virginia has one named after robert e. lee. andrew jackson's home, the hermitage come was actually turned into a veterans home. on the east side of the french corridor in new orleans was a home. a homey's home had outside of louisville. it gave veterans a great place to relax, take any fresh air, and live a life, if you will, with medical use. -- ease. thee was some debate if state should actually support them, and what kind of men would be allowed in one of these homes. you had to fill out paperwork. in fact, some of these homes even had a debate about someone -- about some men who asked if their wives could come along and live in the home. these are the questions that in many ways gummed up the assistance that many of these veterans needed in transitioning back to life. land grants become the third area of assistance that they are limited. only two states would take on large plots of land that veterans would be eligible to take. louisiana which provided 160 acres of land to injured veterans. land --fered 1288 gerd acres to in

virginia has one named after robert e. lee. andrew jackson's home, the hermitage come was actually turned into a veterans home. on the east side of the french corridor in new orleans was a home. kentucky's home had a home outside of louisville. it gave veterans a great place to relax, take any fresh air, and live a life, if you will, with medical use. -- ease. there was some debate if the state should actually support them, and what kind of men would be allowed in one of these homes. you had to fill out paperwork. talk about how your injury actually came from the war itself. and the honorable departure. in fact, some of these homes even had a debate about someone -- about some men who asked if their wives could come along and live in the home. these are the questions that in assistance that many of these veterans needed in transitioning back to life. land grants become the third area of assistance that they are limited. only two states would take on large plots of land that veterans would be eligible to take. the first was loui

robert e. lee is another prominent name that our visitors take away from the tour. robert e. lee, we have in some of our ledgers that he purchased whitewash for arlington house, and he also purchased lavender as well. lavender was a great remedy for migraines. at the peak of the business, the family was operating out of 11 different buildings here in town. this was retail. they also had a retail on the corner of king in fairfax. -- and fairfax. they loved the history in this space. they almost had it set up as a little museum. i mean, they were really into the history and the fact that it had served the community and so many prominent alexandrians throughout their time. up through the civil war, he was starting to increase the business. it started to include a wholesale line of products. with the civil war, alexandria was occupied. and because the family were quakers, they were pacifists and they were also abolitionists. they were allowed to keep running a business here in town. after the civil war, the economy of alexandria slowly starts to recover. and john leadbeater, with

virginia had one and they named it after robert e. lee. andrew jackson's home, the her mittage was actually turned into a veterans home for a period of time. if you were in new orleans on the east side of the french quarter, on esplanade avenue, there was the big home in new orleans for confederate veterans. kentucky's home was in the pee-wee valley in this beautiful area out of louisville that gave veterans a great place to relax, take in the fresh air and live a life, if you will, with some medical ease, if you will. now, there was some debates particularly about these homes if the states should actually support them and then what kind of men would be allowed in one of these homes. again, you had to fill out the paperwork, talk about that your injury came from the war itself and again, that honorable departure from the war itself. in fact, some of these homes even had a debate about some men who asked that their wife be allowed to come along and live with them at the home. some said is that appropriate, should she actually live with you

robert e. lee and -- on that day the confederate soldiers who was left wept on this long process of walking up, turning over their flag, stacking their guns, which you can imagine that gun as part of your own identity a symbol of who you were as a soldier. now being turned over to victors in the united states army and then traveling home. going away, going back to where you time from. the lecture today is going to examine the transition that confederate veterans will go through as they go from soldiers back to civilians. we'll look at the harpships that they face. what sort of help they can get in adjusting to the newfound disabilities. finally how they thought to actually remember the war itself. the confederates who returned home dealing with the reality of defeat. it's not an reality. they were returning to tables that had empty chair around them and now will be permanently empty because those men will not return back to their families. they're dealing with scenes like n large scale property

robert e lee, colonel robert e. lee who was a army officer who went to west point. that was his last deed for the union. when he defected to the south, the confederacy, that did not sit well with his fellow army officers who went to west point with him. and lincoln was also furious should not that lee report to duty for the union. weddedthese characters together and have different intersections. i thought that might be interesting to know that robert e. lee was at the scene of harpers ferry. match in thelast powder keg of the civil war. although it failed, it succeeded in alarming the south and it blows. the two sides, to in a way, john brown succeeded with his revolutionary rage. -- raid. frederickbman and douglass were not revolutionaries in the same way. they were nonviolent revolutionaries. time, the two new each other with mutual friends like william lloyd garrison, the bostonian abolitionist and the philadelphia quaker and women's rights leader lucretia mott's who we discussed last time. once brought a group of 13 runaway slaves to the frederick douglass home

it was robert e lee, colonel robert e. lee who was a army officer who went to west point. that was his last deed for the union. when he defected to the south, the confederacy, that did not sit well with his fellow army officers who went to west point with him. and lincoln was also furious that lee should not report to uty for the union. all of these characters wedded together and have different intersections. i thought that might be interesting to know that robert e. lee was at the scene of harpers ferry. that was the last match in the powder keg of the civil war. although it failed, it succeeded in alarming the south and it brought the two sides, to blows. in a way, john brown succeeded with his revolutionary raid. harriet tubman and frederick douglass were not revolutionaries in the same way. they were nonviolent revolutionaries. by this time, the two new each other with mutual friends like william lloyd garrison, the bostonian abolitionist and the philadelphia quaker and women's rights leader lucretia mott's who we discussed last time. harriet tubman once brought a grou

its underneath the north carolina state flag on other days - including in honor of robert e. lee's birthday. several confederate monuments have been defaced in north carolina's state capital recently. we're following decision 2016 - this evening. north carolina governor pat mccrory and democratic attorney general roy cooper are expected to face each other in the governor's race this fall - but they have to win their primary races march 15th. ken spaulding - a democrat and republican robert brawley are running tough primary campaigns. spaulding continues to criticize cooper state lawmakers. while brawley is making interstate tolls a big issue for his campaign. still ahead - submarine christening - we'll take you to the event the military is celebrating this saturday. and - forecasting tornadoes - why researchers say they may have found the answer to warning people about twisters several days in we're following a time saver traffic update for you this evening. traffic is moving a lot smoother along interstate 264 in norfolk. just before 9 this morning - a call came into police

lee in the chair in the front. >> robert e lee in the later uniform. >> [inaudible] >> this is u.s. grant. what is going on in this picture. what is happening? this is a surrender of the army of the potomac. they are going to set forth a series of events that would end the war a few month later completely. a hugely important moment. a huge, historic moment. and italy parker, who you are a bit familiar with, is in this picture also. eelienyone pick out parker? she's standing on the right side. the third person in. right in front of him there is the actual drafting of the surrender agreement on the table. the guy standing over the right shoulder of the men writing. who is parker? he read a bit about him. -- you read a bit about him. who was he? >> he was the chief of the indians -- he led the indians in their fight against new york state. wasgenetin-pilawa: he leading a resistant campaign against removal. he was leading a fight against the armed and land company in ugdenork state -- all th land company in new york state. he helped them secure a title to part of their homeland in new y

included the nephew of robert e. lee in founder george mason. southerners in robles and warriors. around the age of 25. ant venom longer matters. but the man that they led further merchant sailors sailors with the enticements of gold so there every nation and keller. but also sell the asian and pacific islander those have never set foot on american soil. in day balance discipline with humanity and succeeded. most served loyally and energetically through their vessels. and then to cause a sensation. and as word spread hundreds of sightseers were on the shore. descending from every direction an estimated 10,000 on board in one day. in the heather demanded their immediate departure. to carry on a fierce diplomatic corps in must be evident that all presumptions of fact were against the legal character of the vessel that had no legitimacy and those a responded no evidence of the tyrannical ax and a matter the history the government there were a significant number of influential people. unions and states rights. pro union sentiment and dangers for the umbilical chord of trade and local

lee in the chair in the front. >> robert e lee in the later uniform. >> [inaudible] >> this is ulysses s. grant. what is going on in this picture. what is happening? this is a surrender of the army of the potomac. they are going to set forth a series of events that would end the war a few month later completely. a hugely important moment. a huge, historic moment. and ely parker, who you are a bit familiar with, is in this picture also. can anyone pick out eelie parker? he's standing on the right side. the third person in. right in front of him there is the actual drafting of the surrender agreement on the table. the guy standing over the right shoulder of the men writing. who is parker? you read a bit about him. who was he? >> he was the chief of the indians -- he led the indians in their fight against new york state. mr. genetin-pilawa: he was leading a resistant campaign against removal. he was leading a fight against the armed and land company in new york state -- augden land company in new york state. he helped them secure a title to part of their homeland in new york. a few years

its underneath the north carolina state flag on other days - including in honor of robert e. lee's birthday. several confederate monuments have been defaced in north carolina's state capital recently. a group of graduate students in savannah, georgia led a silent protest against the removal of a confederate monument. caution tape surrounded the confederate memorial this morning. police say students used chalk to write messages around the memorial - asking the public to value historic preservation before demolition. city officials say no specific monuments are up for demolition. but the students say they want to create a public dialogue about not turning a blind eye to monument removals - no matter the context. s/cornelia dodge/grad student :06 "the big message is opening a dialogue to talk about historic preservation, confederate monuments, and erasing history." s/erin ward/grad student :08 "so we were hoping that this would bring did." were removable and there s/cornelia dodge/grad confederate monuments, and erasing history." attention to it in a police say the markings were

virginia had one and they named it after robert e. lee. andrew jackson's home, the her mittage was actually turned into a veterans home for a period of time. if you were in new orleans on the east side of the french quarter, on esplanade avenue, there was the big home in new orleans for confederate veterans. kentucky's home was in the pee-wee valley in this beautiful area out of louisville that gave veterans a great place to relax, take in the fresh air and live a life, if you will, with some medical ease, if you will. now, there was some debates particularly about these homes if the states should actually support them and then what kind of men would be allowed in one of these homes. again, you had to fill out the paperwork, talk about that your injury came from the war itself and again, that honorable departure from the war itself. in fact, some of these homes even had a debate about some men who asked that their wife be allowed to come along and live with them at the home. some said is that appropriate, should she actually live with you

i vote for renaming the lee barracks. >> we have robert e. lee road. >> i did not know that. >> brooklyn. >> where is the city council? [laughter] >> let's rename it hiram rebels road. [applause] >> i'm going to end with a quote from the person i quoted at the beginning. when hillary clinton got to speak for herself on this subject, she made a very good statement, and this is what i think we can all end by agreeing on. "too many injustices continue today. attempts to suppress voting rights go back to racist efforts during reconstruction. in fighting for voting rights and equality today, we are continuing a long struggle that still has to be fought and won in our own generation. the fight continues. we thank you for advancing the discussion. [applause] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2015] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] >> interested in american history tv? visit our website. you can see our upcoming schedule or watch re

i vote for renaming the lee barracks. >> we have robert e. lee road. >> where is the city council? [laughter] -- litz rename it hiram re et's rename it hiram rebels road. quote going to end with a from the person i quoted at the beginning. when hillary clinton got to speak for herself on this subject, she made a very good statement, and this is what i think we can all end by agreeing on. manynyoo -- "too injustices continue today. in fighting for voting rights and equality today, we are continuing a long struggle that still has to be fought and won in our own generation. the fight continues. we thank you for advancing the discussion. [applause] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2016] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] i am a history buff. i do enjoy seeing the fabric of our country and how things -- how they work. >> i love american history tv. they are fantastic shows. >> i had no idea they did history. that is something i would probably enjoy. >> american history

he and -- endorsed robert e. lee to be president of the united states, 1868. the irony is lee would have won he couldn't serve. his citizenship had been taken away and the petition for amnesty was lost and it came to light in the summer of 1965, and it was gerald ford who finally signed the amnesty and lee citizenship posthumously. like to think of it as a purple heart rather than a peace of paper. >> almost became the father of noncitizens running for president of the united states. [laughter] >> i agree our country is in cries and i would like to know what you think the average citizen can do to make a difference. about that. >> the average citizen? >> yes, sir. >> you mean invade -- voting? >> i'm not sure. >> a simple thing. i tell audiences, particularly this year, you don't realize how powerful your vote is you. don't realize how powerful your vote is. you're looked into apathy. in a presidential election, 40% of the people vote. let me put it another way. in a presidential election three out of fife americans don't care. they don't bother to vote. three

. >> so why don't we -- we'll come to lee in a second here and the relationship between robert e. lee and stonewall jackson. lee emerges from this period as a much more celebrated and famous and better known, right? famous or infamous, depending upon how you look at his figure. >> better known, yeah. >> but jackson today is not really as widely known, which is why i think it's so interesting that you gravitated there as a subject. why has jackson not been -- why is he not better known? >> i think there were things that overshadowed him. history sort of moved beyond him in some ways. let me give you a really good example of this. you mentioned he dies. so he gets shot by his own men. this is completely accidental and, again, bad staff work that anybody was out there for that to happen. and then he contracts pneumonia and dies. what happens then is absolutely extraordinary. it's the first great outpouring of grief for a fallen leader in american history. >> history, right. >> and i said american history. i didn't say confederate history. >> right. >> the fallen leaders, so to speak,

its underneath the north carolina state flag on other days - including in honor of robert e. lee's birthday. several confederate monuments have been defaced in north carolina's state capital recently. a group of graduate students in savannah, georgia led a silent protest against the removal of a confederate monument. caution tape surrounded the confederate memorial this morning. police say students used chalk to write messages around the memorial - asking the public to value historic preservation before demolition. city officials say no specific monuments are up for demolition. but the students say they want to create a public dialogue about not turning a blind eye to monument removals - no matter the context. s/cornelia dodge/grad student :06 "the big message is opening a dialogue to talk about historic preservation, confederate monuments, and erasing history." s/erin ward/grad student :08 "so we were hoping police say the markings were removable and there was no damage to the monument. students say they have created social media accounts titled "erasing history" to continue

but her husband, phillips lee, who was a cousin of robert e. lee, was in the union navy. and because he was in the navy, she wrote to him pretty much every day. >> yeah. >> and the letters are just a treasure trove. >> they're great. yeah. >> they really are. >> well, there's so much in here i encourage people to spend a lot of time with it because it's just great reading. >> well, they were great ladies. fun to learn about. >> good for you. i want to ask about this concept of women in leadership roles performing amazing feats and contributing but perhaps not getting, you know, enough credit for it or claim for it. in the two areas in which you have lived your life, journalism, and politics, i was reminded when john dickerson was named to replace bob schieffer on "face the nation." his mother -- >> nancy. >> -- was one of those pioneering women journalists. it is not that long ago that women did not occupy an equal place. i mean, just the other day -- >> are you kidding? [laughter]. >> right. but, you know, the other week we had a deal where every questioner at the presid

it is robert e lee, june, 1863. you have to be the enemy on their own turf. she wants to avoid that. she wants to get back to her inevitability in the general election. mark: they said they may be downplaying her chances so even if she wins by a little, it will look big. clinton, like her husband, don't like to give up on any state. margins matter. sanders, huge wins over the weekend. they don't want there to be another state where sanders gets a big w. al: i agree. i think they are more confident than they were a week ago. what i hear is very close out there. she cannot get beaten by 10 or 12 points in wisconsin by bernie sanders. mark: if you take the clinton folks at their word, despite limited public polling showing clinton a head, they are saying this will be a sanders stay. the demographics layout well for him. if you look at the history of people who have done well, like jesse jackson, it should be a sanders state. al: today, the clinton campaign was dealt a double whammy on that old e-mail story. federal prosecutors are setting up interviews with memb

e...reaching the 70s by tuesday. next chance for showers will be with a cold front that moves in the from the north (back door cold front) by late this morning, police are still looking for a suspect accused of shooting and killing a man in norfolk. it happened saturday afternoon, on kingston avenue between grove and beaumont streets. police say someone shot a 38-year-old man while he sat in the driver seat of a white van saturday afternoon. parademics rushed him to sentara norfolk general hospital, where he died. police say the person responsible may be in a small, gray or blue car with a lot of damage on the front end. 10 on your side went to the neighborhood where it happened...and people who live there tell us, they don't feel vanessa carter-west / neighbor c0032 1:31:03 "i was gonna go again." 1:31:15 " norfolk police haven't released the name of the man who died. if you see the car that instead -- call the crime line. in hampton - police are also looking for a shooting suspect. the

robert e. lee, ulysses grant had signed the official document a few days earlier. on that day, the confederate soldiers left in the army in northern virginia went on this long process of walking up, turning over the regimental flag. packing their guns. you can imagine that gun was part of your identity for the last few years of the war, now being turned over to the

its underneath the north carolina state flag on other days - including in honor of robert e. lee's birthday. people have vandalized several confederate monuments in more than 100 people with sons of confederate veterans gathered in gettysburg to celebrate the flag and its heritage. but, there were also dozens of others who oppose it. the groups got into a heated argument at one point, but things eventually cooled down and the ceremony ended without any problems. the leader of the confederate group says it is okay for people to have different views on the flag. casteel says: "the opposition, they are what they are. they have made a decision to not agree don't think they are bad people, i just think that the symbol they choose to fly is a symbol has been used for white supremacy and for some people when they see that symbol, white supremacy is all they think about." groups had the right to be on the property and express their first amendment rights. a group of college students led a silent protest against the removal of a confederate monument. they put cautiion tape around the

i lee was 1/2 few of robert e. lee, brother of fit hugh lee, and mason was grandson of founder george mason, and there were other connections there that were just fascinating. one fellow was an anomaly. a middle class brazilian, he actually had been a drug store clerk and got enam norred rom othese from the midwest. but he managed to get an appointment to the naval academy. he didn't report because the war started so he reported to the confederate navy and worked his way up, but being from the midwest, and he didn't quite relate to the the aristocratic milieu of his southern and deep southern come patriots -- compatriots. interesting. questions? >> okay. charlie. what was the fate -- what happened to the colonial marines you mentioned? you can tell i'm interested -- >> they only were able to recruit 300 to 400 of them and did serve with distinction in the 1814 campaign in particular, but cochran allowed them to be transported to the island within -- the british caribbean of their choice or could go to bermuda or ca

e. are there any lyessons that coud be carried over to this issue of communication and the need to have communications be private and confidential? >> well, lincoln didn't have e-mails. but he had telegrams. and that was the internet of its day. and he would go, as anyone who has seen the lincoln movie recalls, to the telegraph office, which was located in the department of war right across from the white house where the old executive office building is today. and he would spend a good deal of his time there with secretary of war stanton and receive the latest communication. it was in that office that he wrote the first draft of the emancipation proclamation. i don't believe that there was much of a classification system then. and it was unheard of, for example, that there would be -- there would be government agents who would reclassify lincoln's telegrams after he left office. [ applause ] so i think we're dealing with another era. and rather than the era of today with its own complexi

it is robert e lee, june, 1863. you have to be the enemy on their own turf. she wants to avoid that. she wants to get back to her inevitability in the general election. mark: they said they may be downplaying her chances so even if she wins by a little, it will look big. clinton, like her husband, don't like to give up on any st ate. margins matter. sanders, huge wins over the weekend. they don't want there to be another state where sanders gets a big w. al: i agree. i think they are more confident than they were a week ago. close outr is very there. she cannot get beaten by 10 or 12 points in wisconsin by bernie sanders. mark: if you take the clinton folks at their word, despite limited public polling showing clinton a head, they are saying this will be a sanders stay. the demographics layout well for him. if you look at the history of people who have done well, like jesse jackson, it should be a sanders state. al: today, the clinton campaign was dealt a double whammy on that old e-mail story. prosecutors are setting up interviews with members of clinton sta

e. through searching i got to know dr. medford and she's been a friend, an admired person. she's a chair of the department of history at howard university. she teaches 19th century history. she has lectured broadly and actively involve in so many activities. i have read her book and i strongly urge that all of you do, too, she has brought to the floor those who have the most pressing interest and those who worked tirelessly largely unrecognized in achieving emancipation and therefore, those were the slaves, the people who had the most vital interest and her book lincoln and emancipation fills a gap that's been left in the story of emancipation but bringing to the floor the important role that so many blacks played in changing the face of our nation and bringing about emancipation. i've been counseled to be brief and so with that i'd like to introduce dr. edna green medford. [ applause ] >> good evening. i'd like to thank ali and the theater to speak with you this morning and thank you fo

robert e lee is another prominent name that our leaders take away from the tour. he purchased lavender as well. remedy fors a great migraines. the family was operating 11 town.ent in this is retail and they also had a retail on the corner of king in fairfax. .hey love the history in space the fact that they had served the community and so many prominent alexandrians throughout their time. war, it wascivil starting to increase the business and starting to include a wholesale line of products. with the civil war, alexandria was occupied. they were pacifists and also abolitionists. they were allowed to keep running a business here in town. after the civil war, the economy in alexandria slowly started to recover. -- assistanceence of his son starts a wholesale in 500 different businesses locally in the region. that really helps them expand the product line and become well-known in the area. is room we are standing in where a lot of the raw ingredients were stored moving to the building in 1805. through the 20th century where they close, they are using it more as an of

. >> robert e. lee was through here on three different occasions. pickett. longstreet. >> after the civil war breaks out, hundreds of texas troops are mustered into the confederacy here. but by 1867, chadbourne is reoccupied by u.s. troops, many of whom leave their marks on its walls. garland, every one of these walls, they're covered with etchings. wow. "forsythe, october 1870." amazing. garland, if these walls could talk. imagine. the u.s. cavalry uses the fort until 1873, when its buildings and surrounding lands are abandoned. four years later, garland's great-great grandmother snatches it up. >> they paid $500 gold for a section of land, which at that time was in the upper end of the land prices. >> garland's ancestors used some of the fort buildings for milking sheds, feed and saddle storage, and even houses. >> they overcame a lot of adversities to actually make it a successful ranch. and this has been handed down to us. >> so when do a handful of decaying government buildings become a historic treasure worth preserving? for fort chadbourne, it begins

it knew in honor of con federal flag day and it also flies in january on robert e. lee's birthday. >>> veterans gathered to remember people missing from the war in southeast asia. they're part of the vietnam veterans incorporated group. they have met on the first saturday of every month for the past 28 years. they call out the names of those unaccounted for. they say they started 28 years ago with 65 names and are now down to 39. >>> rail low's mayor will give the state of the city tomorrow. lit take place at the raleigh convention center. it will start at 12:30. the doors open at 11:30. it is free throw and taupe to the public. discusses tomorrow night on cbs north carolina news. >>> still ahead this morning, it is a reunion seven decades in the making. still the to come, we show you how technology reconnected two families. >>> plus, it is not jurassic park, not jurassic world, but dinosaurs are invading raleigh. we'll tell you where you need to head to get this unique experience. >> if you're heading out and about today, you may see sunshine, but you'll have to wa

this is to accept a robert e. lee surrenders and blacks are meeting here for the organization in richmond. in june, they met in norfolk. and typically, you can see at the early conventions, they were trying to convey a message. so they go all the way down to explain what had been happening in syracuse and in albany. at a church, within weeks, they met in alexandria, virginia. there they endorsed the earlier agenda, issued by the syracuse delegations. and they asked that virginia be restored on the basis of universal coverage. they met some blacks from the old slave trading factory and they asked, if we had done this two months before, we would have been hanged. they moved across the river and the met in washington dc. the list went on. and as early as 1862, the african-american community had been divided. fairly prosperous, mixed race, now black slaves. but then they went all the way down to new orleans and counseled the black communities to put aside differences. you had an amazing convention of well-to-do new or

amazing this is to accept a robert e. lee surrenders and blacks are meeting here for the organization in richmond. in june, they met in norfolk. and typically, you can see at the early conventions, they were trying to convey a message. so they go all the way down to explain what had been happening in syracuse and in albany. at a church, within weeks, they met in alexandria, virginia. there they endorsed the earlier agenda, issued by the syracuse delegations. virginia beed that restored on the basis of universal coverage. met some blacks from the old slave trading factory and we had done this two months before, we would have been hanged. they moved across the river and the met in washington dc. the list went on. as early as 1862, the african-american community had been divided. fairly prosperous, mixed race, now black slaves. but then they went all the way down to new orleans and counseled the black communities to put aside differences. you had an amazing convention of well-to-do new orleans people of color who had been bo

. >> when i look back at american history, and i hear about general sherman, grant, robert e. lee, stonewall jackson and going to mcarthur and patton. the generals, american generals are -- have very rich personalities. but when you bring it today, they don't stand out as conspicuously as they did in history. how do you explain that and how does that affect our military? >> you ought to give that a try, professor. >> tough one. >> i'm not sure i understand the that the generals today don't have the same kind of image and the colorful -- >> yes. >> well, the civil war and world war ii, the generals, the two wars that you mentioned the generals were in, were the two biggest wars that this country ever fought. and so they are going to throw to the surface these dominant personalities, but now with brush fire wars and minor wars and nothing anywhere remotely similar to the scale of the civil war or world war ii, you are not going to have these people being thrown to the surface. >> you had iraq that lasted a long time. you had vietnam. >> but iraq, 5,000 or 6,000 american soldiers

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yesterday it flew in honor of the con fed rated flag day and it often flies in january on robert e. lee's birthday. on the capitol grounds to remember people missing from the war in southeast asia. they're part of the north carolina vietnam veterans, incorporated group. they have met on the first saturday of every month for the past 28 years. they call out the names of those unaccounted for. they say they started 28 years ago with 65 names and are now down to 39. >>> raleigh's mayor will give the state of the city tomorrow. it will take place at the raleigh convention center and start at 12:30. the door also open at 11:30. the event is free and open to the public and we'll have more on what was discussed tomorrow night an cbs north carolina news. >>> still to come in this newscast, it is not jurassic park, but the dinosaurs are invading raleigh. we'll tell you where you need to go to head to this unique experience. >>> and outside this morning, we're still locked under some clouds, but we are seeing some breaks in those clouds. sunshine is in your forecast for today. i'll have a [ f

it also flies in january on robert e. lee's birthday. >>> vietnam veterans gathered on the capital grounds to remember people missing from the war in southeast asia. they're part of north carolina vietnam veterans' incorporated. they met on the first saturday of every month for the past 28 years. they call out the names of those unaccounted for. they say they started 28 years ago with 65 names and are now down to 39. >>> raleigh's mayor will give the state of the city tomorrow. it will take place at the it will start at 12:30. the doors open at 11:30. the event is open to the public and is free. we'll have more on what mcfarland discusses tomorrow night on cbs north carolina news. >>> still ahead in this newscast, it is a reunion seven decades in the making. still to come, we'll show you how cooling reconnected two families. >>> plus, it is not jurassic park, but dinosaurs are invading raleigh. we'll tell you where you need to head to get this unique experience. >> and outside this morning, temperatures are pretty close t

robert e. lee is another prominent name that our leaders -- visitors take away from the tour. he purchased whitewash and he purchased lavender as well. lavender was a great remedy for migraines. at the peak of the business, the family was operating out of 11 different buildings in town. this is retail and they also had a retail on the corner of king in fairfax. they loved the history in space. -- the history in this space. they almost had it set up as a museum. they were really into the fact that they had served the community and so many prominent alexandrians throughout their time. through the civil war, it was starting to increase the business and starting to include a wholesale line of products. with the civil war, alexandria was occupied. because the family were quakers, they were pacifists and also abolitionists. they were allowed to keep running a business here in town. after the civil war, the economy in alexandria slowly started to recover. john leadbeater, with the assistance of his son, edward , starts aadbeater wholesale product in three different states, in 500 dif

it's robert e. lee june 1863. you've got to be beat the enemy on their own turf. she wants to avoid that. new york is gettysburg and she wants to get back to her inevitability in the general election. >> my spidey sense says they may be downplaying her chances here so that if she does win even by a little bit, it will look like a big victory. i think candidate clinton, like her husband, they don't like to give up on any state. especially with general election importance. finally, i think obviously margins matter. sanders' huge wins over the weekend, win in new hampshire, they don't want another state where sanders gets not only a w, but a big w. >> i agree. i think they are more confident, actually, than they were even a week ago. i think from what i hear it's close out there. but she can't get beaten by 10 or 12 points by bernie sanders in wisconsin. >> if you take the clinton and sanders folks at their word, they say that this is going to be a sanders state. he's well organized here. the demographics lay out well for him. if you look at the history of who's done

they marched to harper's ferry where they meet lieutenant colonel robert e. lee. you know the story, placed on trial. less than two weeks after his capture in the middle of the 2nd of november, john brown is found guilty. two weeks, by a jury of peers, your peers, not his. found guilty of murder. all of which are potential death penalty crimes. brown has failed, he failed. he came to harper's ferry to commence a war. people in the town were killed, others were killed, people were wounded. brown's army was decimated. it is an abject failure. brown himself believes it is. but i think the interesting thing is that brown did not die at harper's ferry. the sword blade that the marine thrust at hmm did not penetrate the body but bounced off. lieutenant green said it wasn't designed to wound him or put him out of commission for a bit. it was designed to kill him. but when the blade came forward, it apparently struck a breast plate or a belt buckle he was wearing and bounced off his boz di. -- body. john brown would tell you, that was the hand of god. in the courtroom, vi

he says the number of things that do not hold up well and when robert e. lee at the end of the war are proposing the confederacy employed black troops, campbell is completely against it. he is arrested after the lincoln assassination because they think he has a part in it and he is held in jail for months and he comes out very embittered and will make his legal career in new orleans after radical reconstruction begins fighting the reconstruction government. everything he is doing is being done to fort -- thwart the biracial reconstruction of louisiana most that he says things like we have africans in a place all around us and every day, they are bargaining away their duties. he says anything, even violence, is better than the insanity that seems to prevail. host: you wrote the book about justice miller. he is considered one of the court's most important justices. paul: the slaughterhouse cases has such a tremendous impact on the 14th amendment that anyone who issued that opinion will get credit. he is also a force. miller is this burly, john goodman-like c

robert e. lee on the other side, on is slave holders side said famously here comes those damn green flags again. [laughter] and every time they saw it, they knew they were in for a hell of a fight. they preferred to fight up close, just pure savagery. sometimes it was hand-to-hand combat as opposed to fighting long. but marr called sherman an envenomed martinet. [laughter] he had the gift of gab. sometimes it got ahead of him. [laughter] and sherman saw this quote in the newspapers and never forgot about it. sherman later wrote: i have the irish brigade, thank god they can fight. but he couldn't stand the irish at all. one of the things was culture. you have to understand that between battles the irish would stage these massive festivals. while they're at war, they would have steeplechase races, they would have theater, they would have -- they would play their pipes and their fiddles til three in the morning. and, of course, they had a little liquor involved. [laughter] and a massive st. patric

the problem not is that people are losing faith in private robert e. lee. they are being misled by academics who are not doing a good job of being misled by people who are promising them. >> we take our private property rights, our civil rights, the bill of rights for granted. it is there. we have protected them for almost 200 years. not many people are subjected to condemnation. to many people are subjected having our car being pulled over and taken away from them by the police. we are so much into our everyday lives trying to make the system work, and justifiably. maybe we are taking it for granted too much. the time is coming and we had better to -- better wake up. >> the first eminent domain case had, itice institute wasn't the people of new jersey that went in to help them do that, it was the atlantic city city council that donald trump went to and said, will you use your eminent domain's power to take this woman's house. they said, absolutely. it was the judiciary who forced him to back off. it's not the people who are interested in violating each oth

robert e. lee and -- on that day the confederate soldiers who was left wept on this long process