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drainage ditch, then the attacking ranks had to cross more open ground to confront a sunken road which formed a perfect four-foot trench for confederate infantry. behind the sunken road, maries height rose precipitously studded with artillery and more infantry. the assault disintegrated into murder. lee saw the enemy founder and saw his own men leap from their cover and chase their fleeing foes. it is well that war is so terrible he said we should grow too fond of it. again and again t...

other enclaves along the coast of texas. but his main job in the remainder of 1862 was to strengthen the blockade. he wanted to move against mobile. but for reasons beyond his control the government put off that and kept putting it off until of course the summer of 1864. >> were right on time which is always wonderful. [ applause ] >> you know, one of the great joys of being associated with this symposium is that we give historians their choice of who to nominate. ill never forget when...

another harry lee and who was there and -- this might be too long a story, but they had a child who fell from some steps and died and his wife became inconsolable and took some consoling in drugs and in the process -- but before that and a jolly party atmosphere there for stratford so the wifes sister came and lived with them. she was an orphan and so she went there and she and light horse harry had a relationship that may not have resulted in a child and she finally went to the court ...

hes wasting that money and it caused a scandal and provoked harry to leave. he went to the hermitage, actually and worked for jacksons, the federalist working for andrew jackson, the crazy populist democrat, but hell do that, you know. hell go that far and eventually hell go to france and have a biography of napoleon and there he died but his wife became a very pitiful figure, pretty dependent upon drugs and things and died a pauper, but lee and his other brother charles carter, carter...

>> live on american history tv on c-span3. as you may have heard the folks at the museum of the confederacy counting the votes on who will be chosen as person of the year 1862. the audience and viewers here on american history tv heard from five historians today. the most recent you heard from emory thomas who nominated robert e. lee. here are the nominations, stonewall jackson, nominated by robert cribbing who was the chief historian at fredericksburg. david blight for the yale cente...