i applying a pressure winfield scott called in 1860 one the anaconda plan we can completely annihilate the south. the idea with grant and lincoln is going to be to apply pressure at various points. have beenrobert e lee intertwined since 1864. grant has been known as the butcher of shiloh. a drunk,en known as but ulysses s. grant is a fantastic general. he is not a pit bull who is going to smash against the wall. he is going to follow orders, and he is going to do it very well. when grant is appointed to , the firstgeneralcy one since washington, he has this mandate, and the mandate is, i want you to go out. i want you to destroy the confederate armies. there would need nothing between us and atlanta. he wants to wear out the confederates. he wanted to go through the south. a fantastic campaign of maneuver he is a maneuvering general. grant, when he wants to employ this, has some resident he sets. he unleashed men under sherman. sherman is going to cut a wide swath through alabama -- through mississippi. to cause damage. he makes it about destroying railroads. it would drain morale on

it would take officers like winfield scott who learned the hard way about what it took to train men.how they managed to treat them about the enemy. because of that, it was always necessary to supplement its numbers with militia. the situation was far worse than few militias. the federal government could call militias under specific conditions, but it had no authorization to give them training. those matters were left to the states, and basically the states did nothing about it in the early 19th century. despite the fact that the prisons said, we have our problems here. congress refused to address it. nevertheless, the fiascos that occurred in the war of 1812 are always associated with emotion. i'll give you two examples. one was the battle of queens heights in 1812 when they refused to cover over the niagara river to reinforce regular troops who had actually managed to gain a toehold on the canadian shore of the niagara river. the militia refused to the grounds that the constitution did not oblige to serve outside the boundaries of new york state. of course, the battle of bladensburg

so he, as far as i know, he didn't get rid of any of those democrats like winfield scott hancock. you mentioned butler, let me say one thing about butler. butler was a war democrat who moves into the radical republican camp by the end of the war. he's from ma. and butler actually got about 5,000 soldiers who he brought to manhatt manhattan. he was worried there was going to be upheaval here. he worried that he couldn't put people in the zpi city, but there were boats around the coast of manhattan, ready to come into the city should there be upheaval on election day. butler was an arredent guy and was going to go -- they had already sent in their absentee ballots and their stipulation was if they came to new york, their ballot would be void, so he was very strategic in that. >> i have two questions, number one, steven pendleton, the democratic candidate for vice president. >> george pendleton. >> right, george pendleton. he of all should have been aware of that pressure that was exerted on democrats in the army. did this have any -- when he came into -- with civil service reform. a

scott, channel 6 "action news." >>> slippery conditions may have led to a deadly crash on winfield this morning. this is 59th street, the driver of the cadillac somehow lost control and crashed into the northbound lanes and hit three trees and a light pole, it ejected the driver and split the car in half. the driver was rushed to the hospital of the university of pennsylvania but did not survive. >>> president barack obama is meeting with his new ebola czar and top aides this afternoon. this as several passengers arriving ing from west africa te u.s. with possible ebola symptoms. >> reporter: we are told that official dozen not believe these people have ebola but they are monitored as a precaution. airport screeners are taking no chances. >> today new ebola scares and precautions, a man believed to be liberian quarantined in new jersey after arriving on a flight with fever-like symptoms. >> he is a simmattic and there is no indication that he is infected with the virus. >> two people, an adult and child are being tested as a precaution after arriving on a flight. newark and o'hare are among the