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, as we watched that site just moments ago, you seemed to pause for a moment b
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,
Confederate armies were still active in the field, the surrender of the souths most put remaining fighting force effectively ended the civil war. Next, we tour the National Historical park to learn more about the events surrounding that day. This is the oldest building in the village. It was called clover hill before it became Appomattox Courthouse. This was one of the later counties formed. They took price of the four surrounding counties and formed appomattox county in 1845. This county had 18,000 people in it. More than half were slaves working on the tobacco farms. As of 1860, 120 people lived here in Appomattox Courthouse. Folks would stay at the Clover Hill Tavern as they traveled. The courthouse building was built in 1846, may be in 1847. The jail burned and a new one was built across the road. When people come to Appomattox Court house, they learned the surrender took place at Appomattox Courthouse. It did in the town of Appomattox Courthouse. The surrender meeting took place a
Carolina during the last months of the civil war. This is about an hour. Thank you, david. Can everyone hear me okay . Yes. All right. Well, we have watched the armies of grant and lee moving across the virginia landscape from the siege of petersberg, to the surrender at appomattox courthouse, now im going to make a detour. Were going to make a sharp turn south and turn back the clock. Were going back to december of 1864. And were going to follow this man, general William T Sherman and his progress in what he believes and hopes will be his final campaign of the war. Now sherman and grant are pursuing the grand strategy that they formulated in march of 1864 in cincinnati, ohio. The idea was to keep the armies in the east and in the west, the confederate armies so busy that they cannot reinforce each other. And not have a repeat fiasco in the battle of chickamauga. And now this strategy is working slopely but inex orablely. While grant keeps lees army bottled up around petersberg and ric
A question about the supplemental the schofield supplement to the surrender terms. How were they received in washington and were they successfully carried out . What i think happened is when they reached washington about a week later, they saw it as an accomplished fact. The most controversial provision would have been letting 1 in 7 confederates keep their weapons. I think they felt that would not be too harmful. I would say that and i did not go into this because i did not have time there was a great deal of furor up north about the terms because secretary stanton had sent his reasons for his approving them to the newark times to the New York Times where they become public knowledge. Sherman was furious and he found out. Amid all of that, the supplemental terms slipped through without much notice. We do know they were approved. Time for another question if anyone has one. Thank you. Thank you. Appreciate it most of [applause] we do have two of marx books marks books here. So grab mar