and so on august 25th, an august 26th, pope's army remains concentrated around warrenton, between warrenton and the rappahannock river. by the evening of august 26th, 1862, jackson is at bristow station along the railroad and junction in the rear of the union army. um, now the pope's response to all this, once he realizes what is happens, he turns his army away from the rappahannock river and starts. you can see the trees kind of sprawled across the landscape here, heading back after jackson from this point on. i got laid on the night of august 26th until well into the battle itself on august 29th and august 30th, pope really gives little thought to the other half of the confederate army under longstreet, which is following jackson'mn by about 18 hours o20 hours or so, about a day and a half. pope foces wholly on jackson. his calcn is thahe can beat jackson. we can bag the whole crowd, he said before a longstreet gets there. and so he his attention and they brawl across the landscape, fan across the landscape from route 29 down to route 28, looking for thomas, jonathan jackson now doing thi

from fredericksburg to warrenton to the blue ridge and eventually to call peppermint. owls men operated throughout the spring and the summer of 1862. so mcdowell knew these roads. new these towns. new these people who lived here. better than anybody else of similar rank in the northern army. john pope was another reason that pope chose to lean on mcdowell besides his experience. besides his knowledge of the landscape here. that is that hope liked him. oddly enough. though he conceded that mcdowell lacked that intangible thing called deport mint. in other words, charisma. he called him one of the most loyal men on earth. in all matters, a generous man. pope said of mcdowell, he was an accomplice soldier. full of the book knowledge of the science of war and full of energy and seal. i've never known a man in whom the obligation of ty dominated to such a degree as ervin mcdowell. -- who had run afoul of th pope and mcdowell. during this campaign. he rode what it is not an entirely unfair assessment of the two of them. those subordinate to pope and mcdowell asserted his pow

of manassas junction, porter and the fifth corps were ordered to take southwest of the suddenly warrenton turnpike. crossroads, at the center of the old 1861 battlefield. under the impression that porter would be able to turn jackson's right flank. but the order's pope for porter's movement at once on the enemy's right flank on august 29th were vague confusing. and above all, late the order for porter attack jackson was written by pope at 430 in the afternoon, but did not reach porter till 630 when dusk was coming on. porter also was beginning to realize what pope did not that the balance of the army of northern virginia under james longstreet was moving into position on jackson's ready to strike a devastating blow at pope apprehensive porter ordered a pullback of his skirmishes a copy of porter's pullback order crossed pope's fourth hero attack order and promptly sat down at 850 that night and wrote out yet another order demanding that porter appear him for an explanation. porter did so the next august 30th and tried to convince pope of the trap waiting to spring on him. pope would hear

i was in northern virginia in warrenton, where you never map prime members on a commodore 64 as a kid. then the first computer i used would have been 88, 89 little commodore playing football games on its exact. it was a good little computer. yeah i think that's i first experienced america online online as well. all right. so you run aol you buy time warner, you end up leaving, i believe, in 2003, is that correct? yeah, by far the deal we announced the deal in 2000. i agreed to step as ceo and stayed on as chair for a couple of years and then on the board for another year or two, but then decided it was time to, you know, kind of go our separate ways we had different views of what should happen there. and that's when i started making investments, new companies, which led to starting an investment company called revolution. and ultimately a lot of us on this journey towards investing and entrepreneurs outside of silicon valley, which ultimately led to the rise of the rest. and this book. yeah well let's okay so now let's quickly why don't you quickly summarize the book in a minute and t

he he inherited an army located in the middle of virginia, around warrenton, virginia. the order that placed him in command also demanded know what he intended to do with the army of the potomac. 135,000 men of the single largest most prestigious army of the republic. and the incredible thing is had a ready answer. he proposed to bring his army to fredericksburg using speed and surprise to capture that spot and use it as a springboard on a drive south directly against richmond. fredericksburg was not only on the direct route to richmond, but was also a strategic point where federal forces could not only threaten richmond, but by their positioning, could protect washington and behind them on top of that, fredericksburg also boasted a railroad, the rfp railroad, the richmond. fredericksburg potomac railroad, which was an all weather, all purpose means of communication reinforcement and resupply even in bad weather like winter promises. because of the name richmond and fredericksburg and potomac, even the federal high command could figure out it went where they wanted to g