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
Anyway, that was after reading to appomattox, the only book we had to learn from. I was trying to figure out how the armies actually got around from Sailors Creek in this area where most of the heavy fighting takes place. I remember the editor of the Farmville Herald some historian asked him how the troops got from highbridge to farmville they were wanting to know. I remember he said it would take a philadelphia lawyer to figure out how the armies got through this area. Im not from philadelphia but i think ive figured it out. Would you speak on major henry young . Chris henry young was in the second rhode island infantry. Another thing the Union Cavalry used on this campaign and tracy ably talked about what the Union Cavalry was at this point of the war, they wore confederate uniforms and took the persona of i think they took the ninth virginia cavalry, fake southern accents, and what they would do is they would ride into the confederate line of march. They would tell the teamsters go