And kind of a rosy view of spiritual practices of native americans. You get this kind of dualism. So actually to the extent that whites paid attention to this spiritual practices of native americans, they saw in a kind of favorable sort of way. Its kind of a strange sort of double thing. Attitudes toward native americans exist side by side. Did your research on the native americans involve any way that the native americans tribe treated each other and their type of warfare . Is that looked at or considered . Yeah, i can talk a little bit more about that. Western indians practiced mutilation as a matter of course. Within native american culture, this kind of mutilation had a cultural significance and understanding that. When native americans practiced the kind of mutilations that they did against one another on white soldiers, this is the kind of thing that drove white soldiers into a fury. Does that address your question . Can you tell me about the lib a code . Yeah, what youre talking
I will be doing a book signing upstairs. If you have a copy of the book there is time to get one. If you do not have a copy, there is still time to get one. Richmond was captured april 3, 1865. What antzel understatement that is, to capture the historic event that happened 150 years ago today. I got interested in this project 12 years ago when i was going through my grandfathers Family Archive and memoirs and came across this entry. My fathers uncle was a general in the civil war. My grandfather was born in the United States in ohio. His parents were immigrants. Jacob lew is weitzel was his father and his parents died at a young age when george was 18 months old. He was adopted, and the family name was changed. Im a blood weitzel. So the title of my talk is im a is weitzeltalk returns. We have weitzels in the Confederate White House. We have some weitzels here today. Probably more than in 150 years. Welcome. This is Major General Godfrey Weitzel. Age 1835, died in 1884 at 49. He was bo
Authors. Thats live april ninth and 12th here on American History tv on cspan three. Each week, american artifact takes viewers to archives museums, and Historic Sites around the country. On april 9 1865, confederate general robert e lee met Union General Ulysses S Grant village of Appomattox Courthouse and surrendered his army of Northern Virginia. While confederate armies were still active in the field, the surrender of the southpaws most potent remaining fighting force effectively ended the civil war. Next, we tour Appomattox Courthouse National Historical Park to learn more about the events surrounding that day. This is the oldest building this was called clover hill before became Appomattox Courthouse. This county was one of the later counties formed and they will take part of the counties in form appomattox county in 1845. This county have about 9000 people, more than half of them were enslaved working on the tobacco farms. As of 1850 about 120 people lived here in Appomattox Cou
At appomattox. There was still kirby smith with the army in texas and his official surrender is not until june 2, 1865. The surrender at appomattox was a multiday process. After leeann grant met, they appoint commissioners to work out the details of how they surrender will take place. That is done by the commissioners on april 10 and the confederate cavalry is set to surrender their sabers and carbines, the artillery, and the bulk of generallys army surrenders on april 12. Over 22,000 men and i will take you to to the road where they surrendered now. We are once again standing on the richburg wichman stage road. The signals were the last artillery shots were fired on the morning of april 9. Also is the home of george pierce, the county clerk. He had a special guest for dinner, general jocelyn kj general jocelyn chamberlain. Over the course of their dinner conversation, chamberlain has the leegrant meeting site all the way up to the Maclean House. His men are out here for several hours
Im excited to be here on the 150th anniversary of the date godfrey weitzal occupy the house. People are surprised, they have not heard of him before. Over the next hour i will tell you why he was chosen to enter richmond 150 years ago today. You may remember his name when he walked out of here when you walk out of here. I will be doing a book signing upstairs. If you have a copy of the book there is time to get one. Richmond was captured april 3, 1865. What an understatement that is to capture the historic event that happened 150 years ago today. I got interested in this project 12 years ago when i was going through my grandfathers Family Archive ben morris and came across this entry. My fathers uncle was a general in the civil war. My grandfather was born in the United States in ohio. His parents were immigrants. His parents died at a young age when george was 18 months old. Im a blood wetiitzel. We have weitzels in the Confederate White House. We have some weitzels here today. Probab