we start with you. >> i had written a biography of stonewall jackson. we started to do further reading, and it is a different place. and a vengeful, however it is a hard war. they use the term band box, these were young men, and dreams of glory. it is about the early war and i thought not only was the latter war more extreme place and influenced the war. when i looked at doing that, i knew bruce won a pulitzer in 1953 with a wonderful book about appomattox. the army of the potomac, they are not covered by that. they have done that 75 times are now. nobody has done it and there have been grant/lee books and there was appomattox, to me the last year seems like a valid lens or aperture through which to look at the war. it starts with grant's arrival to take command of the union army and roughly at appomattox roughly a year later. the election of 64. the original driver, capturing this very much harder war that came about staff's refusal to lose unleashes all sorts of nasty demons, these guerrilla wars, anti-civilian wars, things that happened the south won

lee, stonewall jackson, and jeb stuart. >> there is a type of ceremony that surrounds the valorizationf these guys. >> reporter: a few years ago california-born kahinda wiley came face-to-face with them for the first time. what did you see? >> i saw a spectacle that felt dreadful. i mean, it almost felt like it was designed to be menacing. to be in a black body walking through the streets of richmond and to see something that signifies the enslavement of your people, that's a little bit more heavy-duty. >> reporter: the 42-year-old artist decided to answer with a monument of his own. on tuesday, wiley's 27-foot-high bronze sculpture of a young black man on horseback was unveiled at virginia's museum of fine arts. the new statue was celebrated by virginia's governor ralph northam, who was mired in a black face scandal earlier this year. >> today we say welcome to a progressive and inclusive virginia. >> reporter: and by rich month's mayor, levar stony, who wanted the confederate statues removed. >> i don't believe they should be on grand boulevards like monument avenue. i think they sho

course the other part that the slaves remained loyal to them throughout the postwar period with stonewall jackson and to see camp slave with the immediate postwar period you will see a black man lying down and then some african-americans including a woman it seems is cooking in the back so to be confused about the black individuals in these illustrations they were the clearest example so if you're thinking of sherman's march where the focus is on the slaves and also have slaves in the army itself. no one is confused about the status of these men by confederate veterans are gathering across the confederacy black men former camp sleeves are there for a number of reasons because they are invited they are the clearest example as part of the loyal slave at this point in time these reunions are bringing together large numbers thousands of white southerners from all over the place many of them were born after the war so they are getting an education about the slaves in the antebellum south and they are there as a reminder between white and black people to see one man sitting by the table. some of these

be sent out to the west to take position on sandy ridge the scene of the first battle against stonewall jackson in 1862. the whole plan was, mulligan was going to go head-to-head against gordon, distract him and hold his attention while hayes comes in from the east and feldman slams into him from the west. but anybody that manages to escape that attack would be scooped up by the cavalry which by then would be moving northward on the pike toward gordon's rear. that is not the situation. but that is the plan that crook is attempting to enact. would rutherford b. hayes starts going into position, he has never met mulligan before on mulligan's left flank. he sees an officer writing toward him in a green shirt with no coat but he knew of mulligan's reputation and he said that has to become a mulligan. he calls out and mulligan shouts back you must be colonel hayes. they start conferring and both bothave got reports that of their respective flanks, hayes has information to the east john breckenridge's command under the command of gabriel warden is going to be moving forward. mulligan's troops have re

it is there that he hears from his trusted subordinate stonewall jackson that the union forces at harpers ferry have surrendered. it tells lee, you know what? the campaign is not over yet. i can stay in maryland. i can reunite my army and i can fight the battle i came here looking to fight. so on september 15, in the fields around sharpsburg, maryland, this is where we are right now. the confederate army of northern virginia begins to set up on these ridges, on these hills, on this high ground so lee can reunite his force and fight the union army in battle. is this a risk for robert e. lee? absolutely. he is a risk taker. it is a key characteristic of who he was as a commander. he is fighting with his back to a major river. this is a risk for him. however, he does not want to abandon this campaign entirely just yet. if he can reunite his army and fight a battle in maryland, that is the goal he came here for. he is going to give it a try. for lee, what i think we will find as we talk more about the battle of antietam, -- when we talk about his west battles of the war, typically we talk abo

stonewall jackson had trouble doing that as well, so he is selecting the main routes, say, let's defend the jefferson davis highway, which is what it is called not, route 1. let's make sure we can be at manassas but we have to defend this artery. he is laying out the key way to defend charleston and savannah and the railroad, keeping the union from incurring upon it. he is acting as the grand strategist and engineer to help the confederacy to achieve its goals. that's the simplest way i can put it. it is absolutely incredible that the southerners could keep a railroad between charleston and savannah going the whole time and lee devised a way to move troops back and foorgt. that's where he got his horse traveller is between charleston and savannah as well. he is a military adviser to davis but he is accomplishing other fetes that had a positive impact on the confederate army. great question. last one for anybody? thanks to everybody. i will be around here. thanks to gettysburg heritage center and to c-span. >>> you are watching american history tv, airing every weekend on c-span3, and on

lee, stonewall jackson, and jeb stuart. >> there's a type of ceremony that surrounds the valorizationwiley came face-to-face with them for the first time. what did you see? >> i saw a spectacle that felt dreadful, i mean, it almost felt like it was designed to be menacing. to be in a black body walking through the streets of richmond and to see something that signifies the enslavement of your people, that's a little bit more heavy duty. >> reporter: the 42-year-old artist decided to answer with a monument of his own. ♪ on tuesday wilye's 27-foot-high bronze sculpture of a young black man on horseback was unveiled at virginia's museum of fine arts. the new statue was celebrated by virginia's governor, ralph northam, who was mired in a blackface scandal earlier this year. >> today we say welcome to a progressive and inclusive virginia. >> reporter: and by richmond's mayor, levar stoney, who wants the confederate statues removed. >> i don't believe they should be on grand boulevards like monument avenue. i believe they should be found in museums and cemeteries and battlefields. >> report

the pressure is going from a middle school to a namesake, confederate general stonewall jackson a complete family of the service member it belonged to. >> brian: a u.s. marine vet is founder of the organization america veterans first joining us now with an update. sir, how do you go about finding the right owner? >> well there's several avenues that we use. we start it off on our facebook page with a picture of the flag and say does anybody know this veteran and we had a great response. we're also working with the veteran service office in modest o, and we had kcra 3d an interview and from that point it just exploded. our website has been just over run so we're trying to weed through e-mails and claims, we have people from new jersey to california, and we have done some research and we know he was an army captain in the korean war conflict but at that point we're trying to find blood relatives of the veteran. griff: what can you tell us about what was found along the side of the road and what are you holding there? >> well this is a flag that would have been his burial flag draped over his