Thank you very much. It is a pleasure and honor to be here and share the stage with these wonderful scholars. Im grateful to Patrick Schroeder to having included me. So you have the surrender scene and i would like to turn to the surrender aftermath and the political debates spawned by appomattox and ill argue that lee and grant had distinct visions of what an honorable possess would look like and peace would look like and the two of the myths of the gentlemens meeting of the minds and they had fundamental visions of what an honorable peace would look like and why the war turned out the way it did. But i will try to take us beyond lee and grant as the appomattox drama unfolded the countrymen and women would crowd the scene and vest the surrender with their oesh as pir own aspirations and agendas and dreams and the dream in the eyes of africanamericans and soldiers and former slaves and lees surrender was a freedom day, the day that the moment the moment that the promise of emancipation
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
Courthouse civil park. And Liz Ben Varon talks about the ending of the appomattox civil war. This is about 50 minutes. Thank you. Thank you very much. It is a pleasure and honor to be here and share the stage with these wonderful scholars. Im grateful to Patrick Schroeder to having included me. So you have the surrender scene and i would like to turn to the surrender aftermath and the political debates spawned by appomattox and ill argue that lee and grant had distinct visions of what an honorable possess would look like and peace would look like and the two of the myths of the gentlemens meeting of the minds and they had fundamental visions of what an honorable peace would look like and why the war turned out the way it did. But i will try to take us beyond lee and grant as the appomattox drama unfolded the countrymen and women would crowd the scene and vest the surrender with their oesh as pir own aspirations and agendas and dreams and the dream in the eyes of africanamericans and so
Institute for International Economic economics. Its an hour. Ladies and gentlemen, welcome back to our previously schedule programming. It is my pleasure to continue from our Economics Panel according to our practical world. We have as a special treat today, Mark Bertolini the chairman and ceo of aetna who is going to talk about the role of Corporate America in reestablishing the american middle class. Thats about as targeted and blunt a title as you can have, which i find very typical of mark. Many of you have become familiar with him recently he got him mens coverage in the New York Times and elsewhere for his leadership. I think it is fair to say the word leadership and taking aetna forward and then amongst other companies in vool tearvoluntary raiseing the wages of its vast share of low wageworkers within its company, something that so far at least none of the other Major Health Insurers in the u. S. Have announced. We have gotten to know mark over the last few years. Hes been a me
[ bell ringing ]the the fourth year of the war ending in the spring of 1865, of shermans march, the toils of petersburg, richmond fallen, the wars end, relief, grief and rejoicing. I call forth Sergeant Clark b. Hall, greatgreat grandson of charles h. Hall of the 13th mississippi infantry. A u. S. Marine corps veteran of sley, vietnam, and 1st lieutenant samuel mosley, a korean war veteran and winner of a silver star and a purple heart. [ bell ringing ] [ bell ringing ] [ bell ringing ] pr and now at precisely 3 15 on the afternoon of april 9, 2015, 5, bells will ring across america. [ applause ] as the department of labor calls for new Consumer Protections for workers saving for their tournament, National Economic Council Director will deliver a keynote address on the potential new rules at an event. Hell be followed by a discussion about the future policies. See the full event live beginning at 10 00 eastern own cspan. And later Vice President joe biden will talk about the Ukraine Ru