no stonewall jackson, no longstreet, nudge of stuart. when union probes revealed the contours of the rebel offensive formation granted elected not to attack bill he maneuvered again to the southeast to try to get between lee and richmond fed tabret may 27 to can the veterans council reported the union entrenched and was empty. the two armies jockeyed northeast of richmond and gravitated a place. familiar to the veterans of both armies to had thought in 1862. in fact, they reoccupied the old fortification and the positions were reversed. on may 301st engine first the armies fought the engagements for position a massive attack on the rebel right wing. if not he could maneuver again to the southeast. he scheduled the gasol for june june 2nd. is troops or not ready. postponed until the next morning and he does series of cunning differences over the varied terrain. when they were done there were trenches that covered all the likely attack crops did not attack at all union captain james mcginnis, lead and iron filled the air as the snowflakes

lee, stonewall jackson, and those guys. there was an interesting controversy about back in the '90s some time, james river used to flood all the time. they built a f>o÷st wall to,a the low-lying parts of the cities from being inundated. and the city or somebody put up the display of pictures of richmond's history. on the floodwall, and one of the pictures was a portrait of general robert e. lee, and there was a black leader who complained about this very vociferously and said you have to take that down. we're not glorifying robert e. lee. without getting into the merits of his complaint, you should have heard a lot of white people howl about that. they said, why are you going to take down that picture of robert e. lee? this is terrible, this is racial chauvini chauvinism. and i wrote a piece. i said, wait a minute. i said, i don't care about the picture of lee on the floodwall one way or the next, but you've got a predominantly black city council in this city since 1977 or whatever, 20 years now, and in all that time, not

it is written in stonewall jackson's handwriting and signed by him. opened it up and read it and felt very privileged. so that was in there. and this is how it was. this is a frame probably hung on hood's office wall, or a wall in his house, the kitchen. and i guess if i got promoted by stonewall jackson, i would probably frame it and hang it on the wall. so that is the way i found it. that is my famous thumb, right there. i took it out of the frame, and we now have the letter stored the way it should be. i told the owners, i did not throw the frame away. it is historic. so that is the way -- that is the letter of recommendation. on the back -- excuse me, in the middle, the middle image is this. it is the letter of recommendation for hood's promotion from major general to lieutenant general after the battle of chickamauga, signed by james longstreet. that is the frame and the famous thumb again. that was also being stored. that's the front of the letter. that's the letter in the middle. what is really interesting, on the back of the letter are all the

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lee, stonewall jackson, and those guys. there was an interesting controversy about back in the '90s some time, james river used to flood all the time. they built a f>o÷st wall to,a the low-lying parts of the cities from being inundated. and the city or somebody put up the display of pictures of richmond's history. on the floodwall, and one of the pictures was a portrait of general robert e. lee, and there was a black leader who complained about this very vociferously and said you have to take that down. we're not glorifying robert e. lee. without getting into the merits of his complaint, you should have heard a lot of white people howl about that. they said, why are you going to take down that picture of robert e. lee? this is terrible, this is racial chauvini chauvinism. and i wrote a piece. i said, wait a minute. i said, i don't care about the picture of lee on the floodwall one way or the next, but you've got a predominantly black city council in this city since 1977 or whatever, 20 years now, and in all that time, not

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lee, stonewall jackson, and those guys.re was an interesting controversy about back in the '90s some time, james river used to flood all the time. they built a flood wall to keep the low-lying parts of the cities from being inundated. and the city or somebody put up the display of pictures of richmond's history. on the floodwall, and one of the pictures was a portrait of general robert e. lee, and there was a black leader who complained about this very vociferously and said you have to take that down. we're not glorifying robert e. lee. without getting into the merits of his complaint, you should have heard a lot of white people howl about that. they said, why are you going to take down that picture of robert e. lee? this is terrible, this is racial chauvinism. and i wrote a piece. i said, wait a minute. i said, i don't care about the picture of lee on the floodwall one way or the next, but you've got a predominantly black city council in this city since 1977 or whatever, 20 years now, and in all that time, not only haven't

the visitors center and the leader hopped out of a bus and began to tell the untimely death of stonewall jacksonand brought nearly everybody in the group to tears. i asked the fellow standing next to me, who is this guy? i was told with great reverence, that this is the famous civil war historian bud robertson from virginia tech. well, i knew the rest of the story, because as they say, because i had read and reread his book the stonewall brigade before i arrived that summer. i also had the good fortune of attending virginia tech and over the years, dr. robertson has been an incredible inspiration to me and many others interested in civil war history. the books he has written cover an entire shelf, but the time he's spent mentoring young historians, both in academic and public history is immeasurable. i'll share a quick story. he's also an excellent and serious editor. he would generously mark up manuscripts, transforming them from white to red pencils. his graduate students found buying christmas presents for him was easy. a box of red pencils and he always put them to good use. for 44 years, dr

he has written numerous books, including one of the greatest biographies of stonewall jackson.day as our keynote speaker, he will speak to us about the 1864 overland campaign. we are very honored to have with us today dr. james i. robertson. [applause] >> thank you, john, very much, and please know that i'm deeply humbled by the invitation to be the keynote speaker on this awesome occasion in history and in commemoration. i also would like to extend greetings from the virginia's civil war ses kwurquicentennial william howell. this is the time to take renewed pride in the heritage of your state. if you're not from virginia, we adopt you now. stay long, spend much and enjoy yourselves here in the old dominion. 1864 was the critical year of the civil war. 36 months of bloody fighting had brought a steady erosion of territory in the western half of the confederacy. however, in the east, where the war would be won or lost, the principal armies had fallen to a stalemate. virginia was the birth place of a nation whose government had been crafted largely from spacemen from the old domi

he's now commanding the larger remnant of stonewall jackson's old confederate first corps, as well as his former light division. a.p. hill will do very poorly. there's one thing about a.p. hill that most people haven't really focused on that i think would make an interesting story. being a storyteller and historian, i would like to write a book about it one day. a.p. hill had the unusual talent of dating women who later married union generals. and it's hard to figure out how he was able to figure this out ahead of time. i know most of you are familiar with the fact that he went out with this marcy, who, of course, married george mcclellan. what you might not know is he also went out with a young lady from baltimore, her name was emily chase, and just before the battle of gettysburg, she married general warren. now, warren and hill first came up against each other at a battle called bristol station in the fall of 1863. and this was a few months after warren had married emily chase. when i was digging through some of warren's archives up in new york, i came across a copy of a letter tha

the men that warren had defeated, one of their most inexperienced union generals is stonewall jackson's old boys. the confederate's second cow. it had been unable to aunch an effective attack against an inferior force. the army of northern virginia was a defeated entity. eyes shifted south of the shady grove road to a place called old, cold harbor. old cold harbor is a place where several roads k5i78 together. from white house landing, roads that ran to rich hand and roads that ran dh one fr way from the armies. lee knew the 18th core under baldy smith was headed that bay. he got reports from scouts along the james river. he wanted to find out what was going on. he sends out a calvary force out that way and they are driven back. not only did that the increase lee's belief that the federals are definitely headed that way and baldy smith is planning some kind of attack. lee realizes if the federals can take this intersection they're below the pleaer training in of his army and attack him in the flank or they could go ahead and take richmond. so this little obscure intersection becomes a c

stonewall jackson are in a carriage at a confederate veterans reunion in atlanta in 1898.they are in this carriage. there is a downpour. they are part of a confederate veterans reunion. there is a downpour. she is soaked to the skin. she saves in the outfit for hours. she finally goes back to the hotel to change and there is a big ball that evening and she catches a chill and a fever, and it takes several weeks. she gets on the training goes to narragansett for vacation and she lingers for a couple of weeks and dies of malaria gastritis. i have talked to every doctor i know and their like, what is that? there is a stomach ache, fever, but no one dies in a rainstorm. she had been to egypt months prior. it had been so long. it had been like three months before. i am not sure that makes sense. she was nervous, like jefferson davis. they both never eight. they may have had something like an ulcer. there was probably an underlying stomach disorder. i don't think the rain did it. she may have had a weakened immune system that pushed her over the edge. very good question. i still

he has written 18 books including the greatest of all biographies of stonewall jackson.as ourcis keynote speake he will speak to us about the opening of the 1864 oafland campaign. we are very honored to have with us today dr. james i. robertson. >> thank you john, very much. by the invitation to be the keynote speaker on this awesome occasion in history and commemoration. i also would like to extend greetings from the virginia civil war sesquicentennial commission square by asking of the house william hale. for you virginians this is a moment to take renewed pride in the heritage of your state. if you're not from virginia, we adopt you now. stay long, spend much, and enjoy yourselves here in the old dominion. 1864 was the critical year of the civil war. 36 months of bloody fighting had brought a steady erosion of territory in the western half of the confederacy. however in the east, where the war would be won or lost, the principle armies had fell to a stalemate. virginia was the birthplace of a nation whose government had been crafted largely by statesmen from the old d

he's now commanding the larger remnant of stonewall jackson's old confederate first corps, as well ass former light division. a.p. hill will do very poorly. there's one thing about a.p. hill that most people haven't really focused on that i think would make an interesting story. being a storyteller and historian, i would like to write a book about it some day. a.p. hill had the unusual talent of dating women who later married union generals. and it's hard to figure out how he was able to figure this out ahead of time. i know most of you are familiar with the fact that he went out with miss marcy, who of course married george mcclellan. what you might not know is he also went out with a young lady from baltimore, her name was emily chase, and just before the battle of gettysburg, she married general warren. now, warren and hill first came up against each other at a battle called bristow station in the fall of 1863. and this was a few months after warren had married emily chase. when i was digging through some of warren's archives up in new york, i came across a copy of a letter that wa

he has written 18 books including the greatest of all biographies of stonewall jackson., as ourcis keynote speake he will speak to us about the opening of the 1864 oafland campaign. we are very honored to have with us today dr. james i. robertson. >> thank you john, very much. by the invitation to be the keynote speaker on this awesome occasion in history and commemoration. i also would like to extend greetings from the virginia civil war sesquicentennial commission square by asking of the house william hale. for you virginians this is a moment to take renewed pride in the heritage of your state. if you're not from virginia, we adopt you now. stay long, spend much, and enjoy yourselves here in the old dominion. 1864 was the critical year of the civil war. 36 months of bloody fighting had brought a steady erosion of territory in the western half of the confederacy. however in the east, where the war would be won or lost, the principle armies had fell to a stalemate. virginia was the birthplace of a nation whose government had been crafted largely by statesmen from the old

event, though the symbol of the loyal and faithful slave was well represented in the form of stonewall jackson's personal servient who led the parade of veterans through the streets. a larger re-enactment in 1937 numbering upwards of 50,000 people, imagine that, 50,000 people at the crater battlefield, 50,000 people marked the crater battlefield's inclusion into the national park service. as was the case in 1903, the ceremony highlighted the bravery of mahone's virginians but made very little effort to acknowledge the presence of united states colored troops. the success of jim crow legislation in virginia was clearly discerned in the absence of any serious attention to the presence of black soldiers and it is likely that very few if any local african-americans atte attended. the black community's inability to contribute to memory was enhanced by a narrative that celebrated a war of brave northerns and southerners without any reference to slavery, emancipation, and black military service. this whites only narrative maintained a stubborn hold on america's collective memory through the 1970s. the

he's now commanding the larger remnant of stonewall jackson's old confederate first corps, as well as his former light division. a.p. hill will do very poorly. there's one thing about a.p. hill that most people haven't really focused on that i think would make an interesting story. being a storyteller and historian, i would like to write a book about it one day. a.p. hill had the unusual talent of dating women who later married union generals. and it's hard to figure out how he was able to figure this out ahead of time. i know most of you are familiar with the fact that he went out with this marcy, who, of course, married george mcclellan. what you might not know is he also went out with a young lady from baltimore, her name was emily chase, and just before the battle of gettysburg, she married general warren. now, warren and hill first came up against each other at a battle called bristol station in the fall of 1863. and this was a few months after warren had married emily chase. when i was digging through some of warren's archives up in new york, i came across a copy of a letter tha

center and the leader hopped out of a bus and began to tell the wounding and untimely death of stonewall jackson and brought nearly everybody in the group to tears. i asked the fellow standing next to me, who is this guy? i was told with great reverence that this is the famous civil war historian bud robertson from virginia tech. well, i knew the rest of the story because, as they say, because i had read and reread his book "the stonewall brigade" before i had arrived at chancellorsville that summer. i also had the good fortune of attending virginia tech and over the years, dr. robertson has been an incredible inspiration to me and many others interested in civil war history. the books he has written cover an entire shelf, but the time he has spent mentoring young historians, both in academic and public history, is immeasurable. i'll share a quick story. dr. robertson is also an excellent and serious editor. he would generously mark up manuscripts, transforming them from white to almost entirely red pages with his red pencils. his graduate students found buying christmas presents for him was eas

event, though the symbol of the loyal and faithful slave was well represented in the form of stonewall jackson's personal servient who led the parade of veterans through the streets. a larger re-enactment in 1937 numbering upwards of 50,000 people, imagine that, 50,000 people at the crater imagine that, over at the battlefield. 50,000 people marked the crater battlefield's inclusion into the national park service. as was the case in 1903, the ceremony highlighted the bravery of mahone's virginians but made very little effort to acknowledge the presence of united states colored troops. the success of jim crow legislation in virginia was clearly discerned in the absence of any serious attention to the presence of black soldiers and it is likely that very few if any local african-americans attended. the black community's inability to contribute to memory was enhanced by a narrative that celebrated a war of brave northerns and southerners without any reference to slavery, emancipation, and black military service. this whites only narrative maintained a stubborn hold on america's collective memory th

the department started out stonewalling, moved to mud-slinging and is now counterpunching. >> so you do not buy that chief jacksontoday at the press conference i was at, and he said, look, you guys were asking for this video, you know, what do you want me to do? >> the initial question is, if he released the video, this video was released in conjunction with the officer's name. it raised the suspicion of whereby why was this not released before? because if, indeed, he was responding to a robbery charge, that seems reasonable. people would say, you seem someone who fits the description that closely, you would say, let me talk to you a minute and you would have a reason to pull him over. it seems that the suspicion, i saw a sign here that said, the ferguson county -- the ferguson police need better script writers. and i think that really sums up a lot of how people see what's happened here. there's no consistency and the story changes a lot. >> the shock among journalists, when keith jackson came out and said, no, had nothing to do with each other. everyone was like, we were just here a few hours ago. state senator