherman fought for her husband from president lincoln in january of 1862. from earlier painting i knew jesse freemont lobbied the president on her husband's behalf a few months earlier. as a former congressional aide and lobbyist i was intrigued bya their lobbying efforts and results they achieved.d. i wanted to know more about how they influenc influenced their s kabir. there was confident they had because i was raised a military family and learned early to strengthen the couragthestrengtd resilience required military spouses. i began with jesse and ellen and after research decided to tell the story of points of the men whose trajectories in the civil war roughly matched those of c fremont and sherman. george mcclellan was one of the first appointments to the major general in may of 1861. by the end of 1862 neither of those men commended any troops at all and lincoln had relieved of command. the s

john charles fremont, william tecumseh sherman and ulysses s. grant wouldn't have been who they were without jesse, ellen ewing and julia dent. from president lincoln in january of 1862 i knew jesse benton fremont lobbied presidene president on her husband's behalf a few months earlier. as a former congressional aide and a lobbyist i was intrigued by their lobbying efforts and by very different results that they achieved. i wanted to know more about how the influenced their husbands careers. i was confident that the that td because i was raised in a military family. and i learned very early the strength, courage and resilience required of military spouses. i began after initial research decided to also tell the stories of the trajectories of the civil war roughly matched those of fremont and sherman. like fremont, george mcclellan was one of the very first appointments to the great major-general in may of 1861 and the 62 neither of those men commanded any truths at all. lincoln had removed that of command. the same day they were made major-gener

john charles fremont, george mcclellan, william tecumseh sherman and ulysses s. grant wouldn't have been who they were without jesse benton, nelly marcy, ellen ewing and julia dent. i first twigged to this story ten years ago when i was in graduate school and learned that ellen sherman sought help for her husband from president lincoln in january of 1862. from earlier reading i knew that jesse benton fremont had lobbied the president on her husband's behalf a few months earlier. as a former congressional aide and lobbyist, i was intrigued by their lobbying efforts and by the very different results they achieved. i wanted to know more about how these wives influenced their husbands' careers. i was confident that they had, because i was raised in a military family and learned very early the strength, courage and resilience required of military spouses. i began with jesse and ellen, and after initial research, decided to also tell the stories of the wives of two men whose career trajectories in the civil war roughly matched those of fremont and sherman. like tremend

his golden retriever chow mix was last seen on lower sherman island in antioch. kpix 5'sord on the people working to bring him back home. >> bark, bark [ he is looking for the lost dog leo. >> service dog trained to comfort in need. >> reporter: he belongs to an army veteran. he is helping her deal with post-traumatic stress. leo's dog sitter became separated from him while celebrate the 4th on sherman island in the delta. >> he was playing in the water and laying in the sun and some fireworks were set off and he took off. >> the group searched all weekend but leo was still missing. the companion is a member of the family and vital help with her condition. contra costa animal services is on alert hoping to reunite this veteran with her service dog. >> our officers looked to see if we identified the animal. we did not. >> reporter: he has a microchip and if found like all dogs he will be scanned. a coded number will identify him at once. meanwhile they are searching shelters for leo. he would now have matted hair and would appear different from the photograph so they are a

northeast.ea we have to warn you the images a you are about to see may be disturbing. 63-year-old sherman evans died snt back on june june 27th. he was holding a weapon that tha turned out to be beebee gun. g officers asked evans to put dowd his weapon several times beforee opening fire.ir mayor bowser spokeswoman saidani the video was released in thed n interest of the transparency. >>> fbi director james comey coy vigorously defending the decision not to prosecute psecu hillary clinton over her privatr e-mail scandal.caal he admitted to the house t h oversight committee that clinton wasn't truthfully publicly aboua her use of the private serverere but added that she didn't lie to comey was grilled for hours byos lawmakers at the hearing yesterday.sterday. he says charges would have been unwarned and mirror quote celebrity hunting.ce >>> now some much needed goodedo news this morning.ni the june job report is out andnd it locks like the u.s. economy o is rebounding.in employees added 287,000 jobs job last month.th. the highest job surge in eight e months and far above treebove te industry expectation

neither sherman or the other announced major candidates, including ulysses s grant, senator james blainerom maine, nobody had enough votes to get the nomination. so the convention was in search of a compromise candidate, and they settled on james garfield. they did not settle on him quickly. it took 36 ballots to nominate james garfield in 1880, so it was a contentious convention. a very long convention that ended up with a compromise candidate for the republican standard bearer. we have the republican national 2016,tion in cleveland in and there had been discussion at one point of the possibility of a contested convention, but it is wonderfully ironic and great for us here at the historic site parties inher of the cleveland, especially when james garfield himself lived so close, but also as the result of a rather contentious convention. >> live features, speeches and more from the republican convention available at c-span.org. we are back live at the first energy powerhouse in cleveland built in 1892, supplying electricity for cleveland's streetcars, and hosting today the cleveland coal

>> officers opened fire on sherman evans when they say he pointed a weapon at them. it turned out to be a bb gun. news4's mark segraves spoke to the officers about this video. mark? >> reporter: this video is dramatic, to say the least. it shows the tense moments leading up to the shooting as police officers pleaded with the 63-year-old man to put down his gun and shows the moments immediately after the shooting as police administered first aid and tried to stop the bleeding. today, mayor muriel bowser wants the public to see how the police conducted themselves during this incidents. the first 911 call came in around 9:22 the night of june 27th for a man waving a gun outside of building in northeast. police believe the man waving the gun was the same man who called 911. 63-year-old sherman evans. >> our dispatchers called back that number. it's a number that appears to belong to the decedent. >> several officers pleaded with him to put down his gun. after seven minutes of the standoff, police say evans raised his arm and pointed the gun at police. video from police body cameras do not show the moment eva

s and secession must be crushed. thus, when 11 slave holding states declared their independence following lincoln's election, sherman looked bon them as seized by insurgent force that is had to be suppressed. the country had an openly anti-slavery president for first time since the founding of the republic, but it did not give southerners and slaveholders, quote, one jot or tidle of provocation sherman contended to destroy the government. they had no right to seize the forts, arsenals and mints which were property of the united states and which had been placed in the south for the benefit and protection of its people. by the original compact of government he wrote the mayor of atlanta in 1864, the united states had certain rights in georgia which have never been relinquished and never will be. through its army, the united states had a right to put down rebellion, reclaim its property enforce its laws throughout his territory, and bring to an end an unnecessary and evil war it did not start sherman contended, but it would finish. sherman's decision in the fall of 1864 to march an army from atlanta to the sea was an e

s. grant, more than a thousand pages in order to make money because as i said he gave up hi military pension to become president and there was no presidential pension at that time. sherman came to washington but the memoirs which mark twainmemo published about her income of the equivalent of a $10 million in her lifetime. she lived into the 20th centuryt and died in washington and is in grant's tomb in new york. if you ever have the chance because it is based on napoleon with the dome and the red, napoleon is in this undated singularity coming and when you walk into the tomb, you see two of those because the last thing he wrote us a note that he puthe into his pocket before he died that said he wanted to make sure that julia was buried next to him. julia was buried next to hi. thank you all so much. [applause] it starts at 8:00 p.m. eastern here on c-span2. >> good evening, welcome to the rr smith center in virginia. my name is rick and i will the president of the augusta historical society which is the sponsor of the event. we have been preserving and promoting the history of augusta county, virginia for over 50 years. or county was created in 1738 and at one time exte

s closed out the show. much more on last night's event, coming up on good day fail this morning. detectives are working the crime scene at clifford brown walk and sherman street in the early morning hours. no motive released and no suspects have been named. >>> listen to this one, prosecutors say that a new jersey man, paid a philadelphia woman, there she is, to how him to sexually assault two girls for years, both adults now face a range of charges, including, sexual assault, child endangerment, bergen county prosecutors say that they have learn the male suspect hear was engaging in sexual activity with a 14 year-old girl, they say an investigation determined he had been sexually assaulting that 14 year-old and 12 year-old girl since 2010. we will stay on that story. >>> delaware neighborhood on high alert two women abduct just hours apart, how their attacker tried to subdue them. >>> plenty, enemies to friend, the big event bringing together president obama a and one of his former political rivals. i'm sure you can probably guess who. police are on the the hunt for a man they say tried to abduct two women in newark, delaware. >> sunday a man grabbed

s mayor has released the first body camera footage of an officer-involved shooting in northeast. [ gunfire ] you can hear the shots here as d.c. police fire their guns at 63-year-old sherman evans. this was late in june. evans died from his injuries. police say he pointed a gun at them. the gun later turned out to be a bb gun, but district officials say the officers did what they were trained to do. >> how our officers respond, engage with the subject and the suspect before making the decision to use deadly force, i think that is a marked difference when you look at this video versus the videos that are being talked about nationally >> police union officials say the mayor should not have released that video without a full review of the case. the mayor's office says it did consult with d.c.'s u.s. attorney before making that footage public. >>> new today, the labor department announced 287,000 jobs were added last month. it's a sign the economy is still recovering from a slump early in the year. the hiring spurt marked a sharp employment from may's dismal showing when just 11,000 jobs were added. the up employment rate stands at 4.9%. >>> a change on the campaign trail tod

neither sherman nor any of the other announced major candidates including former president ulysses s.dy had maine -- enough votes to get the nomination. so the convention was in search of a copper price and eventually settled on james garfield. but they do not settle on them quickly. it took 36 ballots to nominate him in 1880. it was a very contentious convention, a very long convention that ended up with a compromised candidate being the republican standardbearer in 1880. of course we have the republican national convention here in cleveland in 2016 and it has been discussion at one point about the possibility of a contested convention, but i think it is wonderfully ironic and certainly great for us at james garfield nationalist turks like to have either of the major parties in cleveland, especially when james garfield himself , but also as a result of a rather contentious convention. our coverage getting underway with our preview program at 6:00 p.m. eastern. speech is in the official program starting at about 7:30 eastern that will include several former rivals of donald trump, gov

s operating business for $4.83 billion in cash. you have verizon stock up by .3%. verizon is buying yahoo! operations for -- operating $4.83 billion. great reporting by alex sherman over the last few days for this. the verizon sale will not include yahoo! cashiers in alibaba, and verizon will be integrated with aol. alex sherman is joining us now. you scooped this on friday. talk us through what happened in the last 72 hours because there were still stumbling brock's -- tumbling blocks on friday. alex: verizon was always a favorite and we have been talking about that since january. verizon upped its bid. in the last round of bids, verizon was still only bidding between $3.75 billion and $4 billion. that was not the high bid. yahoo! had more or less put pressure on verizon saying if you want to buy this thing, you have been the presumptive buyer the whole time, you have to step up and increase the bid. we realize you do not want the nonessential into little property that is not part of the deal, but you still have to bump it up a little bit. verizon figured when push comes to shove, at the very end here, that is when we will make our move. but we do not want to go

sherman gave you brig because he didn't do around killing people. very few deaths involved in his march and the same thing is true of s herks rigag. minor sur masses, but basically go in and destroy the enemy infrastructure, and that's called hard war. and the morale of the south plumted as a result of what sherman was doing and many of the tens and thousands of deserters from lee's army were people who in good faith went home because they felt a greater responsibility to their wives and children than they did to what was left of the confederate cause in 1864 and 1865. >> thank you. >> sir? >> i want to follow up in a way. i think the morale issue is something germane. i mean, you depicted very well, i think, the reasons for the myth. it was all very reasonable. but when you get into this notion of morale and mind set and the other factors that -- that did exist in the south that helped propagate the myth, i mean, they lost. they were ravaged, not just by the war, but by reconstruction. there was this even demic povty. there was a romantic ideal to begin with that existed there and then the war really deflated that. so i think, yes