I am sure a number of you in this room know more about grants military career, particularly after taking this course, than i do. The second caveat relates to i am riding a book on the presidency of ulysses s wri ting a book on the presidency of ulysses s. Grant for the university of cambridge. Some of the things i will be sent today are tentative in nature, shall we say. We do not have the time to go through an entire chronology of the events of grants very busy two terms in the white house. Instead i would like to raise a few points to how to look at grants presidency. First to historiography. I will be very brief about that. Then we will look at some of the problems in the country during his presidency. Then i would like to discuss some of the access that he brought assets that he brought to the office that help them succeed. Not only personal assets, but assets in the culture in which he was operating. And then i would like to talk about some of the liabilities. And then i will talk
But, he was human. That is all part of the story, the good, the bad, the ugly. He was many things. But always, first and foremost he was an oilman. Watch all of our events from tulsa. On cspan book tv cspan 2 on a taste and 3. Cspan 2. On the communicators our National Security agency is building one of the World Largest Cloud Data Centers in a sick here mountain facility in utah. It is doing so because it surveillance needs requires that degree of storage and security. The u. S. Government chief Information Officer three or four years ago ordered the u. S. Government agencies to move to the cloud. As a result, even civilian agencies are turning to cloud services. Monday night on the communicators on cspan 2. Each week, American History tv sits in on a lecture with one of the Nations College professors. You can watch the classes here every saturday evening at 8 00 p. M. Eastern. Next, Charles Calhoun talks about the obstacles they buy faced by ulysses s. Grant during his presidency and
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
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
It is still very much a work in progress. I havent figured out everything about this man the white house. Perhaps that is an impossibility. Some of the things i will be saying today are tentative in nature, shall we say. We do not have the time to go through an entire chronology of the events of grants very busy two terms in the white house. Instead i would like to raise a few points to how to look at the grant presidency. First to historiography. How he has been treated in the past. I will be very brief about that. Then we will look at some of the problems in the country during his presidency. Then i would like to discuss some of the assets that he brought to the office that help him succeed. Not only personal assets, but assets in the culture in which he was operating. And then i would like to talk about some of the liabilities. And then i will talk about grants achievements in the white house and a little bit about the impact on the evolution of the presidency. First to historiograp