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Dr. Coles our second speaker is casey clabough. Casey is a professor at Lynchburg College and editor of the james dickey review and is english graduate director. A richmond native who grew up and appomattox county, he has editor of the multivolume best creative nonfiction of the press texas review and a variety of other things. One of the editors of the encyclopedia of virginia, which is online. Hes had a number of fellowships and received a number of awards. He has published over 100 works in a...

And appomattox county, he has editor of the multivolume best creative nonfiction of the press texas review and a variety of other things. One of the editors of the encyclopedia of virginia, which is online. Hes had a number of fellowships and received a number of awards. He has published over 100 works in anthologies and periodicals, such as the sewanee review, the virginia quarterly review and so on. Author of confederados a novel of the americas. The confederates that left the u. S. At the end...

Its government officials thought, what better immigrants to have then these confederates who have advanced agricultural knowledge compared to a lot of other perspective immigrants. Obviously, are not happy with how things are going at home. So they essentially were given land grants to come to brazil. So that is the reasoning behind it. Just to bring home berts point, i would like to read something briefly called, its from the virginia magazine of history and biography. Alternatives to appomatto...

[applause] for those who have more questions, he will be in the lobby signing his books. You can ask questions. One thing to keep in mind, there were also native americans that did fight in the union army as well. Particularly from minnesota. And yesterday we talked about ely parker, who drafted the terms at appomattox. Bert has several books, the confederate surrender at greensboro no turning back. And then, his talk was about to to the bitter end. People only say i would like to buy a book for...

Some local trouble. Through a mutual acquaintance discovered that there were virginians who were traveling to brazil. In fact, this was not a virginia phenomenon. It was something that was happening throughout the south. The reason for it was that, at least in the case of brazil, it has been advertised in newspapers in places like new orleans, atlanta, charleston all over, by brazilian officials. The idea was that brazil, being an enormous country, it is still an enormous country, needed further...

I would encourage students, graduate students watching and scholars watching who are interested in panAmerican History as well as the civil war, this is a rich area of inquiry in which there is a lot of that still needs to be done. How did i come to it . Im a little out of my element here an english professor among historians who writes historical fiction but did a lot of Historical Research for my book. For my fictional title, confederados. How does an english professor from appomattox, virgini...

Things turn around at the end ofho the war. Its because of the treatment of a the United States government andnce back the homeland and we settled in oklahoma. They had a chance to end it. Thank you. For those who have more questions for bert he is in the lobby signing his book so you can ask your questions there. You have been watching American History tv. More from the seminar on the closing of the civil war in 1865. Coming up the battles of Sailors Creek and the battle of appomatlox. Later to...

The french is intervening while re inv the french were sdrablthed with confe the civil war. Gettin i dont think any troops were involved in the battle. I think that the confederates were getting supplies across the border immediately before but i am not an expert on how it is. That may have been to smith. I didnt know if it was going. Thank you very much. Genera thank you. Ron wilson. As part of general grants provisions in his tirms that general lee accepted, was it a duplicate role that all th...

The reality is they opened up but it was to be an outreach to our kind of people there. Thank you. I just had a quick question. Do you think the majority of the people, do you have any information on this, left for political reasons, not wanting to live under yankee rule or was it more economics hoping to reestablish a Slave Institution in brazil or elsewhere . And also, do you have any information perhaps about the states that they were more likely to have left were deep south states like alaba...

Of the entire federal army. with the union now fighting for emancipation and stonewall jackson dead, robert e. lee invades pennsylvania and reveals exactly what the confederacy is fighting for. >> pennsylvania, at that time, had over 20,000 free blacks. pennsylvania embodied the success of a free black community, and to see this invading army of the south, an invading army that was fighting for a single cause, the cause of maintaining their slave institution, would evoke fear. >> lees army went ...