Bannon's War Room - July 04, 2024


Episode 3733： WarRoom Independence Day special


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In this episode, I read from the Declaration of Independence, written by John Adams and read by Robert F. Kennedy. I hope you enjoy it and share it with a friend or family member who needs to hear it.

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00:00:00.000 The Congress will now vote on Virginia's resolution on independence.
00:00:20.880 Thank you for coming, Caesar.
00:00:23.140 God bless you, sir.
00:00:30.000 The Secretary will call the roll, and I'd remind you, gentlemen, that a single nay vote will defeat the motion.
00:00:41.980 Mr. Thompson?
00:00:48.420 New Hampshire.
00:00:50.540 New Hampshire says yea.
00:00:52.080 New Hampshire says yea.
00:00:53.300 Massachusetts.
00:00:54.640 Massachusetts says yea.
00:00:55.980 Massachusetts says yea.
00:00:57.360 Rhode Island.
00:00:58.460 Rhode Island says yea.
00:00:59.560 Connecticut says yea.
00:01:01.560 Connecticut says yea.
00:01:03.560 Connecticut says yea.
00:01:04.560 New York.
00:01:05.560 The Secretary, New York, abstains.
00:01:07.560 New York, abstains.
00:01:08.560 New York, abstains.
00:01:09.560 New Jersey.
00:01:10.560 New Jersey says yea.
00:01:11.560 New Jersey says yea.
00:01:12.560 Pennsylvania.
00:01:13.560 Mr. Secretary, Pennsylvania is not ready.
00:01:14.560 Please come back to us later.
00:01:15.560 Pennsylvania passes.
00:01:16.560 Delaware.
00:01:17.560 Delaware.
00:01:18.560 Delaware.
00:01:19.560 Delaware.
00:01:20.560 Delaware.
00:01:21.560 Delaware.
00:01:22.560 My majority vote.
00:01:23.560 I says yea.
00:01:24.560 Delaware says yea.
00:01:25.560 Delaware says yea.
00:01:26.560 Maryland.
00:01:27.560 Maryland.
00:01:28.560 Maryland says yea.
00:01:29.560 Maryland says yea.
00:01:30.560 Maryland says yea.
00:01:31.560 Maryland says yea.
00:01:32.560 Virginia says yea.
00:01:33.560 Virginia says yea.
00:01:34.560 Virginia says yea.
00:01:35.560 Virginia says yea.
00:01:36.560 Virginia says yea.
00:01:37.560 Virginia says yea.
00:01:38.560 North Carolina.
00:01:39.560 North Carolina yields to South Carolina.
00:01:40.560 South Carolina.
00:01:41.560 Well, Mr. Adams.
00:01:42.560 Well, Mr. Rutledge.
00:01:43.560 Well, Mr. Adams.
00:01:44.560 Well, Mr. Rutledge.
00:01:45.560 Mr. Adams.
00:01:46.560 You must believe that I will do what I promised to do.
00:01:50.560 What is it you want, Rutledge?
00:01:51.560 Remove the offending passage from your declaration.
00:01:52.560 Mr. Adams? Well, Mr. Rutledge. Mr. Adams, you must believe that I will do what I
00:02:05.840 promised to do.
00:02:13.220 What is it you want, Rutledge? Remove the offending passage from your
00:02:18.180 declaration. If we did that, we would be guilty of what we ourselves are rebelling
00:02:23.880 against. Nevertheless, remove it or South Carolina will bury, now and forever, your
00:02:33.000 dream of independence. Sean, I beg you, consider what you're doing.
00:02:41.180 Mark me, Franklin. If we give in on this issue, posterity will never forgive us.
00:02:53.600 That's probably true, but we won't hear a thing. We'll be long gone. Besides, what will
00:02:59.940 posterity think we were? Demigods? We're men, no more, no less, trying to get a nation started
00:03:06.640 against greater odds than a more generous God would have allowed. First things first,
00:03:12.800 John. Independence, America. If we don't secure that, what difference will the rest make?
00:03:26.340 Jefferson, say something.
00:03:30.500 What else is there to do?
00:03:31.760 Well, man, you're the one that wrote it. I wrote all of it, Mr. Adams.
00:04:01.760 There. There it is, Rudland. You have your slavery. Little good may it do you. Now, fool, damn you. 0.76
00:04:09.220 Mr. President, the fair colony of South Carolina says yea.
00:04:15.820 South Carolina says yea.
00:04:17.640 North Carolina says yea.
00:04:19.260 North Carolina says yea.
00:04:22.920 Georgia.
00:04:23.760 Georgia says yea.
00:04:25.240 Georgia says yea.
00:04:28.220 Pennsylvania, second call.
00:04:31.760 Mr. President.
00:04:34.100 Pennsylvania regrets all of the inconvenience that such distinguished men as Adams, Franklin, and Jefferson were put to just now.
00:04:43.980 They might have kept their document intact for all the difference it will make.
00:04:48.680 Mr. President.
00:04:50.980 Pennsylvania says.
00:04:52.360 Just a moment.
00:04:52.820 I ask the delegation to be polled.
00:04:57.700 Dr. Franklin, don't be absurd.
00:05:00.460 A poll, Mr. President. It's a proper request. 0.99
00:05:03.660 Yes, it is.
00:05:04.920 For the delegation, Mr. Thompson.
00:05:07.300 Dr. Benjamin Franklin.
00:05:09.220 Yea?
00:05:10.120 Mr. John Dickinson.
00:05:12.280 Nay.
00:05:13.540 Mr. James Wilson.
00:05:18.260 George Wilson.
00:05:19.160 There it is, Mr. Wilson.
00:05:24.020 It's all up to you now.
00:05:25.800 The whole question of American independence rests squarely on your shoulders.
00:05:30.000 An entirely new nation, ready to be born or to die at birth. 0.85
00:05:33.900 All on your say-so.
00:05:36.620 Which will it be, Mr. Wilson?
00:05:37.780 Every map-maker in the world is waiting for your decision.
00:05:43.420 Oh, come now, James.
00:05:45.000 Nothing has changed.
00:05:46.800 We mustn't let Dr. Franklin create one of his confusions.
00:05:49.720 The question is clear.
00:05:51.900 Most questions are clear when someone else has to decide them.
00:05:55.140 It would be a pity for a man who's handed down hundreds of wise decisions from the bench
00:06:00.640 to be remembered only for the one unwise decision he made in Congress.
00:06:05.880 James, you're keeping everybody waiting.
00:06:11.340 The secretary has called for your vote.
00:06:14.100 Please.
00:06:16.560 Don't push me, John.
00:06:17.980 I know what you want me to do.
00:06:22.760 But Mr. Adams is correct about one thing.
00:06:28.180 I'm the one who'll be remembered for it.
00:06:31.300 What do you mean?
00:06:32.220 What do you mean?
00:06:35.880 I'm different from you, John.
00:06:41.200 I'm different from most of the men here.
00:06:44.760 I don't want to be remembered.
00:06:48.140 I just don't want the...
00:06:51.220 responsibility.
00:06:54.020 Yes.
00:06:54.580 Well, whether you want it or not, James, there's no way of avoiding it.
00:06:57.980 Not necessarily, John.
00:07:01.140 If I go with them, I'll just be one among dozens.
00:07:07.160 No one will ever remember the name of James Wilson.
00:07:11.940 But if I vote with you,
00:07:15.060 I'll be the man who prevented American independence. 1.00
00:07:18.360 I'm sorry, John.
00:07:24.420 I just didn't bargain for that.
00:07:28.340 And is that how new nations are formed?
00:07:33.180 By a non-entity trying to preserve the anonymity he so richly deserves?
00:07:38.940 Revolutions come into this world like bastard children, Mr. Dickinson.
00:07:43.780 Half improvised and half compromised.
00:07:46.480 Our side has provided the compromise.
00:07:48.860 Now Judge Wilson is supplying the rest.
00:07:55.760 James.
00:07:58.240 I'm sorry, John.
00:08:00.980 My vote
00:08:01.840 is yay.
00:08:04.180 Mr. Secretary,
00:08:06.560 Pennsylvania says yay.
00:08:09.960 The count
00:08:10.920 being 12 to none
00:08:13.920 with one abstention,
00:08:17.760 the resolution on independence
00:08:19.540 is adopted.
00:08:24.340 It's done.
00:08:29.220 It's done.
00:08:33.020 Mr. Thompson,
00:08:34.180 Is the declaration ready to be signed?
00:08:37.400 It is.
00:08:38.780 Then I suggest we do so.
00:08:42.640 And the chair further proposes
00:08:44.340 for our mutual security and protection
00:08:46.780 that no man be allowed to sit in this Congress
00:08:51.100 without attaching his name to it.
00:08:56.700 I'm sorry, Mr. President.
00:08:59.200 I cannot
00:09:01.700 in good conscience
00:09:03.300 sign such a document.
00:09:06.540 I will never stop hoping
00:09:08.120 for our eventual reconciliation
00:09:10.200 with England.
00:09:12.600 But
00:09:13.160 because
00:09:14.720 in my own way
00:09:17.380 I regard America
00:09:20.040 no less than does Mr. Adams,
00:09:21.880 I will join the army
00:09:25.660 and fight
00:09:26.920 in her defense
00:09:27.920 even though
00:09:30.340 I believe
00:09:30.920 that fight
00:09:31.520 to be hopeless.
00:09:38.360 Goodbye, gentlemen.
00:09:42.160 Gentlemen of the Congress,
00:09:43.440 I say ye
00:09:45.760 John Dickinson.
00:09:54.540 A republic
00:09:55.420 if you can keep it.
00:09:57.240 That was the vote was about
00:09:58.540 and those individuals
00:09:59.340 were incredibly brave too.
00:10:00.460 Don't get me wrong.
00:10:01.320 They all knew
00:10:02.060 that they were going to hang
00:10:03.140 from the gallows
00:10:04.080 as soon as the
00:10:05.460 as soon as the British 0.93
00:10:06.800 army
00:10:07.940 and the Royal Navy
00:10:09.100 could get their hands on them.
00:10:10.060 We left with the
00:10:11.560 American Thermopylae.
00:10:12.720 Now those heroes
00:10:13.400 are buried in an unmarked grave
00:10:14.620 somewhere under a parking lot
00:10:16.100 or underneath a tavern
00:10:17.300 or something in Brooklyn.
00:10:18.400 We don't even know
00:10:18.900 where it is
00:10:19.480 specifically.
00:10:21.440 There's a little sign there
00:10:22.520 but it should be
00:10:23.260 so much more
00:10:23.820 particularly with the 250th
00:10:25.060 coming up.
00:10:25.900 Patrick K. O'Donnell
00:10:26.660 but that just led
00:10:27.320 a couple of days later
00:10:28.200 to the American Dunkirk.
00:10:30.300 The beatdown
00:10:31.140 is not over
00:10:31.980 for the American
00:10:32.720 the Continental Army.
00:10:34.040 Walk me through it, sir.
00:10:35.440 What happens next
00:10:36.500 is there's a massive
00:10:37.640 thunderstorm
00:10:38.840 nor'easter
00:10:39.960 that comes in
00:10:41.100 and pelts
00:10:43.000 the American
00:10:44.540 entrenchments
00:10:45.360 that are near
00:10:46.140 Brooklyn Heights
00:10:48.740 but had
00:10:49.940 the British
00:10:50.720 attacked
00:10:51.420 right after
00:10:52.720 the
00:10:53.620 Marylanders stand
00:10:55.460 it's possible
00:10:56.780 that the entire
00:10:58.260 war would have 0.97
00:10:58.900 been lost
00:10:59.480 there
00:10:59.960 because they would
00:11:00.620 have been able
00:11:01.060 to overrun
00:11:01.740 the entrenchments
00:11:03.960 but the Marylanders
00:11:04.980 bought a lot of time.
00:11:06.380 They chewed up
00:11:07.120 hours
00:11:08.120 and it was
00:11:08.480 late in the afternoon
00:11:09.600 that they have
00:11:10.740 to make a decision
00:11:11.260 and they don't want
00:11:11.880 to repeat
00:11:12.300 another bunker hill
00:11:13.280 so Howe decides
00:11:15.060 to siege
00:11:16.680 the entrenchments
00:11:17.680 and also bring up
00:11:18.560 the Royal Navy
00:11:19.300 up the East River
00:11:21.280 and surround them
00:11:22.600 and it's here
00:11:23.900 that Washington
00:11:24.580 in these entrenchments
00:11:26.580 in a house
00:11:27.160 called the Three Chimneys
00:11:28.300 decides
00:11:29.500 does he stand
00:11:30.500 and fight
00:11:31.060 or does he retreat
00:11:32.460 and they go
00:11:36.460 back and forth
00:11:37.140 a little bit
00:11:37.520 with his battle captains
00:11:38.460 but he decides
00:11:39.460 wisely
00:11:40.100 the best thing
00:11:41.560 to do
00:11:41.960 is retreat
00:11:42.540 but one of the
00:11:43.440 hardest things
00:11:43.960 to do
00:11:44.440 in all of military
00:11:45.320 history
00:11:45.780 is to retreat
00:11:46.980 under the watch
00:11:49.000 of your enemy
00:11:50.620 and there's
00:11:51.980 a massive army
00:11:52.780 arrayed in front
00:11:53.440 of you
00:11:53.720 and the Royal Navy
00:11:55.420 is in the East River
00:11:56.820 and they somehow
00:11:58.820 have to pull off.
00:11:59.620 Hang on, hang on
00:12:00.420 because hang on
00:12:01.240 this is going to play
00:12:02.100 to the story
00:12:02.740 of Trenton
00:12:03.660 people will tell you
00:12:05.200 the hardest thing
00:12:05.920 to do in the military
00:12:06.700 is a retreat
00:12:07.540 across under fire
00:12:08.840 across a river
00:12:09.900 or the force crossing
00:12:12.140 of a river
00:12:12.780 under fire
00:12:14.240 here you've got
00:12:15.960 the East River
00:12:16.680 and you've got
00:12:17.300 you've got
00:12:17.880 you've got
00:12:18.380 under fire
00:12:19.120 you have to get
00:12:19.940 you have to get out
00:12:21.240 and you know
00:12:22.520 and you don't have
00:12:23.560 all the vessels
00:12:24.260 you need
00:12:24.960 correct
00:12:25.300 I don't have
00:12:25.820 carrying capacity
00:12:26.780 to get everybody
00:12:27.920 out at once
00:12:28.680 Philip?
00:12:29.060 No
00:12:29.620 this is where
00:12:30.640 the American
00:12:32.140 Dunn Curp 0.81
00:12:32.660 takes place
00:12:33.120 John Glover's men
00:12:34.160 assemble all the boats
00:12:35.880 that they possibly can
00:12:37.000 and it's a variety
00:12:38.400 of small craft
00:12:39.800 and they are then
00:12:41.920 tasked
00:12:42.900 with
00:12:43.780 somehow
00:12:44.980 you know
00:12:45.660 with only a few hours
00:12:46.740 notice
00:12:47.500 to retreat
00:12:49.100 over 9,500 men
00:12:50.620 and the wounded
00:12:51.560 and their cannon
00:12:52.340 across the East River
00:12:53.880 and that night
00:12:55.180 it doesn't go well
00:12:57.000 for the Americans
00:12:57.840 at all
00:12:58.220 the waves
00:12:59.180 and the tide
00:12:59.900 everything
00:13:00.360 is not well
00:13:01.680 doesn't work
00:13:02.760 they try to cross
00:13:04.380 they try to find
00:13:06.200 Washington
00:13:06.720 to call off
00:13:07.800 the entire enterprise
00:13:08.860 but he can't be found
00:13:10.580 miraculously
00:13:11.720 and they continue
00:13:13.940 to try
00:13:14.500 and eventually
00:13:15.300 it's the seasoned
00:13:16.680 Marylander
00:13:17.360 the Marbleheaders 0.98
00:13:18.940 from Massachusetts
00:13:20.180 who are the most
00:13:21.160 skilled naval men
00:13:23.240 of the entire colonies
00:13:24.460 that have
00:13:25.480 braved the Grand Bank's
00:13:27.520 fisheries
00:13:28.360 which are some of the most
00:13:29.480 treacherous waters
00:13:30.160 of the world
00:13:30.640 at the time
00:13:31.220 for decades
00:13:32.660 with even massive losses
00:13:34.540 but it's the teamwork
00:13:35.400 of these men
00:13:36.100 which are then able
00:13:37.960 to do the American 0.53
00:13:40.040 miracle
00:13:40.460 the American Dunkirk
00:13:41.980 but it's a race
00:13:42.880 against time
00:13:43.540 Steve
00:13:43.880 and dawn is coming
00:13:46.000 but the providential fog
00:13:48.280 comes up
00:13:48.980 and screens
00:13:49.880 the movement
00:13:50.380 of the Marbleheaders 0.98
00:13:52.000 and their boats
00:13:52.600 and the army
00:13:53.380 is saved
00:13:54.080 one of the great miracles
00:13:55.540 in American history
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00:17:16.340 From the magnificent Ken Burns' The Civil War.
00:17:20.460 And if I can make a recommendation, have your family watch John Adams on HBO and Ken Burns' on, I think it's 12 hours nationwide.
00:17:32.600 Ken Burns, no fan of MAGA, no fan of President Trump, certainly no fan of Stephen K. Bannon.
00:17:38.400 But it's still the best documentary ever made about The Civil War.
00:17:40.900 Although from a, I think Ken is from New Hampshire, it's from a northern perspective, but pretty damn good.
00:17:46.920 Not too shabby, as you say in the Navy.
00:17:49.400 On, I think it was, I want to say it's July or June 30th, June 30th of 1863 in the middle of the night.
00:18:03.720 In the middle of the night, like 3 o'clock in the morning, a messenger, a courier came from Washington to where the Army of Northern Pacific was encamped on the road to Gettysburg.
00:18:18.340 And they came to the tent of the head of that Army, it was General Meade.
00:18:24.020 And his adjutant let him in, the courier.
00:18:28.020 He said he had a, when it came in, he had a message from Lincoln.
00:18:31.660 Meade would write to his wife about a week later at the end of the Battle of Gettysburg,
00:18:38.180 where he had actually prevailed against the Confederate Army of Robert E. Lee.
00:18:43.340 And he would write his wife and say, when the courier came in with my adjutant, I thought I was under arrest.
00:18:51.780 I thought I was under arrest.
00:18:56.300 Why was that?
00:18:57.200 Because there was so much, so much dissension in the high command of the Washington, D.C. political apparatus,
00:19:05.820 including President Lincoln and his cabinet, and also the military that they had just, you know,
00:19:12.700 they had just relieved a year before, their pride in Jerry McClellan, who would eventually run against Lincoln in 1864.
00:19:21.640 And they'd had a series of fiascos and disasters after, I think, Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, one after the other.
00:19:29.320 And it led Lee to take a, to really go on offense, knowing how much the North hated the war, particularly in New York City.
00:19:38.020 And he was trying to take a swinging move up the, up really, which was what we call the national road,
00:19:43.760 that valley that goes down from, really from, I guess, Pennsylvania, New York, all the way down through the south.
00:19:50.420 And he was going just a little east of it and going to swing around, take the capital of Harrisburg,
00:19:56.060 and then swing around and try to commence military operations against Philadelphia.
00:20:02.040 And they relieved, I think, Hooker, Patrick Kaye, the general, joins me.
00:20:07.440 I think they relieved Hooker because of the disaster.
00:20:10.080 At Chancellorsville, they gave the command to Meade, and in Meade, though, he was under arrest.
00:20:15.440 Four days later, he's the victor.
00:20:18.420 Not really the victor.
00:20:19.420 He kind of, he kind of, you know, took as many blows as he could.
00:20:22.880 We're going to do two Fourth of Julys.
00:20:25.940 We're going to do the Fourth of July of 1863, and then the next segment, Patrick Kaye O'Donnell's going to tell us an amazing story about 1864.
00:20:31.820 Folks, this Civil War, and although Gettysburg's one of the dividing lines of it, it was in the balance all the way to, I believe, in the 1864 election, Patrick, when Atlanta fell.
00:20:46.900 When Atlanta fell, I think, September 1st, 2nd, 3rd of 1864, that's when I really think that the war essentially came to end.
00:20:54.460 We had another six or eight months worth of fighting, but that was the biggest single thing, the fall of Atlanta, but it was in the balance in 1863 and 1864, and as war-reary as the South was and as tired as the South was and beat up and lack of resources,
00:21:10.540 and, man, the war, I think you can say, particularly from working-class people, was generally hated because the generalship was so bad, everything was so bad.
00:21:21.820 Let's take two things over the Fourth of July, 11th and Fourth of July weekend was the pickets charge on the 3rd at Gettysburg after three days, and each day bigger than Waterloo,
00:21:31.980 and, of course, the fall of Vicksburg under Grant in the West, which basically gave Grant command of the entire army.
00:21:37.600 Let's take Gettysburg first. Your thoughts about the scale and brutality of the Battle of Gettysburg, sir.
00:21:46.360 It's one of the greatest battles in American history, and it's the summer of 1863, and as you mentioned, the Battle of Chancellorsville changes things.
00:21:58.020 It's a massive defeat for Hooker. General Lee divides his army, but it opens up an opportunity through the Shenandoah Valley,
00:22:05.660 and the Shenandoah Valley is the route of invasion. It was that way in 1862, 63, and in 1864, as I'll get into it a little bit later.
00:22:16.360 But the route of invasion has opened up, and it's the route of invasion to the north,
00:22:20.420 and it's here during the summer that a character in my book, John Singleton Mosby in The Unvanquished, plays a role for what he does and what he doesn't do.
00:22:31.740 It's – as Lee's army is marching north, they need a screening force to basically block the probing eyes of the Union cavalry,
00:22:42.340 and that's where Jeb Stewart comes into play. His cavalry is there to screen Robert E. Lee's movement as they go up the – through the Shenandoah Valley north,
00:22:53.340 and it's at the Battle of Upperville that they have an epic clash.
00:22:59.600 Mosby is a regular force here in Middleburg and Aldi and that area,
00:23:04.740 and he raids a Union headquarters area and is able to capture what he's called – what's known as the open says-me letter.
00:23:14.420 It's – they understand what the federal, like, allotment of troops are and where they're going,
00:23:21.000 where they're going to be moving towards.
00:23:22.900 It's a massive intelligence coup that is potentially, you know, a huge, you know, a huge move for the south.
00:23:31.840 But what happens next is it – is Mosby's faulty intelligence actually sends Jeb Stewart's cavalry in a diversionary operation,
00:23:44.680 which will change the course of the battle because Robert E. Lee will lose his eyes and ears.
00:23:50.060 What they recommend is that Stewart basically takes his horse off and moves up the Carolina Road,
00:23:58.700 which is Route 15 today towards Pointer Rocks.
00:24:02.280 But what happens is they run across the second corps, and this changes everything.
00:24:08.820 They raid a bunch of wagons in Haymarket, which delays everything,
00:24:14.180 but they have to make a circuitous route all the way around the Union forces.
00:24:20.400 And meanwhile, Lee is deprived of his eyes and ears.
00:24:23.580 There's some cavalry in his army under McClawson, but it's – you know, he misses that reconnaissance force,
00:24:30.660 which is so crucial.
00:24:32.420 And they clash at Gettysburg, and the opening day goes towards the south.
00:24:37.720 In many ways, they have tremendous advantages because the Union army has not completely consolidated at Gettysburg.
00:24:46.040 And, you know, as time goes on, the second day, there's the epic battle on the flank of the Union line,
00:24:55.660 which is kind of in this fishhook pattern at Little Round Top.
00:24:59.200 It's here that, you know, the 5th Corps and the 20th Maine, which has the far – you know,
00:25:06.320 the most extreme portion of that flank makes an epic bayonet charge,
00:25:11.200 which disrupts the Alabama troops that are trying to seize the hill.
00:25:15.140 There's also many other heroes of Little Round Top, you know, there that day.
00:25:19.600 But they hold the line, and it sets up the attack on the center, which is Pickett's charge the next day.
00:25:28.900 You know, even on day two, there's a – what is it?
00:25:31.860 The Minnesota group held off – I think it was from Alabama.
00:25:35.980 There was a great – they almost got as high as Pickett's.
00:25:38.100 There's so many fascinating stories.
00:25:39.680 I can't recommend to this audience, anywhere you are in the country, take – I would take a week.
00:25:47.440 Go to Gettysburg, and if you do it during the time of the recreation of the battle, it's great.
00:25:52.500 But if not, for the summer, for the kids, it's like going back in time.
00:25:57.100 They've got the old motels.
00:25:58.460 They've got all the little gift shops, and they do the ghost walk at night.
00:26:03.020 The kids can be entertained there, kind of a 1950s type of entertainment.
00:26:08.760 It's just absolutely fantastic.
00:26:10.720 The view when you stand at Cemetery Ridge – and I was honored to have President Trump there.
00:26:16.560 After we gave that great speech, he threw down on the corruption speech,
00:26:19.920 and we got a few minutes to go over and take him to the – what they call the angle or the high tide of the Confederacy.
00:26:25.720 In summer – of course, we were there in late October, early November.
00:26:31.300 In the summer, when you look back across Patrick K. O'Donnell,
00:26:36.800 it's one of the most stunning views, I think, in America with that kind of wheat and the grass and everything.
00:26:42.740 It just – it looks like a painting that is so, so beautiful.
00:26:47.240 The battle led to the third day.
00:26:50.100 Give me a minute on the Charging River break, and I want to finish with Pickett and Vicksburg,
00:26:53.960 but then we've got to talk about Jubal early.
00:26:56.680 Pickett's Charge, what, 10,000 men.
00:26:58.660 What did Longstreet tell Lee?
00:27:00.400 No 10,000 men on earth could take that embankment next to the copse of trees?
00:27:09.920 Exactly.
00:27:10.540 I mean, it's open ground.
00:27:11.760 They're going up against rifled muskets and cannon fire.
00:27:17.560 You know, they have to traverse hundreds of yards.
00:27:20.500 And the Confederate cannonade, which the hope was that that would sort of neutralize some of the Union positions on top of the ridge,
00:27:31.520 it was largely ineffective.
00:27:33.420 So these men are going across open ground.
00:27:36.500 And, you know, still, miraculously, they get up towards the top and they nearly overwhelm it.
00:27:41.540 But it's the bravery of, you know, the Union soldiers that are there that, you know, it's hand-to-hand combat.
00:27:47.700 It's an epic struggle that they hold the line.
00:27:51.260 Yeah.
00:27:52.900 Hang on for one second.
00:27:54.080 We'll take a short commercial break.
00:27:55.800 Alfonso Cushing, one of his brothers was their original Navy commander, like a Navy SEAL.
00:28:02.120 His other brother, I think, was a naval officer, supply officer.
00:28:05.700 He was an Army officer.
00:28:06.780 He was a West Point graduate.
00:28:08.260 His gun's right there at the angle where he put the, basically, shot, buckshot, at point-blank range and stopped the charge.
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00:29:54.620 That is obviously Shenandoah, one of my favorite songs.
00:29:57.840 So if you haven't heard that sung by a choir, you haven't heard Americana.
00:30:05.220 It's absolutely stunning, stunning, stunning.
00:30:10.300 Alonzo Cushing was awarded the Medal of Honor in 2013 by President Barack Obama.
00:30:21.460 There was a woman that he's from, I think Wisconsin is the family's from.
00:30:28.180 The mother of the Cushings, an extraordinary woman, essentially by herself raised three sons who were all kind of,
00:30:34.120 two of them were definitely among the more amazing American heroes they ever had.
00:30:39.880 I think his brother was hooked up in the blowing up of the monitor in the Merriman.
00:30:45.200 I mean, this is a Navy SEAL.
00:30:46.780 I believe he went to the Naval Academy.
00:30:49.340 His brother at Gettysburg went to West Point.
00:30:54.040 Those guns right there, when Pickett's Charge got up, as brother Patrick O'Donnell told us,
00:31:02.100 they almost overwhelmed.
00:31:03.060 General Armistead got there and said, turn around the guns.
00:31:06.160 The one group of cannons, and Cushing's cannons are still there when you go to Gettysburg.
00:31:10.160 He put a shot in chain.
00:31:11.780 They connected it.
00:31:12.460 He was already shot in the groin.
00:31:14.880 He was bleeding out profusely.
00:31:17.440 He had a sergeant who was helping direct the batteries.
00:31:21.240 They put in the shot in chain for point-blank range, and it was going to go off like a shotgun
00:31:25.500 because you had these wild confederates with the battle flags and the rebel yell,
00:31:30.000 and they made it all the way across that shelling.
00:31:32.360 And what Patrick said is right, the Napoleonic strategy was to concentrate your cannon fire,
00:31:37.700 concentrate your artillery, let it decimate the enemy, and then hit.
00:31:41.540 What happened is that the fuses weren't right or the great Confederate artillery just shot too long
00:31:47.820 and really overshot in back of the ridge.
00:31:50.800 So when they got there, almost the entire Union Army that was still there, hey,
00:31:54.100 they had officers in the back where the statues are now, a lot of the officers are on horses,
00:31:59.520 that with pistol drawn, not for the Confederates, but for guys who were deciding,
00:32:04.840 hey, maybe I ought to rethink this and head back and get a drink of water.
00:32:09.960 You would be shot if you left that line.
00:32:12.200 This is how intense this was.
00:32:13.440 Cushing bleeding out from the groin, dying, and his sergeant, they loaded up,
00:32:19.980 and Cushing gets the orders.
00:32:21.300 He's holding to the last second, holding to the last second because they want to decimate Pickett's charge,
00:32:26.660 and Cushing gets ready to give the order, talks to the sergeant,
00:32:30.120 and is shot point-blank range through the mouth, dies instantly,
00:32:34.260 and his sergeant lights the fuse, it goes off, and it explodes into the Confederate front line.
00:32:40.680 The folks that lived later said it was like a shotgun at point-blank range,
00:32:46.120 and Armistead still got over.
00:32:49.480 Remember, Armistead's the one that had his hat on top of his sword, so the gunfire,
00:32:52.580 the gun smoke was so heavy as actually see it.
00:32:54.660 They did turn a couple of the guns around, but then the high water mark is a couple of feet later.
00:33:01.660 Vicksburg had been under siege, Patrick K. O'Donnell, for a while.
00:33:07.380 This was Grant.
00:33:08.080 Grant tried every way to come, came by land, came by sea.
00:33:11.760 Vicksburg's the Gibraltar of the Mississippi, the Gibraltar of the South.
00:33:16.200 They had to take Vicksburg.
00:33:18.180 The siege of Vicksburg was pretty nasty, was it not, brother Patrick K. O'Donnell?
00:33:22.500 It indeed was, and it was innovations from Grant, persistence,
00:33:26.600 that he eventually surrounds it and starves them out.
00:33:31.660 Effectively, and there's a siege going on, and it's here that 29,000 Confederates surrender,
00:33:38.820 and the Confederacy is cleaved in half because the Union now controls the Mississippi River.
00:33:48.020 But this is just—
00:33:49.280 Yeah, they've cut off Texas, which is not a good thing.
00:33:53.160 The bitterness about Vicksburg, and you're right, they're starving to death,
00:33:57.580 and there's all types of rumors and myths and, you know,
00:34:00.880 about the—obviously, they were eating rats, but there were even things of cannibalism.
00:34:05.500 It was so horrible.
00:34:06.400 The Confederates held out to the bitter end.
00:34:08.720 And it was so bitter in Vicksburg, Mississippi, and folks understand Mississippi's one of the most patriotic states in this country.
00:34:16.540 It was over 100 years, Patrick, before the 4th of July was ever celebrated again in Vicksburg, Mississippi.
00:34:24.320 Over 100 years, they did not celebrate the 4th of July.
00:34:26.880 That's the bitterness that was there given the great siege.
00:34:30.720 But Grant proved his persistence.
00:34:33.240 He gets promoted to command of all the armies, and particularly the army—I guess he's going to oversee Meade in the Army of Potomac.
00:34:42.960 And his whole thing is no fancy strategy.
00:34:45.460 Starting in essentially, I think, late April, early May of 1864, he's got a plan.
00:34:50.680 And that plan is we're going to drive south basically on Route 1.
00:34:53.700 We're going to leave Washington.
00:34:54.760 We're now headquartered—our army's in northern Virginia.
00:34:59.560 We're going to march to Richmond, which is about 100 miles away.
00:35:03.360 We're going to march to Richmond down essentially Route 1 or I-95, basically.
00:35:08.900 We're going to march down there, and we're going to fight this thing out.
00:35:13.360 The first couple of days are so horrific at Spotsylvania in the wilderness that all the union officers and the enlistment thinks,
00:35:22.200 well, OK, we've seen this before, this is going to end this, and we'll just—we'll wait to next year.
00:35:27.040 And Grant sends that telegram to Lincoln that says, I intend to fight it out along this line if it takes all summer.
00:35:36.640 And that was the beginning of, I think, part of the end of the Confederacy.
00:35:42.340 But the South once again went on offense.
00:35:45.380 Tell us about 4th of July of 1864, brother.
00:35:48.320 1864 is, you know, as you mentioned, General Grant takes command, and he has a plan to attack the Confederacy from multiple fronts.
00:35:59.920 But as we see in the summer of 1864, it's not going well for the union at all.
00:36:06.720 In fact, they're fighting along the same ground in northern Virginia.
00:36:10.840 Lee is prevailing in the battles, even though Grant continues to kind of move around him.
00:36:16.540 He still prevails in the battles.
00:36:18.900 And then other fronts are also stalling.
00:36:21.320 There's massive amounts of union desertions at this time.
00:36:25.780 The war is not going well for the union.
00:36:28.960 There's—it's—the—what they—what the South does is it realizes that it doesn't need to win the war.
00:36:35.700 It merely needs to survive.
00:36:38.740 And, you know, as we see in most insurgencies during the 20th and 21st century, they win if they have the population support, and they merely survive.
00:36:48.300 And the South feels that it's in a position to do that.
00:36:51.460 So it turns to a regular warfare to extend its chances.
00:36:55.860 And one of the things that it does is it activates the Confederate Secret Service.
00:36:59.560 They send—you know, Jefferson Davis sends his best spies to Canada with millions of dollars in gold to basically bribe the, you know, potentially foreign powers.
00:37:13.140 But also that they work with the Democratic Party at the time.
00:37:16.760 And it's here in the summer of 1864 that they basically write the campaign platform for the Democratic Party, which is a armistice, because they believe that the war is a forever war that can never be won.
00:37:33.100 And it's an insurgency.
00:37:34.340 And in some ways, they have a legitimate point.
00:37:38.500 The northern population hates the war, and then they start to basically funnel money to northern newspapers to write stories about the forever war and how it's unwinnable.
00:37:49.660 And then what happens is the South also goes on the offense, as you mentioned.
00:37:53.060 The Battle of Lynchburg, where General Hunter, who is moving out of West Virginia along with General Crook, attacks Lynchburg, but Lee rushes Jubal Early's Corps, which is roughly 14,000 strong, by rail to Lynchburg, and they repel Hunter.
00:38:10.820 Instead of retreating to Washington, he doesn't want to retreat to Washington because John Singleton Mosby's Rangers are in the way, and he might—his supply line might be cut.
00:38:22.280 So instead, he retreats to West Virginia, and the army is to endure this, like, death camp-like march, like the Bataan death march.
00:38:30.540 Many guys just die of heat exhaustion.
00:38:33.180 It's a horrendous march back to West Virginia.
00:38:35.580 But it opens up the way to Washington, D.C., and the Shenandoah Valley.
00:38:42.140 And Early's army is marching straight up or straight down the valley towards Washington, D.C., unimpeded.
00:38:50.280 And they don't know where he's going.
00:38:53.700 They think he's potentially going to Baltimore.
00:38:57.520 He might be going to Pittsburgh.
00:38:59.000 They're not sure.
00:39:00.520 And Grant dithers.
00:39:02.080 He realizes that this is a diversion, but he dithers, and he doesn't dispatch more men to deal with it.
00:39:08.840 And it's around the 4th of July that the Unvanquished plays a huge role in this whole thing because it's a—this is a special operations mission to take not only the capital of the United States, but also free the largest prisoner of war camp at Camp Lookout, where the Confederates have over 10,000 men.
00:39:31.100 And it's near the 4th, and Jubal Early is Lee's bad old man.
00:39:39.160 That's his nickname.
00:39:40.260 He's just a cantankerous guy that wins battles, but he hates John Singleton Mosby, and he doesn't coordinate with him.
00:39:47.640 And this potentially has a devastating effect on the entire operation.
00:39:51.580 But Mosby, on the 4th of July, attacks the Point of Rocks, where there is a B&O railroad hub there, which connects Harper's Ferry and all the troops that are there to Washington, D.C., and they sever the line, which is crucial.
00:40:08.640 And they raid the—it's called the Calico Raid, and they move out, but it's at this time that Jubal Early, instead of pivoting towards Baltimore, pivots towards Washington, D.C. itself.
00:40:23.340 And it's at Monocacy near Rockville—or Frederick, Maryland, I should say—that the North makes one of the epic battles under Lou Wallace, who's the author of Ben-Hur later in life.
00:40:37.520 And it's here that he buys time, kind of like Washington's immortals during the American Revolution.
00:40:44.020 And he's burning precious hours to protect the Capitol, which is empty of men, practically.
00:40:51.640 They had all been shipped down to the siege at Petersburg.
00:40:56.220 And they were terrified because the nation's Capitol is virtually—it's empty.
00:41:03.620 There's dozens of forts around the Capitol, but there's not enough men to man them.
00:41:08.640 And it's at Monocacy that Lou Wallace burns precious daylight and hours, but Jubal Early's army is still marching forward.
00:41:18.900 And it's only hours away from D.C., which is still unoccupied.
00:41:26.060 And I have an amazing account in The Unvanquished by McClawson, who's the cavalry commander for Early's men.
00:41:33.660 He's his eyes in here.
00:41:34.620 It's not Jeff Stewart.
00:41:36.000 Jeff Stewart has been—was killed in battle.
00:41:40.220 And it's here that right outside of American University, near one of the forts, it was completely empty.
00:41:48.340 And McClawson could see the lights of Georgetown.
00:41:52.380 He had a complete path into the city.
00:41:55.840 And they were desperate to stop him.
00:41:59.120 And my uncle, my great-great-great-uncle, who was with the 150th Ohio, was thrust out in front of Jubal Early's massive army of over 10,000 men as they were bearing down.
00:42:10.440 And it's Lincoln, who's at Fort Stevens, as the 7th Corps is coming to the Washington Navy Yard in literally an hour before early is about to take Washington, D.C.
00:42:26.540 The old man almost took it.
00:42:29.160 It was shocking that so close it was.
00:42:31.200 Patrick, we're going to take a break here for a second.
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00:42:34.420 We've got one more block to go.
00:42:36.220 Love doing this on the 4th of July.
00:42:37.920 Anyway, General Crook, you heard his name.
00:42:41.200 General Crook, a lot of activity as a general in the Civil War, the episode you just heard.
00:42:47.960 Later, in 1876, he was also the other column that tried to get and meet.
00:42:54.380 He was the pincer move, one part of the pincer move, for General Custer.
00:42:58.580 I think it was on the Rosebud River where he fought the battle.
00:43:00.980 And then in 1886, 10 years after that, General Crook, the greatest of all of our Indian fighters, led the U.S.
00:43:08.940 Calvary in the Apache War and was the individual that tracked down Geronimo.
00:43:13.660 General Crook from the Union Army.
00:43:16.080 Okay.
00:43:16.840 Short commercial break.
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00:43:25.020 On the 4th of July, maybe check it out tomorrow.
00:43:28.260 We're going to commemorate and celebrate today.
00:43:31.000 Patrick K. O'Donnell.
00:43:32.880 We'll have a few closing thoughts in a moment.
00:43:35.160 General Nelson Miles, our second greatest Indian fighter, actually relieved General Crook and was the actual general that ended the Apache Wars and brought Geronimo.
00:44:00.900 If you haven't had an opportunity out in Arizona and New Mexico and Texas, just absolutely amazing.
00:44:08.240 Colorado, the story of the American West, particularly up all the way to Montana, Wyoming, all of it.
00:44:14.060 The U.S. Calvary, if you get a shot over the weekend, maybe you start John Ford's Calvary trilogy.
00:44:21.060 Was it Fort Apache, She Wore a Yellow Ribbon, and Rio Grande, three amazing, amazing films on the Calvary trilogy of John Ford.
00:44:31.800 Patrick K. O'Donnell, I want to thank you again for taking time away on the 4th of July.
00:44:36.940 How do people get your books?
00:44:39.020 The best way to start to understand American combat history is to start with a book of Patrick K. O'Donnell, their easy-read-like novels.
00:44:46.620 Where do they go, Patrick?
00:44:49.400 Amazon.com has all the reviews, including the Wall Street Journal.
00:44:53.320 It's a best-selling book.
00:44:54.120 It's the book of the month for May, for history, for the unvanquished.
00:45:00.980 Barnes & Noble, the front of the store, it's right there, usually at the front of the store.
00:45:05.960 It's been a best-selling book for them as well, and it's done extremely well.
00:45:10.940 Well, many thanks to the posse and the war room.
00:45:16.160 You can find me at at Combat Historian on Twitter or X, as well as Getter, and my website, which is my name, PatrickKO'Donnell.com.
00:45:25.620 All my books are there, and the reviews are there, too.
00:45:29.520 And today, it's been a real honor to be with you, Steve.
00:45:33.440 Well, we do this for all of our big commemorations, right, whether it's Combat History of Christmas or the 4th of July or Memorial Day.
00:45:41.020 Honored to have you on here, sir.
00:45:42.980 The posse loves your books, and every time you give a talk, you go to your website, see when Patrick's going to talk again.
00:45:48.180 They love to see it.
00:45:49.100 So, Patrick, thank you so much for helping us commemorate the combat history of the 4th of July, sir.
00:45:56.400 It's an honor, Steve.
00:45:57.380 Thank you.
00:45:57.780 One thing you've got to understand is that anything of value in this country has not been handed to people.
00:46:06.420 It's been fought for.
00:46:09.160 And obviously, our leaders, you know, you have people like Robert E. Lee and Grant and General Cook, you know, President Lincoln.
00:46:17.840 But if you really study the history of it, it's these amazing small moments, like we talked earlier about the American Thermopylae.
00:46:28.120 Think about it for a second.
00:46:29.180 In Brooklyn, New York, in Brooklyn, New York, now the hipster capital of America.
00:46:33.700 Now, this is not particularly in a hipster part of Brooklyn.
00:46:35.920 But you have a grave of, I think, about 250 individuals who were all from fairly prominent families in Maryland at the time, the Washington's immortals.
00:46:47.360 But right there, the American Thermopylae, if they had not held that position for a couple of hours, the American, the Continental Army would have never been able to get actually to survive.
00:46:58.200 And at that time, the whole point of the revolution came down, could the Continental Army hang together, just hang on long enough?
00:47:07.600 And, of course, the American Dunkirk right there at Brooklyn Heights, right near where the Brooklyn Bridge is today.
00:47:14.400 And you don't see any commemoration.
00:47:16.140 You don't even see any plaques down there.
00:47:18.080 Somehow we have to change that.
00:47:19.200 But around New York City and Manhattan, just amazing battles fought in the opening, really the opening stage of the American Revolution.
00:47:28.200 Okay, I want to thank everybody who's done the production today.
00:47:32.440 That means Parker, Sig, and the entire team, both the Palm Beach Studios, the DC Studios, Denver particularly.
00:47:40.160 I want to thank the guys in Denver.
00:47:43.440 We're so proud of doing these specials, and it takes a lot of big effort, team effort, my own production team.
00:47:48.780 I want to make sure you share this over the weekend.
00:47:50.840 We'll play this again, as we always do in the afternoon on the big holidays.
00:47:55.820 Until then, go have a great 4th of July.
00:48:00.460 Just remember what we've had to sacrifice for it.
00:48:04.000 Not simply the Declaration of Independence, but what enforced the Declaration of Independence.
00:48:10.120 That would be the grit, determination, and indefatical ability of the American people.
00:48:17.180 That's the fight we've got today.
00:48:18.660 We will never quit, ever.
00:48:20.160 Remember, the only way we lose, if we quit.
00:48:25.360 Okay, one of my favorite songs, the Battle Hymn of the Republic.
00:48:29.400 That says something, being a more southerner.
00:48:32.320 Battle Hymn of the Republic, or I'll leave you with that.
00:48:34.460 Happy 4th of July.
00:48:35.960 See you back here in the war room.
00:48:37.560 Glory, glory, glory, hallelujah, glory, glory, glory, hallelujah, glory, glory, glory, hallelujah.
00:48:59.020 His day is marching on.
00:49:05.480 He has sounded forth the trumpet that shall never sound retreat.
00:49:11.500 He is sifting out the hearts of men before his judgment seat.
00:49:17.380 Oh, be swift my soul to answer him.
00:49:20.500 Be jubilant my feet.
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00:49:28.800 In the beauty of the lilies, Christ was born.
00:49:58.780 He was born across the sea with a glory in his bosom that transfigures you and me.
00:50:08.680 As he died to make men holy, let us live to make men free while God is marching on.
00:50:22.180 Glory, glory, glory, hallelujah, glory, glory, hallelujah, glory, glory, hallelujah, while God is marching on.
00:50:44.420 Glory, glory, glory, hallelujah, glory, glory, hallelujah, glory, glory, hallelujah, while God is marching on.
00:51:06.420 Glory, glory, glory, hallelujah, glory, glory, hallelujah, glory, glory, hallelujah, while God is marching on.
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