appomattox. bill and transcribed kelly's with generals grant sherman sheridan sickles webb slocombe, hancock warren chamberlain and many. he published in bronze interviewing the commanders of the civil war in 2005 and the civil times magazine called it a blockbuster history the civil war. so it gives me great, great pleasure to introduce bill thank you. thank you thank you all for having me. thank you to hall and thank you all for coming out this we're going to talk about a little bit of james kelly and his art and his writings. james kelly. is born in 1855 in new york city. so was only six years old when the civil war. but from his front doorstep, young jimmy kelly would watch ten of thousands of union soldiers off to the war and inside the kelly home, his father would be reading aloud the depictions of reports of the battlefield and also the kelly. subscribe to the illustrated magazines of the day. harper's frank, leslie's and young jimmy kelly would would pore over these of these sketches and

would start by saying that lee began the process of reconciliation even before he surrendered at appomattoxere were several of the top commanders of the confederacy that were encouraging him to engage in a gorilla war. he said that would only lead to the continuing of suffering and make things worse. he said, you know, as much as others may want to continue the struggle, he said as for me, you know, i'm going to do what's right and bring it to a conclusion, so he did. you know, after the war, he continued to reach out to a lot of people saying what should we do. he urged them to take the oath to the united states, reapply for citizenship, obey the laws. some people were, you know, asking if they should leave the country. a lot of them did. but lee said no, we have a duty to rebuild the south. you should stay here. as i mentioned, he never allowed anyone to speak ill of general grant in his presence. he worked hard to kind of allay the passion of the day. yes. >> thanks so much for your work. there's no question that it's important work. lately, i've become familiar with some folks in this r

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