But I'll let you explain.

Well, it's the most famous flank march in the Civil War.

No question about it.

Lee again.

This is Lee's audacity again in the Joseph Hooker.

who's Ambrose Burns.

I mean, one thing you have, there's so much to say here in not much time.

So again, just give us a little bit of background on his rise to prominence.

Let's, uh, you know, for the audience looking back, let's put ourselves in the mind space of how people saw the world, how people saw slavery, how people saw African Americans.

Well, the baseline among the white Americans, there were about 31, shade more than 31 million Americans in 1860 for the census of 1860.

About 4 million of them were African Americans, three and a half million of those enslaved in the South.

Anyway, among the white population, the average attitude toward Black people is what we would call profoundly prejudiced.

It doesn't matter whether you...

A lot of people think this is a Southern white thing.

They're the only ones who are prejudiced.

What's your, uh, view on Confederate monuments? You know, the monuments that capture these periods, these complicated periods of our history.