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Mindset. What is the future of the south going to be . How long are there going to be Union Soldiers running towns and cities . Is there going to be widespread abuse . What is going to happen . That kind of fear and anxiety coupled with the economic factor , those elements worked in tandem to draw people to brazil. My name is dennis. Can you describe higher profile can veterans that went down south or were these ordinary folks . Professor clabough again, going back to i brought up lee and his disdain for people leaving the south. Some of that stature had alternatives after the war. There were ...

Maneuvers of the union and confederate armies that brought them to appomattox. Thank you, patrick. Our final speaker tonight is christopher calkins. He a proud graduate of longwood university. Longwood college when he went here. You were one of the first male graduates of longwood. Chris has had a long career with the National Park service. He worked at appomattox, spotsylvania, and was chief of interpretation at petersburg for many years. In 2008 he took over the position of park manager for battlefield state park. It is only 15 minutes from here. He has done an amazing job in revising Sailor...

Place in mr. Mcleans parlor settled the issue of who would be the victors of the American Civil War but many questions remained unanswered. Soldiers echoed their thoughts in letters and diary entries. While letters of Union Soldiers reflected jubilation, their words also reflected concerns. In the front lines of appomattox chaplain jl mulligan of the 140 pennsylvania wrote a few days later, though the army of Northern Virginia is ours, still grave questions remain to be settled, for which god alone can give the true wisdom and guidance. A confederate are atillerist had an entry on april 11th t...

Mr. Johnson then projected americas policy in vietnam, saying the United States was ready to begin without conditions diplomatic discussions to end the war in vietnam. He calls it the only path for reasonable men. Johnson demands and independent south vietnam, secure guarantees, and able to shape its own relationships to all others, free from outside interference, tied to no alliance, a military base, or no country. He called on Southeast Asian nations for Economic Development and he asked the United Nations to join in the plan. Johnson on our part, i will ask the congress to join in a billion...

Historical park. Chris calkins talks about the battles that took place as part of the appomattox campaign. This is about an hour. One of the benefits of those who were not here last night when i was talking about the entire campaign from petersburg to appomattox i mentioned when i worked at the park alt appomattox i would come to longwood. At that time one book was published in 1859 dealing with the final campaign called to appomattox. Its a good popular book but i remember after reading it and studying it i had a lot of questions as to where the events took place, how did the armys get from h...