1/8: Lincoln's Peace: The Struggle to End the American Civil War Hardcover – Illustrated, March 18, 2025 by Michael Vorenberg https://www.amazon.com/Lincolns-Peace-Struggle-American-Civil/dp/1524733172 We set out on the James River, March 25, 1865, a

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1/8: Lincoln's Peace: The Struggle to End the American Civil War Hardcover – Illustrated, March 18, 2025
by Michael Vorenberg

CHANCELLORSVILLE

https://www.amazon.com/Lincolns-Peace-Struggle-American-Civil/dp/1524733172

We set out on the James River, March 25, 1865, aboard the paddle steamboat River Queen. President Lincoln is on his way to General Grant’s headquarters at City Point, Virginia, and he’s decided he won’t return to Washington until he’s witnessed, or perhaps even orchestrated, the end of the Civil War. Now, it turns out, more than a century and a half later, historians are still searching for that end.

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0:00.0	This is CBS Eye on the World.
0:08.5	Here's John Batchelor.
0:11.4	It is April 1865, Appomattox Courthouse, the afternoon.
0:18.5	After a battle that morning that saw the Union surround what's left of the Army of Northern Virginia,
0:24.9	the attempt to break out, the Butternet line came on one more time.
0:29.5	The Union was backed up not only with the Cavalry Corps, Sheridan's, but one or two infantry regiments that had marched all night and were on the field.
0:41.0	The guns momentarily paused, and then they fell silent.
0:46.6	The two men meeting at Appomattox Courthouse, you know them very well.
0:52.0	Ulysses Grant, commander-in-chief of all the armies, of the Union.
0:57.5	And Robert E. Lee, commander of the Army of Northern Virginia.
1:01.6	I welcome Michael Vorenberg, professor at Brown University,
1:06.0	and most importantly the author of the new book, Lincoln's Peace,
1:09.6	The Struggle to End the American Civil War.
1:12.8	Here at Appomattox Courthouse is an event about to spill out
1:17.2	that I was taught, and to my knowledge everyone educated in the 20th century was taught,
1:23.0	was the end of the civil war, the war between the states.
1:30.9	However, Professor, a very good evening to you.
1:39.5	Congratulations. We're watching Lee and Grant sit together, waiting for a draft of their resolution that day.
1:47.0	What are we watching for and what is the debating point about the end of the war?
1:48.1	Good evening to you.
1:50.2	Good evening, John. And thank you for having me on the show and for doing this episode about the book.
1:57.0	But as you say, also about Appomattox.
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