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Place to meet, and eventually lee, babcock and dunn ride into the village to the mclean house. The next time the confederate soldiers see general lee, they learn theyve been surrendered. They mistakenly assume that the federal officer talking to lee under the apple tree was general grant. So they went over and started to cut the tree down for souvenirs. Before long, federal troops came over and asked the confederate soldiers why they were cutting down the tree, and he said this is the tree where general lee surrendered to general grant. The confederate soldiers said, i want part of that tree, ...

Of the union army, and he blocked general lees line of retreat, thus general lee had to continue further west, searching for rations and hoping to get around grants army. The next place general lee could gather supplies was about three miles from us here at appomattox station. Supplies had been brought over from lynchburg to feed general lees army. Its everything the army really needed. Hundreds of thousands of rations, new uniforms, equipment, and thats where theyre heading for on april 8 after leaving Cumberland Church on the night of april 7. General lees advance is led by confederate reser...

They knew they couldnt help lincoln. He had been shot through the brain. Some people came because they wanted to say one day that they had been here. They had seen the Great Lincoln on the night he was assassinated. Some came so they could tell their grandchildren, decades later, i was there the night lincoln died. And so more people were in this house than really needed to be here. It was certainly appropriate that the members of the cabinet come, but there were too many people here in this little house as Abraham Lincoln was dying. So mary lincoln would sometimes come out that front door of ...

The race between Hillary Clinton and bernie sanders. And alex isenstadt, how candidates plan to win nevada. Live at 7 00 a. M. Eastern tomorrow morning. Join the discussion. Coming up next on the civil war, author and historian james sw swanson compares the assassinations of Abraham Lincoln and john f. Kennedy. Highlights the differences, backgrounds of the assassins and state of the country at the time. He also talks about the experience and reactions of the two widows. The Lincoln Forum hosted this talk. It just over an hour. Im harold holzer, vice chairman of the Lincoln Forum. Welcome to L...

The first group of landgrant universities created in 1867 by the acts signed into law by lincoln five years earlier, and the only in lincolns home state. One reason i was drawn to take the job as law dean is the prospect that the university of illinois can he come linked with ellington in the way that the university of virginia is associated with Thomas Jefferson mind, was not as great of a president or person. Why bob woodward . That might be the easiest. Many consider the New York Times the newspaper of record. Bob woodward is americas reporter of record at the post. He is responsible for tw...