thank you. it s indeed a pleasure to be here. i think this is the 16th seminar. i think we owe a debt of gratitude to longwood university and to dr. coles and patrick schroder and you ought to give them all a round of applause. [ applause ] how many of you, and there are quite a few of you, have been to the mcclain house at appomattox courthouse? that makes things rather easy for me. it s time for lunch i believe. one thing that s probably not generally known is that the first offer of surrender didn t come from a letter from general grant. it came from a group of officers that have gathered april 7th and these officers concluded that because the circumstances facing the army that it might be best to suggest to general lee that he opened negotiations with general grant. they selected him as their spokesman. william nelson for episcopalian. he approached general lee that day. he would not hear that suggestion. he said there were too many brave and good men. general grant and
courthouse national historical park. ron wilson talks about the terms of the surrender. this is about an hour. thank you. it s indeed a pleasure to be here. i think this is the 16th seminar. i think we owe a debt of gratitude to longwood university and to dr. coles and patrick schroder and you ought to give them all a round of applause. [ applause ] how many of you, and there are quite a few of you, have been to the mcclain house at appomattox courthouse? that makes things rather easy for me. it s time for lunch i believe. one thing that s probably not generally known is that the first offer of surrender didn t come from a letter from general grant. it came from a group of officers that have gathered april 7th and these officers concluded that because the circumstances facing the army that it might be best to suggest to general lee that he opened negotiations with general grant. they selected him as their spokesman. william nelson for episcopalian. he approached general lee
how many of you, and there are quite a few of you, have been to the mcclain house at appomattox courthouse? that makes things rather easy for me. it s time for lunch i believe. one thing that s probably not generally known is that the first offer of surrender didn t come from a letter from general grant. it came from a group of officers that have gathered april 7th and these officers concluded that because the circumstances facing the army that it might be best to suggest to general lee that he opened negotiations with general grant. they selected him as their spokesman. william nelson for episcopalian. he approached general lee that day. he would not hear that suggestion. he said there were too many brave and good men. general grant and most of the federal forces moved in. general lee moved the army of northern virginia north of the appomattox river. general grant establishes his headquarters at the prince edward hotel also known as the ran randolph house which no longer sta
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