You go did you know all cspan American History tv programs are available to work only with work history your response. Thousand shooter nation Available Online cspan. Org history. Organist today i want to introduce. The book is of work, unfinished army. Take a quick look. This is going to be a fun show. The unfinished fight. Unfinishet lees army after appomattox comes to from university of North Carolina press whom we think forgetting professor on this program with us and for publishing this fine book. We are selling to you in the First Edition. It is three to 31 pages, illustrations and maps are going to share some of those with you during the course of this conversation. We are send this First Edition copy to you with a custom Abraham Lincoln bookshop signed bookplate too. I want to thank you, for signing this book plates sending them back to us. Folks at home, let me tell you a little bit little bit about caroline e janie shes the professor and history of the American Civil War and
Louise barnett appeared on booknotes but the military and private life of general george custer. In her book professor barnett depicts a man had never adjusted to life after his success at leading volunteers in the civil war. It examines how the battle of the little bighorn depicted him as a mythic hero and a villain. Heres a look at encore booknotes. Cspan Louise Barnett, author of touched by fire, whats that title mean . Guest it comes from a speech that Oliver Wendell holmes made about the civil war, and it seemed to me very appropriate. He said, to our great good fortune and our youth, our hearts were touched by fire. And we learned at an early age that life was a passionate and serious thing. I havent exactly quoted that, but the point is that people who were young during the civil war were inspired and matured in a way that perhaps hasnt happened to every generation. Cspan but the subtitle on your book is the life, death and mythic afterlife of George Armstrong custer. Who was ge
[indistinct conversation] if you could take your seats. All right, imp carmichael, a member of the History Department at the gettysburg college. It is my pleasure to welcome t. J. Stiles to cwi. He is an awardwinning author based out of berkeley, california. He is a native out of minnesota, a graduate of Carleton College who went on to do his graduate work in european history at columbia. He spent some time at Oxford University press. He worked with gabor. Many volumes that gabor put together, those features were delivered just speeches were delivered right here. Tj have a little bit of time yesterday to talk about his work and talk about the craft of writing, and the conversation reminded me of the fact that there is professional academic writing and there is positive writing. I think the day has come that we can move away from that, and t. J. Stiles has worked to testify to the fact that you can write engaging biography with ideas, with argument, with analysis, and above all else, or
[indistinct conversation] peter if you could take your seats. All right, i am pete carmichael, a member of the History Department at the gettysburg college. It is my pleasure to welcome t. J. Stiles to cwi. He is an awardwinning author based out of berkeley, california. He is a native out of minnesota, a graduate of Carleton College who went on to do his graduate work in european history at columbia. He spent some time at Oxford University press. He worked with gabor. Many volumes that gabor put in together, those speeches were delivered right here. T. J. Had a little bit of time yesterday to talk about his work and talk about the craft of writing, and the conversation reminded me of the fact that a there is professional academic writing and then there is popular writing. I think the day has come that we can move away from that, and t. J. Stiles has worked to testify to the fact that you can write engaging biography with ideas, with argument, with analysis, and above all else, original
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