Creek. Its all wednesday night starting at 8 00 eastern here on cspan 3. This sunday on q and a, Senior Editor for the Weekly Standard Andrew Ferguson on his writing career, the gop president ial candidates for 2016 and what voters are looking for in a candidate. They want somebody who looks like hes stood up for them. Im amazed now to the degree to which primary voters on both sides are motivated by resentment and the sense of being put upon and those people really dont understand us. Here is a guy, hes going to stick it to them. Hillary clinton will give her own version of that kind of thing. I dont think that was actually true 30 years ago. The resentiment has always been part of politics but the degree to which its almost exclusively the motivating factor in truly committed republicans and democrats. Sunday night at 8 00 eastern and pacific on cspans q and a. American history tv recently visited Longwood University in farmville, virginia for a seminar on the closing of the civil wa
The reality is they opened up but it was to be an outreach to our kind of people there. Thank you. I just had a quick question. Do you think the majority of the people, do you have any information on this, left for political reasons, not wanting to live under yankee rule or was it more economics hoping to reestablish a Slave Institution in brazil or elsewhere . And also, do you have any information perhaps about the states that they were more likely to have left were deep south states like alabama, mississippi or upper south states, which i would think it would be deep south states but im just guessing on that . Well, let me start with your last question, yes, it was predominantly deep south states where it was where the brazilian government advertised and also the ports lended themselves to transportation to brazil as well. Although, there were some virginians. They would have left from norfolk and there was a man in lynchburg whose last name was noonen who was sort of the point perso
Today. Two books i think we have them for sale in the bookstore. The most recent 1 i grabbed the wrong one. What is the title of the most recent one . To the bitter in. To the bitter end. And the second one, the final days of the army of tennessee. It is the transmississippi and indian territory. It was one of the florida regiments, the last surrendered group. Robert dunkerly. [applause] mr. Dunkerly good morning. I want to thank the organizers for having me. I really appreciate the invitation. Its great to be here with so many people interested in this topic. What i would like to do is talk about all of these surrenders. I do want to compare these surrenders. Talk about how different they are, because each of them unfolded in its own way. And each of these surrenders happens independently and they each have a fascinating story and talk about how the civil war will set the stage for reconstruction. All right. Im not going to spend a lot of time on appomattox. A couple points i do want
It is about an hour. I want to introduce our speaker for the morning, Robert Dunkley is a historian awardwinning author, he has a degree in history from st. Vincent. He has worked at nine different historic sites, most recently on Richmond National battlefield park. He has written two books that are specifically listed. Im sure he will be talking about them today. I think we have at least one of them in the bookstore, the most recent one. To be bitter end, and the other one is the confederate of greensboro. His talk today will be on the forgotten territories. I hope he might mention florida a little once or twice. It was one of the regimens that was one of the last surrendered groups. Bert dunkley. [applause] bert good morning. I want to thank the organizers for having me. I appreciate the invitation. It is great to be here with so many people interested in the topic. What i would like to do was talk about all of the surrenders, not so much on appomattox, i think you have covered that
In the course of my career and all the interaction i have had with various historians and other scholars who i see come and go, as well as the controversy it comradeship i have daily with fellow rangers. I want to cover the history of fords theater, sort of a general history, and work my way into the assassination. A little bit about the historical background of the theater. The theater was created in 1860, 1861, from what was originally a Baptist Church built on the Current Location on 511 10th street in 1833. The ford brothers were originally from maryland baltimore, where they ran three or four other theaters as well as an opera house. The theater, when it opened at the outset of president lincolns term in office, it had a shortlived life. Following the assassination of president lincoln, the ford brothers were unable to reopen the theater in the aftermath of the tragedy. There was public outrage of it at any thought of trying to continue it a theater given what has happened. They w