That lament goes Something Like this. Young people are not interested in the civil war anymore. Civil war military history is on lifesupport. Nobody cares about the civil war after the sesquicentennial. Every time i hear that i have to politely push back. And the reason i do so in large part is because of the emerging civil war. It is a great honor and privilege for me to be here to support your work to support emerging civil war and all it has done in a remarkable space of five or six years. Truly incredible. I hope this weekend can be a real celebration of those efforts. First, a copy spine of marylands South Mountain. Sunday, september 14, 1862. Woefully outnumbered soldiers saw to stem the tide of a federal offensive. If successful it would defeat an already divided Confederate Army and curtailed and finish off robert e. Lees first invasion of the north. And three mountain passes almost unrivaled in its ferocity at , least in this point of the war, ensued. Breathless union and conf
than expected q1 is sales. the group s fashion and leather business. and softbank shares tumbling 7% as the japanese telco giant defends its spring bid in the wake of a rival offer. announcer: you re watching worldwide exchange, bringing you business news from around the globe. all right. warm welcome to today s edition of worldwide exchange. that s right. three people are dead and more than 140 injured after two explosive devices went off near the finish line of the boston marathon yesterday. nbc s katie davis joins us now with the latest from the scene. this is the scene as it happened. four hours into the race, two explosives detonated near the finish of the boston marathon. it was loud. it was really, really loud and then chaos everywhere. the devices exploding 12 seconds apart, sending shrapnel into the crowd. these explosions occurred 50 to 100 yards apart and each scene resulted in multiple casualties. today was patriots day in boston, a holiday in