but later when compared to people like ulysses s. grant, sherman who split the confederacy in two, mcclellan does not compare as favorably as those men, who took their west point training and their prewar experiences and brought forth a winning combination. although -- >> our guest is john mountcastle, go ahead, finish your thought. i'm sorry. >> i would say that the spirit that he engendered in the fighting soldiers within the army of the potomac while not 100% in favor of mcclellan was so strong that they never truly forgot him. and in that regard he was regarded by many of his contempora contemporaries than better in history. >> john mountcastle teaches civil war history and a former chief of the military history. here's katherine, next up. >> caller: i'm from cleveland, ohio, and i'm 11 years old, i think general mcclellan was disrespectful -- >> katherine, it's a little difficult to hear you. if you're on a speakerphone can you pick up. oit tou it's tough for us to hear. >> caller: i heard that george b. mcclellan was very disrespectf

and where they're going to strike back is ulysses s. grant's army encamped immediately to the north. because that's the number one threat on the runway, so to speak. it's the closest, it's the most immediate, at any given day they can march out against the railroads and receiver them. so they have to march against grant. they believe they have to strike grant before buell arrives because they knew that buell was marching overland. their intelligence kept them informed of his daily progress. so in the first week of april of 1862, although the concentration isn't fully complete, johnston doesn't have all the elements of the western confederate army that he believes he needs to successfully mount a counterstroke, he will be urged by subordinates that time is now to go because of the near proximity of buell to the tennessee river. and he will decide on the night of april the 2nd to put the army into motion and attack grant. it's clear by looking at the confederate battle plan and timeline that they plan to march in one day, april the 3rd, and attac

yet ulysses grant, in riding across a field, was fired at by confederate cannon, artillery, and a canister ball hit his saber and broke it in half. and what would have happened to grant if that canister ball had been just to the left or to the right. maybe it would have severed an artery in grant's leg and he would have died. and also, sherman. sherman -- when -- at the beginning of the battle in ray field, threw up his hand when he discovered confederate skirmishers less than 50 yards away, and a bunch of shots rang out, high volley from skirmishers. he threw up his hand to ward off shots, the fact that the confederates were using buck-and-ball cartridges a round ball with free buckshot versus a rifle ball which would be typical of the rifle musket which was normally used. but anyway, a buckshot hitting in the hand and the rifle -- the musket ball killed his orderly, thomas holliday, sitting next to him. sherman was very lucky at that point that he was not killed. and there were several other incidents during the battle where his horse was killed or he could have been very seriously injur

after ascending the river, a national army under general ulysses s. grant at pittsburg landing its front encompassing shiloh church. while western confederate forces led by general albert sidney johnston concentrated by rail around corinth to rendezvous for the offensive johnston plan to lead against grant. the military issues confronting these combatants proved not to be the mere possession of the field or even the vital cross-roads, but involved the defeat of their respective major armies and the ultimate possession of the mississippi valley. grant's mission, sever the western railroads linking the mississippi with the eastern confederacy to facilitate the union's main objective, to recover the valley. johnston's mission, hold the mississippi by defeating all union armies such as grant's, for there were four threatening his responsibility in the western confederacy. threatening the valley. today, as one gazes upon the historic corinth railroad crossing, or traverses the once bloodied battlefield christianed by song as shiloh healed. you need simply to pon

modern presidency begin, attempt to recur to henry adams' famous quip from george washington to ulysses grant single-handedly disproved the theory of evolution. but this isn't really right. although you can mark out the evolution of the office and things -- you know, shadings that -- brought to the office by jefferson and jackson, of course, lincoln, and especially theodore

modern presidency begin, attempt to recur to henry adams' famous quip from george washington to ulysses grant single-handedly disproved the theory of evolution. but this isn't really right. although you can mark out the evolution of the office and things -- you know, shadings that -- brought to the office by jefferson and jackson, of course, lincoln, and especially theodore roosevelt, i think that woodrow wilson marks out a clear dividing line from previous presidents for two reasons above all. the first was his open disdain for the constitution. professor mansfield noted some time ago wilson notable for being the first president to criticize the constitution. and that was merely of a piece with his dismissal of the founding which we thought was no longer relevant to the 20th century. his second original sin of the modern presidency was

goon seed their cause, the military situation was indeed dire and richmond was surrounded by of ulysses grant's army and in theo spring of 1865, general lee could not hold out against thate army, and he saw that his only chance was to retreat to the re, west. he retreated and grant followed. so the military action as it i were is offstage in my book. off to the southwest, and then l smaller union army marches in a and occupies richmond as it falls. night of april 2nd and 3rd, 1865 was a night of chaos a asn jefferson davis' government leaves on the last trains from , the danville depot, on the last rail line to the southwest. the only rail line to confederate territory. even before the confederate arml fled the city by dawn, the city fell into chaos. civil order fell apart.ao the city fathers tried to, to reduce the chaos by destroying the liquor supply, because theyr knew that when people got theirw hands on liquor that would make the looting and rioting even ke worse, but they failed, because they rolled the cask of whiskey, into the street and knocked the barrels in with the head of an o ax

museum in murphy borough tells the dramatic story of the region's the civil war history and how ulysses grant was rushed to southern illinois to keep this strategically important piece of real estate from falling into confederate hands with rebel forces on either side of the two great rivers fort defiance with its battery of canon's defended cairo which sits at the confluence of the mississippi and the ohio rivers to this day amazingly rich territory that you will love to explore we have a pair of web exclusive stories on illinois and the civil war and if you want to learn more about general grant and fort defiance you can go to our web site wgntv.com/ i know that it has been cooler but i keep waiting for that afternoon sun ... >>there has never been a warmer. as what we had last month and over a hundred years of weather records it's amazing ... we still see the signs that seven out of 10 summers following these mild spring seasons have themselves been warmer than normal. we're looking at the wind carving out the wave is on lake michigan we have whitecaps those northerly winds have locked in

logan museum in murphyeboro tells the dramatic story of the region's civil war history and how ulysses grantce of real-estate from falling into confederate hands with rebel forces on either side of the two great rivers >> you have kentucky and missouri southern illinois you just move the blockade a further up the mississippi >> battery of cannons before to the finance defended the beach and conflicts of the mississippi and ohio rivers to this day amazingly rich territory that you would love to explore. >> to learn more wgntv.com internet exclusive stories on the illinois and to civil war got stranded in the antarctic not quite stuck days far from home later in sports tweak or major overhaul? the question that needs to be answered stan bowman blackhawks but [ bell dings ] agents, when it comes to insurance, people feel lost. that's a dead end. don't know which way to turn. this way. turn around. [ woman ] that's why we present people with options to help them find coverage that fits their needs. almost there. whoo! yay! good work. that's a new maze record. really? i have no idea. we don't kee

lee surrendered to general ulysses s. grant that ended the civil war. once they found that school that had the next calabash task of convincing their father they should go to school. and the way they convinced him was by saying we will take care of the chores on the farm. we will do that work and our school will not interfere with the business of the farm. they did this and that was no easy task because my great- grandfather ruled his farm with an iron fist. yet to me, this was -- there are an example of their unshakeable persistence and unflinching sacrifice for their pursuit for a better life. as i determined black women left their home and saw entertainment in washington, d.c.. and they knew the value men -- the value of education. there were able to buy their homes and support their families. another woman in my life who demonstrates unshakeable persistence and unflinching sacrifice is my mother who is sitting over there with my son. [applause] she kept her eyes on the prize that is education. as well -- and was well aware of education and its impor

ulysses s. grant and william howard taft brought filipino to the white house when he become president in 1909. between 1860 and 1940, waves of african-american migration from the south brought an influx of new comers to the nation's capital. almost a reverse tide as we've heard from alexander this morning. related to the forced migration of blacks southward. some found jobs in the white house and established decade long careers at 1600 pennsylvania avenue. this afternoon, we are going to hear stories of a free man enterprising labor and life on the square. and a singular event often called the white house tea incident that reflect the growing tide of black contribution to economic, social and political life in washington in the 19th and early 20th centuries. first we'll hear from don graves a descendant of hotelier, who has spent decades researching his family's contributions. don called me out of the blue one day to inform me about his research and out of that conversation has grown a wonderful relat

a lecture on robert e lee and then ulysses s. grant. >> april 15, 1912, nearly 1500 perished on the ship called unsinkable. >> once the lookout bells were sounded and they sighted an iceberg ahead, rings it three times, ding ding ding, which is a warning saying there is some object ahead. it doesn't mean dead ahead and it doesn't say what kind of an object. to tem them what it is that they saw. when they finally answered, the entire conversation was what do you see? and the response was iceberg right ahead and the response from the officer was thank you. >> on the truths and myths of that night. sunday at 4:00 p.m. eastern. part of american history tv. >> wayne shaw looks at the generalship of robert e. lee. it's 50 minutes. 50. >> as you know the topic of the class is robert e. lee. not just to talk about his life and career but to assess his command. so, the first thing obviously when you need to do something like this and we will do this with grant on friday. the reason i have the class structured this way is because as we will prob

ulysses s. grant considered shiloh the severest battle ever fought in the western theater. bloody shiloh, to borrow his book title was more bloody than the casualty figures that have been accepted, 23,746. i prefer particularly to the number of lives that were lost in the great clash. on average, about 15% of the men wounded in civil war engagements died as a result of their wounds. this factor alone would significantly raise the number of deaths resulting from shiloh, making a total of almost 6,000 dead. furthermore, general grant wrote in his memoirs that by actual count, more con federal dead were buried in front of sherman's and mcclarn divisions alone than the total number of dead acknowledged by the con federals for their entire army. grant's assessment is complimented by the most recent scholarship relative to the areas of the heaviest troop concentrations, the most intense fighting and the burial sights on the battleground. by any standards, shiloh was an awful battle in an awful war, the bloodiest clash to that day. a terrible preview of battles yet to come. for th

if we were to refer to henry adams famous equip that the presidency of george washington to ulysses s. grant single hand deadly disproves evolution. this isn't right. although you can mark out the evolution of the office and things with shadings that are brought to the office by jefferson, andrew jackson, of course, lincoln, and especially theodore roosevelt. i think that woodrow wilson clearly marks out the line for two reasons above all. the first of which is open disdain for the constitution. professor mansfield noted some time ago that wilson is notable for being the first president to criticize the constitution, and that was merely of a piece with his dismissal of the political philosophy of the american founding which he thought was no longer relevant to the 20th century. his second original sin of the modern president si was his conception that the president should be someone who ought to be a leader with a capital "l" not in the ordinary sense of, say, a sports team coach or even a chief executive of a company or of a military leader, but someone with a lofty transformative division

and over in the western theater dealing with grant, dealing with sherman, they are dealing with james birdseye mcpherson, so u.s. invented trachea of ulysses s. grant a lot of them have to do with lee's own personality. in the way he handled problems. >> you refer in your book, in your biography, to his savage moods. what did you mean? >> lee had a huge temper. and that he was like, and his idol, george washington, washington was an incredibly controlled individual. a lot of people don't realize that washington had a horrible temper when he lost it he could -- with the best of them. lee was the same way. that's one of the reasons why he led such a tightly controlled self disciplined existence because he knew what his temper was capable of and he wanted to keep it in constant check. >> brian melton, walk us through lee's life april 1865. >> lee, by that point, had really been ready to give up as an army commander for quite some time. lee was suffering pretty seriously from various medical conditions. of course, at the time he just broke down to rheumatism but when a probably had to do with some of the heart conditions that eventually contri

grant on friday and we'll talk more about that, but mr. goral. >> on deck. >> all right, leave. >> more from u.s. naval academy history professor wayne hsieh as he talks about the generalship of ulysses s. grant, called "the way of war." it's 50 minutes. >> so today we will do grant. with lee, obviously one of the ways that class was structured you had obviously one historian who thought lee was an excellent battlefield general and a terrible strategist and then you had another historian, my former teacher gallagher who made the argument that lee's strategy was plausible. it didn't work out but it wasn't because his strategy was implausible or not well executed. today is -- what you might have noticed, i didn't really give you an anti-grant reading meaning grant is terrible. and the reason for that is the known, i didn't give you an anti-grant reading, meaning grant is terrible. the reason for that is the consensus of you amongst most modern historians is that grant was a great general. there's always issues for debate. but the current scholarship is extraordinarily positive. you know, i more or less subscribe to that view and it's hard to get a really good grant the butcher reading

whoever takes the next step forward can seize the initiative, and he planned on that being ulysses s. grant, don carlos buell, and the united states army the next morning. we've actually moved out from pittsburgh landing area and grant's last line to discuss the second day fighting here at shiloh. throughout the history of the battle, second day has kind of got shortened on any major discussion or interpretation. primarily, that has a great deal to do with the fact that overnight, grant received sizeable reinforcement. you know, johnston was hoping to do battle before buell had arrived. well, unbeknownst to johnston, buell had arrived. in fact, buell's advance division had reached savannah, tennessee, on april the 5th. he had not simply arrived at pittsburgh landing, but he had made the juncture with grant and was in striking distance of reinforcing grant as long as grant held access to pittsburgh landing and the ability to get troops across the river. buell actually comes in on steam boat. meanwhile, nelson's crossing over land to a point opposite, and the remainder of buell's column is sl

realities have always laid shrouded in confusion and mystery of time and space, in the words of ulysses s. grant persistently misunderstood. and indeed as author shelby foote explains, how should they understand this? they were put into a cauldron of pure hell because from inside foote believed shiloh resembled armageddon. the confederacy lost its best opportunity to win the war in the west the battle of general grant and others hoped might signal the war's end proves just the beginning of a total war. americans north and south, free and slave, you heard those words before, i lived with them for two years, faced three more aprils of destruction, sacrifice and unimaginable carnage. two days after shiloh with the outcome still in doubt, confederate general beauregard set his troops to work throwing up earthwork fortifications to defend the corinth crossroads and cabled the haunting prediction to his superiors in richmond, if defeated here, we lose the mississippi valley and probably our cause. thus in the spring of 1862, the momentous relationship possessed by western rivers, dirt roads, and the j

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at 8:30, a look at the top two military leaders of the civil war, robert several lee and ulysses s. grant who commanded the union army. and at 10:30, an army film about general gorge marshall who went on to serve as secretary of state and defense secretary. >> our specific mission is to work to cede that human rights remain a central component of american foreign policy and that when we are evaluating our foreign policy moves globally, human rights can never be the only consideration but it has to be part of the dialogue. >> katrina lantos swett is the ceo of the lanto foundation for justice. >> when we abandon our values whether we're talking about torture as it relates to the war on terror or the reset policy with russia, you know, and the upcoming issue of whether or not the u.s. congress should pass the accountability act which we don't need to go into the details of that policy issue but whether or not we're going to stay on record as saying that human rights matter in russia, they matter in china. >> more sunday night at 8:00 on c-span's q and a. an inspector general's report issued

lee and ulysses s. grant marked the end of the bloodiest war on american soil. >> from 1:30 to 3:00 they would talk about nonsurrender related items, the surrender itself and write out the terms in a form of letters. >> reporter: roger's great, great grandfather was among the 28,000 confederate soldiers who surrendered at appomattox. >> it's undescribable to think about what they endured the last wake coming into appomattox. >> a big question was answered: could this nation survive a civil war intact? the answer was yes. >> reporter: each soldier was handed a parole pass serving as a meal ticket and free ride home. >> they were printed right here in the clover hill tavern. >> reporter: kevin just so happened to bring his granddaughter on the 147th anniversary of the surrender. >> it makes it come alive actually. >> there's a wealth of information right here for us and we need to respect our past and come. >> reporter: the national park service and town and county officials will spend the next three years gett

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the president is ulysses s. grant and william tecumseh sherman and also phil sheridan all of these names are familiar. and these are the men who were running things. 1871, they unleashed the greatest war machine in american history. looking at this tribe that was sitting there holding up everything. 1871 these guys said, one of the reasons the comanches were still there as i point* out is the civil war took the attention away from the planes. 1871 that attention was no longer focused on the war or reconstructions but now look to see what we will do about the comanche problem. quanah parker was 21 years old the leader of the most remote and most hostile bands in the panhandle by low becker amarillo texas. they were an amazing bunch. they kept away from the white man contracted very few of the disease is. 15,000 horses, they traded with men who operated out of new mexico. you see them in movies as a rough bunch. so grant and sherman decide they have been death so they center colonel mackenzie down, and he wrote rues car

the president is ulysses s. grant and william tecumseh sherman and also phil sheridan all of these names are familiar. and these are the men who were running things. 1871, they unleashed the greatest war machine in american history. looking at this tribe that was sitting there holding up everything. 1871 these guys said, one of the reasons the comanches were still there as i point* out is the civil war took the attention away from the planes. 1871 that attention was no longer focused on the war or reconstructions but now look to see what we will do about the comanche problem. quanah parker was 21 years old the leader of the most remote and most hostile bands in the panhandle by low becker amarillo texas. they were an amazing bunch. they kept away from the white man contracted very few of the disease is. 15,000 horses, they traded with men who operated out of new mexico. you see them in movies as a rough bunch. so grant and sherman decide they have been death so they center colonel mackenzie down, and he wrote rues car