69: Surrender at Appomattox: The Last Days of the Civil War
History That Doesn't Suck
Prof. Greg Jackson
4.7 • 6.2K Ratings
🗓️ 20 July 2020
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
“I feel that it is … my duty to shift from myself the responsibility of any further effusion of blood, by asking you to surrender … the army of Northern Virginia. Very respectfully, U. S. Grant.”
This is the story of one army surrendering to another. Of foes becoming brothers once more. This is the Surrender at Appomattox.
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| 0:30.5 | It's Palm Sunday, April 9th, 1865. |
| 0:34.7 | General Ulysses S. Grant and a few officers ride along a dirt road in the quaint hamlet of |
| 0:39.6 | Appomattox courthouse. |
| 0:41.6 | But they aren't headed to the town's namesake building. |
| 0:44.5 | No, they're riding to its other impressive structure. |
| 0:48.2 | The McLean House. |
| 0:49.9 | Wilmer McLean bought the charming, three-story tall, red brick home with white trim windows |
| 0:55.0 | and an expansive porch a few years back. |
| 0:58.1 | Here's previous residence became the battlefield for first bull run slash monastas. |
| 1:03.4 | Poor guy wanted to avoid the fighting, how ironic. |
| 1:07.0 | If all goes well today, his parlor was where the war will effectively end. |
| 1:13.6 | This party of union leaders makes it to McLean's home at 130 pm. |
| 1:18.3 | Tying off his horse, Ulysses ascends the wide wooden stairs leading to the front door |
| 1:23.1 | alone. |
| 1:28.0 | Stepping inside, he enters the parlor immediately on his left. |
| 1:32.0 | Different accounts will recall various details on the furniture, but the 17 by 19-foot |
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