the vicksburg campaign is a grant. at he relieves the siege chattanooga. the stairsor west is steps leading to the politically sensitive if not so decisive job of leading. job is easier than that. he has this lack of success in western virginia and then morphs into becoming jefferson davises military -- davis' advisor, he talks to him about what should be done next. he is kind of any henry halleck -- howick position. johnson cannot command, he was wounded, and somebody has to take command of the army outside richmond and lee is right there. davis essentially turns to lee and says your -- says while your friend recovers from his wound, will you take over the army? lee thinks it will be temporary. what he does in the first month of his command is strike at this union army, he pounds it for seven days, the famous seven days campaign outside richmond. he pounds it so thoroughly, mcclellan loses his nerve and retreats, and it is perceived as a great confederate victory. it comes at great cost, the confederacy loses 20% of its days,er in those seven but it saves

i am glad that you are allow in a guy from vicksburg, mississippi, to be in the room to repgt 20,000 people, and the then we talk about a company going to the state with 35,000 people, and the governor has already spoke to our situation as a proud port, but the other thing is that we need some release on the infrastructure as it relates to the water treatment plant. the water plant, and the court dekree is draining us, and speak ing for most municipalities that this money could not have come at a better time to help to us twop through the economic development and creation of jobs. that is the thing. i am asking you the to krcreati jobs and hopefully in the next four or five months, we can get unemployment and be lower than 4%. >> thank you. thank you very much, george. i appreciate. you are doing a good job. elaine, what would you like to say? transportation? it is at lot of this money is going to transportation, so you are the big power that you always are. >> are well, mr. president, your cabinet members have been working very diligently are over the last year. we have epa administ

you're sitting next to my favorite mayor, george flag of vicksburg, mississippi. i better talk about his intermodal port. about 30 miles away continental in not one of the most advanced plants in the united states. it is plant of the year in the united states. i could tell you more about that. 2500 employees will be there. ports are critically important. 155 miles away, from jackson, gulfport was totally destroyed by katrina in august of 2005. 28-foot surge completely destroyed the port. we're rebuilding it now. we have $300 million hud has been gained enough to put $300 million into it. it is remarkable, vibrant plant now, port, but we have to have that highway 49 which is unfortunately a farm road. it is a narrow, dangerous road with 69, like 59 red lights between jackson and most dynamic port i believe in the gulf. so we're going to widen that. make it a great big beautiful highway so people can get their goods and services to the port of the future. >> good. >> we have a $3.4 billion energy project planned in the future for that port. we'll put a broadband cre

before the battles of bull run, antietam, gettysburg, stones river, wilmington and the surrender of vicksburg. lincoln said he believed the dream -- some greatness, hopefully involving general sherman's armie. of course, this dream is still seen as remarkable today, because something great did happen soon thereafter. lincoln was shot that night at ford's theater and died the next morning. sitting at the cabinet meeting that day, secretary wells did not think much about the dream, but a few days later he remembered it and he wrote it down in his diary. this is what he wrote. "great events data follow, for within a few hours the good and agenda, as well as truly great man who narrated his dream, close forever his earthly career." the story of lincoln's dream began to circulate in the press, almost immediately after the assassination. it first appeared in the new york herald three days later on april 18. inn lincoln's body arrived philadelphia on april 22, the women of saint clement's church had built an anchor that they placed next to his open coffin, and the anchor had white roses into violets