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Here named Fred Blodgett who was 16 years old but the veteran of a dozen bottles and writes out and pulls out his serve all over pulls out his revolver and you know what he said . Hands up. The trains are captured. They will not leave the train right there. They will try to get him down the track. It is a volunteer army. They have previous occupations before joining the army. Some of them have worked on the railroad and start to move the trains out of the area. Send some artillery shells start to fall on the area of the station. Where are they coming from . Coming from the command of this guy ...

Summer of 1865. The second new york advancing on the station first. There is a young fella right here named Fred Blodgett who was 16 years old but the veteran of a dozen bottles and writes out and pulls out his serve all over pulls out his revolver and you know what he said . Hands up. The trains are captured. They will not leave the train right there. They will try to get him down the track. It is a volunteer army. They have previous occupations before joining the army. Some of them have worked on the railroad and start to move the trains out of the area. Send some artillery shells start to f...

Civil war. From its cause to its purpose to the details of 100 battles, we argue. We cant even agree on its name. To rephrase variously depending on the perspective of the namer, the war of northern aggression the war between the states, the war of the rebellion which was once the official u. S. Government name for it the war for independence, the second american revolution, the war for emancipation, and probably two or three dozen more. In no other time do we have a historical memory so carefully considered, so consciously shaped and manipulated as a civil war. No other event in our lifetime ...

I will give an abbreviated version of the bios we have in the programs. Tracy is a native of appomattox. He has worked for the National Park service. He has been at Petersburg National battlefield since 1997. He is the author of one of the volumes and the howard, virginia regimental history series. He is also passed president of the lynchburg civil war roundtable. And the appomattox county historical society. His talk today will be on the fall of petersburg. Please welcome Tracy Chernault. [applause] Tracy Chernault good evening. Im a big baseball guy. When he asked me to speak as the leadoff ...

Thank you very much. It is a pleasure and honor to be here and share the stage with these wonderful scholars. Im grateful to Patrick Schroeder to having included me. So you have the surrender scene and i would like to turn to the surrender aftermath and the political debates spawned by appomattox and ill argue that lee and grant had distinct visions of what an honorable possess would look like and peace would look like and the two of the myths of the gentlemens meeting of the minds and they had fundamental visions of what an honorable peace would look like and why the war turned out the way it...