[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
At the very moment the confederates come out at what was called devils den ready to attack, there was vincent putting his men into position. They attacked only minutes of vincent with his manager position. So his place ing of the men he did it on its own without any authority saved the day because those guys beat back the attack. Unfortunately, the confederate attack was years. Part of the lines began to buckle. Visit sees that part of the line was starting to cave in, rushed to the side and had his wife writing and is the with white writing crop. He just had the white writing crop. He was saying hold your position and had the writing crop in the air, and it was a perfect target. It got to the abdomen and proved fatal a couple of days later. Chamberlain who is been under vincent, developed a very close friendship was in charge of one end of the line took over when vincent was mortally wounded. He did not die right away. He was carried to the back. Chamberlain took over. Within the next
Movement of the armies to cover a lot of ground. There are several bottles only way. By the time the armies battles on the way. By the time the army gets to appomattox they have been in constant contact. When they arrived at the courthouse, there is a final battle on the day of the surrender because nobody knew there would be a surrender that day on the morning of april. April 9. Here we have sailors creek, the largest battle of the campaign with eight thousand confederate 8000 confederate soldiers captured on one day. As the army of Northern Virginia drifts into the courthouse, the Union Cavalry under general custer has gotten in front of the Confederate Army, blocking the road they intend to use. The goal all along for robert ulees to get robert lee is to get the army down. Lee cap makes the terms to the south because union forces keep blocking the way but the union armies cant make the turn to the south because union forces keep blocking the way. This map shows the final battle whic
The 185th new york, hundred 90 if pennsylvanian. He is taking casualties. This guy here. Look at that. Artillery shell takes off his foot. And some toes on his other foot. Some of that artillery fire is coming from the yard of george pierce, at the eastern edge of the village. Men in those batteries are members of the richmond howitzers and salem flying artillery. Here is an illustration of the firing of the last gun. William brown is with the salem flying artillery. One of those shells finds this fellow here. Hiram clarke. Kimberlin claims him to be the last casualty. Dont know that that is necessarily true. But it is a rather tragic story. Hiram clarke is from marathon, new york. He is sick with jaundice in the hospital. He finds out his regimen is moving out i campaign, he absents himself from the hospital and joins his resident regimen. Arching all the way to appomattox, and is hit by an artillery shelled and killed outright. We always knew about this this illustration. A couple ye
Print parole passes for the confederates. This is the pattern that they use, it is called a check pattern, i think you can see why. They are important for a few other things as well. General grant indicated that they could be used for transportation on Union Military railroads and ships. For a lot of the men who lived near working railroads or can get home by ship, the Union Military will transport them. A lot of the men who lived in the deep south went to norfolk on ships, and got home that way. The parole passes will be important for a lot of reasons. They allow the soldiers to get food, they can stop at union supply bases and draw rations. Over the next three days the surrender is put in motion. The first branch that will surrender is the cavalry on april 10. If you are wondering why the cavalry goes first, think about how much food a horse eats everyday and think about the state of these Confederate Forces and think about appomattox is a small county and does not have a lot of reso