in addition to them, everybody knows about loring and tolliver. in addition to them the original document sent off had the signatures of if not every, virtually every field officer of all the regiments under them. the only ones who didn't sign seemed to have been away from what i can find. the very first one on that list, if it matters, the first one physically, the top of the list of field officers was samuel v. fulkerson. some of you may recognize him as jackson's favorite colonel. he said so a couple of times. he was destined to be killed a few thousand yards from here. when word came, he shed tears, his favorite field officer. i doubt that he knew that fulkerson was at the top of that list. so this mutiny against jackson was not only deeper than it seemed but probably more significant about his standing in the army and out. think, too, about the prospect, had all the army, the general officers, the field officers, had they been as disgusted with jackson in june for some reason as they had been in february. had they indicted a similar complaint

. >> reporter: tolliver wondered where the police had gone. >> they were just standing back. >> reporter l.a.'s chief of police, said the force was caught unprepared. >> driving down western and seeing this mass of flames on both sides of you, it's surreal. it's like "apocalypse now." >> reporter: more than 1,500 businesses were looted or destroyed. you were shooting back? >> yeah, i heard bullets through my ears. >> reporter: many of the ransacked stores were owned by african americans. >> everything that i own is in there. >> reporter: but for tolliver's barbershop, there was some protection: a sign on the door that said "black owned." >> it's still there. it's a reminder. >> reporter: and a reminder for you of... >> of a time that, you know, as i look back it was a terrible time, but because of that time there was progress made. >> reporter: in south los angeles, the progress isn't always easy to see. incomes remain low, the unemployment rate is high, around 20%. the area schools rank right at the bottom on standardized test scores. but the area has 20% fewer liquor stores and 50% mor

i brought -- i brought my brother-in-law, judge tolliver. fran is back there with both hands at work. are there any questions? >> does anyone have any questions? i know voting has your attention. >> just check robert e. lee or vote for robert e. lee and then ask -- yes, sir? oh, you need a ballot. >> if you don't have more questions i'm going to read more limericks. yes, sir? >> the line of reasoning that you introduced about lee being a great e mans parent because he freed the league, and i wonder what you think of the argument that he was an inadvertent e man si pater with causing this great mound of victory over the summer and forces lincoln's hand into launching the emancipation proclamation. by doing that, could you also say lee is an inadvertent emancipat o tshg emancipator. >> lincoln said that everything seemed to be going badly about the war and this was in june when he started going to the war office and asked for paper from the clerk and drafting something that the clerk wondered what he was drafting and lincoln said, everything s

notable african americans associated with la fayette square this afternoon after lunch, angela hayes tolliver who is a granddaughter of henry early will be representing the jennings family. i'm pleased to say that two of her cousins are here today, as well. another one of henry's granddaughters, barbara early allen, and one of henry's great granddaughters, fawn jordan. these are three of paul jennings' many living descendants, his living legacy. he has an important legacy. he was an intrepid anti-slavery activist who secured his own freedom and his family's future. he acted as an operative in major attempted slave escape. he forged passes and freed papers for slaves with his literacy skills. he raised funds for slaves in peril purchased from their masters. his is a unique story. but it must also be appreciated that at the same time, he represents many african-americans of his time whose stories may never be known, but who, like him, overcame a barrage of obstacles in pursuit of the right to rise. as has been said, will is one hinge that is truly new in this word, and that is the history that

despite his late life bouquets that i mentioned, tolliver was typical of the former category of officers, but richard failer and dick yewey might personify the others. dick taylor as you probably know was the brother-in-law of jefferson davis. very well connected fellow. son of the president of the united states some years earlier and the brother in law of the confederate states, very well connected. his prose descriptions are probably familiar to every one of you. he described the general so colorfully and vividly, it's really good to read. he compared jackson to wolf and nelson for, quote, his place in the hearts of english speaking peoples and so on. really admired jackson. but -- and this is an episode that is virtually unknown -- shows up in the memoirs of chief of dick taylor's staff. during the opening phases of valley campaign, when taylor first came in to contact with jackson, he was so unmanned by what appeared to be jackson's ineptitude that he took leave, got on his horse, climbed over the mountain, through piedmont, virginia, came to richmond and talked to his brother-in-law