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,
Generally, did you write your own . Guest i did not write memoirs. I asked various officers for paperwork, but i only lived five years after the war. Host wheeling have one more caller left on the air on American History tv. Is somebody there . You are on American History tv. Caller i would like to know i read that for you, general lee, that you took it very bad when you lost the war. How did you cope and what did you do after the war . What did you do to cope from the loss of the war . Guest the first thing i did was get with my family in richmond and took some time of i guess you could say seclusion with the family. We left richmond for a friends farm which was far away from the people who wanted to come and pay their respects to me. I basically put my hands in the arms of god and said show me what to do next. Host general grant, you were in washington after the war. Guest in august of 1866, they created the rank general of the army and i got my fourth star. I was the first general o
Host grants memoir became a best seller after he died. Generally, did you write your own . Guest i did not write memoirs. I asked various officers for paperwork, but i only lived five years after the war. Host wheeling have one more caller left on the air on American History tv. Is somebody there . You are on American History tv. Caller i would like to know i read that for you, general lee, that you took it very bad when you lost the war. How did you cope and what did you do after the war . What did you do to cope from the loss of the war . Guest the first thing i did was get with my family in richmond and took some time of i guess you could say seclusion with the family. We left richmond for a friends farm which was far away from the people who wanted to come and pay their respects to me. I basically put my hands in the arms of god and said show me what to do next. Host general grant, you were in washington after the war. Guest in august of 1866, they created the rank general of the a
So the question is whether there are pressure all . And just everything was drinking. Whats the question . Why do we not reach out more . Okay, okay. Let me answer. Its a very simple answer. Of course you can understand they want us to reach out more. We have to reach out in a sensible realistic way. One of the problems is the peace thinking of the peace concept will not renew in 20 years of reality refuted them time after time. This is why we need fresh thinking. It will not try to sell today is a new car or a 25yearold chevy. So its time to think fresh. And to describe it in a sentence. When israelis open their hearts and say its a good pc to 93 the result was the wave of terror and exploding in jerusalem. When israelis took it to step forward in the camp david Peace Agreement 2000, the result was the worst suicide army terror offenses ever. When israelis open their heart the third time and withdrew from the gaza strip, the result was rockets coming and making life in southern israel
Those days are not quite as distant as some suppose. We remember that a few people still alive today lived through them, albeit as children. 2014 will mark that centennial of the drama which profoundly influenced the history of the world. I spent the last three years writing a book describing both how the war came about and what happened on the battlefields during its first months before the french lapsed into a stalemate. There is a widely held view, a delusion, as i shall argue, that the two world wars belong to different moral orders. Nineteen robo one was a good war, world war ii was bad. The first subject was so horrendous that turned is that makes it of the two sides causes could badly to meant barely managed. They add a view of what they think happened. Until 1941 britain defied the vast evil of nazism, berlin. In russia and the United States took this train encompassing the destruction of hitler. The struggle was nothing like as bloody as its predecessor, says some people kid t