stonewall jackson gives john pelham permission to go anywhere advantageous on the field. jackson telling him he can go anywhere he wants on the battlefield is a little surprising. and we see this rising trust that jackson places in pelham and on the screen there is a quote of jackson's. and he says if i had a pelham on each flank i, could win the world. so it's how much admiration jackson has for this young artillery commander. but the battle of sharks berg -- i'm not sure if it's going to be clear on the map but we will try to make it work here and you will see stewart's name out there. and then the symbol for a few cannons. those are going to be under the command of pelham. and steward oversees the command of the battle days. but their first position is going to be at the confederates left wing at -- heights. at the battle unfolds and begins shifting tele-moves his cannon and this is not just a cannon of the horse artillery, these are other batteries that he is commanding from jackson score and they are going to move to the heights and not so effective and then they are

my dad was born in stonewall jackson's house when it was a civil war hospital. massive civil war buff, as we're approaching this examines of the lost cause and see him as a person rather than of a hero to be venerated or a devil to be condemned as we start to figure out who the man is, how can i introduce my dad to a more modern approach to the civil war that he might be receptive to? >> first of all, reflect on yourself and your own experience. all of us are the products of many times, places and things that we have p met. we are, all of us, the confluence of many streams. not all of which come at the same time or with the same power or even with the same message. we deal with those ourselves. we deal with complexity ourselves. that's simply in the nature of human beings. there's noo such thing as a simple human being. and as soon as we realize that, then we begin to understand that the people that we look at in history are not in that respect different from us. they too the are the confluence of streams. they are part of all that they have met. and when we und

when thomas jonathan jackson who is not yet stonewalled jackson from when he takes his troops across the river to occupy the maryland heights across harpers ferry, he isn't back because they shouldn't provoke anything. the expectations are going to work this out with cap this disruption and secession but after the hotheads regained some wholeness, we want to get together and there's going to be reconstruction and that's the first time reconstruction get used. the convention of the state and everything will be peaceful again and we'll work this all out. that doesn't happen. he's actually writing about maybe i should resign. maybe i should just give us up and tried to go back to being neutral. by then, it was much too late. federal forces already occupied arlington and you might say dying the past. but lee is surprisingly reluctant confederate mary chestnut diary, she puts on people talking to her saying we can't trust robert e lee, he's not with us. robert e lee will be tried as a traitor to the confederacy. to confirm that, that's an 1861. february 1865 when lee proposes the emancipa

when thomas jonathan jackson, who was not yet stonewall jackson, when thomas jonathan jackson takes his troops across the potomac river to occupy the maryland heights across from harpers ferry, lee orders him back. he says we should not provoke anything. lee's expectation was we're going to work this out. we've had this disruption, we've had this succession, but you know what? after the hot heads have regained some coolness, there's going to be a reconstruction. that's by the way, the first time reconstruction the word gets used. we're going to have a reconstruction of the states and where everything is going to be peaceful again. we're going to work this all out. that doesn't happen. it all gallops away from lee. a month after going to richmond, he's actually writing about maybe i should resign. maybe i should just give this up and just try to go back to being neutral. well, by that point, it was much too late. federal forces had already occupied arlington. you might see the die had been cast. but lee curiously enough, lee is a surprisingly reluctant confederate. and at one other point

when thomas jonathan jackson who is not yet stonewall jackson, when thomas jonathan jackson takes his troops across the potomac river to occupy the maryland heights, he orders them back. because he says we should not provoke anything. lee's expectation was we are going to work this out. we've had this disruption, we've had the secession but after the hotheads have regained some coolness we're all going to get together and there'sgoing to be reconstruction . thus that's the first time the word reconstruction gets used but we're going to work this out. that doesn't happen. it's all gallops away from lee. at richmond he's writing about maybe i should resign. maybe i should give this up and try to go back to being neutral. well, by that point it was much too late. federal forces had occupied arlington and you might say the die is cast but lee is surprisingly reluctant confederate. and that once one other point in mary chestnut's diary, people are talking to her coming to her and saying we can't trust robert e lee. robert lee is not with us c. robert lee will be triedas a traitor to the co

general thomas jonathan jackson. stonewall jackson has a passion for artillery. he really likes it when he sees artillery well handled. the battle of gaines mill pelham comes in with two cannons on the left of jackson's line. one gun drakes according to reports so it could have been caused in battle. things are going on with this one gun. pelham dismounts and helps to fight the remaining cannons that are out there. he brought to field batteries to a hault. jackson saw that and was very impressed. jackson said three more batteries over to the position to help pelham asked who he is and insists upon meeting came after the battle. pelham is mentioned in stuart in jackson's battlefield report and he goes on to some other feeds in the peninsula campaign including battling near white house landing firing on mcclellan's army. the peninsular campaign of seven day battle as a testing ground for pelham. how does he and his battery fit into the calvary and into the rest of his army and what are some tactics and what are some things that work with his guns on these battlefie

. >> this week it is robert 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

and this is general thomas jonathan jackson who has the nickname stonewall. now stonewall jacks has a passion for artillery and he likes it when he sees it well handled a. the bat of gains mill, pelham comes in on the left of jackson's line, and one gun break as cording to reports so it could have been caused in battle or wheels falling off, things are going on with this one gun. pelham dismounted and he helps to fire the remaining cannon that is out there. he duals to full batteries to a halt. jackson is seeing this and very impressed. jackson sends three more batteries over to his position to help pelham, asked who he is and insists upon meeting him after the battle. pelham is mentioned in both stuart and jackson's battle reports and he goes on to some other feats in the peninsula came in seven days battle including battling gun boats near white house landing filing on the army from the heights. the campaign and seven days battle is a testing ground for pelham. how does he and the battery fit into the calvary and the rest and what are sp tactics and work wi

when he has chief lieutenants who are really up to the job, people like stonewall jackson, like james longstreet then he's able to preside over a series of successes. other times when jackson is dead, when longstreet is seriously wounded at the wilderness, lee has to take charge himself on the tactical level. it's very clear he's not comfortable doing that. he can do it but he's not comfortable doing it. in terms of setting out the moral parameters of his army, that's even further remote. his vision of himself as a commander is responsible goes on at the very top. if officers are running down and capturing free black people in pennsylvania and tieing them up and sending them off to be sold in the richmond slave markets, that's not his responsibility. not the wap he sees it. that's something that occurs where he does not exercise responsibility. what robert e. lee does is he looks at things and he looks away. in his mind, it was not a contradiction. that was not his fear of responsibility. >> it's intriguing. he's so adamant about look at the conduct of these troops. >> right. the cond