CSPAN2 After Words November 3, 2014
For which he had fought in the war he was a graduate of west point class of 1828 he was put on the committee of 13 to try to find some way out of the crisis precipitated by the response the deep south states starting with south carolina. Everybody expected that they would pass. I think that he hoped at first it might be possible to find some kind of a solution to the burgeoning crisis of this union. Host so he wasnt a hothead. He didnt fantasize about leaving armies in the field becoming president of the confederacy. He preferred that it wouldnt have happened. Guest during the 1850s in the pro...