Appomattox Blues - Historical Role Play

Historical Role Play Challenge... This video is an attempt to role play a war weary confederate soldier singing as General Lee departs Appomattox Court House after surrender... Attach your historical role play response videos to this one... I have attached 3 examples...

Dressed in an immaculate uniform, Lee waited for Grant to arrive. Grant, whose headache had ended when he received Lee's note, arrived in a mud-spattered uniform—a government-issue flannel shirt with trousers tucked into muddy boots, no sidearms, and with only his tarnished shoulder straps showing his rank. It was the first time the two men had seen each other face-to-face in almost two decades. Suddenly overcome with sadness, Grant found it hard to get to the point of the meeting and instead the two generals briefly discussed a previous encounter during the Mexican-American War. Lee brought the attention back to the issue at hand, and Grant offered the same terms he had before.

The terms were as generous as Lee could hope for; his men would not be imprisoned or prosecuted for treason. In addition to his terms, Grant also allowed the defeated men to take home their horses and mules to carry out the spring planting and provided Lee with a supply of food rations for his starving army; Lee said it would have a very happy effect among the men and do much toward reconciling the country. The terms of the surrender were recorded in a document completed around 4 p.m., April 9. As Lee left the house and rode away, Grant's men began cheering in celebration, but Grant ordered an immediate stop. "I at once sent word, however, to have it stopped," he said. "The Confederates were now our countrymen, and we did not want to exult over their downfall."

On April 10, Lee gave his farewell address to his army. The same day a six-man commission gathered to discuss a formal ceremony of surrender, even though no Confederate officer wished to go through with such an event.

That day, 27,805 Confederate soldiers passed by and stacked their arms.

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[battlebauble]

At the previous meeting in Mexico, Lee chastised Grant for reporting to him all dirty and unkept. An ironic twist of fate. I would dearly love to know what was discussed when Lee met Lincoln. No record was made of that meeting. Love this, Pappy!

[PappyStu]

Yes to be a fly on that wall...

[phekwig]

Nice! I will be checking out the attachments but I have a call to go to now :)

[PappyStu]

Yea I was on graves when I saw this in my mail LOL

[bearchay889]

Very well done I live around ppl that are still fighting this war to this day i myself am conflicted for i love the heart ,the kindness ,the love that can be abundant in the south,but alas i dispise the ingnorance ,the hate,and the naivety of the ppl to follow some very courrupt ppl but i guess everywhere is like that and you just don't see it unless you are there.

I will try my best to do one of these this has inspired me. You might get a kick out of the alt-history author harry turttledove

[PappyStu]

I think there are some serious misconceptions many folks have about peoples perspectives back then... I have read my family's and others correspondence of the time and their thoughts are not reflected in todays media / acedamia...

[bearchay889]

yeah it's a muddled mess my area didn't even hardly fight in the war though it did supply both sides with iron ore at different times.

[PappyStu]

They were very high resolution files which allowed me to target regions and pan through them effectively...

[LeSaMilano]

well done Stu, nicley pu together

and them there's some fancy footwork on the photography - Gert was *that* close to Honest Abe!

[PappyStu]

If history were not repleat with the bad as well as good what would we learn from it... Though I suppose I time we wonder if we do...

Hope this new year's day finds you and the misses most excellent...