by being such a good general and prolonging the war. i m a descendant from slaves. so he i mean, it really is comparable to nominating mandela in israel. he can t be man of the year because we still have history. we are not at 2011. i think lee s body should be mixed with road tar. isn t that a little harsh, jennifer? it s a little harsh, i think. the assumption is anybody associated with slavery, anyone remotely associated with that and who favors it in any way should be disinterred and mixed with ashes. would that apply to people living in the united states at the time of abu ghraib? we were war criminals. all of us. in his time, he transformed the war and even as you describe him as some kind of devilish fiend, he s the most influential person in 1862. professor thomas we ll let you go there so we can all watch the results. professor ameritus. the dogs of war 1861. we ll see what the result is in a minute or two. i m excited. thank you so much. you bet. we ll r
another harry lee and who was there and this might be too long a story, but they had a child who fell from some steps and died and his wife became inconsolable and took some consoling in drugs and in the process but before that and a jolly party atmosphere there for stratford so the wife s sister came and lived with them. she was an orphan and so she went there and she and light horse harry had a relationship that may not have resulted in a child and she finally went to the court and said she wanted to get out from under light horse harry as her guardian because he s wasting that money and it caused a scandal and provoked harry to leave. he went to the hermitage, actually and worked for jackson s, the federalist working for andrew jackson, the crazy populist democrat, but he ll do that, you know. he ll go that far and eventually he ll go to france and have a biography of napoleon and there he died but his wife became a very pitiful figure, pretty dependent upon drugs and
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