another problem, by the way, back here with richmond and fredericksburg. on the orange and alexandria, there is a problem that robert e. lee has his army deployed and heavily dug in just south of the rapid and around orange courthouse. that is a problem. you are going to have to do something about that if you are grant. we are going to follow the line of the orange and alexandria. what you are going to have to do is turn loose of the railroad, cut your supply away from your supply line for a while. that is very dangerous. usually, grant would do that. in fact, if grant had had the army that he'd had with him in mississippi, he would have done that. he knew them, near the officers and how they worked. not being familiar with the army at the potomac, he didn't wants to do something that risky. so, that's not an option. of course, you could go up the peninsula, the way mcclellan did following these estuaries. and we have seen that grant is sending a minor expedition to futility here. he didn't want to go to futility, but they did. there are problems with this

he's picked up the richmond in fredericksburg. lee blocks in it hanover junction. we takes a very good position lee is a very good general and i don't know if you can see that little upside down red v right there. that's the position that lee takes in order to get at that position grants troops will have to cross on either side cross the north anna river on either side of the apex of lee's v. and by doing that they'll be much separated from each other. so lee has essentially put a wedge into the union army. it's got a lot of potential but lee can't follow up on it because lee's army is getting worn out lee is getting worn out. he's suffering from heart disease and he may have had a heart attack in late 63. he's not in the greatest of health by this time. he's on his back in a cot in a tent and he's trying to command the army from there. his top subordinates have been went out to his his best support his first core commander james longstreet badly wounded in a friendly fire incident at wilderness his second core commander you will becomes basically a psychological c

you can go down down to old town, fredericksburg. you can see the humeruser medical apothecary shop. it's still there. he was a very famous doctor during the revolutionary war with the continental army personal friend of president, washington. patent patton wants to go to west point in the worst possible way. but he has dyslexia. and it's not until age 16 that he can read and write so before going to west point. what does he do? he goes to vmi to prep for a year. and when he walks into the tailor shop at vmi to be fitted for his uniform the taylor says oh mr. patton, i fitted your father. here's my log book and you have the exact same measurements of your father. and you say your grandfather went? to vmi. i'll get his measurements. they're the exact same as yours in your fathers this reinforces george patton's belief in reincarnation. he goes to west point. but he has a little bit of trouble that first year so he has to repeat it his plea beer. so he ends up graduating in 1909. in 1909 this fine looking young gentleman in the lower c

then all the antique stores, and today i went down to fredericksburg and they're still there and it's a lot of fun. but anyway, thanks for coming out tonight. i know it's kind of tough situation i'm just getting back into the swing of giving talks. i've given about 40 or 50 zoom talks over the past two years. and now i'm just starting to give talks in person. so this is really a thrill for me to have an audience. pirates have long been among the most colorful and memorable celebrities in popular culture. a lot of that has to do with books that use pirates as a motif. in the most famous example of that, of course, is robert lewis stevenson's treasure island which was published in 1883. stevenson weaves a wonderfully dramatic tale of the search for pirate treasure, replete with a map of skeleton island where an x marks the spot where the treasure is to be found. treasure island is also the book that gave us that familiar see shanty refrain, 15 men on a dead man's chest, yohoho and a bottle of rum. drink and the devil had done for the rest. yohoho and a bottle of rum. and now you know wh

of course, it was a little upsetting, a little depressing a disappointing that i was coming here to fredericksburg, a city that i have been to before and do really enjoy. and i was going to be in this empty room i said to my wife, i said yesterday before i got on the plane should, i even bring my shoes. should i even plan to wear pants up there? it's fortunate really for all of us that my wife told me, yes. so it's really great to be here. and i'm going to be speaking tonight about my book and really excited to finally share it with you. but before we get into that i want to start with a confession. of sorts. and that is i don't really like to fly. i don't like turbulence. i don't like the little sounds that a plane makes for seemingly inexplicable reasons in the middle of a flight. and i really don't like takeoff. that moment where your barreling down the runway. so fast that as you take off into the air you can feel the weight of the air in the plane on your as you move further and further away on the ground. i really don't like that feeling at all. now i do like to travel for pleasure in normal

relatives that he brings up or not at mount vernon but when they are going down west over they stop in fredericksburg may have dinner with mary ball washington and betty washington louis i believe that is some of the only friends of the washington's that ever met mary ball washington. i think that is really cool when i was looking through the travel journal we have an excerpt of it a mount vernon but i found the full travel journal and i thought, wow! yet another connection that they have so yes, yes he does described friends and family. >> tammy again, did elizabeth ever right to fanny basset and major george augustan washington? no, she does not write to them directly. she talks about george agustin washington actually when they are at mount vernon samuel does but then elizabeth writes to martha, after they have come back to mount vernon from philadelphia and she asked how viennese doing. i believe we said something briefly about george augusta washington. he actually passed away when elizabeth was having her 50th birthday party. so the washington's could not attend that birthday. so yeah, she did

was left at the darkened and locked elections office in a metal building annex off the main road in fredericksburg. of your votes count poster in the door. one of the officials, terry hamilton, who had clashed with poll watchers in gillespie county in past elections, said he didn't want to go through it again. quote, that's the one thing we can't understand. their candidate won heavily, hamilton said. but there's fraud here?" joining us now, the reporter bylined on that a.p. report, associated press reporter paul weber. our friend errin haines is also here. take me through this story and this reporting and, paul, if you know what's going to happen or what the choices are. tell us what's going to happen here. >> yeah, this is a situation that even state election officials say they haven't encountered before. but this close to an election, trying to replace an entire election staff in a single county, this happened earlier this month. gillespie county is about a two-hour drive outside of austin, which is the state's liberal capital, but politically, is very different. and earlier this month, less th

incredibly fortunate to welcome jarod kearney, assistant director and curator at the james monroe museum in fredericksburg, virginia. for a presentation which will showcase a selection of original items from the life of elizabeth court right monroe. elizabeth monroe's story is a fascinating one through her childhood in new york to her experiences as wives of the minister france and later the fifth u.s. president. jarred will illustrate elizabeth's life using real izium collection which have been handed down through generations of the monroe family. a bit about our speaker. jarod kearney began as curator of the james monroe museum and library in november of 2011. previously, he was curator of the woodrow wilson presidential library and museum in stanton, virginia. prior to that, curator of the raw historical society in new york. he has been director of the holocaust bill museum, farm, and folk life center on long island. worked at the greensboro historical museum in north carolina. jarrett received his m.a. in museum studies and b.a. in history from the university of carolina at greensboro. he is also a bl

have to tell about the pregnancy help centers and the maternity homes you talk about mary shelter and fredericksburg in in the book and each one of us who considers ourselves for life needs to you as you were you were mentioning earlier ryan think what more can i do because there's so much more than needs to be done. and i know i had a conversation with a reporter on friday and she didn't believe that there were any pregnancy care centers. i mean really honestly didn't believe and so we have so much work to be done and i want to thank you for the work that you do and for this you did this book in an amazingly short period of time. i i am like the queen of blowing through deadlines myself. i'm very impressed that you have this ready for this moment tearing us apart how abortion harms everything and solves nothing. thank you alexander de sanctus and ryan anderson and thank you for everyone watching here in person or on live stream or on c-span. please please buy the book and share it and and please follow the work of alexander to sanctus and ryan anderson, and i'm catherine lopez from the national rev

fredericksburg and richmond national battlefield park and history inspired him to create - internship program which place more than 25 gettysburg college students and national park sites in each summer to learn to be public historians and he lives in gettysburg with his wife, twin daughters as well, dr. peter carmichael . [applause] >> thank you tim, although i have to say that i'm a little alarmed we only get two breaks today, my academic union does not allow for that i might at least three or four. [laughter] so it's always nice to be back here and is a special place here in pamplin historical park and i'll be self-indulgent here and take an opportunity to acknowledge some of people you know very well speaker today, will green as you know, first director of pamplin historical park, remember back in the day when he was the head of association for the preservation of civil war sites and another group here and they just finished the visitor center and shortly thereafter, stepped over and what he accomplished here is nothing short of remarkable and there is not a civil war related site

that he brings up are not at mount vernon, but when they are down going down to westover they stop in fredericksburg and they have dinner with mary ball, washington and betty washington lewis, so i believe that's probably some of the only friends of the washingtons that ever met mary ball washington. so i think that's really cool when i was looking through that travel journal we have an excerpt of it at mount vernon, but i found the full travel journal and i saw that i was like wow yet another connection that they have so so yes. yes, they he does describe friends and family. did elizabeth tammy again did elizabeth ever write to fanny bassett and major, georgia, gustin, washington? no, she doesn't write to them directly. she talks about she talks about georgia augustine washington actually when they are at mount vernon, um samuel does but then elizabeth writes to martha after they've come back from mount vernon to philadelphia and she asks how fanny is doing and then i believe she says something briefly about george augustine washington. he actually he passed away when elizabeth was having her 50th

tell about the pregnancy health centers and the maternity home when you talk about marriage shelter in fredericksburg in the book. each one o of us who considers ourselves pro-life, as you were mentioning earlier, ryan, needs to to think what more can i do, because there's so much more that needs to be done. .. i am like the queen of blowing through deadlines myself so i am very impressed that you have this ready for this moment. tearing us apart, how abortion harms everything and solves nothing. thank you, alexander and ryan. thank you for everyone watching here in person or on live stream or on c-span. please buy the book and share it and please follow the work of alexander and ryan. i am katherine lopez from the "national review." [applause] >> and you've been watching booktv, every sunday on c-span2 watching nonfiction authors discuss their books. television for series readers. and watch all online anytime at booktv.org. you can also find us on twitter, facebook and youtube at booktv. >> c-span is your unfiltered view of government. we are funded by these television companies and more including c

as a college student, he worked in the national park service in fredericksburg, in pennsylvania, as well as richmond national battlefield park. his time in public history inspired him to create gettysburg college in her. he is involved in the brian pohanka internship program, involved in getting students to battleship sites. they replace each summer to learn to be public history. he lives in virginia with his wife and two daughters, please welcome dr. peter carmichael. [applause] >> thank you, tim. i have to say i am a little alarmed. we only get two breaks today. my academic union doesn't allow for that, i get at least three or four. it's always nice to be back at pamplin park. it is a special place. i will be a bit self indulgent here and take an opportunity to talk about will green. one of our speakers today. will greene, as you know, first director of pamplin park. i remember when he was head of the association for the preservation of civil war sites. civil war sites. he brought a group here, and they had just finished the visitors center, and shortly thereafter, -- stepped over and

in fact with the [inaudible] richmond petersburg, the richmond, fredericksburg potomac railroad, and the virginia central railroad all being interdicted by union forces, the capture of petersburg and those railroads would have entered richmond more abundant. so oh i don't think the [inaudible] in saying that the capture of petersburg would have been tantamount to the capture of richmond. there's an awful lot of -- at stake in this campaign. grant was only too aware of the risks involved in this maneuver. he has to disengage from his opponents around harbor. without lee knowing it in order to gain a head start on a much longer route to petersburg than lee [inaudible] diab. once li realized that grant had departed, he would need to persuade the [inaudible] that he was going to be approaching richmond in the same way that george mcclelland had ten, two years earlier in 1862. even if all of this went according to plan, [inaudible] ask negotiating swapping [inaudible] river. and [inaudible] river, which was as much as 80 feet deep, and as wide as 4000 feet in some places. and [inaudible]

incredibly fortunate to welcome jarod kearney, assistant director and curator at the james monroe museum in fredericksburg, virginia. for a presentation which will showcase a selection of original items from the life

host: fredericksburg, virginia, the disagree line. caller: years ago they were putting salt on the roads that would go down into my creek. i had a beautiful collection of malts. i would wake up in the morning and there was a giant light on the side of the house. i would have moths that were so unbelievable, it was incredible. i had butterfly bushes everywhere. i had butterflies everywhere. i would walk through the drain fields and tons of tiny frogs all over. they are all gone. i might have one or two moths in the morning with the spotlights. host: are using extreme weather is the cause of that? caller: i think that man-made environments create a domino effect that damages things. whether it is making the weather the way it is, it would smack of being so. if you take a plastic bag and you fill it up with something that took 40 million years to create underground and you put in the bag and put something in the bag with that, everything will die. it just smacks of common sense. host: let's hear from alan in michigan, agree line. caller:

host: troy in fredericksburg, virginia. what are your thoughts on the russia-ukraine conflict? caller: good morning. i believe we should support the. i wish europe, since they are neighbors, would step in more. republicans calling in about democrats always starting wars but it seems to me -- i am 60 years old -- and the first bush took us to war in iraq. that spread to afghanistan. and that his son comes into office and takes us to war the same way his father did. i would like to point out i don't think mr. trump would have pulled out anybody. he would've pulled the troops from afghanistan and nobody else. he shut down the border to the middle east while he was president. does anybody think he would bring those people here? that is my comment but i think we ought to support the troops. if we do not stop putin, i believe you will try to create the soviet union again. host: more from the u.n. security council where russia called the meeting to talk about the nuclear power plant that, according to headlines, is being held by russian military. here is the u.n. chief for political a

i found myself when we were voting on the infrastructure bill sitting in fredericksburg, waiting to be told, are we voting or not voting on the infrastructure bill? so, i literally sat in a coffee shop for three hours waiting to know whether i was going to charlottesville or coming back to the hill. i don't think it is a great way to do business. obviously admitted -- obviously i made the choice that i'm not going to give my vote to someone else. >> thank you, mr. roy. i appreciate that. you and mr. johnson, i don't know if you have voted by proxy. but i have particularly noted now a majority of republicans at one time or another have voted by proxy. including some they want to mar-a-lago to attend the fundraiser at mr. trump's resort. and not because of the recent stuff. mr. roy, i hope you get to vote in person for many, many, many years. and this pandemic will be behind us. and you're not 65 years old with the coronavirus. for those of us over 65, we think this is a good idea. regardless of that, anybody else -- you were in a sand trap. you could not remember what you were trying to

in fredericksburg, virginia, on the republican line, good morning. caller: i want to talk about the most important story, the ukraine war, and obscene amount of weapons we are sending in there. i also wanted to talk about amnesty international, which pointed out there was a pattern of ukraine military putting their military in civilian areas. they do this continuously. during the beginning of the war there was a correspondent that talked about how he saw ukrainian soldiers shoot captured russians in the legs after they were tied and bound. hands and feet. it is a corrupt war. those are corrupt people. they like continuously. the ukrainian people need to overthrow that dictator. he is killing their own people. he has been doing this since the beginning. i think we should stop sending all weapons to ukraine and let's get the world moving in the right direction again. this is corrupt. it is sick. very sick. if you saw the bbc report on how the ukrainian government has been treating handicapped, disabled, mentally disabled children, it is sickening. that