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go through jackson, which is the way the book is supposed to be, but he might have for given that, they didn't go through his superior, they went right straight to the secretary of war. the secular leader of the war effort. and jackson also is said to have been -- this is not quite so well documented disgusted with davis' unwillingness to pursue after first manassas. but there is an adequately documented episode in the after math of the seven days when jefferson davis rode down past the battlefields on i think the morning of july 2 and came into the room where lee was for a conferenc...

>> 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 center of the study of slavery resistance and abolition nominated frederick douglass. david fair gut, and...