i think we owe a debt of gratitude to longwood university and to dr. coles and patrick schroder and you ought to give them all a round of applause. [ applause ] how many of you, and there are quite a few of you, have been to the mcclain house at appomattox courthouse? that makes things rather easy for me. it's time for lunch i believe. one thing that's probably not generally known is that the first offer of surrender didn't come from a letter from general grant. it came from a group of officers that have gathered april 7th and these officers concluded that because the circumstances facing the army that it might be best to suggest to general lee that he opened negotiations with general grant. they selected him as their spokesman. william nelson for episcopalian. he approached general lee that day. he would not hear that suggestion. he said there were too many brave and good men. general grant and most of the federal forces moved in. general lee moved the army of northern virginia north of the appomattox river. general grant establishes his headquarters

. >>> american history tv visited longwood university in virginia for a ceremony on the closing of the civil war in 1865. the program was co-hosted by university and appomattox courthouse national historical park. ron wilson talks about the terms of the surrender. this is about an hour. >> thank you. it's indeed a pleasure to be here. i think this is the 16th seminar. i think we owe a debt of gratitude to longwood university and to dr. coles and patrick schroder and you ought to give them all a round of applause. [ applause ] how many of you, and there are quite a few of you, have been to the mcclain house at appomattox courthouse? that makes things rather easy for me. it's time for lunch i believe. one thing that's probably not generally known is that the first offer of surrender didn't come from a letter from general grant. it came from a group of officers that have gathered april 7th and these officers concluded that because the circumstances facing the army that it might be best to suggest to general lee that he opened negotiations with general grant. they selected him as their spo

. >>> american history tv visited longwood university in virginia for a ceremony on the closing of thecivil war in 1865. the program was co-hosted by university and appomattox courthouse national historical park. ron wilson talks about the terms of the surrender. this is about an hour. >> thank you. it's indeed a pleasure to be here. i think this is the 16th seminar. i think we owe a debt of gratitude to longwood university and to dr. coles and patrick schroder and you ought to give them all a round of applause.

. >> american history tv recently visited longwood university in virginia. the program was cohosted by the university at appomattox courthouse national historical park. next, a talk

. >> american history tv recently visited longwood university in virginia. the program was cohosted by the university at appomattox courthouse national historical park. next, a talk about the military maneuvers of the union and confederate armies that brought them to appomattox. >> thank you, patrick. our final speaker tonight is christopher calkins. he a proud graduate of longwood university. longwood college when he went here. you were one of the first male graduates of longwood. chris has had a long career with the national park service. he worked at appomattox, spotsylvania, and was chief of interpretation at petersburg for many years. in 2008 he took over the position of park manager for battlefield state park. it is only 15 minutes from here. he has done an amazing job in revising sailor's creek. -- revitalizing sailor's creek. as a mentioned in the beginning he will be available tomorrow for some tors of their cash for some tors out there -- for some tours out there. he is responsible for the retreat route. he is actively involved in battlefield prese

he is a detroit native and a proud graduate of longwood university. longwood college when you went here. you were one of the first male graduates of longwood. right, chris? chris, as you all know, has had a long career with the national park service. he worked at appomattox, spotsylvania, and was chief of interpretation at petersburg for many years. but in 2008 he took over the position of park manager for battlefield state park. and sailors creek only 15 minutes from here. he has done an amazing job in revitalizing sailor's creek. a new museum has opened up in the last year or two. as i mentioned in the beginning he will be available tomorrow for some tours out there. he is responsible for the lee's retreat route. where they have the poll also with audiotape you can listen to -- pull offs with audiotape you can listen to. he is actively involved in battlefield preservation, the association of preservation for civil war sites, particularly building up petersburg in the past -- getting a large amount of land for petersburg battlefield. received an awar

. >>> american history tv recently visited longwood university in farmville, virginia for a sem seminar on the closing of the civil war in 1865 it. was co-hosted by the university and the appomattox courthouse national historic park. next author mark bradley talks about the fighting in north carolina during the last months of the civil war. this is about an hour. >> thank you, david. can everyone hear me okay? >> yes. >> all right. well, we have watched the armies of grant and lee moving across the virginia landscape from the siege of petersberg, to the surrender at appomattox courthouse, now i'm going to make a detour. we're going to make a sharp turn south and turn back the clock. we're going back to december of 1864. and we're going to follow this man, general william t sherman and his progress in what he believes and hopes will be his final campaign of the war. now sherman and grant are pursuing the grand strategy that they formulated in march of 1864 in cincinnati, ohio. the idea was to keep the armies in the east and in the west, the confederate armies so busy that they cannot rei

. >> american history tv recently visited longwood university in virginia. the program was cohosted by the university at appomattox courthouse national historical park. author chris caucus talks about the military maneuvers of the union and confederate armies that brought them to appomattox.

confederate surrender and the end of the civil war. >>> american history tv recently visited longwood university in farmville, virginia for a sem seminar on the closing of the civil war in 1865 it. was co-hosted by the university and the appomattox courthouse national historic park. next author mark bradley talks

confederate surrender and the end of the civil war. >>> american history tv recently visited longwood university in farmville, virginia for a sem seminar on the closing of the civil war in 1865 it. was co-hosted by the university and the appomattox courthouse national historic park. next author mark bradley talks about the fighting in north carolina during the last months of the civil war. this is about an hour. >> thank you, david. can everyone hear me okay? >> yes. >> all right. well, we have watched the armies of grant and lee moving across the virginia landscape from the siege of petersberg, to the surrender at appomattox courthouse, now i'm going to make a detour. we're going to make a sharp turn south and turn back the clock. we're going back to december of 1864. and we're going to

conversations each night at 9:00 eastern on c-span. >>> american history tv recently visited longwood university in farmville, virginia, for a seminar on the closing of the civil war in 1865. the prom was cohosted by the university and appomattox courthouse national historic park. up next, michael gorman who talks about richmond in 1865 and what historians can learn from period photographs. his talk is just under an hour. >> all right. thank you, patrick. our next speaker is michael gorman. michael was here four or five years ago, did a great presentation with some amazing photographs. you'll see some more of those here today. michael grew up in richmond attended vcu and vmi. has been a permanent ranger and historian at richmond national battle park since 2003. if you have not seen his website, you really need to go and look at that website. i tell my students there's so much junk online and garbage online in terms of scholarly sources. this is about one of the best websites related to the civil war i've ever seen. i did an article on civil war hospitals in richmond a number of years ago and got

. >>> remains have been found during the search for a missing longwood university student. norfolk police made the discovery yesterday outside of a home in south hampton county. 18-year-old angelica hatzel had been missing since march 3. they will determine the cause of death. >>> a university of virginia fraternity will not pursue an honor code case against the woman who accused members of rape. the accusation appeared in a now retracted rolling stone article. virginia has the oldest student run honor code in the country, it prohibits lying, cheating and stealing and students found guilty face expulsion. it's not known whether the woman known as jackie is still enrolled at the university. >>> maryland congressman cummings is calling for a culture change at the secret service after yet another scandal. xavier morales has been accused much assaulting a female agent. he's on administrative leave. congressman cummings is glad that in this case director joseph clancy was notified immediately and took action. >> he cannot control every action of every officer. but he has on send

. >>> american history tv visited longwood university in virginia for a ceremony on the closing of thecivil war in 1865. the program was co-hosted by university and

a lot of you know chris, he's a graduate of long wood university, longwood college when he went there. you were one of the first male graduates of longwood, correct, chris? chris, as you all know, has had a long career with the national park service. he worked appomattox, fredericksburg, was chief of the interpretation at petersburg for many years. in 2008, he took over the position of mark manager sailor's creek park, which is about 15 minutes from here and really has done an amazing job revitalizing sailor's creek a new museum opened up in the last year or two. as i mentioned in the beginning, he'll be available tomorrow for some tours out there if anybody is interested once our sessions end tomorrow. he's authored 12 books, numerous articles. he's responsible for lee's redetroit route, where they have the pulloffs with the audio tapes you can listen to and has a booklet he did in relationship to that. he is actively involved in battlefield preservation, the association of the preservation of civil war sites, particularly building up petersburg in the past, getting a large amount of

this took place at longwood university in farmville, virginia and was co-hosted by the university and appomattox courthouse and national historical park. chris calkins talks about the battles that took place as part of the appomattox campaign. this is about an hour. >>> one of the benefits of those who were not here last night when i was talking about the entire campaign from petersburg to appomattox i mentioned when i worked at the park alt appomattox i would come to

. >> we recently visited virginia for a closing of the longwood university and courthouse national historical park. next tracy chornault talks about the long standoff between lee and grant and the entrenchments outside petersburg and the final battles in 186 a.5. he discusses the importance of supply lines to both armies and the disparity between the access in food and ammunition. this talk is about an hour. >> we have programs out there f you didn't get one in the mail pick up a program. i'm going give an abbreviated interduction of the bios we have in the program. trait tracy has a ba in history from avert college in danville and he has worked for the national park service, first part time and then full time starting in 1991 at apamatics courthouse and since 1997 at petersburg national battlefield. and as patrick mentioned tracy is the author of one of the volumes in the howard, virginia regimental history series. this deals with the 18th and 20th battalions of hefry artillery. he is also past president of the lynchburg civil war roundtable, historical society and his talk today sont fall o

. >>> american history tv recently visited longwood university in farmville, virginia, for a seminar on the closing of the civil war in 1865. the program was co-hosted by the university and the courthouse national historical park. next, author mark bradley explores the fighting at bennett place in north carolina during the last months of the civil war. this is about an hour. [ applause ] >> thank you david. can everyone hear me okay? all right. well, we have watched the armies of grant and lee moving across the virginia landscape with the siege of petersburg to the surrender at the courthouse

. >>> american history tv recently visited longwood university in farmville, virginia for a seminar on the closing of the civil war in 1865. as well as the closing activities in the transmississippi area. this is about an hour. >> i want to go ahead and introduce our speaker. our first speaker for the morning. robert dunkerly. he's worked at nine different historic sites. most recently at richmond national battlefield park and he has written two books that aren't specifically listed. i'm sure he'll be talking a lot about them today. one of them in the for sale bookstores. the final surrenders in north carolina elsewhere and the other one is the confederate surrender at greensburg. the final days of the army of tennessee. his talk to will been on the forgotten surrender and indian territory. since i did my dissertation on florida, i hope he'll mention florida a few times. burt dunkerly. [ applause ] >> thank you. >> good morning. i want to thank the organizers for having me. i really appreciate the invitation. it's great to be here with so many people interested in this topic. what i'd

this took place at longwood university in farmville, virginia and was co-hosted by the university and appomattox courthouse and national historical park. chris calkins talks about the battles that took place as part of the appomattox campaign. this is about an

. >>> american history tv recently visited longwood university in farmville, virginia, for a seminar on the closing of the civil war in 1865. the prom was cohosted by the university and appomattox courthouse national historic park. up next, michael gorman who talks about richmond in 1865 and what historians can learn from period photographs. his talk is just under an hour. >> all right. thank you, patrick. our next speaker is michael gorman. michael was here four or five years ago, did a great presentation with some amazing photographs. you'll see some more of those here today. michael grew up in richmond attended vcu and vmi. has been a permanent ranger and historian at richmond national battle park since 2003. if you have not seen his website, you really need to go and look at that website. i tell my students there's so much junk online and garbage online in terms of scholarly sources. this is about one of the best websites related to the civil war i've ever seen. i did an article on civil war hospitals in richmond a number of years ago and got a lot of good stuff from mike's websi

this took place at longwood university in farmville, virginia and was co-hosted by the university and appomattox courthouse and national historical park. chris calkins talks about the battles that took place as part of the appomattox campaign. this is about an hour. >>> one of the benefits of those who were not here last night when i was talking about the entire campaign from petersburg to appomattox i mentioned when i worked at the park alt appomattox i would come to longwood. at that time one book was published in 1859 dealing with the final campaign called "to appomattox". it's a good popular book but i remember after reading it and studying it i had a lot of questions as to where the events took place, how did the armys get from here to there? so this book here set up my quest, then, to learn more about these sites. at that time when i worked at appomattox i worked with a gentleman a lot of you probably know. his name was harold howard. he portrayed an ex-soldier who stayed on. i took the role of a union officer who was stationed in appomattox on provoes duty after the surrender.

. >>> american history tv recently visited longwood university in farmville, virginia for a seminar on the closing of the civil war in 1865. as well as the closing activities in the transmississippi area. this is about an hour. >> i

. >>> remains have been found during the search for a missing longwood university student. 18-year-old anhad been missing since march 3. the remains will be septembernt to determine the cause of death. >>> congressman kmings is calling for a culture change. supervisor is accused of assaulting a female agent. morales has been stripped of clearance and is on administrative leave. congressman cummings says he's glad that in this case director joseph clancy was notified immediately and took action. >>> a former virginia delegate is suing his own party. joe morrissey wants the court to review hundreds of signatures rejected by the democratic signatures are on his application to run for state claims the officials dlish bratly rejected valid signatures a party spokesman calls the allegations bizarre. morrissey served jail time for having an inappropriate relationship with a 17-year-old girl. >>> former members of a church planning their largest protest yet. as first reported in the loudoun times, the church sun deris under investigation after several claims of sexual abuse and now the pastor'

. >> american history tv visited longwood university and farmville, virginia for a seminar the civil war. the program was cohosted by the university and appomattox courthouse park. next, tracy chernault, park director at petersburg national battlefield. he talks about the long standoff between lee and brent and the final battle in 1865. he discusses the importance of supply lines and the disparity between union and confederate armies' access to food and ammunition. the talk is about an hour. >> i want to introduce our first speaker of the evening. tracy chernault. we have programs out there, you can pick up the program. i will give an abbreviated version of the introduction the , bios we have in the programs. tracy is a native of appomattox. he has a ba in history. he has worked for the national park service, first part-time and full-time starting in 1991 at appomattox court house national historical park. since 1997 at petersburg out of battlefield. he is the author of one of the volumes and the howard, virginia regimental history series. his deals with the 18th and 20th battalions

[applause] >> american history tv visited longwood university for a seminar on the closing of the civil war in 1865. the program was cohosted by the university and the appomattox courthouse national historical park. next richmond in 1865 and what historians can learn from. the photographs. the talk is just under an hour. >> you can see some more of those here today. michael grew up in richmond. he worked for the national park service in 1999. one thing that he is well known for is his website, civil war richmond. if you have not seen that, you really need to go there and look at it. i tell my students that this is about one of the best websites related to the civil war i have ever seen. i did an article on civil war hospitals and got a lot of good stuff from his website. definitely go see that. mike served as technical advisor on the set of steven spielberg's lincoln, and also served as technical advisor for the movie free state jones with matthew mcconaughey. he has been involved in those types of activities. also he has done an article

. >> we recently visited virginia for a closing of the longwood university and courthouse national historical park. next tracy chornault talks about the long standoff between lee and grant and the entrenchments outside petersburg and the final battles in 186 a.5. he discusses the

this talk was part of a symposium on the closing of the civil war cohosted by longwood university and appomattox court house national historical park. it is a little under an hour. [applause] >> thank you david. can everyone hear me ok? all right. we have watched the armies of grant and lee moving across the virginia landscape from the siege of petersburg to the surrender of appomattox courthouse. now i'm going to make a detour. we are going to make a sharp turn south and turn back the clock. we are going to go back to december of 1864. and we are going to follow this man, general william sherman and his progress in what he believes and hopes will be his final campaign of the war. sherman and grant are pursuing the grand strategy they formulated in march of 1864 in cincinnati ohio. 1864 in cincinnati, ohio. the idea was to keep the armies in the east and in the west -- the confederate armies, so busy they could not reinforce each other. and not have a repeat fiasco of the battle of chickamauga in 1860 three. this strategy is working slowly, but inexorably well grants -- while grant

. >>> "american history tv" was live in march from longwood university for a seminar on the closing of865. the program was co-hosted by the university and appomattox courthouse national park. next, chief historian of fredericksburg and spotsylvania national military park john hen i si talks about how the civil war is reinterpreted by each ohn he generation. this is about 1 hour and 5 minutes. [ applause ]ood morn >> good morning everybody. thank you, david. thank you, patrick. i don't know if any of you quitence li realize the amount of effort that goes into a conference like this. but the 150th observances of at pat mocks here they're working like dogs to create a program lly in that will connect all of you hopefully in a meaningful way to this history. it's very good to be here. few this is one of the few and long-standing, enduring them conference events every year. most of them have faded away.ev but this one simply does not. be and every year it seems to get better and bigger. it's very nice to be here. i'm going to turn the tide on you a little bit today, and probably end up aski

. >>> "american history tv" was live in march from longwood university for a seminar on the closing ofrogram was co-hosted by the university and appomattox courthouse national park. next, chief historian of fredericksburg and spotsylvania national military park john hen i si talks about how the civil war is reinterpreted by each ohn he generation. this is about 1 hour and 5 minutes. [ applause ]ood morn >> good morning everybody. thank you, david. thank you, patrick. i don't know if any of you quitence li realize the amount of effort that goes into a conference like this. but the 150th observances of at pat mocks here they're working like dogs to create a program lly in that will connect all of you hopefully in a meaningful way to this history. it's very good to be here. few this is one of the few and long-standing, enduring them conference events every year. most of them have faded away.ev but this one simply does not. be and every year it seems to get better and bigger. it's very nice to be here. i'm going to turn the tide on you a little bit today, and probably end up asking you som

he is now longwood university, he went here. you were one of the first male graduates, correct chris? chris, as you all know has had a long career with the national park service. he worked at appomattox and was chief of the interpretation at petersburg for many years. in 2008, he took over the position of mark manager battlefield creek park which is 15 minutes from here and really has been -- done an amazing job in revitalizing sailor's creek. he'll be available tomorrow for some tours out there if anybody is interested once our sessions end tomorrow. he's authored 12 books numerous articles. he is responsible for the latest retreat route where they have the pulloffs with the audio tapes you can listen to and has a booklet he did in relationship to that. he is actively involved in batterfield preservation and civil war sites particularly building up petersburg in the past getting a large amount of land for petersburg battlefield. receive an award of merit in 2014 for the leadership in history awards by the committee. and again,