Posted on 04/10/2010 6:38:26 AM PDT by Colonel Kangaroo
A big anniversary is drawing extra tourists to the battlefields of Appomattox.
One hundred and forty-five years ago Friday, General Robert E. Lee surrendered the Confederacy at Appomattox, bringing the Civil War to an end.
Crowds gathered to re-live the historic moment at the Appomattox National Historic Site.
Actors are playing the part of townspeople to help visitors understand what the area was like in the 1860's.
Friday's events have attracted visitors from across the U.S. Some drove from as far away as Oregon and California.
"We had about 400 people out here on Thursday. It was nice. Don't know the count so far today, but I anticipate even bigger numbers on the weekend when more people have the ability to come out," said Ernie Price, with the national park service.
Events to mark the anniversary continue next week with live music, demonstrations, and re-enactments.
Here are some dates & times:
On April 8-12, 2010 at the Appomattox Court House National Historical Park, the public is invited to enjoy military and civilian living-history presentations, guided tours, ranger programs, book signings by authors, and a Stacking of Arms Ceremony on Sunday afternoon.
April 9-11 at Clover Hill Village, the Appomattox Historical Society will hold a small-scale reenactment of the events that led to the surrender. Lee's Lieutenants, a reenactment group, will be on-hand at Clover Hill Village to participate in these activities, including: Lee's last war counsel, General Gordon's attempted break-out, Lee-Grant meeting, Stacking of Arms and Reduction of Colors.
April 17-18, Union and Confederate re-enactment groups will be encamped at the Appomattox Court House National Historical Park. Living history re-enactors will demonstrate historic weapons and battle tactics, including horse-drawn artillery, on the last battlefield of Lee's Army. Activities will include cooking, military inspections, drill, and printing of parole passes for Confederate soldiers in the same building where they were printed in 1865. Each day there will also be a "Stacking of Arms Ceremony" along the stage road, exactly where General Lee's army stacked arms 145 years ago.
April 17, after hours at the Appomattox Court House National Historical Park, Bring your blankets and chairs for an evening concert of Civil War music at the National Park. The 26th North Carolina Regimental Brass Band will perform a variety of pieces that were familiar to both Union and Confederate soldiers. The park grounds will be free after 5:00 p.m. and the public is invited to walk the village lanes and visit the re-enactor camps. The concert will be at the McLean House and begin at 6:30 p.m.
More information is available on the web at: www.TourAppomattox.com
And shortly after at Bennett Place Gen Johnston surrendered the Confederate Forces in the Southeast.
“If” is for children. Lincoln was a monster, that we know. Lincoln’s vision for the country was that of a massive and powerful federal government, that we know as we live it today. What the Confederate States would have done, you do not know.
That link mentions purported cases of habeas corpus violations by both Lincoln and Jeff Davis. There is a difference however. In the Confederacy, habeas corpus for the anti-Confederate often meant that the survivors usually got the body, or what was left of it, after the home guard had murdered the political opponent.
Amen.
Isn’t it comforting to know that we can rely on the news organizations for accurate information?
In one of my favorite writings from a regular soldier of the Civil War, “DIARY OF A TAR HEEL CONFEDERATE SOLDIER” No mention is made in the entire diary of the cause of slavery or even of the black race, until after the soldier is captured in 1864 and sent to a POW camp where they were guarded by black guards who had a very nasty reputation for brutality and murder against the Confederate prisoners.
In fact the North Carolina soldier is a Jew with both parents living in New York, his place of birth. So what pray tell made this young man decide to leave his job and take up arms against other Americans? I can assure you is was not to protect slavery. He couold of probably cared less about that hot-button issue of the day.
http://docsouth.unc.edu/fpn/leon/leon.html
Lincoln's vision was only to fulfill his Constitutional duty in holding federal property and make the collections that the Constitution required him to do. Too bad modern presidents do not limit themselves to Lincoln's vision of Constitutional restraint.
And it KILLS us as a movement.
An interesting side story:
The First shot of the Civil War (Battle of Bull Run) was fired into the McLean house in Manassas (used as Beauregard’s headquarters). McLean and his family moved to Appomatox to get away from the War, only to have the surrender take place in McLean’s parlor in Appomatox.
Don’t give up the fight.
It’s not North versus South however. There were copperheads in the North, loyalists in the South. From 1861 to today, Southern leaders and manipulators have been able to justify and explain their power grab as a North versus South conflict and thus force better men like your great uncles into making a hard choice.
“Lincoln’s vision was only to fulfill his Constitutional duty in holding federal property and make the collections that the Constitution required him to do. Too bad modern presidents do not limit themselves to Lincoln’s vision of Constitutional restraint.
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That was a load of garbage. He had a vision of keeping the union together and that was that. He violated the constitutiona all to Hell. So, don’t try to rewrite history. We already know the truth.
If current Southerners realize how badly the Confederate leaders abused the good instincts of their ancestors, the world would be a happier place. And it might give them a little extra insight to the nature of the growth of governments today.
“Southern leaders and manipulators “
I see, the Southern people were just too stupid not to follow along; they were “manipulated”. The arrogance of the North as you display is exactly why the war was fought.
“If the rebs had won, we’d have two federal leviathans today in our land.”
No, because half of it wouldn’t be “your” land. Just like whatever Canada is, isn’t in “our land.”
” nature of the growth of governments today”
You sound just like a “progessive”, a Marxist.
You want to talk about murdering and exploiting their countrymen - It was the North who invented the term “SHOCK AND AWE”.
You should read some of the eye witness accounts of Shermans March.
http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/sherman.htm
“And it KILLS us as a movement.”
Truth is a killer? To what “movement”?
Too bad the McLeans didn’t move to Fredericksburg instead. A surrender at Fredericksburg would have saved many lives.
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