Appomattox Court House Virginia - Civil War - Confederate Surrender at Wilmer McLean House
Appomattox Court House - Civil War - Confederate Surrender - Wilmer McLean House
Appomattox Court House, Virginia, USA
Visit at Appomattox Court House, Virginia, USA, on the 14th of September 2015.
Here, in the McLean House, on April 9, 1865, Robert E. Lee, commanding general of the Army of Northern Virginia, surrendered his men to Ulysses S. Grant, general-in-chief of all United States forces.
Visita ad Appomattox Court House, Virginia, USA, il 14 di settembre 2015.
Qui, nella McLean House, il 9 aprile 1865, Robert E. Lee, generale comandate della Armata della Virginia del Nord, si arrese con i suoi uomini ad Ulysses Grant, generale in capo di tutte le forze degli Stati Uniti.
Tour of Appomattox National Historical Park
Appomattox County, Virginia. Tour of the Appomattox Court House National Historical Park located in the Piedmont region of central Virginia. The tour includes the McLean house where General Lee surrendered to Lt. General Grant on April 9, 1865.
How the Civil War Kept Showing Up in Wilmer McLean's Yard | Strange Heartland History
After the battles of First and Second Manassas, Wilmer McLean was tired of the Civil War being fought in his yard.
So he moved his family to a small hamlet called Appomattox Court House, where he believed it'd be quiet. Little did he know, the war would come knocking again.
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Appomattox Campaign, Episode 20: The McLean Parlor (HD)
General Lee awaits General Grant at the McLean House to discuss terms of surrender for the Army of Northern Virginia. The meeting only lasts 90 minutes. Grant offers generous terms to the Confederates - allowing the defeated soldiers to return home without punishment. President Lincoln is assassinated five days later as a result of General Lee's surrender.
The surrendered Confederates will be issued parole passes, printed by the Federal soldiers in the Clover Hill Tavern. The next video will describe this on April 10th (tomorrow) at 9 AM.
These videos will be posted on the park's YouTube channel, but links will also be available through the park's Facebook and Twitter pages. Use the hashtag #APX152 to follow events occurring at the park related to the 152nd Anniversary of the battles and surrender of General Lee's army.
Website: nps.gov/apco
Facebook: facebook.com/appomattoxnps
Twitter: twitter.com/appomattoxnps
General Grant, Mclean House, Appomattox 150th, VA, April 9 2015
General Ulysses S. Grant in the backyard of the Wilmer McLean House at Appomattox Court House, Virginia. This was on April 9, 2015, on the 150th anniversary of Lee's surrender of the Army of Northern Virginia, during the end of the American Civil War.
Virginia: Appomattox Court House National Historical Park
The Battle of Appomattox Court House, fought in Appomattox County, Virginia, on the morning of April 9, 1865, was one of the last battles of the American Civil War (1861–1865). It was the final engagement of Confederate General in Chief, Robert E. Lee, and his Army of Northern Virginia before it surrendered to the Union Army of the Potomac under the Commanding General of the United States, Ulysses S. Grant.
Lee, having abandoned the Confederate capital of Richmond, Virginia, after the nine and one-half month Siege of Petersburg and Richmond, retreated west, hoping to join his army with the remaining Confederate forces in North Carolina, the Army of Tennessee under Gen. Joseph E. Johnston. Union infantry and cavalry forces under Gen. Philip Sheridan pursued and cut off the Confederates' retreat at the central Virginia village of Appomattox Court House. Lee launched a last-ditch attack to break through the Union forces to his front, assuming the Union force consisted entirely of lightly armed cavalry. When he realized that the cavalry was now backed up by two corps of federal infantry, he had no choice but to surrender with his further avenue of retreat and escape now cut off.
The signing of the surrender documents occurred in the parlor of the house owned by Wilmer McLean on the afternoon of April 9. On April 12, a formal ceremony of parade and the stacking of arms led by Southern Maj. Gen. John B. Gordon to federal Brig. Gen. Joshua Chamberlain of Maine marked the disbandment of the Army of Northern Virginia with the parole of its nearly 28,000 remaining officers and men, free to return home without their major weapons but enabling men to take their horses and officers to retain their sidearms (swords and pistols), and effectively ending the war in Virginia.
This event triggered a series of subsequent surrenders across the South, in North Carolina, Alabama and finally Shreveport, Louisiana, for the Trans-Mississippi Theater in the West by June, signaling the end of the four-year-long war.
The McLean House was the site of the surrender conference, but the village itself is named for the presence nearby of what is now preserved as the Old Appomattox Court House.
The park was established August 3, 1935. The village was made a national monument in 1940 and a national historical park in 1954. It is located about three miles (5 km) east of Appomattox, Virginia, the location of the Appomattox Station and the new Appomattox Court House. It is in the center of the state about 25 miles (40 km) east of Lynchburg, Virginia.The historical park was described in 1989 as having an area of 1,325 acres (536 ha).
Surrender at Appomattox 150th Anniversary (US Civil War)
On the afternoon of April 9, 1865 Generals Robert E Lee of the Confederate Army of Virginia and Ulysses S Grant of the Union Army met to discuss surrender terms of the Army of Northern Virginia. Three days later the Army of Northern Virginia stacked arms and were allowed to go home. Other Confederate forces soon followed suit and the war finally ended.
This was filmed at the 150th Anniversary of Appomattox in Virginia.
Appomattox presentation
Local historian Albert Carter describes the events of the Battle of Appomattox Court House and the surrender of the Army of Northern Virginia.
Appomattox Campaign, Episode 7: Jetersville (HD)
General Lee's Army of Northern Virginia planned to march south to North Carolina to join with the Army of Tennessee, via Jetersville, Virginia. However, Federal troops fortify defensive lines at Jetersville to deter General Lee from continuing south. General Lee opts to send his army to Farmville instead, hoping to feed his men and side-step the Federal army.
The Battle of Sailor's Creek, the largest engagement on the road to Appomattox Court House, will be described in the next video to be posted on April 6th (tomorrow) at #:## ?M.
These videos will be posted on the park's YouTube channel, but links will also be available through the park's Facebook and Twitter pages. Use the hashtag #APX152 to follow events occurring at the park related to the 152nd Anniversary of the battles and surrender of General Lee's army.
Website: nps.gov/apco
Facebook: facebook.com/appomattoxnps
Twitter: twitter.com/appomattoxnps
#AppomattoxCampaign #CivilWar #FindYourPark #NPS
McLean House porch Appomattox Courthouse
Sitting at the porch of the Mclean House. You can almost touch the emotional charge in this building!
Appomattox Campaign, Episode 15: Clifton (HD)
General Grant establishes his headquarters at Clifton House while the fighting is occurring at Appomattox Station on April 8th. Suffering from a migraine, General Grant refuses to discuss national peace negotiations with General Lee, but continues to press Lee for the surrender of his army. On the morning of April 9th Grant begins making his way to Appomattox Court House and receives an exciting note on the road.
The beginning of the last battle of the Army of Northern Virginia - the Battle of Appomattox Court House - will be detailed in a video to be posted on April 9th (tomorrow) at 8:00 AM.
These videos will be posted on the park's YouTube channel, but links will also be available through the park's Facebook and Twitter pages. Use the hashtag #APX152 to follow events occurring at the park related to the 152nd Anniversary of the battles and surrender of General Lee's army.
Website: nps.gov/apco
Facebook: facebook.com/appomattoxnps
Twitter: twitter.com/appomattoxnps
The Surrender at Appomattox
This is a short film I did for my U.S. History project... I love history so much... This video really means a lot to me, so I hope you like it. I have all my references and the music and stuff. Oh, and for copy right reasons, I must state... I DO NOT OWN THE MUSIC! :D Okay, enjoy! (P.S. The song was by a group called the Civil Wars' Hehe, I love it... x3
Appomattox Surrender, April 9, 1865/April 9, 2017
Confederate troops stack arms at the conclusion of the surrender of Lee's Army of Northern Virginia to Grant's Army of the Potomac.
150th Anniversary of Battle of Appomattox
Thursday marks the 150th anniversary of one of the last battles of the Civil War, the Battle of Appomattox Court House in Virginia.
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Appomattox
Belt History teacher Karl Koontz interprets how General Lee surrendered his remaining troops to General Grant at the McLean House on the afternoon of April 9, 1865.
Appomattox Campaign, Episode 14: The Battle of Appomattox Station (HD)
The fighting which begins at Appomattox Station over the Confederate rations spills over into the fields just west of the village of Appomattox Court House. Confederate General Walker is commanding 100 reserve artillery pieces ahead of General Lee's army, awaiting the rest of the Confederate troops. General Custer wins the battle by capturing 25 cannons and 1,000 prisoners.
General Grant establishes his headquarters at Clifton House that same evening. His experiences will be shown in a video to be released on April 8th (today) at 9:00 PM.
These videos will be posted on the park's YouTube channel, but links will also be available through the park's Facebook and Twitter pages. Use the hashtag #APX152 to follow events occurring at the park related to the 152nd Anniversary of the battles and surrender of General Lee's army.
Website: nps.gov/apco
Facebook: facebook.com/appomattoxnps
Twitter: twitter.com/appomattoxnps
An Orb or Not???? (Slave Cabin, Appomattox Va)
Behind the Mclean House Where The Surrender Took Place is a Slave Cabin.
Treaty to End Civil War - McLean House
Virtual tour of the McLean house in Appomattox Court House where the treaty to end the Civil War was signed by Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E. Lee,
Surrender at Appomattox
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