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 conference with the leading commanders, jackson was present. he immediately stood up, stiffly at attention and promptly left the room. and there were evidence that s didn t want to be around davis. he never said in writing what he thought about davis. he would never say such a thing. that would be contrary to that by the book world view that he embraced to keep his life on line. we have precisely used up ou
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 the former of choo of military history for the army john mount castle and robert e. lee nominated by professor thomas and we ll talk to him in a moment. in case you missed any of today s event we ll show the entire program beginning at 6:00 p.m. eastern this afternoon and at 1:00 a.m. on sunday morning. we ll open up the phone lines and we ll have them open for your calls while they count the vote