ulysses grant has been promoted to general in chief of the united states army. he arrives in virginia in march of 1864, and he makes the decision to to join the army, the potomac in the field. but the army, the potomac and george meade are not going to be the only armies fighting in the spring. in virginia alone, you have what's going to be called the overland campaign. benjamin butler, the army, the james attack from june 100. there will be cavalry campaigns in the southwest of the state. and you have another force assigned to neutralize the shenandoah valley. this story really starts with the shenandoah valley, something that has vexed union commanders since very beginning of the war. stonewall jackson in 1862, the second battle of winchester. later in june of 1863. this continuing problem. and so in the spring of 1864, the shenandoah valley will be the responsibility of a man named fran siegel. and it goes absolutely nowhere. fran siegel is very quickly defeated at the battle of newmarket 15th, 1864, and retreats back towards harpers ferry. he is going to be

. >> we are here to discuss clan war, "klan war: ulysses s. grant the battle to save reconstruction" with fergus bordewich, he has written nine nonfiction books. "klan war: ulysses s. grant and the battle to save reconstruction" continues his report about reconstruct republicans in power battling congress at work, how reformers fought the civil war, beside lincoln, ended slavery and remade america which was published three years ago in 2020, a narrative he continues in "klan war: ulysses s. grant and the battle to save reconstruction". 's earlier works in collude, i will list these in reverse order sequencing back in time. bound for canaan:the underground railroad and the war for the soul of america, america's great diprete, stephen douglas have a compromise that preserved the union. the first congress, james madison when george washington, extraordinary man invented the government and washington:the making of the american capital. and several more earlier than that. he's a native of new york city, independent writer, historian and journalist. 's mo

we are here to discuss ulysses s grant and the battle. he's a prolific author and has written nine nonfiction books and furthers and continues the research and writing he did heatedabout the radical reform reconstruction power and how lincoln ended the slavery and that was published years ago in 2020. that is a narrative that is continued in clan war and his earliest works include in reverse order sequencing back in time the underground railroad with the soul of america. there was america's great debate, steven douglas and the compromise. the first congress, james madison, george washington. the making of the american capital and there were several more earlier than that. an independent writer, historian and journalist and the most recent focus on 19th century history. he served on and a chair to the committee of the book prize given by the guilder lehrman center for the study of slavery resistance and abolition at yale university and as a member of the advisory council scholars for the u.s. capital historical society. the beds appear reg

host: one set of memoirs that is available in bookstores today still is this is as grant's memoirs. -- ulysses's memoirs. crai he was a wonderful writer. we sometimes fget that when he was a general, some of hi orders that would go out in the battlefield were reprinted erywhe asewspapers. they introduce people to his literary style, which isoncise and funny and very concrete. he was a tremendous writer. but he did not want to write a book. after his presidency, publisher after publisher said your book will be the biggest selling book of any civil warigure. will you do it? and he didn't want to. what changed his mind we two things. he went through a terrible bankruptcy a then became very i with what ultimately became a fal form of cancer. and so he has these pressures. he doesn't have enough money. he doesn't ha enough money to pay hiser. heas no money. he is dyin it becomes difficult for him to even speak or swallow. t in those harrowing c on his -- in those harrowing circumstances, he got to work. one thing i do in my book is reproduced a page from early in the process when he is first starte

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american president ulysses grant wrote about the consequences of aggression against mexico several decades later. it was already those old lines. it was can be started by lines. please can be expanded by true importance of we can never be of a station that transparency is an extraordinary john. mistaken patrice then just succeeded in finding the documents that existed in making them available to the public. i mean, what could be more moving box by publishing information and sharing information with the public? he was exercising the right to free speech. he did so in the public interest, watched as a mom realized tends to me engulfing and honestly the biggest of late, tough tenuously. i know why advice may assume that no one who is the guy that illegal anymore wisely bought. adjustments for to be on box weighing a 175 used to go through the sentence all we going to let that stay the remote explosive devices can. of these 95 people wound another 211 in a wrong tray. and commemorating a general who was killed by us was in 2020 the size of the fascination of how must officially and they will n

grant's book comes out, his reputation starts to stumble. newspaper critics are saying, why are there more things about ulysses s. grant?hy are there more things telling his side? and the reason there wasn't is because the south did a much better job in the literary war than they had done in the actual civil war. there were lots of historians who were very pro-south, who wrote histories that celebrated the south. in one of their biggest strategies was to tear down grant, to make grant look like a butcher and a bad president and a drunk, and then elevate robert e. lee as this saintly and chivalrous figure. i would like to say that grand sort of got granted himself because in the civil war he had amazing resources, but in the literary war, it was the south with amazing resources. inouthern historians were very calculating writers as well and they just overwhelmed grant's book. it was a boo that writers respected, it was a book that readers liked. but he didn't have the impact he would expect. it was only more recently when modern historians have re-examid things that they have seen grant's through repetition. if you are a

. >> we are here to discuss "klan war: ulysses s. grant and the battle to save recionstruction"h with mr. borda which. he is a prolific author and is written nine nonfiction books and continues research in writing. he did about the radical reform reconstruction republicans in power congas and were how republic reformers thought the civil war, the fight lincoln into slavery and remade america that was published just three years ago in 2020. it's a a did he continues in "klan war." and his early works include and on going to list a couple of these in reverse order single thing back in time, bound the underground railroad and war for the soul of america. there was america's great to become henry clay, stephen a. douglas and the comp was that preserve the union. the first congress, how james madison, george washington and ain group of extraordinary men invented the government you can also washington, the making of the american capital. there were several more earlier than that. mr. c borthwick is a native of newark city, ended up in a fighter,

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so people are flocking to the polls. 400,000 black voters elected ulysses grant. without the vote he would not have become president. and elected innumerable people to local offices. black candidates many of them formerly enslaved as well as white republicans. and you have a very frail biracial political party developing. the republican party, for several so to speak progressives already looking forward for the time. the democrats in the south were purely reactionaries, and braced violence, the ku klux klan, was basically the paramilitary arm of the party sad to say. embedded politically by northern democrats who welcomed of the alliance with southern democrats. the parties in other words are very roughly in opposite positions from where one might say they are today. i could just keep going on here. [laughter]' >> let's just say what were reconstruction's positive accomplishments? succinctly. [laughter] >> you're asking a lot. okay. i will try. e i've already talked about lyempowering people to vote, formerly enslavedwo people and also creating a two-party system.

even though general ulysses grant and admiral david porter cooperated against vicksburg, it would not be until 1864 at mobile bay and 1865 against fort fisher that coastal sailors and soldiers cooperated to achieve larger object tips and in both of those cases, it was the working relationships of the commanders that fostered results. charleston was essentially close to blockade runners in 1863, perhaps if united states commanders cooperatives as long as there opponents, they could achieve more against the sessions birthplace that your. >>> weekends on c-span 2 are an intellectual feast. every saturday, american history tv documents america's stories and on sundays, book tv brings the latest in nonfiction books and authors. funding for c-span 2 comes from these television companies and more. including media comp. >> we believe whether you live here or right here orway out in the middle of anywhere you should have access to fast, reliable internet. that's why we are leading the way in taking you to 10 g. >>> media, supports c-span as a public service. nonfiction book lovers, c-span has

. >> we are here to discuss ulysses st grant and that batts of reconstruction he is a prolific author he has written nine nonfiction books clan or is built on and furthers and continues the research and writing hee did about reconstruction and power and congress at war how they fought the civil war defied lincoln, ended slavery and remade america it was published just three years ago in 2020 it is a narrative he continues. in his early artworks include and i will list a couple of these in reverse order referencing back in time bound for canaan the underground railroad and war for the soul of america. there was america's great debate henry clay and to preserve the you did the first congress james mattis, george washington extraordinary man invented the governmentnd also washington, the making of the american capital there were several more earlier than this. it's a native of new york city he is an independent writer. his story is an journalist his most recent focus has been on 19th century history. he served on and chaired the awards committee of the frederick douglass book prize pe gi

however, was still a year away, even though general ulysses grant and admiral david porter cooperated in against vicksburg, it would not be until 1864 at mobile bay in 1865 against fort fisher. that sailors and soldiers truly to achieve larger objectives. and in both of those cases, it was the working relationships of the commanders that fostered results. though charleston was essentially closed to blockade runners in 1863, perhaps if the united states commanders cooperated as well as their confederate opponents, they could have achieved more against. the sessions birthplace that year.

lincoln went about creating the new military division of mississippi and of his commander was ulysses grantnd the military division of the mississippi combined. grant's army, the tennessee burnside army of the ohio up near knoxville at that time, and rosecrans army of the cumberland and the war department told grant he could either retain rosecrans as commander under him or. he could replace him, and that was not a hard decision for grant who had headed out for rosecrans from 62, stayed at shiloh in battle of corinth. that's another story. so rosecrans was out and grant names thomas the new commander of the army of the cumberland when word was telegraphed to thomas in chattanooga that he would be the new commander, his response was and bryan knows this well, i will hold the town till we starve, says the rock of chickamauga so grant in stevenson on october 21st and meets with rosecrans, who is on his way home to cincinnati, rosecrans explains the plan that had been developed to lift the siege. grant listened very intently to this and wondered privately why rosecrans didn't it? becausit seeme

rawlins chief of staff to general ulysses s grant. so please join me in giving a warm shenandoah valley. welcome to melissa. will. write. thank you so much. i thank you, jonathan, so much for having me here and asking me to come talk to you. i'm excited to be here and i'm absolutely honored to be here and humbled because it is a very esteemed lineup of speakers. so i thank you very much for having me speak. i am going to talk to you today about some civil war photography and the power of portrait and its impact on the soldier and the experience of war and the aftermath of war, not just the soldier, but for the families and for the nation. this portrait here is probably one of the most famous, if not the most famous, from the civil war. and it is the hammerstone children. frank friedrich and alice amos, almost in of the 154th new york, was killed on the the gettysburg battlefield. his body was found by a local resident who found him clutching this photograph of his children. frank frederick and alice. another local resident, dr. john f

and their opinion was that horatio's see more governor inew york was the man for president, no ulysses grant, who was they depictedragging the chicago platform across an abyss. we all know how that turned out because we don't remember who horatio seymour i during the american civil war, the white house becesart of the emblematic patriotism of preserving the union. an so it appearsn lot of civil war envelopes. civil war envelopes have hu collection of them. there, really pictorial. and they are deserving of research if abody wants to delve into them. we literally have volumes of civil war envelopes. so white house destination, white house as patriotic symbol. so why am i showing you the west side? because by the middle and late 19th century, the facade that's depicted tells the story of what the content of the cartoon kids and the first story that gets told is the presidency becomes important, that there are spoils to be had and those spoils come out of the side, oh, come out of the front. nobody's going to take wealth out of a main entrance. so it's the side of, the building that gets depict

the secretary of war under president ulysses s. grant, accused of corruption. mayorkas is not facing those kinds of charges. critics are asking what exactly are the charges he's facing. house republicans offered nothing specific other than accusing him of, quote, lax policies by allowing immigrants awaiting court hearings to enter the u.s., something all secretaries of homeland security have had to do when they ran out of room at detention centers. so, the accusation remains vague. here's part of the charge written up by congresswoman marjorie taylor greene. >> secretary mayorkas' actions and decisions clearly make the standard necessary for initiating impeachment proceedings. this historical evidence is overwhelming that the founding fathers intended impeachment to be used to deal with the commission of indictable crimes and the abuse of power. >>> there are several step ace head. house would have to have a floor vote on impeachment. if that was passed, that would impeach mayorkas, but that's just an accusation. the senate would have to hold a trial beyond tha

this way, the only other time in american history a cabinet secretary has been impeached's ulysses s. grant's secretary of war in the 1870s. he was acquitted because there weren't enough votes to district in the senate. >> so potentially unprecedented territory here. jay, thank you. jaclyn lee joins us from the border in california. we heard from jay if that bill passed, president biden would shut the border down. what are you learning about the latest apprehensions as president biden and texas governor greg abbott remain locked in this bitter dispute? >> reporter: we're seeing a sharp decline in total apprehensions. there are about 4300 apprehensions per day. compare that to last month which had nearly 11,000 apprehensions per day, which by the way, holds a record for the most apprehensions in a month. border crossings have typically declined immediately after the holiday season. only to rebound around the spring. in texas, state attorney general ken paxton denying federal border patrol agents unrestricted access to shelby park, stating they will not allow it to turn into an unofficial port

ulysses grant we know that he become the lieutenant general, run the whole show with with with the sherman big old cop, sherman being his handpicked man here in this in this theater. and, of course, robert e lee fighting in virginia as well. i this because i think this is part of story that we kind of gloss over occasionally when we get into battles and we talk about everything that's going on in the military sense, that, of course, the confederacy was desperate straits to try to keep filling the ranks. and patrick ronin claiborne will actually come up with this idea that if we could get volunteers from amongst the slaves, w might be able to ve them the promise of freedom and give them a chance to serve a self that ey believe iand would think of as their homeland. so we could put them into the service as well. this idea this memorial, this proposal gets put on the shelf. the only people that support it are clyburn's own command structure in there. and pretty much everybody else does. and and course, the more famous line is slaves would make good soldiers. and all of our theories about slav

i mean, you can a lot writing about dred scott decision where he's buried i'm writing about ulysses grant there about scott joplin, about, you know, chuck berry, about the birth of neon, about how the corvette used to be manufactured in saint louis, about early transports nation with the river, about the eads bridge. and on and on. it goes down the road and it ends 66 right into the santa monica pier. and california's and i must say it was two white people on route 66 had it different than people of color the green book was in play for a lot of route 66, not all, but a lot. and visiting some of those places and the national park is starting to save old gas stations. we're saving chinese restaurants along 66 or old kitschy roadside stops. they're all meeting criteria to be on the national historical register on any given day, you can hear any given elected official say united is the greatest country in the history of the world. joanne freeman what's reaction when you hear that? wow, that's a question, brian. i would say yes with an asterisk. i love this country. i've devoted my life pretty

well, and just the irony of the ulysses s grant museum in mississippi for all the that one is mind boggling. yeah, the port can be good if it's, if it's actually, again, delivering some tax payer money in a specific way to a specific project. the problem is really points out is there's no real accountability. we've got to the defense department can account for hundreds of billions of dollars of equipment and machinery. we left 80000000000 behind in afghanistan. there's no accountability. you know, if a, if a private in the marine corps loses his rifle, he has to pay for it. but a general can lose $80000000000.00 in afghanistan and nobody gets fired. nobody gets held accountable. and that's a big part of the problem is it's not just where it goes at the end of the day, it's where we don't know where a lot of it's going well, and that's a part of it. you know, what role do lobbyist plan? that's obviously, people are up on what will i be as you know, literally cover the l a more than politicians. i think there's like a 3 to one ratio. what role did they play and advocating for their fun? oh, w

the secretary of war under ulysses s. grant was the last cabinet secretary to be removed. it's not going to happen. it's dead on arrival, as lauren pointed out. it's not about that. mcclintock is less serious about sort of degrading the whole process forever and ever and ever. >> because most people -- >> i don't think we're quite there. i can't see a future congress unless they're under the specific kind of pressures that this republican majority is under, resorting to something that cheap and flimsy and obviously nonsubstantive. >> it's a political way to look like you're doing something about the border without actually doing something about the border. >> well, there's a republican talking last week said this is a pressure release valve for us. we can do this instead of impeaching biden. >> or a bipartisan deal. >> exactly. my cynicism comes through, i think, a little bit here. i appreciate errol still has hope and faith for the u.s. congress. can we switch over to another critical fight going on right now. donald trump against shawn fain just recently endorsed preside

then i went and went to to rescue the republic about ulysses s grant and the 1876 crisis that we almostl back into a civil and really, his leadership as president, which often didn't get talked about that really prevented as a country from civil war so that moment made me think maybe i should go back to the beginning, beginningnd that started this process with the help of doug and all the staff here, the library and everybody at helped out here with documents and and research. we really dug in and tried to make a narrative about. the founding fathers and the most founding is the fathers. george that's not really a word, but but and how crucial he was to making sure had a country. what i don't think anybody appreciates and i know i didn't before this process is how close we were to not getting it done to not having it all come together and it was because of washingtonn did and i think that the message your question that i was trying to get to was he is the embodiment of the document. the us constitution. he is a person as a leader was the document that provides us in this country the big

we are the folks who stood u and remember, it was a republican, ulysses us grant who se federal troops to the south to ensure that african-american voters could vote. and it was democrats in the south who opposed that. so we need to be talking about our history and saying it, but here's the problem. at the same time they are playing with fire trying to play with thosead elements of our country. we lose credibility. that's why you can't say it was tradition versus change. that's what you can't use these codewords about it. because people hear that and say, you are playing games and so i can't trust you. we need republicans who will just tell the truth directly. e truth about our party is we are the antislavery party. where the party who put our country with the greatest president ever. abraham lincoln ishe guy who freed the slaves, fought the civil war to make sure every american could be free no matter the color of their skin. we need honest men and women to stand up and say it even in the south and they might feel uncomfortable. even in iowa. yoneed to say it and stand up for it and i

but they did a lot of editorial cartoons, and it was not ulysses s grant, they depicted dragging the icago platform across the abyss. we all know how that turned out . do not even remember who horatio seymour is. durning the american civil war, the white house becomepart of the emblematic patriotism of preserving the union. so, it appears on lotta civil war envelopes, civil war envelopes. we have a huge collection of them, they are really pictorial and they are deserving of research, if anyone wants to delve into them, we literally have volumes of civil war envelopes. so, the white house destination, white house as a patriotic symbol. so, why am i even showing you the west we this westside? by the mid-and late-19th century, the facade tells the story of what the content of the cartoonist. and the first story that gets told is, the presidency becomes important enough that there are spoils to be had and the spoils come out of the side. they do t come out of the front. no one will take wealth out of the entrance. it is the side of the building thatdepicted. and part magazine, a weekly p

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grant's hair from 1864, and it's right there. >> reporter: that's military hero and the 18th president, ulysses s. e remembered that his wife wanted a lock of his hair, so he got it cut and sent it off. >> reporter: for centuries, long before photography was affordable, it was common practice to send and even gift one's hair as a sentimental keepsake by which to be remembered says carla hayden, the librarian of congress. >> think about it. that was a tangible way of having something of the person after they're gone. >> reporter: thomas jefferson's hair shows beneath his powdered wig. he was a redhead. lincoln's locks were clipped after his assassination. this coil includes 26 strands from ludwig von beethoven obtained by a fan after the musician as death. >> there is a culture significance to hair. >> it manifests itself in so many ways. when you think about people who have had health challenges, especially going through, let's say, chemotherapy, and just the trauma of losing hair, it signifies so many things, and it signifies things in different ways in different cultures. >> reporter: the library