he bore mcdowell did the on the present weight of defeat at manassas at first manassas four years with stoicism and endurance. john said. well, i you and an army artillery men encountered mcdowell in san francisco. in 1866 after the war, and he recorded that boys on the street as mcdowell passed, would shoot at him yelling, bull, run, bull run! just to torment him. um, ted ball wrote of a despair ring clumsy man. citizens laugh at him all because he strains too hard to be popular. and while he makes one doubt for friend, he creates a dozen enemies. now, one virtue of mcdowell that's interesting is that he accepted a reduced command. in fact, name for me. and the only commander of what would be the army of the potomac that didn't serve in a reduced command after the removal from command, burnside did write. harker did. he served in the western theater as a corps commander, the only one who did not was george burnham mcclellan, which is interesting. now, despite the defeat at first, bull run mcdowell clung to the greased pole command with dutiful devotion, a modest, impolitic demeanor. t

he bore mcdowell did the on the present weight of defeat at manassas at first manassas four years with stoicism and endurance. john said. well, i you and an army artillery men encountered mcdowell in san francisco. in 1866 after the war, and he recorded that boys on the street as mcdowell passed, would shoot at him yelling, bull, run, bull run! just to torment him. um, ted ball wrote of a despair ring clumsy man. citizens laugh at him all because he strains too hard to be popular. and while he makes one doubt for friend, he creates a dozen enemies. now, one virtue of mcdowell that's interesting is that he accepted a reduced command. in fact, name for me. and the only commander of what would be the army of the potomac that didn't serve in a reduced command after the removal from command, burnside did write. harker did. he served in the western theater as a corps commander, the only one who did not was george burnham mcclellan, which is interesting. now, despite the defeat at first, bull run mcdowell clung to the greased pole command with dutiful devotion, a modest, impolic demear. that

at second manassas. and so the smoke's men for the war department -- and eminently useful patriotic, and distinguished career nearly half a century into the service of his country. we titled the program today the reluctant rise and the unavoidable fall of john pope. this ambitious man of 1861 in 1862, flat out told lincoln and statin, this is not the command for me, this is not a command that my abilities can do. this is not the command that can carry out the objectives you want to give. and yet, he was forced to. he did the best he could with it, he clearly made mistakes during the second manassas campaign, and became practically unraveled during the battle itself. but his fall from grace was not as far as the historiography would tell you. upon popstar, the editors of the army and navy journal perhaps summed up his contributions, trying to restore his reputation of that fall -- and that's how will close our program this evening. they wrote quote, military critics may dispute as to general pope's capaci

at second manassas. and so the smoke's men for the war department -- and eminently useful patriotic, and distinguished career nearly half a century into the service of his country. we titled the program today the reluctant rise and the unavoidable fall of john pope. this ambitious man of 1861 in 1862, flat out told lincoln and statin, this is not the command for me, this is not a command that my abilities can do. this is not the command that can carry out the objectives you want to give. and yet, he was forced to. he did the best he could with it, he clearly made mistakes during the second manassas campaign, and became practically unraveled during the battle itself. but his fall from grace was not as far as the historiography would tell you. upon popstar, the editors of the army and navy journal perhaps summed up his contributions, trying to restore his reputation of that fall -- and that's how we will close our program this evening. they wrote quote, military critics may dispute as to general pope's cap

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 objectives are set upon pressing his army and he began to make that series of decisions that are going to be to what will happen at the end of the month. but by the second to the last week of august, john pope starts make mistakes but he said pretty well in this campaigns of our other areas held at cedar mountain and he is holding some of the strategies and some of the campaign objectives that houston gave him but by august 25th of 26, he has gone completely off the rails and the stress of this command and the stress of the objectives, all that subject that we talked about is weighing on him heavily. john pope is uncertain about lee's intention no reinforcements about how he's been promising for the last two weeks and they have arrived is receiving no specific order from washington or him telling him wh

it's centreville and near manassas, where the battle of second manassas was fought. washington is where all these union are all gathered within the fortified nations. so lee has some options available to them. he has the initiative. well, he's got three essential options that i see first option. he can invest washington, d.c., but besiege the city. he's not going to be able to besiege. so he can't cut the entire city off. but he can try to invest part of it. what's the good thing on? it it maintains the pressure upon lincoln, the federal army. well, when you've got an army outside, your gates. that's pressure. what's the what's the downside? negative. his men can't eat no supplies in northern virginia. no, no means of getting supplies. that isn't going to work. second option, withdraw to warrenton and reassess your supply line. your army is very poorly. re-equip your army. resupply your army. bring up some of the convalescing wounded, sick men that are in richmond and your army will be bigger safe move. it's a safe move. negative surrender the initiative, the enemy.

it's centreville and near manassas, where the battle of second manassas was fought. washington is where all ese union are all gathered within the fortified nations. so lee has some options available to them. he has the initiative. well, he's got three essential options that i see first option. he can invest washington, d.c., but besiege the city. he's not going to be able to besiege. so he can't cut the entire city off. but he can try to invest part of it. what's the good thing on? it it maintains the pressure upon lincoln, the federal army. well, when you've got an army outside, your gates. that's pressure. what's the what's the downside? negative. his men can't eat no supplies in northern virginia. no, no means of getting supplies. that isn't going to work. second option, withdraw to warrenton and reassess your supply line. your army is very poorly. re-equip your army. resupply your army. bring up some of the convalescing wounded, sick men that are in richmond and your army will be bigger safe move. it's a safe move. negative surrender the initiative, the enemy. if

pelham does move around a little bit on the manassas battlefield. he moves his guns forward into an exposed position and so exposed a fellow officer remarked is pelham fool enough to stay there? i am not. pelham's actions are noted that the battle of manassas but he also starts to have a small change of heart or a change of perception about this war. he writes a letter to his father which unfortunate was in the local alabama newspaper making it one of the few war letters that pelham wrote to survive in one form or another. want to share an excerpt from it. he writes i have seen what romancer's call glorious war. i've seen it. i've heard the booming of the canon and the deadly red love musketry at a distance. i heard it all nearby. i've seen men and horses pulsate and flat around me. i've seen her own men bloodied and frightened crying different enemy. seen them bravely charged the enemy line and heard the shout of triumph. i've heard the agonizing shrieks of the wounded and dying. i've passed over the battlefield and seen the mangled forms of men an

second manassas and also and grateful for the opportunity to share space with some people that i have admired greatly over the years. i miss geoffrey wirt because of illness. but eric wittenberg is here and eric knows more about the civil war cavalry than the civil cavalry knew about itself. and i'm i'm also happy to be able to make acquaintance of two others. scott and. and i can't even read my own right. scott patchen and kevin pollack got it right. so it's just it's just great to be here and to be sharing space with all of you to talk about the story of fitz john porter the american civil war was a political war. now, that shouldn't matter hugely to those of us who study the art of command in the war, because it is one of the basic tenets of american system of governance that the military remains in strict subordination to civilian authority and soldiers lead apolitical lives, uniform military leaders who have forgotten the strictness of that subordination have from andrew jackson to stanley mcchrystal been reminded of it some very unpleasant ways. but the american civil war was di

gainesville in my lifelong home, manassas, in the 13th district of virginia, house delegates elected 2017 reelected, 2019 2021, running for state senate next year. and i, like i said, because it's lifelong manassas i'm born and raised prince william hospital, september 30th, 1984. cheryl sadly wrote and long story short with it, is my childhood is a series of overcoming a lot of traumatic events and other things and at the same time having, you know, the best italian food on sunday nights of my mom's cooking. and if you know anything about italian family argument is communication and i like to make that point pretty clear in my book as well and. you know, the thing is, in my case, my upbringing in any way, even though the way that you would stand is like, hey, look, you live out in the woods and in the burbs, right? you know, like this, you know, this, you know, in a white middle class family. but you know what's going to stand out so much? it's like, well, you know, my dad killed himself when i was three years old. so in my earliest childhood memories is running next door after you

at the battle of second manassas, again, 1862, something rather remarkable happens. 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 jacks

particularly the troops that have been in the second manassas campaign. these guys have no regular food. their uniforms and closing are beginning to fall apart because they had no resupply of clothing. they are beyond the supply line. the only troops that are well supplied our troops that come up from richmond. and reinforce lee after second manassas. the armies in russia. lea knows that. drc pander writes the following, abrogate commander, he writes the following about the man in his brigade during the harpers ferry operation. my dear such a filthy and an principled set of villains i have never seen. they have lost of honor or decency, all sense right or respect for property. i've had to strike many of man with my saber. the officers are often as bad as the man. in one of my regiments, the other day, they thought they were going to go into a fight, six out of ten officers sculpt out and not come up until they thought all danger over. more than half my brigade went off that day. he is describing an army that is in rough shape! right below that, dr. lewis

while at manassas, a lady named constance -- designed a new battle flag for the armies. being the senior major general in the confederate service, and her family also being from mississippi, she sent one of the originals to earl van doren. with a request to liberate her hometown of alexandria virginia. here's a note for you. these flags run for all the troops of the grand ceremony on november 20th, 1861. and the reason i put this slide up here and told you the story is this is one of the few paintings i've ever found that has van dorn in it. and that's not gentlemen right here. right here. you can't really see him but this is -- i believe that j. w. smith. i believe that maybe johnson, right here. i always liked -- he was always one of my favorites. as the new year 62 turned over, van doren reached a new assignment out west. all those confederate forces have been driven out of missouri, they have rallied in arkansas. their true principle commanders -- could not get along. jeff davis sends earl van dorn to unite the two forces. so, this will set up the battle of p ridge.

antietam, second manassas. they've been through enough of that. yet, meade no sooner got to frederick on the 8th of july then-general hal accent him a message from the president. the presidents congratulating general grant on the surrender of vicksburg and then says, now if meade can finish the glorious work he had accomplished thus far, by the literal or substantial destruction of volleys army, the war will be over. the literal or substantial destruction of belize army? do you destroy leads army, an army that sophisticated? no. no. meade must have read that dispatch with some dismay. the bar of success was no way up here. on the night of the 13th of july, lee evacuated those trenches. he had built a pontoon bridge across the potomac and falling waters. took 68 hours to build an 800 foot span of bridges. and got that army across the potomac. absolutely remarkable story to be -- what is lincoln say? meade had only to stretch out his hands and they were hours. a golden opportunity, he said, of destroying a lease army was squandered. meade wanted to

while at manassas, a lady named constance kerry designed a new battle flag for the armies. being the senior major general in the confederate service, and her family also being from mississippi, she sent one of the originals to earl van dorn. with a request to liberate her hometown of alexandria virginia. here's a note for you. these flags run for all the troops of the grand ceremony on november 20th, 1861. and the reason i put this slide up here and told you the st this is one of the few paintings i've ever that has van doit. and that's not gentlemen right here. right here. you can't really see him but this is -- i believe that j. w. smith. i believe that maybe johnson, right here. i always liked troy janni, he was always one of my favorites. as the new year 62 turned over, van dorn reached a new assignment out west. all those confederate forces have been driven out of missouri, they have rallied in arkansas. their true principle commanders -- could not get along. jeff davis sends earl van dorn to unite the two forces. so, this will set up the battle of p ridge. thank you v

that poor army from the peninsula campaign in june of in july of 1862 to second, manassas to antietam to fredericksburg and to chancellorsville had not won an engagement against that enemy of theirs in any of those. nothing and yet the casualties in those campaigns continued to climb. he mcclellan lost some 16,000 on the peninsula. there were at least 16,000 casualties in the army of the potomac alone at fredericksburg and a similar number in chancellorsville. and as we all know by march the lincoln administration and congress managed to get through a draft why because who would want to join the army? nobody it has been nothing but a slaughterhouse. and there's been nothing gained. and so on the eve of gettysburg the white house was concerned about riots breaking out in the streets. and then suddenly a victory is given to them in the largest land engagement ever fought on the north american continent. and yet and yet after that. what happens? george meade is accused of not following the enemy. george meads accused of not having the moral courage to make decisions himself. george meade

his understanding of glory changes at manassas and perhaps at other points in the war. he believes in the southern reasons for fighting and his life gives a perfect pattern for the ideal young confederate officer. and what could missing could be easily added as the decades past. as i started researching in 2019, the life -- and have been thinking through archives, old fiction books backed by mid, and strange techniques ever since, when i started, i had no idea how many rabbit trails and how much controversy i would find. and i'm still piecing things together for a book in the "emerging civil war" civil war series. now that that pandemic restrictions may be easing, i will hopefully be able to finish the archive readings and complete the manuscript sooner rather than later. one of the challenges i've given myself with this project is to separate the life from the legend. they crossed that points and even during his life, but he -- who was he? why did he make the decisions he made? what did the primary sources during his life say? and how did this affect hold up to the wri

manassas is a historic park. i don't like government overreach. the part where i would step in is because the watershed feeds 2 million people in loudoun county, prince william county and fairfax county as well. the watershed feeds for bellmore, which houses the defensively to six agency, the defense reduction agency, and the university antisocial branch of jsoc. the water affect that base. camp lejeune, we saw the effects of water on those families. recently in hawaii. i don't think the deity will stand by to allow the watershed -- dod will stand by to allow the watershed to affect fort bellmore. dr. farnsworth: next question goes to candidate cao. what is your position on extending the washington subway system metro into prince william county? mr. cao: sir, i used two measure all the time when i worked at the pentagon. it's a great way to get commuters out there for -- with very little impact on the environment. the problem is we extended the railway all the way to ashburn. it's been sitting there for about three years empty. as a federal legisl

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was only a few points separating the 2 candidates pollsters. eyes are on the southern state of manassas and ice as our latin america editor alysia newman reports. it could be voters there who decide a highly competitive race. the capital of minas jed ice doesn't stop moving to the sound of campaigning. this is preserves more significant battle ground state where left is candid lula. the cba has a very slim lead barbara vin at once. the incumbent president jane also now don't out of office and she's appealing to women who make up more than half the voters. amazon. if i want to be bull scenario is a massage dentist and sexist man, he'd made offensive comments to female journalists to women. he said that women should earn less because they get pregnant. so if bull sanara wins, women lose anomaly. i'm basically preaching to the converted way why lives here most americans, why ms. c nearby, so going to women and the desire to move it, they want to make their presence and to throw their strength. cleanest good ice is regarded as a micro sample of the brazilian electorate and a dis busy wateri

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and of course it starts after manassas if from the south or bull run, if you're from the north all of a sudden hundreds and, thousands of prisoners are coming in and neither side was prepared for it. so the numbers were just shockingly high. a larger percentage of northern prisoners died in southern prisons than southern prisoners in northern prisons in because the south ran out food, ran out of medicine, ran out of clothing. if you don't have enough food and medicine for your your own troops and your own population, you're sure as heck not going to prioritize the prisoners and consequently here at andersonville and elsewhere, many soldiers died from i hear diarrhea and dysentery for a lack of health, but also simply neglect and starvation, which were found. and a number of prisons. here's an image of andersonville since we're here today, the image top is well known to anybody that's read about the civil war or had a class in american history. it gives you a sense of just how grotesque, overcrowded this place was started as of 16.5 acre prison built for a few thousand soldiers. they e

and of course, it starts initially after manassas. if you're from the south or bull run, if you're from the north, all of a sudden hundreds and then thousands of prisoners are coming in and neither side was prepared for it. so the numbers were just shockingly high. a larger percentage of northern prisoners died in southern prisons. vance southern prisoners died in northern prisons in part because the south ran out of food, ran out of medicine, ran out of clothing. if you don't have enough food and medicine for your your own troops and your own population, you're sure as heck not going to prioritize the prisoners. and consequently, here at andersonville and elsewhere, many soldiers died. from what i hear, diary and dysentery for a lack of health care, but also simply neglect and starvation which were found and a number of prisons. here's an image of andersonville since we're here today. the image on top is well known to anybody that's read about the civil war or had a class in american history. it gives you a sense of just how grotesqu

frederick, antietam, manassas. they've been through enough of that. yet, meade no sooner got to frederick on the 7th and 8th of july than general hal accent him a message from the president. the presidents congratulating general grant on the surrender of vicksburg and then says, now if meade can finish the glorious work he had accomplished thus far, by the literal or substantial destruction of lee's army, the war will be over. the literal or substantial destruction of lee's army? do you destroy leads army, an army that sophisticated? no. no. meade must have read that dispatch with some dismay. the bar of success was now way up here. on the night of the 13th of july, lee evacuated those trenches. he had built a pontoon bridge across the potomac and falling waters. took him 68 hours to build an 800 foot span of bridges. and got that army across the potomac. to stretch s ha absolutely remarkable story to be -- and what does lincoln say? meade had only to stretch out his hands and they were hours. a golden opportunity, he said, of destroying a lease army

and in the navy, one of the trivia questions last night was about the csis manassas, the first ironclad to engage in battle, in the defense of new orleans. the easiest way to lose it is to say, i don't have to do this. here's an interesting tidbit. one of his subordinates was david dixon porter, who commanded the gunboat. not the gunboat, the mortar routes. mortar routes are essentially boats with 13 inch mid chips that can fire. and they stay below the city and fire long-range mortars into their forts until they evacuate. but farragut said no, no, we will break through that. and crash and pull up in front of new orleans, which had been stripped of much of its local offenders because they were concentrating at the battle of shiloh. and he is ranked there by the jackson staff shooting along the front of new orleans. you've all seen the photographs, pointing into the city, and saying, gotcha. so the way not to do it is to not try. and of course that was not his option. are we done? >> the presidency and, more the newsletter today. be sure to watch the -- >> weekends on c-span two are an i

the problem is, lincoln's generals can't get their act together and so there is a major loss at manassas in august and that is not a victory until september, september 17th, at antietam. so while this is going on, lincoln is waiting for this victory to come, he does several things to try to prepare the white, racist north, the white, racist electorate in the north, for what is coming. he knows he's going to issue an emancipation proclamation, he knows he's got to wait, but he might as well begin to prepare and shape public sentiment on this issue. so he does several things. one of its as he writes a very famous letter to horace greely, where he says my paramount object in the struggles to save the union. and it's not either safe or destroyed slavery, he's trying to get people on board. if you are willing to fight for the union, think about how ending slavery might help do that. and then, he also calls in this black delegation and he brings a stenographer into the room to write down everything he says. and the messages, what you just very ably described, the reason for the war is because

substantial a barrier there as well in the confederate navy one of the trivia questions as i was a manassas, first ironclad to engage in battle and if it's in new orleans, so i think that the easiest way to lose it is for him to say that i don't think that we can do this read and here's an interesting tidbit, one of his subordinates and that was david dixon porter who commanded, nothing about but the ramps, motorcraft, essentially essentially both of a large 13-inch mortar amid the ship and his idea was that we need to stay below the city and fire long-range, markers into their parts until the evacuate. but david farragut said were going to break that thing and we going to go crashing by just pull up in front of new orleans and which had been stripped of most of his local offenders because they're concentrating for the battle of shiloh and is right there by the jackson statute, along the front of new orleans, you've all seen the photographs if you not been there. but his guns pointing and said, gotcha. the way not to do it is to not to try it and that was not his option. are we done. luncht

while at manassas, a lady named constants designed a new battle flag for the armies. being the senior major general in the confederate service, and her family also being from mississippi, she sent one of the originals to earl van dorn with the request he liberate her hometown of alandria, virginia. here a note for you. these flags run for all the troops of the grand ceremony on november 20th, 1861. d the reason i put this slide up here and told you the story is this is one of the few paintings i've ever found that has van dorn in it. and that's not gentlemen right here. right here. you can't really see him but this is -- i believe that j. w. smith. i believe that maybe johnson, right here. i always like to try on. e he was always one of my favorites. as the new year 62 turned over, van dorn reached a new assignment out west. although confederate forces have been driven out of missouri, they have rallied in arkansas. their two principal commanders, bill mcaleenan and stirling price, could not get along. jeff davis sends earl van dorn to unite the two forces. so, this w

i think her last battle was second manassas. she was in the army of potomac. she became ill, and then deserted from the army. so there was two things the pension office was getting her for. they were getting her for, women didn't serve in the military. then when she was able to prove, from affidavits that she served as franklin thompson, they said, well, if you desert you are ineligible for a pension. because that's what the law was. that's why it literally took an act of congress to overturn that. so she says in the middle, especially because i took the utmost pains to conceal and hide the facts of the case, then toward the bottom she said but being a woman, and underlined woman, i felt compelled to suffer in silence and endured as i could. in order to escape detection of my sex. she underlined, i would rather have been shot dead then two have been known to be a woman and sent away from the army as a criminal. she wrote a book after the civil war. what we do know is that she did serve as franklin thompson. we have evidence she served as a soldier. she wrote a

and so there's a major loss at manassas and i in august and then there's not a victory until september of september 17th at antietam. and so while this is going on while lincoln is waiting for this victory to come he does several things to try to prepare the white racist north the white racist electorate in the north for what is coming. he knows he's going to issue an emancipation proclamation. he knows he's got to wait, but he might as well begin to prepare and shape public sentiment on this issue. so he does several things one of which is he writes a very famous letter to horace freely where he says my paramount object in this struggle is to save the union and it's not to either save her to destroy slavery. he's trying to get people on board if if you are willing to fight for the union think about how ending slavery might help do that and then he also calls in this black delegation and he brings us stenographer into the room to write down everything. he says and the message is what you just very described it. the reason for the war is because you're here and if you were here we be cu