Finally, in april of 1862 northern troops began bombarding for polaski. The amazing thing was, they could hit everything they were aiming at from a distance they laid outside of the ability of the confederates to land a telling blow in return. The closer they got to the magazine, the more quickly commander olmsted was able to fly the flag of surrender and give for polaski over to the union. And in effect, inform robbery lee that the blockade of southern ports was going to work, because the union had technology that was going to overcome anything the confederates could do to answer it. They couldnt counter the parent rifles that the union army had. We hope to be doing a lot of digitizing and scanning of the correspondence because it contains a lot of genealogical information that will be of interest families. A lot of the families who did not return, of soldiers to maine, but whose family members would now like to know, what did there great, great, grandfather do during the war. We look
I will give an abbreviated version of the bios we have in the programs. Tracy is a native of appomattox. He has worked for the National Park service. He has been at Petersburg National battlefield since 1997. He is the author of one of the volumes and the howard, virginia regimental history series. He is also passed president of the lynchburg civil war roundtable. And the appomattox county historical society. His talk today will be on the fall of petersburg. Please welcome Tracy Chernault. [applause] Tracy Chernault good evening. Im a big baseball guy. 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 never hit leadoff because i require somebody speeding. 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] please pick up one
He launches an attack on forces a few miles east of kinston on march 8 and succeeds in routing a portion of coxs forces, capturing 800 federals and one canon. Things look pretty good for the confederates on the first day but then the second day cox brings up reinforcement. The federals dig in. Bragg attempts an attack on the tense, but hes repulsed. Receiving words that cox is receiving still more reinforcements, bragg decides to fall back towards goldsboro ending the battle of lysis forks. In the meantime, sherman plots the course of his army group from fayetteville. Goldsboro is his objective, but he wants to keep johnston guessing as to what his objective is. Hes going to send the left wing under slocum northward on the old raleigh stage road, as if hes heading towards the North Carolina state capital. They will be marching in light marching order, all the unnecessary wagons will be with the right wing under howard. They will be taking direct roads to goldsboro. The idea is to keep
Steyn announces it is time to return to the bennett plays for the second day of negotiations. Reagan says he will send the terms forward. Sherman and johnston reached the Bennett Place around noon. Johnston probably tells sherman that he has official authorization for this allencompassing surrender. He would like to bring breckenridge into the discussion. Sherman says he doesnt know about that. Johnston replies yes but breckenridge is also a Major General in its confederate army. Sherman says, ok. At that point reagans basis of pacification arrives and johnston begins to lead it read it aloud and sherman looks disapproving and johnson points out the only thing we disagreed on is amnesty for davis and the. Otherwise, and the cabinet. Otherwise, we have a basis of agreement. Sherman waves it off. He gets out and and paper and begins to write his memorandum for a basis of agreement. It troops to be twice as long. He ends up giving the confederates more than they asked for. The confederate
I will give an abbreviated version of the bios we have in the programs. Tracy is a native of mathematics appomattox. He has worked for the National Park service. He has been at Petersburg National battlefield since 1997. He is the author of one of the volumes and the howard, virginia regimental history series. He is also passed president of the lynchburg civil war roundtable. And the appomattox county historical society. His talk today will be on the fall of petersburg. Please welcome Tracy Chernault. [applause] john lehman Tracy Chernault good evening. Im a big baseball guy. 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 never hit leadoff because i require somebody speeding. 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. [laugh