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The radio show/podcast Backstory with the American History Guys has just released a show on 1865 as a year of uncertainty — challenging romantic myths of the surrender at Appomattox, myths still enacted e.g. in the re-enactment held this month on site.
Grant and Lee drew very different conclusions about the meaning of the generous surrender terms. And of course the surrender of Lee's army (after the fall of Richmond and flight of Pres. Davis) still did not technically spell the end of the rebellion.
Among the unresolved questions 150 years ago:
- Should the rebellious states be allowed back as states? Under what conditions?
- Should the leaders be hanged as traitors? That was the conventional thing to do, and it was what most Confederate statesmen and generals seem to have expected.
- Would Confederate troops take to the woods and hills and continue a guerrilla war?
The show also deals with the problems of freed slaves trying to reunite with loved ones, some of whom were kept in bondage in spite of the 13th Amendment and the presence of Federal troops in the South.
http://backstoryradio.org/shows/eighteen-sixty-five/
Grant and Lee drew very different conclusions about the meaning of the generous surrender terms. And of course the surrender of Lee's army (after the fall of Richmond and flight of Pres. Davis) still did not technically spell the end of the rebellion.
Among the unresolved questions 150 years ago:
- Should the rebellious states be allowed back as states? Under what conditions?
- Should the leaders be hanged as traitors? That was the conventional thing to do, and it was what most Confederate statesmen and generals seem to have expected.
- Would Confederate troops take to the woods and hills and continue a guerrilla war?
The show also deals with the problems of freed slaves trying to reunite with loved ones, some of whom were kept in bondage in spite of the 13th Amendment and the presence of Federal troops in the South.
http://backstoryradio.org/shows/eighteen-sixty-five/
