concept of honor and how that perception shaped their decisions during and after the war. this hour-long event was part of the annual summer symposium hosted by the gettysburg college civil war institute. david currently serves as a lecturer in american history at the university of edinburgh in scotland. he teaches a wide range of courses in if civil war and reconstruction, civil war memory, and the u.s. south. after beginning his career as a high schoolteacher, he in florida, he earned his ph.d at the university of north carolina, chapel hill. he taught at the university excuse me, at north carolina state university, and there he published his first book. it is a superb one. moments of despair, suicide, divorce and debt and civil war era north carolina. it explores the shifting sentiments, both black and white, towards suicide, debt and divorce in the post-civil war south. this book received a number of awards. he s got a new book that s coming out. his new book is e
the civil war where you hear about the people who shaped the civil war and reconstruction. and the presidency focuses on u.s. presidents and first ladies, to learn about their politics, policies and legacies. all this month in prime time and every weekend on american history tv on c-span3. coming up tonight on american history tv in prime time, a look at the civil war and reconstruction starting with a look at how southern honor impacted the war. then photos of emancipation during the civil war. that s followed by a discussion of the politics behind reconstruction and how the end of the war was being explained and redefined at the time. thursday on american history tv prime time, the 40th anniversary of the national air and space museum. the celebration took place in july with the current museum director, retired general jack daley, and a look at exhibits on the start of aviation and into space exploration. it begins tomorrow night at 8:00 eastern. next on american hist
movement of the armies to cover a lot of ground. there are several bottles only way. by the time the armies battles on the way. by the time the army gets to appomattox they have been in constant contact. when they arrived at the courthouse, there is a final battle on the day of the surrender because nobody knew there would be a surrender that day on the morning of april. april 9. here we have sailors creek, the largest battle of the campaign with eight thousand confederate 8000 confederate soldiers captured on one day. as the army of northern virginia drifts into the courthouse, the union cavalry under general custer has gotten in front of the confederate army, blocking the road they intend to use. the goal all along for robert ulee s to get robert lee is to get the army down. lee cap makes the terms to the south because union forces keep blocking the way but the union armies can t make the turn to the south because union forces keep blocking the way. this map shows
print parole passes for the confederates. this is the pattern that they use, it is called a check pattern, i think you can see why. they are important for a few other things as well. general grant indicated that they could be used for transportation on union military railroads and ships. for a lot of the men who lived near working railroads or can get home by ship, the union military will transport them. a lot of the men who lived in the deep south went to norfolk on ships, and got home that way. the parole passes will be important for a lot of reasons. they allow the soldiers to get food, they can stop at union supply bases and draw rations. over the next three days the surrender is put in motion. the first branch that will surrender is the cavalry on april 10. if you are wondering why the cavalry goes first, think about how much food a horse eats everyday and think about the state of these confederate forces and think about appomattox is a small county and does not have a
long days and lose track of things and make bad decisions. you are fatigue mentally fatigued mentally and physically. when word comes out that there is a flag of truce it is a shock. and really shakes them to their foundations, it is really hard to accept. they have been fighting and all of a sudden the war will be over quickly. the surrender meeting takes place in the mclean house, a private home chosen for the occasion. there are about a dozen witnesses in the room. of course when you have a dozen or so witnesses you are going to get a dozen or so different stories. one of the frustrating things is that a lot of the accounts do not agree. we agree on a lot of the general details but not necessarily the order of things and some accounts mention one thing and others do not. in general we understand the flow of the conversation and what the generals talked about. the terms that grant offers to generally general lee were inspired by president lincoln who wanted to end the w