President obama gave the commencement address at the u. S. Coast Guard Academy this past wednesday. On American History tv, we are looking at president ial commencement addresses from a decade ago. You can watch george w. Bushs 2005 address at the Naval Academy tonight at 9 30 p. M. Eastern on cspan3. Each week, american artifacts takes viewers to museums and Historic Sites around the country. On april 9, 1865, general robert e lee met ulysses s. Grant in the village of appomattox courthouse and surrendered his army of Northern Virginia, effectively ending the civil war. Next, we visit the museum of the confederacy in appomattox to see items related to the surrender. We also toured the museum, looking at the wars aftermath. Welcome to the museum of the confederacy appomattox. I am the site director here. For museum has been open for almost three years now. We are an extension of the museum that was originally founded in 1890, opened in 1896 in richmond. We house a lot of the artifacts
Conservation program. These two flags are perfect examples of that where we have been able to have these flags conserved so they will not deteriorate any further than that. It is an expensive process to have done. It can cost 20 to 30,000. We have been fortunate to have supporters step forward to help us with these. Some of them might have ancestors that fought for those particular units. So its something personal to them. But we still have a lot of the flags that have not been conserved like this that we cannot display this way. We have some that we can display in some of the drawers over here that i will show you. We have 59 of the flags that were surrendered or captured here at appotomax. And not all of them are in the conditions of the ones we looked at earlier that have been conserved. A lot of them look like this. This is obviously one that has probably souvenir damage done to it that was taken as they were if you recalling their flags on the day of april the 12th turning them in
Effectively ending the civil war. Next, we visit appomattox to see items related to the surrender. We also toured the museums exhibits. Linda lipscomb welcome Linda Lipscomb welcome to the museum. The museum here has been open for almost three years now. And we are an extension of the museum that was originally founded in 1890, opened in 1896 in richmond, virginia. We house here a lot of the artifacts that were from the confederates. We will tell you about how we got some of those artifacts. Here, we kind of focus on appomattox since we are in this location. One of the things people ask us about is why appomattox . Why did lee come here to surrender . It was not his original intent of course. Lee, on his retreat from petersburg, had been looking for supplies. His goal was to find supplies for his men and turn south to meet with general johnston in north carolina. As he is traveling from petersburg grant had been able to effectively block all the railroad supplies lee has waiting for hi
Der at eight an mat i then a ceremony marking the exact time 150 years ago that generals grant and lee met to discuss terms of surrender. After that is correct well hear from two living historians who portray the generals at the ceremony. And later, remarks on the leg of appotomax with historians. Each week american artifacts takes viewers to his forrics sites around the country. On april 9th 1865, confederate general robert e. Lee met ulysses s. Grant and sun rendered his arm of north virginia effectively ending the civil war. Next we visit the confederacy in a appotomax appotomax. Welcome to the museum of the confederacy of appotomax. Im listened de lipt lipscomb. The museum hare opened three years. We are an extension of the museum that was originally founded in 1890 opened in 1896 in richmond virginia. We house here a lot of aircraft facts that were from the confederates. Well tell you how we got some of the artifacts. Here we tend to focus on appotomax because we are in the locati
Activist investor carl icahn withdrawing his campaign to split up and ebay and paypal. We have Charlie Gasparino and scott martin. Fox news contributor. Guys, what do we think uncle carl got out of this . He got in at 53 bucks. Has he made money . Charlie what do you think . I think he made a few bucks on this thing. I think he made a broader point. He will take criticism on this he blinked. He is out. He didnt get what he wanted more than a few bucks. Carl wanted some fundamental changes with the Company Including ebay. What i liked about this battle, maybe it is just me, everybody thinks there is inside game in wall street. That you know, the bad guys are running wall street. High frequency traders are screwing everybody, it is an insiders game . Guess what . Silicon valley sin cider game. I had no idea that marc andreessen, who is good guy, im not saying he did anything illegal, made a gazillion dollars wifing skype from ebay and in a deal he didnt take that much risk. Carl did, wen