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you're looking at a dress belonging to first lady dolley madison that is out that have been made from the red velvet curtains she saved from the white house as british troops advanced on washington. this is "american history tv" on c-span3, where we are taking your calls and comments on the war of 1812. i want to open up the phone lines with a remind the numbers for those on the east coast and central time zones is 202-737-0001. in the mountain and pacific time zones it's 0002. make sure you mute your television when you call in. we will get to your calls on the war of 1812, in parti...

of 1814." thank you for joining us today. >> thank you for having me. >> you have brought along not only your book but an artifact. we saw an artifact of dolley madison. this is an artifact of james madison. tell us what your viewers will see here in a minute. >> this check came up for auction five years ago, and the auctioneer had misread the name of the person it was made out to. they wrote weightman. i knew it was roger ch chu weightman, dragged into the white house by the admiral as they were preparing to burn the white house, and the check was made out by james madison to weight...

studied. >> this is the patuxent river, flows into the chesapeake bay. we'll go up river of the highway 4 bridge, and highway 4 is the actually very end of pennsylvania avenue. same pennsylvania avenue that runs from d.c. and runs up to the patuxent river. the scorpion is believed to be one mile, two miles up river from that bridge. so we're about 30 minutes from washington, d.c., 20, 25 minutes from a23457 police, maryland, and probably about 40 minutes from baltimore. in 1814, the river was deeper, perhaps wider as well. there's been a lot of sedimentation from agricultural runoff ...

flows into the chesapeake bay. we'll go up river of the highway 4 bridge, and highway 4 is the actually very end of pennsylvania avenue. same pennsylvania avenue that runs from d.c. and runs up to the patuxent river. the scorpion is believed to be one mile, two miles up river from that bridge. so we're about 30 minutes from washington, d.c., 20, 25 minutes from a23457 police, maryland, and probably about 40 minutes from baltimore. in 1814, the river was deeper, perhaps wider as well. there's been a lot of sedmantation from agricultural runoff since 1814. at this time, you know, durin...