Remembering Gen. Robert E. Lee's Civil War surrender at Appomattox
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 21 ส.ค. 2024
- Appomattox Court House, Virginia, was where confederate General Robert E. Lee surrendered 150 years ago, effectively ending the Civil War. And as David Martin explains, it's also the place no one should ever take for granted.
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If Brian Williams was doing this story he would have said he was there.
Yes, he probably would've said, "I knew Robert E. Lee. Robert E. Lee was a friend of mine..."
Ha ! Still funny & true in 2020 ....
General Lee was not whipped. They could have kept fighting and turned the United States into Vietnam. They wanted him to continue a guerrilla war. Lee said NO, enough was enough. God bless him for that
JohnnyRebKy thank you! People fail to realize we could have turned this into a guerrilla war and drug the north into deep waters and while I do respect general lee he was not some brilliant commander I mean obviously he lost, it he would have listened to general Longstreet and fought a purely defensive campaign I believe the north would have tapped out eventually. Pushing into the north was a HUGE mistake
JohnnyRebKy - Lee’s Army was starving. There was no resistance to surrender because everyone knew the Army of Northern Virginia was beaten. Had any individuals tried to continue in small groups of guerrillas, they would have been dstroyed easily.
@Megan Bostian _ Staff - SouthGarnerHS Lee was urged by Porter Alexander to reconsider and maybe adopt guerrilla warfare, that is to wholly disband and have them make for the hills, he said he would not allow them to become miscreants, or words to that effect. Joseph E Johnston also reached that conclusion after Bentonville, disobeying Davis' order to send the cavalry to conduct guerrilla fighting. Of course, they refuse as they know that warfare was now pointless, Lee said it would bring war to as of yet untainted areas of the south, and Johnston said his men only had the ammo they had in their pouches
The conduct of the 2 generals set the tone for the unification of the country. Would that we had such examples and cooperation from ALL our elected representatives.
Honor those who fought the Civil War and UNIFY ! Read and defend our glorious Constitution .
We are in stormy waters now, but America is the greatest nation on earth.
GOD BLESS AMERICA !
@@iamthelizardking6239 incorrect
Out of respect for their former formidable enemies, the Union band played Dixie out of respect when the Confederate troops paraded in to surrender their arms.
formidable tactics gives these cowards and traitors too much credit, they were more like guerrilla bombers, terrorists and bushwhackers. only amnesty the confederates deserved was at the end of a rope.
They were trolling the rebels. Classic troll move
@@MM-qi5mk And the rivalry continues to this day
It's ironic how Lee had such reverence for traditions and courtesies and Grant showed up muddy, wearing a private's field uniform, dictating unconditional surrender to him, then dictating total amnesty and sending rations to the rebels immediately. We have two very diverse military heritages - one from European pageantry and the other from Native American guerilla-style warfare - and they make up the way we fight wars - we are not soldiers or a war-like people. We don't, or shouldn't, idolize our military prowess. We embrace war because when unavoidable, they must be ended quickly. The other irony is that total mercy was shown to the South, that Jefferson Davis lived out the rest of his life after waging an insurrection that kept slaves in chains, and Lincoln, after securing the 13th Amendment and general amnesty, was violently murdered.
Wrong.
Wasnt about slavery
@@rawfoodwriter It quite literally was about slavery
@@Bill-uo6cm What's wrong with that?
@@madc2004 not directly though. You feel free today? Why not? I'll tell you why. Bc the tyrannical Federal Government won. That's why
It is certain that division will happen again. The only question is sooner or later.
who’s here cause their social studies teacher assigned this
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It didn't really end until Johnston surrendered to Sherman in North Carolina on April 26th.
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We ALL need to remember what the country would have become if the southern states had victory. The U.S.A. would have become part of England, France and Germany. Read your history instead of condemning......
Probably just England since France and Germany had too many things going on in Europe after 1866 to get involved directly in the Americas
Your an idiot -- European countries wanted nothing to do with the Confederacy. They had all outlawed slavery. France was the only country to back channel any support to the CSA. The South lacked all true infrastructure needed to survive -- hence why they lost.
Not one Southerner in the video.
Lee south Grant north
After the surrender, northern officers stripped the house of it's furniture and household items for souvenirs of what they knew was a historic event, and the owner was left with a mostly empty house. The north spent the last day of the war doing what they had spent the entire war doing, stealing and destroying someone else's private property.
Exactly!
Not exactly the point. You're being petty.
Someone else’s property? You mean the men and women they treated as slaves?
This oh so evil federal government that created the National Park Service that lead to the creation of the Appomattox Courthouse National park, which, ironically, is one of few sources documenting how some of the property from McLean, who had made a profit from sugar running through the blockade, was stolen?
While there were other things he sold off?
Or are you just going to make things up the whole way through?
Just following the example set by the Confederate states when they declared independence and took all federal lands, forts and waterways in their newly claimed territory.
Now that's confederate heritage: losing
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WOW -- LITTLE - SMALL - PLACE ( Lee Surrender's To Grant )
Why does the news host look like creed from the office but with hair????
People saying Grant was too lenient/weak with the terms he offered Lee are idiots. If you wanna know what can happen down the road by humiliating your enemy after beating them, look no further than Germany after WWI. The terms they set in the Treaty of Versailles were way too harsh and everyone knew it. Set the stage for WWII.
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General Lee is the best there ever was!
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I am glad that Robert E Lee surrender.