really just sort of scratched the surface out here, and there s a lot more information potential with this site. it s very unique, particularly for this area, the mid-atlantic region. you don t typically see slavery being practiced on the scale that it was being practiced here at leramie taj. i think i mentioned that 90 slaves is roughly 10 times the number of enslaved individuals you would have expected to be living here. so that s an extremely unusual circumstance for this area. you know, like i said, they are about 20 x 34 feet. that s just under 700 square feet of living space. if in fact there were only six structures total, one can assume there were somewhere between maybe as many as 12 or 15 people living in each these dwelling houses which probably sounds like a lot, so i i would i would guess or assume that these may have been extended family units, for example, living together. multiple generations of families. like i say, these are pretty utilitarian, simple, e
of the union army, and he blocked general lee s line of retreat, thus general lee had to continue further west, searching for rations and hoping to get around grant s army. the next place general lee could gather supplies was about three miles from us here at appomattox station. supplies had been brought over from lynchburg to feed general lee s army. it s everything the army really needed. hundreds of thousands of rations, new uniforms, equipment, and that s where they re heading for on april 8 after leaving cumberland church on the night of april 7. general lee s advance is led by confederate reserve artillery under general reuben lindsey walker. they go to camp about a mile from appomattox station about two miles from here on the afternoon of april 8th. and general custer s cavalry advances on that station and captures the supplies, then encounters general reuben lindsey walkers s general artillery and fight for about four hours the ball-of-p at mattox station. a very uniq
ye linear deposit of hardware and nails and buttons and coins and actu actually the deposits of artifacts out there were so dense and we found glass ware and ceramics and based on the date range of them, i was fairly certain at that time that we had identified the site of the slave quarters associated with it. we did not have any funding for archeo logical research. what we are looking at is what we call structure b or the six of the structure laid out in a row. the way it manifests itself is a foundation of the stone chimney. it is i am lamsimilar of what yn the secondary house there. it is a c-shaped that formed the foundation for the chimney. you can see two smaller stone pee pe pierce which would have form the corner of the building. so actually some intermediate pier as well. so they probably were one story or a story and a half buildings, they measured about 20 by 34 feet in dimensions of external chimney in the south elevation. very simple and expediant structure tha
general grant s staff, there was a young captain named robert lincoln on his staff, and he, of course, was the son of president abraham lincoln, and he was here in the room. another interesting participant in this ceremony was at least, maybe not participant, but a witness to this ceremony was this rag doll of lula mclean, youngest daughter of wilmer mclean. it was sitting on the couch when the officers came in, and they moved it to the mantel during the meeting. after the meeting, some of the officers took the doll off the mantel and began tossing it around. captain thomas moore of general phillip sheridan s staff took the doll home with him as a war souvenir. in the 1990s, the family wanted the doll to come back to appomattox court house, and it is now on display in the park visitors center. the meeting lasted about an hour and a half. it was said to be a gentleman s agreement. general grant was very generous with the terms. in the end when general lee said he had nothing
for a transformed nation. the significance of what took place in mr. mclean s parlor settled the issue of who would be the victors of the american civil war. but many questions remained unanswered. soldiers echoed their thoughts in letters and diary entries. while letters of union soldiers reflected jubilation, their words also reflected concerns. turn it down now. in the the front lines of appomattox chapel, j.l. mulligan of the 140th pennsylvania wrote a few days later, though the army of northern virginia is ours, still grave questions remain to be settled for which god alone can give the true wisdom and guidance. a confederate artillerist private berkeley recorded a diary entry on april 11th after confirming in his previous day s entry that lee had surrendered his whole army. surely the last 24 hours has been a day of the most intense mental anxiety i have ever experienced. thousands of thoughts have passed through my mind as to what fate awaits my country, my family, my