Appomattox. We will also give you a chance to call in and talk with him and Elizabeth Varon from the university of virginia. We are joined by two men who played a starring role in the surrender ceremony you just saw. Ulysses s. Grant and robert e lee. General grant is portrayed by kurt field and general lee by thomas jesse. You want to invite you to be part of the conversation. Heres how to do that call us at the numbers on your screen. Send us a tweet at cspan history and you can also join us on facebook. This moment our viewers just saw on American History tv, gentlemen, what were you thinking as general lee wrote away . Guest sadness. I knew how much they were suffering with the surrender after they had fought so hard for four long years. I felt it was almost anticlimactic. One of the things i noted was the silence. There were no guns, no candidate in, no shouts, no battle sounds. The silence was a sound we had not heard for four years and it approached the eerie. Host general lee,
When he asked me to speak as the leadoff man, that was a first for me. Most of you can tell by my size, i have always been rather large i never hit leadoff because i that requires somebody speedy. Being the leadoff man is something new for me. I was surprised when pat pointed out that the magazine contains his article, because you get to this article, you have to read through my article. Which i think should have been the end of the magazine. [laughter] we could have avoided a lot of history that would have droned on. Please pick up one of those and read my article. Mike gorman has an article as well. It is always a pleasure to speak about petersburg, because most of you in this room having heard stories of petersburg, probably never delved into it. When i was at appomattox courthouse a number of years ago my boss at the time, who , promises to heckle me later, asked me, when i said i was going to petersburg, are you crazy . He said that it was the most unimportant story in all of the
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