let me ask you in the days after appomattox appomattox, general lee, what did you do? > i was her e at my headquarters. at first i decided i would follow my troops out to surrender their weapons. i would be with them. general gordon and general rters longstreet convinced me that would not be a wise move. day they would take care of it. i stayed here at my headquarters at my tent until the last surrender. the last day. i was taking care of ting on correspondence making sure the men got rations, finding paroles. i was waiting on colonel marshal -- >> he was your aid? >> he was a general and he was the one who usually wrote my orders. so colonel gen marshal from baltimore wrote general order number nine. >> how quickly did you notify washington of the surrender and i how long were you on the took battlefield or in appomattox rather after the -- a >> i took care after the surrender and general lee left me a myriad of nigh muminutia. it was later that day that my him. staff reminded me that i would telegraph and tell them of the surrender are. and i said yes, indeed. and i t

let me ask you in the days after appomattox appomattox, general lee, what did you do? > i was her e at my headquarters. at first i decided i would follow my troops out to surrender their weapons. i would be with them. general gordon and general rters longstreet convinced me that would not be a wise move. day they would take care of it. i stayed here at my headquarters at my tent until the last surrender. the last day. i was taking care of ting on correspondence making sure the men got rations, finding paroles. i was waiting on colonel marshal -- >> he was your aid? >> he was a general and he was the one who usually wrote my orders. so colonel gen marshal from baltimore wrote general order number nine. >> how quickly did you notify washington of the surrender and i how long were you on the took battlefield or in appomattox rather after the -- a >> i took care after the surrender and general lee left me a myriad of nigh muminutia. it was later that day that my him. staff reminded me that i would telegraph and tell them of the surrender are. and i said yes, indeed. and i t

general lee recalled that he had met grant.s are as the generals are speaking, general grant's staff iles into the room. and after some time of conversation about mexico, lee called grant's attention to the matter at hand and inquired to t the terms. grant replied that the terms would be substantially the same would be substantially as what he had wrote the previous day.evious lee then asked grant to put his terms in writing. and then lee sat down near a large marble top white table. while puffing on a cigar, grant sat at a small wooden table thatn had an oval top on it and began writing in pencil in his manifold order book.ncil observing lee as he wrote, grantld ord said he could not discern lee's true feelings.er and he said the initial joy he had had felt at receiving lee's f letter wanting to meet with him now, h to surrender had dissipated. and now, he felt sad and depressed. he recalled, i felt like anything rather than rejoicing at the downfall of a foe. the wishes of lincoln came out in the terms. grant had met lincoln on april -- march 28th and apri discussed the end of the w

it had been lee's goal to meet johnston. general johnston surrendered about three weeks after lee surrendered. the sad the portraits, the sword that you see here, the spurs the gauntlets, the sash, and this chest all belong to joseph johnston. the last surrender on land was by brigadier general stan wadde. we only have a portrait of him but he is notable because he was a cherokee. he surrendered his men, who were mostly native american, in oklahoma territory in june of 1865. that was the last surrender on land. the last surrender of a confederate flag occurred in november of 1865. from the css shenandoah. in liverpool, england. the shenandoah had been a rating -- raiding ship. it was operating off the aleutian islands when it got word that the war had ended. the captain did not want to put into any u.s. court -- port because he and his men would have been hanged as pirates. so they sailed all the way around south america, back up to great britain to liverpool which is where the ship had been made. they surrender their flag and went

lee made a couple corrections to it and gave it back to general grant. letter of acceptance of those particular terms. lee signed his own letter, but they never signed the same piece of paper. there is no formal peace treaty originated on this. there was no document ever signed between the president lincoln and president davis, ending any of this. it was just lee surrendering to his army to general grant at this particular time. in this particular case, there are a lot of uniforms and flags that pertain specifically to appomattox. these were on the men that were here with them. the flags that are here are ones that were captured or surrendered in appomattox. the museum has started a flag conservation program. these flags are perfect examples of that. we have been able to have the flags conserved so they will not deteriorate any further. it is an expensive process that can cost $20,000 to $30,000. we have been fortunate that some of our supporters have stepped forward to help us. some of them might have had ancestors that fought for a particular unit, so

lee read it he made a couple corrections to it and gave it back to general grant. wrote his letter of acceptance of those particular terms. and lee signed his own letter. but they never signed the same piece of paper. there is no formal peace treaty that originated from there. there was no document ever signed between president lincoln and president davis ending any of this. this was just lee surrendering his army to general grant at this particular time. in this particular case, there are a lot of uniforms and swords and flags that pertain specifically here to appotomax. these were on the men that were here with them and these flags are ones that were camtured or surrendered here in appotomax. the museums that started

eggold ston johnson in north carolina and gave him essentially the same terms that i had given general lee. unfortunately by that time president lincoln had been assassinated radical republicans had taken control of the congress and they castigated general sherman greatly. >> even though they were the same terms? >> essentially the same. they wanted to court-martial him. and i was dispatched to north carolina in a special train. i never got off the train because i did not c want anyone tol know i was there because i felt it would cast apersians on general sherman. i had sherman come to me. i told him this is not going to on work. did you're going not to have to write another surrender, a stiffer one. and he didn't like that, be that's sherman.no cho he went back and offered general johnson another surrender document that he had no choice but to accept. >> now that your role was over with the army of northern virginia, how much did you stay in touch -- how much did you know of the subsequent surrender surrenders in north carolina, inwas tryi texas? >> not very much. i was trying to follow t

history where i can, and i've been requested at various places as i know general grant has to talk about the war. to present myself as lee, and that's what i plan on doing. conti >> i plan on continuing to th portray general grant because i have no political ambitions at this time. ultimately, actually, very soon, i'll portray general grant -- president grant as well as general grant. >> what events? >> living history events like this reenactments a lot of educational, professional leadership organizations such what h as that, people want to know how grant did what he did, how president grant did what he did. >> grant's memoirs became a best seller as he died after his presidency. >> yes. i never read them, i finished ge them and died three days later. i understand they are good. >> general lee did you write i as your own stuff?keers fo >>r i did not write memoirs.i only l i asked various officers for paperwork, but i understand i only live five years after the eft on t war. >> let's see if we have one more caller on the air. somebody there? go ahead. hello, go ahead, you're on the air, go ahead. >> caller: yes. i would

." >> to mark the 150 anniversary of the surrender of general lee to the u.s. grant will go to appomattox courthouse. we visited the park to find out i lack -- find out a blacksmith force. the blacksmith would just starting a fire. >> no, no. that's good. >> my name is john baronich. i live in spring hill, new york. this is a replica of the traveling forges that the artillery and the cavalry would have them. -- would have with them. our basic purpose is to repair items that would break, such as handles and chains. also the farriers would use the forged to re-shoe the horses. i left to tell people our job back here is very similar to a nascar pit crew -- i like to tell people our job back here is very similar to a nascar pit crew. we were the nascar pit crew of the 1860's. we would take care of the canon wheels --cannon wheels, wagon wheels. the coopers, the ones who would work on barrels, fixing and repairing barrels. we also had a harness makers. and of course, the blacksmith, whose primary job, as i said was to repair items. the biggest example would be the f

on april 9, 1865, can have it -- confederate general lee met general -- union general ulysses s

a lot of you know about general order number nine, lee's farewell address to his soldiers. very elegant. this is general smith's address. "soldiers, i am left a commander without an army, a general without troops. you have made your choice. it is unwise and unpatriotic but it is final. i pray you may not live to regret it. the enemy will occupy your country and dictate his own lives. you have voluntarily destroyed your own organization." not much she can do because by -- he can do because by this point as the news filters back to shreveport, a lot of men do not even wait for a parole pass, they just go home. the final surrender will take place in galveston, texas, on board a ship. the uss jackson. and that is going to be on june 2. we are into early june. that is where general smith will sign the paperwork officially surrendering the department of the trans-mississippi. one of the lesser-known surrenders that i think is really fascinating happened in arkansas and i want to talk about this for a minute. on the left is general jeff thompson who commanded central cut off from s

the civil war had just ended general lee had surrendered and it was supposed to be a night of celebrationnt and first lady to get out of the white house, to travel to ford theatre and enjoy something that the president loved the theatre. walk us through the events. >> as you said, the north was celebrating. we had surrendered and there were parties, people getting drunk in bars and oyster saloons and on this day abraham lincoln decided to seek some relief and come to ford theatre to see the comedy "our american cousin." lincoln loved to be in the crowd but suffered from the crowd. he loved to be in the theater by himself but suffered with other people. they had two guests with him at that time and earlier this afternoon the president and his wife went on a carriage ride through washington and during that ride lincoln said something incredible. he said, mary this day i consider the war has come to an end. we must be happy again. between the death of our young boy willy and the terrors of the war, we were very unhappy. we must be happy again. his desire to go to chicago after he finished th

confederate general robert lee surrendered, and it elated him he had been more buoyant than any time presided over it. this war is eating my life out he once says to lovejoy. i have a strong impression i shall not live to see the end. we know what happened next. lincoln's triumphant arrival at ford's theater at the supreme moment of victory the audience went wild and cheered their father abraham who after shaky start in office learned to command armies, grew in vision and eloquence, brought down slavery, and who six weeks ago had given the most greaseful, emotional stunning inaugural address in the history of the presidency. and as promised, he would save the union. lincoln stood in the box and bowed to the audience. the band played hail to the chief. then the sound of a single gunshot, the gleaming knife flourished by the murderer the leap to the stage, his escape into the wings his galloping horse, and the president of the united states on the floor of the theater gone mad. and then here to the peterson house where began the long death vigil from midnight to dawn from mortal man to

caller: did general lee and general grant get to be friends after the civil war? did they communicate with each other after it was all over with, or did they go their separate ways and get on with their own lives? david: no, grant and lee did not become friends. they did communicate. there is no question they communicated. within a year -- lee only lived to 1870. grant of course will live until 1882. they had very different -- in fact fundamentally different interpretations as to what this actually meant. the terms of surrender they signed had different meanings to the two men. lee interpreted appomattox as a surrender among soldiers and he thought a kind of a promise from grant, and therefore the federal government, that the south would be let alone. soldiers were to be sent home. go home. plant your crops. be farmers again. don't make war. don't raise your arms against the government. you will be left alone. that is the way lee interpreted it. that is not the way the country will interpret it. grant himself is saying, black suffrage in the south, the right to vo

. >> now when lincoln was assassinated, of course this was five days after general robert e. lee surrendered to general grant down in appommaammattox courthouse, this is the first assassination in the country's history history, something americans never experienced before. they also just experienced four years of death and warfare. it was a terrible time. and it's really getting back in the moment is what we're trying to do here. >> there's real value we feel and we learned this from watching our visitors in finding out what regular people experienced with the lincoln assassination. suchb we really only hear about the assassination through the stories of the people who were major players that night, and even sometimes then, we'll learn about the stories of the people who were secondary players on the night of the assassination like dr. leale. we don't get to what regular people experienced. that was what the remembering lincoln project was meant to solve, and we've been so lucky because we found partners and historical societies and libraries and institutions across the country t

david mckenzie: when lincoln was assassinated, of course this was five days after general robert e. lee surrendered to general ulysses s grant down at appomattox courthouse, and this is, going back and the moment, the first presidential assassination in the country's history. it is something that americans had never experienced before. they had also experienced four years of death and warfare. it was a terrible time. and it is really getting back into the moment is what we are trying to do here. sarah jencks: there is real value, we feel, and we have learned this from watching our visitors, and finding out what -- in finding out what they can -- what regular people experience with the lincoln assassination. so often, we really only care about the assassination through the stories of the people who were major players that night. and even sometimes then we will then about the stories of the people who were secondary players on the night of the assassination, like the doctor but we don't get to hear what regular people experienced. and that was what the project was meant to solve. and we h

sandberg: warren buffett has famously and generals lee said that one of the reasons that he was so successful is that he was only competing with half the population. so we know the gender gaps are a drag on her capacity -- our capacity. the imf released a report saying that if women had as much participation in men u.s. gdp would increase by 5%, japan by 9% egypt by 11%. those are big numbers. when women cannot reach the highest leadership positions -- and i know how hard this conference is worked to get to 30% -- you know, women can't get there, and we are not being used at productive capacity, so what needs to be get -- what needs to be done? mr. paulson: could i start out? actually, no i don't want to start out on this subject, somebody else. ms. sandberg: tim? mr. rubin: if he had the answer, he would have written a book. mr. geithner: we have to hire more women, we have to promote more women we have to pay them fairly, it can't be rocket science. ms. sandberg: yes, yes, that is great. [applause] ms. sandberg: it is very hard to do. we know we need entitlement reform, we know we need equa

it's been one of the most closely fought campaigns in a generation, lawrence lee reports. >> calm weatheross the u.k. on polling day and voters turned out by the millions to exercise their choice. the polling stations opened at breakfast time, church halls, pubs, even a care home became for the day places where people could put a cross in the books. much of the leaders turns out early. the prime minister in his country side in his constituency, the labor lead tore the north in the town. and as well the scottish national party leader. the u.k. independent party leader bring the seaside the leader of the greens in london and many others too. for a party to gain the confident of the house they need a simple majority, half that number, plus one seat. the key date in the calendar is may the 20 second. the new legislative program turn outs are brisk in many places perhaps suggesting i may be higher than the last vote when two-thirds exercised their democratic choice. the doors closed in the meantime with exit polls immediately afterwards against results. lawrence lee, al jazeera london. >> two

we came down here at appomattox the forge, and became a confederate group because general robert e. leerendered a battery forge and they asked if we could be part of that demonstration. i know the group we belong to or i belong to is about 80 people and we really like the living history piece. most of us are educators are former educators and like to interact with people. that's why i do what i do. i never served in the military so this is my way of paying back those people that have gone before us and served our country. >> are there any stories you can remember from the past four years? john baronich: you know, there's a couple things that happen at every single event. i think -- my favorite -- not necessarily one particular thing , but at every event we seem to connect with the local people. like yesterday, for example, we had some chickens do and a couple ladies came by and we offered them, hey, you want some chicken stew? and they ate stew with us, two days ago, and yesterday they came back and -- well, let me show you. they came back with lemon pound cake and cookies for us yester

edward porter alexander who ended the war as a general in lee's army thought that religion had paralyzed the southern armies. more than energize them. i think it was a serious incubus upon us that during the whole war our president and many generals really and actually believed there was this mysterious providence always hovering over the field and ready to interfere on one side or the other, and prayer in piety might win its favor from day to day. by 1864, defeat was looking the confederacy in the eyes. the arms of the pious in the south dropped nervously to their sides. they concluded god was deserting them if not for his opposition to slavery then for his condemnation of southern unbelief. can we believe in the justice of providence lamented the confederate chief award and's -- award in and'sawardinance. i cannot see how i just god can allow people who have battled so heroically for their rights to be overthrown. however confident the features and the preachers had been at the beginning of the war that they could read god's righteousness, the war itself proved otherwise. indeed, for m

general charles lee served as an example here. with some variations imposed the americas all resemble each other with their hats, wide lapels, and pledging faces. -- pudgy faces. they spun off copies and variations such as this illustration depicting washington from an impartial history of the war in america published in london in 1780. printmakers in america also struggled to supply the demand but they also came up with a proudly painted gloss. and frequently looked for an authentic likeness. charles wilson peale was a crucial early purveyor of washington's face and his reach was enormously extended through print. peale knew washington and had painted him in 1772 in the uniform of his virginia militia. in 1776, he painted him again in a three-quarter length portrait and a miniature. but peale also thought he would try a print. he had learned engraving while in london from 1767-1779. his maiden efforts were guided by expert london printmakers and supported by a thriving industry, which included technicians to prepare the plates, s

he's the nephew of robert e lee a brigadier general, and a classmate of godfrey weitzel. not the same class, but they were contemporaries. graves announces he is here from weitzel to tell lee to take what he needs. fitzhugh lee is touched by this that he has to walk across the room to regain his composure. lee speaks to his nephew, and the nephew comes back to the aid and says, "send general weitzel our love. tell him thank you, but we don't need the money. we would like safe passage for the lee women who need to come back to richmond." weitzel grants safe passage, and the lee women are back in the home within the day. the same day in washington, lincoln decides to go see a play. it has been a tough week for him. it's been a tough four years. as he sits in the booth watching the play, the president is assassinated by john wilkes booth. weitzel resumes his career in the corps of engineers. he dies in philadelphia, pennsylvania, of typhoid fever. he marries a second time. they have three children. two die in infancy. one daughter, irene, survives. weitzel's grave is in a mod

our first administrator candice d lee for norway regular early education school she's a fourth generation san franciscan and complutd went to lowell high school and worked in education over 419 years serve as a head start toddler education court reported and the last 18 years of sfusd site administrator in early education what you got? >> (inaudible). >> oh, outdoor land tickets. (clapping.) >> yeah. >> great. >> i'm sure you'll have something in our goodies that candice is willing to trade thank you and congratulations (clapping) our next principle ms. sophie lee from sunset elementary school (clapping) sophie grew up in chinatown a dedicated educator for 40 years (clapping.) poor thing you were not yelling 59 children were you just checking (laughter) our next principle is it lee the principle frank middle school he's a third-generation san franciscan grew up in the north beach chinatown neighborhood where he's a principle and tended francisco middle school and norman did you you're a francisco; right? >> four years as principle after 5 years he's worked as a teacher at dean at various

maybe that is something we can do to get obama or his wife to talk about the future or generations to come see we got ed lee on television talking about the millions and you guys are ready to be revented the writing is on the wall it paid millions to you guys to exist you guys are number one you make sure you get our payment in on time but the reality what's impacted the community for generations to come now i'll leave room for dr. jackson to is the facts i've seen different groups of people protesting and take over constitutional but here we are in 2014 what does this mean public school very aware that is the year of item you can't go by what people say. >> thank you. >> dr. jackson. >> okay yes and dr. jackson. >> you better give me my time. >> yes. >> you got it. >> (laughter) purify good afternoon dr. espanola jackson you know, i came to see i know you're not voting today on this discussion and i'm glad that there's no vote today because of the fact if a i'm quite sure you saw the news the other day i received calls even from out of state because they saw me on tv and got a chance to see my living room

a few days later, general robert e. lee surrenders, commencing the beginning of the end. those two events, by april 9 booth is waiting for the right opportunity to present itself with lincoln. >> [indiscernible] eric martin: do i believe mary surratt deserved to be hung? i think she got a bad rap. i thought the movie, "the conspirator," was good. i'm skeptical she had direct knowledge of booth's plan to assassinate. whereas the other three knew they met with booth that night. i think she was set up and booth planned things in such a way that if it failed, she would get implicated too and bring her down. and that the evidence is largely circumstantial. i think it is problematic that she knew that afternoon that this was going down. although we will never know for sure. [applause] eric martin: thanks for coming. [applause] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2015] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] >> you're watching american history tv all weekend every week

pilot to fly supersonic lee, so who better to teach her than the first pilot to fly supersonic lee, general chucky egg -- jagr? she became the first woman to fly twice the speed of sound, again with chuck yeager flying the chase plane. at the time of her death, jackie cochran helped more aviation records than any pilot -- man or woman -- in history -- jackie cochran held more aviation records than any pilot, man or woman, in history. you can make a pretty great kreis -- case jackie cochran may have been the greatest pilot of all-time. jimmy doolittle fans may have something to say about that, but -- of course, during the war -- and diane is going to touch on this -- women found lots of jobs at floyd bennett field that had traditionally been held by men. the previous picture of a teller operator, this parachute rigor -- rigger. of course today, there are no jobs in aviation or space that a woman cannot do. sally ride, for example. major nicole mela chelsea, the first woman to fly with the air force's thunderbird flight team. -- major nicole malachowski. >> [inaudible] lincoln: no, those with

lee. after spending nine years in the tech industry serving as deputy general counsel of google, lee focusedfforts on improving the patent system. now the u.s. p.t.o. is working to encourage more women to enter the stem field. listen to why michelle lee is focusing on this issue. michelle: i was born and raised in the silicon valley. all the dads on the street i grew up on were engineers and they invented things. they filed for patents. they started companies. some of them succeeded and some did not but for those that did they revolutionized the world and the way we live. i helped build a radio with my dad in our living room and i went to m.i.t. and studied electrical engineering and computer science. i've always had innovation and entrepreneurship as part of my background. i have to say when i entered m.i.t. we were certainly in the minority. women were certainly in the minority. and when i went to grad school in the computer science department in the m.i.t. artificial intelligence lab where i was a graduate student and a computer programmer the numbers were even lower. there are definitely

and you're right, there is a generational split. mike lee from utah for example, voting differently from orrin hatch from utah. across the board, at least five or six different examples of that. and a lot of western senators from the west who, a lot more libertarian strain goes through their politics. so it is a generational divide. perhaps the younger people understand the technology more. they are a little more offended by these privacy rules and other things but? a fascinating moment in the future and direction of the republican party here but at the same time we have to keep in mind all of thee laws were signed or most of these laws were signed into action under a republican president. a republican administration. and it's almost impossible to believe that this debate would have happened under president bush in his administration in the wake of 9/11 here. so that's what makes this so interesting. we are just 14 years or so away from that and that's what you know the republican party has moved so far in that amount of time. >> is fascinat

in 1965 general robert e. leeo union forces in virginia but a month later a union colonel ordered an attack on one of the very last rebel camps. union soldiers ended up retreating and the confederates won the very last battle of the civil war 150 years ago today. i'm john scott in for shep today. "your world with neil cavuto" is coming up next. thanks for being here today. we'll see you back here tomorrow. >>> all right. we know now that that amtrak train was speeding but is the engineer talking? welcome, everyone. i'm neil cavuto. seven people now confirmed dead more than 200 injured after that amtrak derailment. the national safety trance peration poration board showing it was traveling. fox, of course will bring that to you live. first in philadelphia on what we're learning about the person who was behind the controls. hey, peter. >> reporter: hi neil. standing

we hear that all the time and now mayor lee has been so wonderful to participate with all. we have 88 council generals. we fly their flag on their national day and very proud to have their constituents here and mayor lee has met with the president of france, the mayor of paris, our sister city. this week on thursday you will meet with the british ambassador and this week the lord mayor. we are working on calling you the lord mayor. and then we'll have all of the mayors which you started here on the 19th. there will be several hundred mayors for the big event here. we have wonderful light show. and a week later the secretary general of the united nations and celebration of the signing of the united nations and people from far away. how about the celebrations? we did have some super bowl celebrations. i don't know about that now. we did have the 50th super bowl here and the big event will come here and then of course we have the big celebrations for the giants and we want to do it again. steven, got it? i'm tired of crawling out the window and putting those orange jails on. i'm going to push the button

generation. let's go live to lawrence lee who is in westminster.u are on tight restrictions within those boundaries. what can you tell us? >> it's a nice day. i can tell you that much. it has been very sunny in london and across the u.k. 45 million or more people across the u.k. are eligible to vote. the polls opened at breakfast time. there was a steady turnout reported all over the place. really no major problems reported. a technical glitch or hiccup which might lead to a recount, but not very much. all of the party leaders turned out. david cameron in the middle of the country, the labor party leader further north. the green leader was in london and the snp leader up in scotland as well. they all posed for photographers and cast their votes too. tonight in less than five hour's time, they can release themselves from the state of suspended animation when the polls close at 2100 gmt and then start to talk about the election properly. there will be exit polls then which will give the first clear indication even before the results come in. >> lawre