Lots of other little theegions that really give ozarks region a lot of diverse, physically speaking. My interest in the history of the ozarks dates back to my undergraduate days. I went to school in the age of the ozarks, a Little College called i had grown up in the ozarks. I just didnt really know it. Identity is a funny thing. When i grew up, i associated with the ozarks with places that advertised them. They kind of branded themselves as part of the ozarks. We watched Television Channels out of springfield, missouri, they were always talking about the ozarks. I thought thats where the ozarks must have been, around springfield, missouri. I remember, i was an undergrad in the library at lyon college, and i came across this book written by a geographer named milton lafferty. I opened it up and there was a map of the ozarks, the borders. I discovered i grew up in the ozarks, but had never really i knew i grew up in the hills, that we were hill people, but i Never Associated myself with
The ozarks. When you are dealing with identity, certainly a person who is a native of the region is most likely to identify themselves as an ozarkian or ozarker. The region covers most of the southern half of missouri, much of northern and northwestern oklahoma,northeastern the physical ozarks region even goes into the very tip of southeastern kansas. To cover parts of four different states. The cultural ozarks doesnt necessarily correspond with the physical ozarks. There are people who live in the physical ozarks who wouldnt identify themselves as an ozarker or ozarkian. There are people who live outside of the physical ozarks who would. I am working on is called a history of the ozarks. Published by the illinois press, the first volume comes out this year. Is a historyks, of the ozarks before the civil war. There is a brief chapter on prehistory. I am not an anthropologist, thats why it is a brief chapter on prehistory. Lifeoks at native american in a historical period in the ozarks.
Place in mr. Mcleans parlor settled the issue of who would be the victors of the American Civil War but many questions remained unanswered. Soldiers echoed their thoughts in letters and diary entries. While letters of Union Soldiers reflected jubilation, their words also reflected concerns. In the front lines of appomattox chaplain jl mulligan of the 140 pennsylvania wrote a few days later, though the army of Northern Virginia is ours, still grave questions remain to be settled, for which god alone can give the true wisdom and guidance. A confederate are atillerist had an entry on april 11th that lee had surrendered his whole army. Surely the last 24 hours has been a day of the most intense mental anxiety i have ever experienced. Thousands of thoughts have passed through my mind as to what fate awaits my country my family my neighbors, my friends, and myself. And several months earlier morgan w. Carter, with the 28th United States colored troops expressed his concerns in a letter home.
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
Retirement community for Union Soldiers here at Appomattox Courthouse, and they buy up land west of the village. They are unsuccessful in selling off these lots to Union Veterans, and they decide theyre going to dismantle the house and move it to washington d. C. And create a museum out of it. The house is dismantled. And unfortunately there is a financial panic in 1893 and the firm goes bankrupt. And all the supplies or materials outside start to rot away or are taken as souvenirs. The park service, when it takes over the facility in 1940 determines the one thing theyre going to do is rebuild the mcclain house. Fortunately, the same company that took the house apart got the bid to rebuild the house, and they still had the plans so its been rebuilt on the exact location, using the original plans. There are a few bricks to the heart in the basement 5,500 original bricks are used on the front of the house. So when youre walking up to the house, you will pass through bricks that were here