Grant. She argues that grant through the agreed terms begin the agreement of reconstruction. This talk was at the annual lincoln symposium. It is just under one hour. [applause] good morning. Welcome to the first session of the 21st annual Lincoln Forum symposium. It is always wonderful to come back to meet again with old friends and meet new people who are about to become friends. Introduceleasure to our first speaker. Ofrofessor and vice chair ucla department of history. She is the author of several monographs or it among them the awardwinning american hero. War andry of the civil american culture. War within a war, controversy on the american civil war. The work,ly published the american war. This came out this year in 2016. Her scholarship has been recognized in the following awards. Award, the 2010 choice the Jefferson Davis award in 2009. Award for excellence in civil war biography. Publication has that one cannot produce great scholarship without 14 great excellence in teaching.
The entire program at 6 p. M. And 10 p. M. Eastern sunday on american artifact. This is American History tv, only on cspan 3. On the civil war, this author talks about general ulysses s. Grant. Conducted the surrender at appomattox. And saw to foster an atmosphere of reconciliation. She argues that grant through the agreed terms begin the agreement of reconstruction. This talk was at the annual lincoln symposium. It is just under one hour. [applause] good morning. Welcome to the first session of the 21st annual Lincoln Forum symposium. It is always wonderful to come back to meet again with old friends and meet new people who are about to become friends. It is my pleasure to introduce our first speaker. A professor and vice chair of ucla department of history. She is the author of several monographs or it among them the awardwinning american hero. The memory of the civil war and american culture. War within a war, controversy on the american civil war. She recently published the work, t
General grants 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 sheridans 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 gentlemans agreement. General grant was very generous with the terms. In the end when general lee said he had nothing to feed his me
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 cshaped 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 that was constru
Really just sort of scratched the surface out here, and theres a lot more information potential with this site. Its very unique, particularly for this area, the midatlantic region. You dont 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 thats an extremely unusual circumstance for this area. You know, like i said, they are about 20 x 34 feet. Thats 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, expediently construct