our first speaker of the afternoon is dr. caroline jenny. dr. jeannie is the john l noll, and i pronouncing it correctly? professor of american civil war and director of the john l now, i will get it right, silver personal history and university of virginia. she is a graduate from uaa, worked at the national park service as a historian, an active lecture as you might imagine, winner of a number of different teaching awards. she is coeditor of the university of, and oppresses american civil war series, past president of the society civil war historians, published five books, have them listed on your program, civil war reunion and the limits of reconciliation. she edited petersburg appomattox to work in virginia, and another one on the list is during the debt but not the past, it is memorial associations and the lost cause. her talk today is we were not surrendered, parole and lee s army after appomattox. good afternoon. it is nice to see so many familiar faces in the audie
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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