[applause] for those who have more questions, he will be in the lobby signing his books. You can ask questions. One thing to keep in mind, there were also native americans that did fight in the union army as well. Particularly from minnesota. And yesterday we talked about ely parker, who drafted the terms at appomattox. Bert has several books, the confederate surrender at greensboro no turning back. And then, his talk was about to to the bitter end. People only say i would like to buy a book for my friend. They love the civil war but i do not know what books they have. They do not have this book, i guarantee it. It came in just as we were loading up the van to bring it too long with. To longwood. Just off the press. You can find books and answer questions. Mark bradley, yesterday, our last speaker sign some of his books. This astounding close, blue coats, tar heels. If you buy 50 of books, they give you a nice bag. You get the bag otherwise for 2. 95. Were live with American History tv
Some local trouble. Through a mutual acquaintance discovered that there were virginians who were traveling to brazil. In fact, this was not a virginia phenomenon. It was something that was happening throughout the south. The reason for it was that, at least in the case of brazil, it has been advertised in newspapers in places like new orleans, atlanta, charleston all over, by brazilian officials. The idea was that brazil, being an enormous country, it is still an enormous country, needed further development of its interior. Its government officials thought, what better immigrants to have then these confederates who have advanced agricultural knowledge compared to a lot of other perspective immigrants. Obviously, are not happy with how things are going at home. So they essentially were given land grants to come to brazil. So that is the reasoning behind it. Just to bring home berrtts point, i would like to read something briefly called its from the virginia magazine of history and biogr
I would encourage students, graduate students watching and scholars watching who are interested in panAmerican History as well as the civil war, this is a rich area of inquiry in which there is a lot of that still needs to be done. How did i come to it . Im a little out of my element here an english professor among historians who writes historical fiction but did a lot of Historical Research for my book. For my fictional title, confederados. How does an english professor from appomattox, virginia, come to have an interest in confederados . And the answer is, marriage. [laughter] i married a local gal from Buckingham County who had an ancestor who fought in the civil war in mosbys rangers and who afterward, for various reasons was compelled he was a bachelor, a young guy was compelled to leave the country. Going back to berts comment reconstruction after the surrenders, it is a time of uncertainty. A lot of southerners were concerned, how are we going to be treated . Is it going to be m
And he is one of many renegotiations and not even the last one. The fight has been brutal and very bitter. Asa matthews is a colonel who sees these indian leaders and doksville, oklahoma is gone. Today its a state historic site, an archaeological site. There a couple of markers. Thats june and july that this is happening. There isolated incidents across the south and i will point out a few. One of the most famous units is the orphan brigade and kentucky troops. They are put off and they will march into augusta, georgia in may and spender to union troops in tennessee. And all across the south, you will have small isolated commands learning about the larger events and finding their way to the nearest union forces to surrender. Near weldon, an isolated artillery unit wandered around for a couple of weeks in late april and early may. One soldier wrote they were avoiding the soldier of an october pus. Finally they realized they had nowhere to go and nothing else to do and they will make the
Things turn around at the end ofho the war. Its because of the treatment of a the United States government andnce back the homeland and we settled in oklahoma. They had a chance to end it. Thank you. For those who have more questions for bert he is in the lobby signing his book so you can ask your questions there. You have been watching American History tv. More from the seminar on the closing of the civil war in 1865. Coming up the battles of Sailors Creek and the battle of appomatlox. Later today, the ceremonies marking the 150th anniversary. In april of 1865 confederate general robert e lee met Ulysses S Grant andsz endered his army of Northern Virginia ending introduce our next speaker. Dr. Coles our second speaker is casey clabough. Casey is a professor at Lynchburg College and editor of the james dickey review and is english graduate director. A richmond native who grew up and appomattox county, he has editor of the multivolume best creative nonfiction of the south, texas review