one is by december 1862 robert e lee is robert e lee. he's not just the son-in-law of george washington hospice. if robert e lee had gone into any virginia confederate court and said look, i don't want to go through with this. i shouldn't have to go through with this. i seriously doubt whether any virginia confederate would have stopped him . if he wanted to do due process who was going to stand in the path of generally? the other interesting thing is that lee persists in moving forward with this emancipation. and not in a cusp of slaves but emancipating them one slave family that he did in his own name he is not obliged by the state to emancipate. but in the beginning of 1863, robert e lee is flavorless. and what's more he's badgering jefferson davis. he's saying the confederacy must emancipate its slaves. because otherwise where never going to have any kind of standing in the eyes of the rest of the world. by the spring of 1865 he's advocating the emancipation of an important of slaves for the confederate army. on both terms is easy to

robert lee benefits from that. and benefits from their work and their labor and is one of the custis slaves, his wife has slaves. and they will assist with the children and go on vacation in the slaves go with them. so lee certainly benefits from the slave system even if he doesn't himself have personal title to large numbers of slaves which he doesn't. he says nothing c for years and years not until the 18 fifties when slavery is becoming a crisis issue in american politics but it's interesting that he talks about it at all. because we had learned in his military career not to talk about politics. soldiers who talk about politics are got mixed up in politics usually suffered. and happened in the first of the mentor and with winfield scott. and yet slavery by the 18 fifties and then to start writing about it in a letter to his wife and he comes out to say slavery is a moral evil it should be condemned in any civil society. and then you think it's about time. and then you read on and asim you pointed out, claire, he

one is, by december 1862, robert e lee is robert e lee. he's not just the son-in-law of george washington, robert e lee had gone to any confederate court said i don't want to go through with this, i shouldn't have to go through with this, i seriously doubt whether any bridging effect confederate court would have stopped him. if he wanted to derail the whole process, who would stand up impact of general we? the other interesting thing is that lee persists moving forward with the emancipation. not only emancipate slaves but a slave family he did in his own name which he was not obliged by the custis estate for emancipating. we can have 1863, robert e lee is slave less. what's more, he's battering jefferson davis. he sank the confederacy must emancipate us slaves because otherwise we're never going to have any time standing in the eyes of the rest of the world but spring of 1865, he's advocating emancipation of slaves. the confederate army. on both terms, it's easy to say while he was doing this out of pragmatic reasons, not because he felt m

robert e. lee is the executor of the will. by december of 1862, robert e. lee is robert e. lee. he's not just the son-in-law of george washington. if robert e. lee had gone into any virginia confederate court and said i don't want to go through with this, i shoints have to go through it. i doubt whether any virginia court would have stopped him. if he wanted to derail the whole process, who was going to stand in the path of general lee? lee persists in moving forward. emancipates the one slaifr maem if his own name which he was not obliged by the estate to emancipate. he's advocating the recruitment of slaves for the confederate army. on both terms, it's easy to say that while he was doing this out of pragmatic reasons, not because he felt any kind of moral urgency. i'm sure there was a pragmatic motive at work in lee's thinking that way. after the war is over, he makes no effort to promote construction. he has no interest in seeing black people have vote and seeing them occupy. he's very critical of reconstruction. it's just part of the problem with dealing with robert e. lee.

one is bite somber of 1862, robert e. lee is, robert e. lee. he's not just the son-in-law of george washington custis. if had robert e. lee gone into any virginia confederate court and said there look, i don't really want to go through with this. i shouldn't have to go through this. i seriously doubt whether any for junior confederate court would have stopped him. if he wanted to do real the whole process, who is going to stand in the path of general lee? the other interesting thing is, that lee persists in moving forward with this emancipation. and not only emancipation of the custis, but emancipate's that one slave family that he did own in his own name. which he was not obliged by the custis estate to emancipate. by the beginning of 1863, robert e. lee is slave-less. and what's more, he's badgering jefferson davis. he's saying, the confederacy must emancipate its slaves. because otherwise we're never going to have any kind of standing in the eyes of the rest of the world. by the spring of 1865, he's advocating the emancipation and recruitmen

it's in robert lee's report. the value of it is perceived by robert e. lee. when meade found out sickles was out of position or is attributed to have said the ground sickles was on was neutral ground, the enemy could not occupy it for the same reason his own troops could not. there's the title. it's a nice presentation, huh? you see where i'm going with this? neutral ground. george meade assessed it as neutral ground. so robert e. lee looking at it for artillery. you have dan sickles kind of agreeing with robert e. lee. you have george meade assessing as neutral ground. the question is it logical to consider it as a position and did either general lee or sickles overestimate that? and we'll come back to that. i'm not going to do the battle here and power point. it's very hard to do civil war battles with powerpoint presentations. i think that's why so few people actually do it. we're going to skip ahead. long street attacks the union left flank with vigor. little round top, the wheat field doubles then and eventually sickles and his troops are driven out of t

it's in robert e. lee's report. so there's the value of it as perceived by robert e. lee, while george meade, when meade found out that sickles was out of position, wrote -- or is attributed to have said, the ground that sickles was on was neutral ground, the enemy could not occupy it for the same reason that his own troops could not. there is the title of tonight's presentation, huh? you see where i'm going with this? neutral ground. george meade assessed it as neutral ground. is out of robert e. lee looking at it for artillery, you have sickles agreeing with robert e. lee, you have george meade assessing it as neutral ground. there's the question of, is it logical to consider it as a valuable position and did either general lee or sickles overstatement that. and we'll come back to that. now, i'm not going to do the battle here in powerpoint, it's very hard to do civil war battles with powerpoint presentations, i think that's why so few people actually do it. so we'll skip ahead. you guys know what happens. longstreet attacks the union left flank with great vigor, li

it's in robert lee's report. so there's the value of it is perceived by robert e lee while george mead when mead found out that sickles was out of position wrote or is attributed to have said the ground that sickles. zahn was neutral ground the enemy could not occupy it for the same reason that his own troops could not there's the title that tonight's presentation. you see where i'm going with this neutral ground. george meade assessed that his neutral ground. so you have robert e lee looking at it for artillery. you have dan sickles kind of agreeing with robert e. lee you have george meade assessing it as neutral ground. so there's the question of is it logical to considerate is a valuable position and then did either general lee or sickles, you know overestimate that and we'll come back to that. now i'm not going to do the battle here in powerpoint. you know, it's very hard to do civil war battles with powerpoint presentations. i think that's why so few people actually do it. so we're gonna skip ahead you guys

then i said lincoln, grant, robert e lee. i saw a lot of nodding their i said look, you may not know who these guys are, you may not know any details of their life for when i said their name, and image brought into your head and attached to it whether historically right or wrong, some characteristics. that's the influence i'm talking about that permeates to the levels of the uninitiated. they're going to have an opinion in their minds i about important figures of the war and i want to emphasize everything i am talking about pertains to those campaigns, those times that transcended themselves and become almost symbols of things. the battle of trudeau's elbow probably would make it but gettysburg, sherman's march, appomattox, i think they all fall into those categories. i think in many of those cases, influencers help fill in memory blanks on the veterans who try that. i've made some changes in the morning and i have arrows here and arrows there. look, there's another force that helped shape them. there is a process that happen

then on the civil war to programs on robert e lee at 3:00 p.m. easter caroline director of the university of virginia center for civil war history discusses her book and the war the unfinished fight of lee's army after appomattox which examines military and political uncertainty in the weeks following the end of the civil war. at 4:10 p.m. eastern "new york times" columnist alan with his book robert e lee, the confederate general's life is detailed from refined upbringing and virginia's high society and long career in the u.s. army through his experiences during and after the civil war. exploring the american story watch american history tv, saturday on cspan2. >> next a hearing on domestic terrorism with homeland security and fbi officials. witnesses addressed several topics including the rise of white supremacy, civil rights and the role of social media. they outline the agency's efforts to combat these issues before the house intelligence committee. this is about an hour and a half.

. >> robert e. lee. >> robert e. lee, a number of the generals that he ended up fighting against. that's where the interesting intersections between all of these guys and these battles because they have fought with each other before. and so he had these established relationships. at grant's funeral, to show you how well respected he was across the land, a million people show up and line the streets and they bring out their old uniforms. and they line the streets of new york city. and his pallbearers are two union generals and two confederate generals at the ends of his life. and that's the relationships they had that went back all the way to the mexican-american war. >> lincoln wasn't envious, but he looked over his shoulder at some point and saw grant and thought, oh, my gosh, this guy might run for president against me, right? >> yeah, he did. grant, he thought that he was that popular and he was that popular. with the american people. but grant never had that aspiration. he really didn't want to run for political office. he was asked all the time to run for president. he said t

i have a lot of thoughts of robert e. lee. i may write a book one day saying robert ely was not wrong. and then to have a reason for doing it. that may not have worked. that may not have been successful maybe not the best choice. that he had a reason but he didn't just do because he felt like at that because it made sense and i think that is something we read a lot sometimes it is just a simple explanation that i thought that word work i teach at kennesaw why did sherman attack there? because if you punch your way through you can and the campaign quicker and by the way with grant and his boss and friends bogged down in virginia he punches his way through it looks like he is successful when the other guy is not. isn't that fine when you can rather than their face and say i got this done? what you still doing up there? i heard on tv the other day rather the radio and joan said when so much calvary came, porch joe stoneman can't catch a break. [laughter] so much calvary. no. that is not the original says. somebody asked me at the

so you have robert e. lee, you have dan cycles agreeing with robert italy. you have george meade assessing it as neutral ground. so it's the question of, is it logical to considerate, in a valuable position. and either lee or cycles, did they overestimate that? we will come back to that. >> i'm not going to do the battle here on powerpoint. it's hard to do. civil war battles on powerpoint. so few people actually do it. we are going to skip ahead. you guys know what happens. longstreet attaches attacks west point with great vigor. that wheat fields. the troops are driven out of the peach orchard. but as far as the orchard go, is one of the things that was best that could have happened to diane sickles was this. [laughs] because the artillery cells solid shot, goes into sickles'right leg and he is carried off the battlefield. and icicles is then removed from the battlefield. and this is the rest of the campaign. but he goes back to washington to recuperate. and on july 5th, they are recuperating washington, with his first visit. lincoln. and lincoln is despera

lee at 3:00 p.m. eastern. the director of the university of virginia and examining local uncertainty following the end of the civil war. and robert the general, a confederate life. his long career in the army and exploring american history tv on c-span2. >> house democrats have released the final details of their social spending plan after weeks of negotiation. you can read the more than 2000 page bill on c-span.org by clicking on the congressional chronicle link. camilla spoke to reporters about the legislation and responded to critics who accuse the democrats of losing races in the 2021 election, failing to move forward with the bipartisan of a structure built. >> you know, i think that there is no way that you can say that a 12-point swing in this date is due to congress not passing a bill, and it has to do with education and parents and i think what we have to

lee statue. now for many in a community still haunted by the summer of hate, the civil trial may bring some semblance of peace. >> the wounds of what happened have not been healed. there are people who will never be the same again. >> reporter: heather heyer's mom says she will never be the same. >> anyone who has had a child murdered can tell you it's gut wrenching. i'm not going to let her life and death be in vain. >> reporter: she too believes that grappling with one's history, as painful as that may be, is key to beginning the healing. >> almost no one in my generation, and i just turned 65, knows much about the racial history of our country. we never admit what we have done in the past. if we never -- and i mean we as a country, if we never acknowledge history, then we can't heal from it. >> how would you want heather to be remembered? >> i would like people to stop putting her on a pedestal. she was a normal 32-year-old person, a little on the wild and woolly side, frankly. the lesson of h

. >> when he stands up for robert e lee, stand up for robert e lee, i will be really impressed. i appreciate it as always. the ingraham angle brought an investigation about dozens of vets being left by outside a va hospital, one of the most exclusive enclaves. we have an important update. (tiger) this is the dimension of imagination. ♪ ♪ team a few weeks ago this show exposed how dozens of vets removing intents outside the veterans administration. raymond arroyo visited the site. what he found was shocking. >> a unique homeless in camp and, tents are emblazoned with american flag. it is a camp made up entirely of veterans. they run it like a military outpost complete with chores and drop off locations but these vets are fighting a new battle. welcome to veterans grow. in 1887 this 388 acres was donated to the federal government to house disabled veterans in the art of brentwood. during the korean war, 4000 that's call this place home but since then it hosted a parent park, ucla baseball diamonds, even a dog park. today the veterans can't get in. they are out here on the stre

as father served in the revolution in the calvary with henry lee, who is the father of robert e. lee so they served together in the and when johnston joined the confederacy and fought in civil war, he carried his father's sword the revolution with him. have fun without one. i'll wrap it up at this point and if doug and chris will join me for trying to answer any questions you have, thank you for the chance to speak about this. [applause] [applause] >> all take questions from the floor. [inaudible]. [inaudible]. >> i would say yes in terms of army organization and administration and logistics and things like that maybe unnecessarily battlefield creativity's and leadership. >> i would agree with that, the only battles of really studied with him, he did not do a good job of communicating or coordinating or of following up and i can't say that was always the case with him but that was the case with the study and however he was very intelligent man. a good organizer. >> getting along with people, and he is not with davis obviously in treat him like a violin. [inaudible]. he trying to

number three, pope to attack critical rail line communications in charlottesville forced robert e lee to send enforcement away from the confederate capitol and mcclellan can hopefully turn the tide of campaign on the virginia peninsula. these challenges, all of these things pope is fighting against again to change him and they way on head. what a great reputation he has, we'll say this about popes challenges, how do they expect with an inferior force, with jackson? give me and my division with pope and popes army, i would breathe again. several days into the campaign, popes men are defeated at the magic and defended at cedar mountain and pulling back from that battlefield surrender the initiative to robert e lee. lee will see is that immediately and begin to capitalize on all that it will provide him. the second manassas campaign continues to unfold, row and the army of virginia plummets brother, many men feel they are needlessly sacrificed after the defeat of cedar mountain, they are not be supported. ... >> by the middle of the month of august hope is beginning to learn that these o

why eiesenhower have a port trait of robert lee in the office? what is george floyd did not resist arrest. if rittenhouse doesn't deserve the right to self-defense who does. they stay inside their own cocoon. no tough questions and no critical thinking. just ranting. >> to make a hero of rittenhouse is appalling. >> you won't be spared. the victims of kyle rittenhouse were white. >> an acquittal cheered by the far right. even as it strikes fear in the hearts of communities of color. >> laura: all of this was unfair and untrue. he is not only not a racist. the only thing that kyle rittenhouse seemed biassed against are riots. >> i am not a racist person. i support the blm movement and support peacefully demtrating. i believe there needs to be change. there is a lot of prosecutorial misconduct not just in my case but other cases. it's amazing to see -- how much a prosecutor can take advantage of somebody. imagine in they did this to me what they would do to a person of color who doesn't have the resources or was not publicized like my case. >> laur

when that proclamation comes out, with robert e. lee labelling pope as miscreant. many will argue that pope's command becomes lee's objective. lee may have had other plans for the summer of 1862, but upon that, pope is lee's primary objective. we'll get this miscreant out of virginia and then we'll deal with this. [ applause ] thank you. >>> weekends on c-span 2 are an intellectual feed. every saturday, american history tv documents america's story. and on sunday, book tv brings you the latest in nonfiction books and authors. funding comes from these television companies and more, including media com. >> the world changed in an instant. the media comwas ready. internet traffic soared and we never slowed down. schools and businesses went virtual and we powered a new reality. because we're built to keep you ahead. >> media com, along with these television companies supports c-span 2 as a public service. >>> how did the suffragests win the vote? in a virtual discussion with the u.s. capitol historical society, lucinda rob and roberts, heirs of two prominent political

eastern, "new york times" columnist allen gelzer with his book, robert e. lee, the life. details from a refined upbringing in virginia's high society and long career in the u.s. army, through his experiences during and after the civil war. exploring the american story, watch american history tv saturday on c-span2. >> get c-span on the go. watch the day's biggest political events live or on demand anytime, anywhere. on our new mobile video app. c-span now, access top highlights, listen to c-span radio, and discover now podcasts all for free. download c-span now today. >> the u.s. supreme court heard oral arguments in the united states v.zubida, a case on the state secrets privilege and torture at various cia black sites. under the state secrets privilege, the federal government can restrict access to information and legal

two programs on robert e lee. 3:00 eastern care carolina jen discusses her book. examines military and political uncertainty in the weeks following the end of the civil war. and 4:10 p.m. eastern, "new york times" columnist with his book robert e. lee, a life, the confederate general's life is detailed from refined up bringing in virginia's high society and long career in the u.s. army through his experiences during and after the civil war. exploring the american story. watch american history tv, saturday on c-span2. >> the u.s. supreme court heard oral arguments in united states v. --. of a man accused of being an al qaeda anotherive. under the state secrets privilege federal government can restrict access if it is believed disclosure will be a threat to national security. -- through june of 2022 to issue a ruling in this case

in the shadow that whitehorse very cast over the lee name, was one that robert strong hold to redeem. hence that broad streak of perfectionism in his behavior robert also yard to have his father's reputation another ways, he wanted independence and he wanted to be his own man. and one since his marriage it to mary custis was an attempt to stoke out around himself and he also yard for security. thirty his father had denied him and so well most of these consumers •-ellipsis west point but the army as they had receded their taxpayer provided college degree i could resign and go into private engineering practice are some of the profession, lee stays with the army as the one certain profession and paycheck that he could count on. a huge factor in this pursuit of independence security and perfection, was arlington and it was as much to protect arlington for his family as it was for virginia could just resigned commission and refuse the offer of command. that's not the only factor predict the other factor lease decision if was the expectation that there would be no war after all. hard as i

alan has his book, robert e. lee, it is about his long career in the u.s. army during and after his experiences in the civil war. >> watchdog and business groups testified about online marketplace fraud including the rise of organized retail crime. the senate judiciary committee held a hearing. it is about 1.5 hours.

e lee, i noticed stonewall jackson is coming down. i resent george washington next week? is a thomas jefferson the week after? you have to ask yourself where does it stop, we going to take down statues to george washington? how about thomas jefferson, what do you think of thomas jefferson you like him? we take down the statue? he was a major slaveowner. >> trump was right, we will say that a lot i'm sure. >> we will indeed. we sought unfolding once again in northern california, san francisco school board focusing on changing names of schools that honored abraham lincoln and george washington. americans are seeing this, we're seeing this unfold in the polls but what this headset is the nature and part of what it means to be american. because the the nation built on an idea represented by the founders you've got to erase the nation's heroes and then you can erase the reason for the nation to exist. this is classic, you see these people universities sitting around a table talking about this, the state of nature, they want us to revert to

the civil war to programs and robert e lee, director of university virginia under for civil war history discussing her book and of war. unfinished fight. it examines portable uncertainty weeks following the end of the civil war new york times columnist, alec with his book, robert e lee, the confederate generals life in detail from refined up bringing in virginia's highest his society. his career in the u.s. army in his leadership defining the confederate cause during the civil war. watch american history tv every weekend. find a full schedule on your program guide or watch on time online anytime see standout work. ♪♪ >> c-span on the go, watch the days political event live or on-demand anytime, anywhere on our new video app. c-span now. access top stories. all free. download c-span now today. ♪♪ >> sunday on in-depth, with conversation with author and new york times columnist off on republic and politics and conservatism in america. recently released book, deep places talking about its five-year struggle with mime disease. other titles include the decadent society, privileged ba

lee and justin davis and i was watching the statutes and down from lifestream and maryland and thought about what event that i grew up in a majority black city in which they work more always to the slave slavers in the same two people. and means i had to go down the boulevard to get to the grocery store and i had to go down jefferson davis boulevard. my middle school was named after them and my parents lived on the street because of the things we knew, the names and economic so they were just symbols and reflective of the stories that people tell. in the stories shape the narrative the narratives shape the policies and the policy shapes and materials and conditions in people's lives in this not to say that taking down and all statute of robert e. lee are making federal holidays going to suddenly wake you up, but it is to say that all of these things are part of an ecosystem of stories and ideas and narratives that help shape how we understand what is happening over the course of american history and what sort of decisions we need to make in order to make amends to the harm that is been

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>> zachary taylor, robert e. lee a number of the confederate generals at the audience of fighting against. that's where the interesting intersections between all of these guys and battles because they have fought with each other before and so they have these established relationships. i will jump forward again. it grants funeral just to show you how well respected he was across the land a million people show up in new york city and lined the streets and they bring out their old uniforms the union and confederate uniforms and they lined the streets of new york city. his pallbearers are to union generals into confederate generals. at the end of his life and that's the relationships they have that went back all the way to the mexican-american war. >> in the book you cover the fact that lincoln wasn't envious but he looked over his shoulder at some point and saw grant and said oh my gosh this guide may run for president against may, right? >> yeah you did but grant thought he was that popularity was that popular with

lee statue. one woman died after a self-proclaimed hitler supporter drove into a crowd. >> we are beyond thrilled with this result for our clients today. >> this verdict today is a message that this country does not tolerate violence based on racial andel are religious hatred in any form. >> both attorneys for the plaintiffs announced that they would retry the federal conspiracy charges. >>> and overnight, nasa launched a spacecraft to test a plan to save earth from a possible asteroid disaster. >> three, two, one, zero, ignition, liftoff. falcon 9 with a dart mission -- >> the spacecraft lifted off on top of a spacex rocket from a base in california. it's scheduled to crash head on into a small asteroid at 15,000 miles per hour next fall. the mission will explore whether slamming a spacecraft into an asteroid can nudge it into a different direction and prevent a potential doomsday collision with earth. >>> a missouri man who spent more than 40 years in prison for a crime he did not commit is now

he's discuss his newest book, robert e lee, a biography of the figure that a lot of us think we might know but might uncover new and interesting insight in the book. as i said earlier, if you haven't purchased your copy, it was just published yesterday to congratulations, allen, we're excited to have you day after publication day. you could purchase a copy from atlanta history centers museu

lee's action when he heard of virginia's decision. it is one of the more poignant chapters in freeman's biography. freeman describes how he underwent an agonizing trial where he had to choose between his state and his country but according to freeman he stayed up all night pacing back and forth in an upstairs bedroom wracked by doubt unable to decide where his duty lay. his wife downstairs listening to those footsteps back and forth across the hardwood floor and in the morning he came down to tell her that he had decided to resign his commission and seek service with virginia. freeman's chapter on this episode is entitled the decision he was born to make. fair get decision was the one he was born to make to pray but for him there was no agonizing no midnight pacing back and forth and no uncertainty. the moment he heard virginia would seem disloyal, he was an american first. the moment virginia abandoned the union he abandoned virginia. and yet despite that there was some uncertainty in washington about his loyalty and frankly about hi