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steyn announces it is time to return to the bennett plays for the second day of negotiations. reagan says he will send the terms forward. sherman and johnston reached the bennett place around noon. johnston probably tells sherman that he has official authorization for this all-encompassing surrender. he would like to bring breckenridge into the discussion. sherman says he doesn t know about that. johnston replies yes but breckenridge is also a major general in its confederate army. sherman says, ok. at that point reagan s basis of pacification arrives and johnston begins to lead it read it aloud and sherman looks disapproving and johnson points out the only thing we disagreed on is amnesty for davis and the. otherwise, and the cabinet. otherwise, we have a basis of agreement. sherman waves it off. he gets out and and paper and begins to write his memorandum for a basis of agreement. it troops to be twice as long. he ends up giving the confederates more than they ask ....
a question about the supplemental the schofield supplement to the surrender terms. how were they received in washington and were they successfully carried out? what i think happened is when they reached washington about a week later, they saw it as an accomplished fact. the most controversial provision would have been letting 1 in 7 confederates keep their weapons. i think they felt that would not be too harmful. i would say that and i did not go into this because i did not have time there was a great deal of furor up north about the terms because secretary stanton had sent his reasons for his approving them to the newark times to the new york times where they become public knowledge. sherman was furious and he found out. amid all of that, the supplemental terms slipped through without much notice. we do know they were approved. time for another question if anyone has one. thank you. thank you. appreciate it most of [applause] we do have two of marx ....
a portion of cox s forces, capturing 800 federals and one canon. things look pretty good for the confederates on the first day but then the second day cox brings up reinforcement. the federals dig in. bragg attempts an attack on the tense, but he s repulsed. receiving words that cox is receiving still more reinforcements, bragg decides to fall back towards goldsboro ending the battle of lysis forks. in the meantime, sherman plots the course of his army group from fayetteville. goldsboro is his objective, but he wants to keep johnston guessing as to what his objective is. he s going to send the left wing under slocum northward on the old raleigh stage road, as if he s heading towards the north carolina state capital. they will be marching in light marching order, all the unnecessary wagons will be with the right wing under howard. they will be taking direct roads to goldsboro. the idea is to keep johnston up in the air as to where sherman is heading. johnston has a plan ....
he launches an attack on forces a few miles east of kinston on march 8 and succeeds in routing a portion of cox s forces, capturing 800 federals and one canon. things look pretty good for the confederates on the first day but then the second day cox brings up reinforcement. the federals dig in. bragg attempts an attack on the tense, but he s repulsed. receiving words that cox is receiving still more reinforcements, bragg decides to fall back towards goldsboro ending the battle of lysis forks. in the meantime, sherman plots the course of his army group from fayetteville. goldsboro is his objective, but he wants to keep johnston guessing as to what his objective is. he s going to send the left wing under slocum northward on the old raleigh stage road, as if he s heading towards the north carolina state capital. they will be marching in light marching order, all the unnecessary wagons will be with the right wing under howard. they will be taking direct roads to goldsboro. ....
authors. that s live april ninth and 12th here on american history tv on c-span three. each week, american artifact takes viewers to archives museums, and historic sites around the country. on april 9 1865, confederate general robert e lee met union general ulysses s grant village of appomattox courthouse and surrendered his army of northern virginia. while confederate armies were still active in the field, the surrender of the southpaws most potent remaining fighting force effectively ended the civil war. next, we tour appomattox courthouse national historical park to learn more about the events surrounding that day. this is the oldest building this was called clover hill before became appomattox courthouse. this county was one of the later counties formed and they will take part of the counties in form appomattox county in 1845. this county have about 9000 people, more than half of them were enslaved working on the tobacco farms. as of 1850 about 120 people lived he ....