Degree in writing in addition to his book hes of the author of rebel yell, and empire of the silver moon, it was the finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in National Book critics circle award. Sam spent most of his career as a journalist including bureau chief, National Correspondent and Senior Editor for time and as executive editor of texas monthly. We are delighted to have you here with us this evening your latest book, hymns of the republic, the story of the final year of the American Civil War and to my immediate right is Donald Miller and i hope i can call you don. He is the author of several New York Times bestsellers including masters of the air, americas bomber boys who bought the air war against germany which is currently being developed as a miniseries produced by Steven Spielberg and tom hanks which is evobably the closest ill ever get to meeting those guys. [laughter] he previously worked as a consultant for the hbo series, pacific, anchorage abated to several episodes of ameri
A good way. But to make sure that we have adequate time for everyone. So when you get to five minutes left, i have a fiveminute card and i will lay it up so you can see it and then three minutes and one minute so you can see where you are. So we have time for everyone. Im going to introduce each panelist as they come forward, because i found if you introduce them all at once people forget who they are. So i will begin with our first panelist who is john f. Polk. He received his ph. D. In mathematics from the the university of delaware in 1979. He served three years in the army, including a tour in vietnam. He is retired from a 45year career as a scientist and Senior Adviser of International Research collaboration at the u. S. Army research laboratory, aberdeen proving ground, maryland. He is currently the clan historian for clan pollock international and publishes short articles on Family History in the clan news letter. He has published two backs on historical topics, beyond damned qu
The report seemed credible to confederates because it confirmed the right over might. It would be written that Union Officers cheered for lee as he left the mclean house. A yankees dared not utter a single insulting word to the defeated rebels. Why were the yankees so reticent, even submissive, in victory . It is explained, they feared the lion even in chains. Lee, the lion, still commanding the deference and respect of northerners, and fear. In the year after the war confederates not only again and again invokes the overwhelming numbers interpretation of their defeat. They also invoked the appomattox terms, and particularly the remainundisturbed clause. They invoked in the clause as a shield against social change and a weapon in a looming battle over black civil rights. Republican efforts to give the free people a measure of inequality and opportunity and protection were met by confederate protests that such a radical agenda was a betrayal of the appomattox terms, the prospect of blac
It would be written that Union Officers cheered for lee as he left the mclean house. A yankees dared not utter a single insulting word to the defeated rebels. Why were the yankees so reticent, even submissive, in victory . It is explained, they feared the lion even in chains. Lee, the lion, still commanding the deference and respect of northerners, and fear. In the year after the war confederates not only again and again invokes the overwhelming numbers interpretation of their defeat. They also invoked the appomattox terms, and particularly the remainundisturbed clause. They invoked in the clause as a shield against social change and a weapon in a looming battle over black civil rights. Republican efforts to give the free people a measure of inequality and opportunity and protection were met by confederate protests that such a radical agenda was a betrayal of the appomattox terms, the prospect of black citizenship as one virginia newspaper put it , molests and disturbs us. The North Ca
Debates bond by appomattox debate spawned by appomattox. I will argue lee and grant represented distinct visions of what the honorable peace would look like. They were fundamentally incompatible, contrary to a myth. They represented fundamentally incompatible visions of what the peace would look like and why the war turned out the way it did. I also try to take us beyond lee and grant. As the drama unfolded, countrymen and women would crowd the scene and have their own agenda aspirations, and dreams. Among those dreams was the dream of freedom itself. In the eyes of africanamericans, lees surrender was a freedom day, the day, the moment that the promise of emancipation was fulfilled. Lees vision emphasized confederate righteousness. Grants vision emphasized African Americans would associate appomattox with liberation. Lets start with lee and the confederates. Lee and the men in his inner circle , even as this writer took shape, to turn military deceit into moral victory. In lees view,