the slaves in winnsboro, south carolina, anticipated the arrival of william sherman's roops before they arrived in 1865. they knew the state capital of columbia which was 30 miles to the south was in smoldering ruins. the fleeing residents and retreating confederate soldiers who had surrendered there brought word of the and it spread like the fire that engulfed the city. while frightened plantation owners worked desperately to bury the families silver, to sew jewelry inside their petticoats and to lose their livestock that remained into the woods, slaves watched and waited with more and dissipation than dread -- with more anticipation than dread. we looked at the yankees, he like we look now as the angels for the second coming, she recalls. masterpise the brutal that whipped her mother and sold away her siblings, believe the blue coats brought the fires of atonement with them. like so many other slaves, she understood the war as divi ne retribution for the slave suffering and her own liberation. of a joyfulion deliverance were soon dashed. they came one day in february, she remembered,

and historical documents but in 1873 with more william sherman says in atlanta during the civil war and would ride out into the plane's with the hard core military. and with the plains people. and in 1873 even to his extermination. but pausing to distinguish between male or female or discriminate of a spurt of that is pretty explicit. and then for stating this. and excepting colonialism in order to make land available to the sellers. not all colonialism very few areas were under colonization under imperialism. in those colonies of australasia and with spanish colonization. and those that were very similar under the nation's policies. under classic colonialism the indigenous population is wanted for labor. in south asia, south america. so the project is not limited to government policy but all kinds of agencies and the settlers themselves acting on their own but never being punished or curtail. any grants are brought over by the scandinavian immigrants and to the people are firming. the farmers' are put on top of them and they had to fight. they had to call the military in to do the job.

. >>> i'm william sherman. i'm 62. i'm a reporter for the "new york daily news."o the body parts case is i broke the story. i was having a drink, or a couple of drinks, with an attorney who's a friend of mine and he said, i know you're not going to believe this but there's a funeral home in brooklyn where the owner along with another guy has been cutting up corpses and taking the bone and the tissue, putting

>>> i'm william sherman. i'm 62. i'm a reporter for the "new york daily news." my connection to the body parts case is i broke the story. i was having a drink, or a couple of drinks, with an attorney who's a friend of mine and he said, i know you're not going to believe this but there's a funeral home in brooklyn where the owner along with another guy has been cutting up corpses and taking the bone and the tissue, putting it in a refrigerator and selling it to three publicly owned companies. it was a story that wrote itself. and it was a kind of an edgar alan poe horrific, repelling, curious horror story that involved real people with tragic consequences. >> brings us the latest on this one-of-a-kind case in new york. >> local people are charged with opening graves, body stealing and illegal dissection. >> relatives of the deceased are outraged. >> probably the most hideous horrible crime of the last 100 years. evil people with absolutely no conscience whatsoever. >> lawsuits were filed all over the country in a multimillion dollar scheme that prosecutors call m

sent rick companies -- centric companies, walmart, and sherman williams majority of sales. >> shermanliams looking good today. >> yeah, and playing housing rebound, as investors we can make some money. >> walmart sales are overseas most of them. >> walmart sales? >> yes. charles: clorox, i think clorox which is up a lot, did dip -- any dip, i am looking clorox, before strong dollar emerged, i have been thinking i need more u.s. september rick names -- sencentric names. there are pick ups and brazil, and chile and russia, germany. >> consumer is doing better with the economy recovery are. to think about this of the locally, i do think that consumer had wind in their sail, and they are not going to be as concerned with u.s. dollar. charles: cheap gas too. >> cheap gas. >> commodities are getting killed, i must get 5 calls a week, why are commodity down, look at u.s. dollar. they have a inverse relationship that it tied. charles: something to be said about gold collapseing, bitcoin collapseing that fiat dollar still chugging. >> meg whitman making headline news that hewlett-packard will

even further south, union general william sherman was stuck outside of atlanta, unable to capture that confederate stronghold. so july 30th, 1864, actually was a pretty awful day for the union. and in the following days, new yorkers would open up their newspapers and read about the terrible news. there's a very famous new york lawyer named george templeton strong. he recorded in his diary on jewel 31st, he said it's the hottest day of this burning summer, according to my sensations if not the thermometer. i have stayed indoors until tonight steaming with perspiration, and at 2:00 in that afternoon, strong got the afternoon edition of the newspaper and it described a debacle that took place at st. peter'sberg. he concluded his diary with this glum note, we have no right to expect speedy victory in this war. or to ask that rebellion be s suppressed until we have suffered more than we yet have done. well the news of july 30th, captured, i think, how the summer of 1864 felt to many people in the north, it was a long, hot, awful summer. in may and june of 1864, ulysses s. grant and robert e

the very day after they adjourned, william sherman captured atlanta and this capture of atlanta sent a thrill through the north. from that point forward, it was pretty clear to most observers that lincoln was going to win. now that is a general overview of the election. and what i want to do now is tell you a little bit about the research in my book and this is research that no one has really done before. my research focuses on lincoln and's mass pags and his re-elect in 1864. 19 norther states actually passed legislation authorizing soldiers to vote away from home. and this legislation took different forms in some states soldiers were allowed to vote in the field and they actually set up polls and people vote along their company streets. other states did it between absentee balloting. the governor of new york vetoed a law in 1863 authorizing soldiers to vote because he said our state constitution requires people to vote in new york. and so the new york legislature thought well okay, he is going to veto it if we pass it again. we need a different plan. how about this, we let soldiers

senator john sherman wrote his brother, general william tecumseh sherman, a private letter. who shall exercise this additional political power? shall the rebels do so? on another occasion, senator sherman thundered -- this is one of my favorite statements ever. the one thing i know -- that never by my consent shall these rebels gained by this war increased political power, and come back to wield that in some other form against the safety and integrity of the country. you see where i am going with this. it seems to me this is the absolute centerpiece of post where politics. without this, we cannot come to grips with what the politics of reconstruction were all about. but we need to head back south to get white southerners on this. here is my take on this. it is not only the framers of the 14th amendment. it is the ratifiers. what do they see as important? how do they understand the first, let alone the second, of the two sections i have highlighted in the 14th amendment? way back in the 1930's, the best book, still arguably out there, about the framing of the 14th amendment -

. >> william tecumseh sherman, the man who -- this is my own amateur historian's recollection.ear with me if i'm wrong. he hated war but believed that if you're one to fight a war, leave no stone unturned and just go one make war so hated that the other side will give up. >> that is exactly right. hard war, soft peas. the harder the war the sooner it will be over. in the end the less suffering. lincoln came to have the same point of view. lincoln was a man of great humanity. he suffered great sadness for the carnage the civil war exacted on the american people north and south. he said that the sooner we bring this war to an end, even if it takes harsh measures to accomplish it, the better off we will be in the long run. >> was their effort to bridge peace, in terms of envoys of either side to give up? >> there were efforts along that line. in 1863 at the time that we invaded pennsylvania, jefferson davis appointed his vice president, alexander stephens, as an envoy to go to washington to talk to lincoln, whom he had known in the 1840's. >> he wrote their territory controlled by

this most explicitly in the surrender that follows after appomattox, because there famously william tecumseh sherman, the scourge of the south and rightly so, as we saw in the rubenstein paper earlier today what we see , is that sherman there offers not surrender but armistice. peace to the confederate states. peace from the potomac to rio grande. goes far beyond anything that grant offered. at this moment sometimes you see in the literature people who say things like all the north cared about was union. if this were true, sherman was delivering that. union and peace. in fact this was not true. we can state emphatically and empirically that the united states government including the most conservative element, president andrew johnson, did not believe union was sufficient because when the terms of sherman's offer and armistice and end to the war, you retain southern state governments in the south, you retain local governments, you retain even the right of rebels to vote and in turn put down their arms and stop fighting the north. when it gets to the united states capitol the cabinet rejected it, 8-0

it was not all burned up by william tecumseh sherman. a lot of it is here in boston for instance. boston is not unique in that. we have to remember that when we are talking about reparations and we have to remember that this isn't just about morality that these bad things were done. it's about the fact that wealth was transferred by a particularly fair when process process and that wealth is still brown. if we decide to think about while it's not just enough said is held by one group of people but also a debt that is owed to other people that there's a pretty extensive reckoning that would have to happen. one small footnote to that, though i don't talk about it in here there's a great document that occasionally get some play on the internet and i think coats was talking about the other day. jordan anderson's letter to his former master. i don't know if anybody saw him talking about this on line. a former slave escapes to ohio during the civil war. his tennessee enslavers writes them back and says come back and work for me and i will take good care of a family. he writes this amazi

particular campaign, which was reaching its culmination 150 years ago right now, the memoirs of william tecumseh sherman, he reports that his atlanta campaign was sustained by a railroad 473 miles long, supporting his army of 100,000 men and 35,000 animals for 196 days, doing the work of 36,800 wagons and 220,800 mules. 473 miles. that would have been impossible with muscle power. and, incidentally, the corollary to this is that armies got larger. you look back through human history, it's hard to find an army that's bigger than 30,000 men. because that's about the maximum size that you can generally supply with wagon haul and foraging the countryside. a hundred thousand men. hundred thousand men in virginia. and this union army was also made possible by steam power. you want to know why the armies of the potomac spent so much of the war in the same place? that's where the rail heads were. spent a good part of the war here on the orange and alexandria railroad at culpepper and a chunk of the war here opposite fredericksburg. this particular line of supply was particularly interesting. the baltimore and o

. >> and william tecumseh sherman, the man who, this is my own amateur historian's recollection so, bear with me if i'm wrong. was a man who hated war. but believed that if you are going to fight a war, leave no stone unturned, just go and make war so hated that the other side will give up. >> exactly right. a hard war but a soft piece. and the harder the war, the sooner it will be over. and in the end, maybe the less suffering, the sooner it's over. lincoln came to have the same point of view. lincoln was a man of great humanity. he suffered great sadness for the carnage that the civil war exacted on the american people, both north and south. but said that the sooner we bring this war to an end, even if it takes harsh measures to accomplish it, the better off we'll be in the long run. >> rose: was any effort to somehow bridge a piece in terms of envoys, trying to talk to the other side to give up? >> there were efforts along that line. in 1863, at the time that lee invaded pennsylvania and the campaign that lead to the battle of gettysburg, jefferson davis appointed his vice president,

william tecumseh sherman was teaching at a tiny military school in louisiana when the war started. jackson's rise to fame, power and legend was every bit as deep and transfiguring as that of the two union generals, but it happened much faster. his ascent was much steeper, more dramatic. his effect on the first two years of the civil war more profound. now, one measure of fame, i guess, is whether people write songs about you while you are still alive. i'm sure many of you are at the top of your fields, but i'm not sure if anyone has written songs about you yet. [laughter] i'm about to lay you one here -- play you one here that is a very popular confederate song of the civil war called stonewall jackson's way. i'm just going to play you a little bit of it. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> okay. you get the idea. [laughter] many verses. many verses, and the soldiers knew them all. so how does such a thing happen to someone who looked to almost everyone at the start of the war like a very ordinary man? let's start with the battle of first manassas, or as the yankees who like to name battles after water cou

the very day after they adjourned, william tecumseh sherman captured atlanta. this capture of atlanta sent a thrill through the north. from that point forward, it was pretty clear to most observers that lincoln was going to win. general overview of the election. what i want to do now is tell you a little bit about the research in my book, research that no one has really done before. my research focuses on lincoln emancipation and his reelection in 1854. 19 northern states actually passed legislation authorizing soldiers to vote away from home. differentlation took forms. in some states, soldiers were allowed to vote in the field and they actually set up polls and people would vote a longer company streets. other states did it through absentee balloting to her new york, for example, the governor 1860 threea law in authorizing soldiers to vote because he said our state constitution requires people to vote in new york. so the new york legislature that if hehought vetoes it again, we need another plan. so let's let soldiers fill out their ballots in the field and t

williams. our cris carter called this the best catch of the nfl season. tiptoeing through the tulips indeed. demarco murray. over 100 yards in every game. richard shermanep him out of the end zone. dallas wins in seattle. the boys are 5-1. >>> "monday night football" the 70th edition. it's the 49ers and rams. little known fact, both head coaches played for our mike ditka in chicago. all starts with "monday night countdown" at 6:00 p.m. eastern time on espn. >>> for more, check out a live "sportscenter" from studio excellent, 9:00 a.m. eastern time. >>> a great time of year with sports, football, baseball, hockey. but, the north american wife carrying competition is our "play of the day." jesse and christina finished third the last couple of years. this year, they won. >> they get to share her weight in beer, 96 pounds. they also share five times her weight in cash. so almost $500. but, you know, just the pride of having won that competition is enough. >> roar. >>> if you want something heavier to carry around, some big prizes handed out for big pumpkins in new england this weekend. >> the annual giant pumpkin weigh-off took place. this year's winner, 1

parliamentarian, a brilliant foreign secretary, our greatest living york sherman , and someone tamayo and enormous debt of gratitude, williams. [applause] [applause] [applause] now, william, there is one more task want you to carry out, bringing fairness to our constitution. during that referendum campaign we made a vow to discourage people that they will get more powers and we will keep our overall. here is my vowed to the people of england, wales, northern ireland. i know that the system is unfair. i know that you are asking if stalin connotes separately on things like tax and spending and welfare, why can england, wales the man northern ireland do the same? and i know that you want the censored. so this is my vow. english votes for english laws. the conservatives will deliver it. [applause] now, we have delivered a lot these past four years, but we have had to do it all in a coalition government. believe me, coalition is not what i wanted, it is where i had to do. and i know not just what i want next but with the country needs next. i want to be back here in october of 2015 delivering conservative policies based upon con