is a really interesting story it's based on a civil war battle that these kids from the virginia military institute got pulled up on their like you know from fourteen to seventeen and they got pulled up at the south toward the end yeah for the south or the end of the war and it centers around them this fall you are learning i play a cat in the park who is for the north when i blow all the kids away. yeah. you have a you play weird people right i do mean why are you getting weirder for some reason why do you think that is i don't know i guess i'm a bit unconventional and people don't really know. what box to put me in but that's you know some people when they say let's we need this kind of offbeat sort of weird . dream school tell me about it is great yeah they take fifteen kids are in danger of dropping out i school and they gave him sort of an amazing high school experience of sort of going to riggs i did about their education you know fifty cent is one of their mentors and so the teachers of the rules and susie orman teaches in finance and jesse jackson teaches them speech and it's just really in

they were defeated by the core of cadets from the virginia military institute. with a little help from some confederate army units that happened to be in the area. the third campaign under benning lynn butler came to grief, because as he started up confederate reinforcements rushed up and that left only the two big campaigns grants himself as i said, led the main union army in virginia, against robert e. lee, and they fought a titanic series of battles against virginia. grant constantly living around the circumference of a circle. you can't get to richmond because lee's army was there between his army and richmond grant's army suffered enormous casualties. the exact number is somewhat in dispute. reasonable estimates put the minimum of 65,000 men. some other estimates, but the number of grant's casualties is as high as 75 or 80,000 no large american army has ever been beaten up like grant's army was beaten up in 1864. grant replaced the bodies with new draftees. but the grand old army of the potomac that fought at malvern hill, antietam was gone. shallow graves

growing up in the era of the imagery of nat turner's slave insurrection and graduates from virginia military institute war, notginning of the anything superb. he really knows how to manage a division. his troops accidentally shoot jackson's where mortal wound had been which anderson moved up and mahanta moved up to division. ability.es mahone's he will be division commander until the surrender. >> what about the showing of humaneness? onseveral people commented that. he stopped his soldiers from killing blacks as best as he could as he cannot stop them all even when they were right in front of him. does not believe in equality at the beginning of the perhaps when it in did. he has his miraculous sort of desired to become a politician and sustain the biracial political party onto the postwar attempts to cater to blacks. at one point, he admits slavery was wrong and you should not have owned slaves. all sort of political points he tried to reach at that point. i do not know what it is they will try to stop it. christianhis is civilization. we are still talking about the krishna civilization -- christian

graduates from virginia military institute. not anything superb as a brigade commander.mehow really knows how to lead a division. so his troops absolutely shoot james longstreet near where jackson's mortal wound had been. richard anderson is moved up to first corps command. mahone is moved up to division command. he's promoted to major general. so he'll remain division commander until the surrender. >> what about the -- his showing of humaneness? >> oh, yes. so, yes -- you know, several people comment on this. he, you know, stops his soldiers from killing blacks as best as he can, and obviously he can't stop them all even when they're right in front of him. mahone is a slave owner. he doesn't believe in equality at the beginning of the war or even perhaps when it ends, yet he has this miraculous sort of desire to become politician. he creates and sustains virginia's first biracial political party. the readjusters in the post-war years. and really sort of attempts to cater to blacks. even at one point admits that slavery was wrong and he shouldn't have owned slaves, but,

graduates from virginia military institute. enlists at the beginning of the war. not anything superb as brigade commander, but somehow really knows how to handle a division, so his troops absolutely shoot james longstreet near where jackson's mortal wound had been. richard anderson is moved up to first corps command. mahone is moved up to division command. and right after this battle, lee praises ma hone's ability to recapture the lines and promoted to major general. so he'll remain division commander until the surrender. >> what about the -- his showing of humaneness? >> oh, yes. so, yes -- you know, several people comment on this. he, you know, stops his soldiers from killing blacks as best as he can, and obviously he can't stop them all even when they're right in front of him. mahone is a slave owner. he doesn't believe in equality at the beginning of the war or even perhaps when it ends, yet he has this miraculous sort of desire to become politician. he creates and sustains virginia's first biracial political party, the re-adjusters in the post-war years. and

graduates from virginia military institute. not anything superb as a brigade commander. but somehow really knows how to lead a division. so his troops absolutely shoot james longstreet near where jackson's mortal wound had been. richard anderson is moved up to first corps command. mahone is moved up to division command. he's promoted to major general. so he'll remain division commander until the surrender. >> what about the -- his showing of humaneness? >> oh, yes. so, yes -- you know, several people comment on this. he, you know, stops his soldiers from killing blacks as best as he can, and obviously he can't stop them all even when they're right in front of him. mahone is a slave owner. he doesn't believe in equality at the beginning of the war or even perhaps when it ends, yet he has this miraculous sort of desire to become politician. he creates and sustains virginia's first biracial political party. the readjusters in the post-war years. and really sort of attempts to cater to blacks. even at one point admits that slavery was wrong and he shouldn't have owned slaves

they were defeated by the core of cadets from the virginia military institute. with a little help from some confederate army units that happened to be in the area. the third campaign under benning lynn butler came to grief, because as he started up confederate reinforcements rushed up and that left only the two big campaigns grants himself as i said, led the main union army in virginia, against robert e. lee, and they fought a titanic series of battles against virginia. grant constantly living around the circumference of a circle. you can't get to richmond because lee's army was there between his army and richmond grant's army suffered enormous casualties. the exact number is somewhat in dispute. reasonable estimates put the minimum of 65,000 men. some other estimates, but the number of grant's casualties is as high as 75 or 80,000 no large american army has ever been beaten up like grant's army was beaten up in 1864. grant replaced the bodies with new draftees. but the grand old army of the potomac that fought at malvern hill, antietam was gone. shallow graves

they were defeated by the core of cadets from the virginia military institute.ith a little help from some confederate army units that happened to be in the area. the third campaign under benning lynn butler came to grief, because as he started up confederate reinforcements rushed up and that left only the two big campaigns grants himself as i said, led the main union army in virginia, against robert e. lee, and they fought a titanic series of battles against virginia. grant constantly living around the circumference of a circle. you can't get to richmond because lee's army was there between his army and richmond grant's army suffered enormous casualties. the exact number is somewhat in dispute. reasonable estimates put the minimum of 65,000 men. some other estimates, but the number of grant's casualties is as high as 75,000 or 80,000 no large american army has ever been beaten up like grant's army was beaten up in 1864. grant replaced the bodies with new draftees. but the grand old army of the potomac that fought at malvern hill, antietam was gone. shallow grave

graduates from virginia military institute. enlists at the beginning of the war. not anything superb as brigade commander, but somehow really knows how to handle a division, so his troops absolutely shoot james longstreet near where jackson's mortal wound had been. richard anderson is moved up to first corps command. mahone is moved up to division command. and right after this battle, lee praises his ability to recapture the lines and he's promoted to major general. so he'll remain division commander until the surrender. >> what about the -- his showing of humaneness? >> oh, yes. so, yes -- you know, several people comment on this. he, you know, stops his soldiers from killing blacks as best as he can, and obviously he can't stop them all even when they're right in front of him. mahone is a slave owner. he doesn't believe in equality at the beginning of the war or even perhaps when it ends, yet he has this miraculous sort of desire to become politician. he creates and sustains virginia's first biracial political party, the re-adjusters in the post-war years. and r

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military action is ordered after a journalist is murdered. and a supreme court makes a major ruling on same-sex marriage in virginia. the news at 6:00 starts right now. captioned by the national captioning institute-www.ncicap.org-- >> live from the abc7 because cast center -- broadcast center, this is abc7 breaking news. >> and we'll get to those big stories in just a moment. but first we're on storm watch. >> that's right. let's go to meteorologist steve rudin tracking it from the weather center. >> heavy thunderstorms now just to the south of d.c. take a look at abc7 live super doppler radar from the belfort furniture weather center. the thunderstorm warning in effect until 6:15 including stafford and spotsylvania counties and this is slowly moving to the south and east at only 10 miles per hour and dumping a lot of rain and gusty winds upwards of 50. 60 miles an hour -- 50-50 miles an hour. the heaviest activity north of fredericksburg and it will continue to track towards the south and east. as we move through the evening hours, our temperatures will fall into the 70's, eventually the upper 60's. we'll continue to track these storms and give you an update, coming up shortly. >> thanks very m