Another. Lee basically takes a waiting game. What is grant going to do. Grant is going to move one way or the other. Lee is uncertain. So he for fits the initiative to his opponent. This is unlike the lee that we usually see. But in this instance he has no choice. He sends his cavalry out past each ends of his lines sort of to act as a trip wire to let him know where the federals are coming from and then waits. The army was commanded by general George Gordon lee, the hero of gettysburg, mead at this point was in a hot seat. He failed to destroy lees army at gettysburg. He was being investigated by congress. We all know how bad that can be. And so mead was in a bad situation. Grant visited him and was impressed by mead, because what mead told grant was that he would step down willingly and let grant bring some of his own people from the west to run the army of the potomac. Grant decided to keep mead on. He needed somebody with meads knowledge of that army in order to run it in detail. A
Nevertheless, while other Union Commanders were failing, grant had climbed steadily up the military ladder with resounding victories, stretching from fort henry in 1862, through vicksburg to Missionary Ridge in 1863. He was clearly the norths man of the hour. When lincoln ordered an east early in 1864 to take command of all federal forces. The somewhere near 500,000 combat ready soldiers grant would have authority over the largest post any american officer had ever led. The new Lieutenant General wasted little time in making his strategic intentions known. In the past, grant asserted, union armies had quote, acted independently and without concept like a bulky team of mules, no two pulling to the. And this allowed confederates to shift men from one sector to the other to meet the most pressing danger. Union generals seemed content to maneuver. But that was not the road to victory, grant announced. The north had far superior numbers, and materiel. It was time to switch games. To stop pl
200,000 plus salary through june 30th when his contract was supposed to end and the board wants larry bowers, a 37 year employee and current chief operating officer to serve as interim superintendent. They will start a nationwide search and expect to have a replacement in place by july 1st, but it is not clear at this point exactly what kindful candidate the board is looking kind of candidate the board is looking for or as one critic said, whether that candidate even exists. Back to you. The Fairfax County Police Officer who shot john geer was under investigation for an out of control outburst in which he cursed at a Commonwealth Attorney in court, but the report about that investigation is still a secret. Peggy fox joins us from the Fairfax County Government Center where supervisors discussed the geer case. Reporter thats right. They met in a closed door session about the geer case. However, none of them would tell me exactly what was discussed. I can tell you that this friday the gee
Turn signal. The Commonwealth Attorney explained to him that its not illegal to not use a turn signal and the case would have to be dismissed because torres did not have a reason to pull the person over. If he is that much of a hot head, he shouldnt have a weapon in his hands and maybe thats what the county doesnt want revealed, that this man maybe shouldnt have been there. Reporter county supervisors say they are making changes. Look back over how this was handled and what happened, we would have done things differently as far as communicating with the public and communicating with the family about things that had happened and we need to fix that and we are fixing that. Reporter in fairfax peggy fox, wusa9. The geer family is headed to court friday where they are hoping to get the internal Affairs Report on adam torres courthouse meltdown. Police in arlington are investing two attacks on women now. Its not clear if they are connected. The most recent one happened yesterday afternoon n
Captioning sponsored by cbs this is the cbs evening news with scott pelley. Pelley good evening. Jordans King Abdullah ii hurried to the white house tonight after what appears to be the savage execution of a Jordanian Air force pilot who was might fooiting in the u. S. Led coalition against isis. Jordanians had been holding vigils for the 26yearold who fell into the hands of the Islamic Terrorist Group when his plane went down in syria christmas eve. Today, isis put out this video showing the pilot in an orange jumpsuit. Then, hes murdered, not a beheading this time, but something equally cruel and inhuman. Hes set on fire. Were not going to be showing you that. We dont know when the execution was carried out, but isis chose to release the video just as jordans king was in washington. And Holly Williams has been covering isis from the beginning. She joins us tonight in northern iraq. Holly, what can you tell us about the video . Reporter well, scott its a highly produced video includin