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The Confederate Surrender At Appomattox, The Terminal Event That Signaled The End Of The Four-Year-Long American Civil War, And Prompted A Series Of Subsequent Surrenders All Across The American South, Presented In Our Highest DVD Quality MPEG Video Format At 9.1 MBPS As A MP4 Video Download Or Archival Quality All Regions Format DVD! #BattleOfAppomattoxCourtHouse #AmericanCivilWar #WarBetweenTheStates #WilmerMcLean #AppomattoxCourthouse #AppomattoxCampaign #RobertELee #ArmyOfNorthernVirginia #UlyssesSGrant #UnionArmy #ConclusionOfTheAmericanCivilWar #MP4 #VideoDownload #DVD


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SURRENDER AT APPOMATTOX (Color, 1972, 48 Minutes.)
An excellent newsreel-like recreation of the events leading up to and including the surrender of Confederate forces lead by General Lee to the Union Army lead by General Ulysess S. Grant. Narrated by Hal Holbrook. Entertaining, informative and an excellent standard by which to judge other historical recreation documentaries.

YOU ARE THERE: LEE RIDES TO MEET GRANT: THE CONFEDERATE SURRENDER AT APPOMATTOX COURT HOUSE: APRIL 9, 1865 (Audio Only, November 7, 1948, 28 Minutes)
Hypothetical news coverage of General Robert E. Lee's surrender to General Ulysses S. Grant in the aftermath of The Battle Of Appomattox Court House, in an episode of the landmark CBS News Radio historical drama series by the same staff CBS employed during World War II, including the episode's newscaster Don Hollenbeck, war correspondent, commentator and associate of broadcasting pioneers Edward R. Murrow and Fred W. Friendly.


April 9: Appomattox Day: -- April 9, 1865: The American Civil War (The Civil War, The War Between The States): The Eastern Theater Of The American Civil War: The Conclusion Of The American Civil War: The Appomattox Campaign: The Battle Of Appomattox Court House: (The Surrender Of Robert E. Lee, The Surrender Of The Army Of Northern Virginia, The Commencement Of The Conclusion Of The American Civil War, The First Surrender Agreement Of The Confederate States Of America (CSA) (The First Surrender Agreement Of The Confederate State (C.S.), The First Surrender Agreement Of The Confederacy, The First Surrender Agreement Of The South): -- The practical and effective end of the American Civil War occurs with the Union victory at The Battle of Appomattox Court House, fought that morning in Appomattox County, Virginia, one of the last battles of the American Civil War and the final engagement of Confederate General in Chief Robert E. Lee and his Army Of Northern Virginia, a battle that led to their surrender to the Union Army Of The Potomac under the Commanding General Of The United States Army, Ulysses S. Grant, in the village of Appomattox Court House, The signing of the surrender documents occurred that afternoon in the parlor of the house owned by Wilmer McLean; his house near Manassas, Virginia, was involved in the First Battle Of Bull Run in 1861, and he thereafter moved to Appomattox, Virginia, to escape the war, thinking that there it would be safe; instead, it was there that the Civil War ended, and his houses were, therefore, involved in one of the first and one of the last encounters of the American Civil War. Generous terms of surrender, written by Gen. Grant, allowed Confederates to keep their horses, officers were allowed to keep their swords and side arms, and were allowed to return home after a war that cost 500,000 American lives. Appomattox Day is an annual commemoration of that event. Lee, having abandoned the Confederate capital of Richmond, Virginia, after the nine-and-a-half-month Siege of Petersburg and Richmond, retreated west, hoping to join his army with Confederate forces, the Army of Tennessee in North Carolina. Union infantry and cavalry forces under General 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. On April 12, a formal ceremony of parade and the stacking of arms led by Confederate Maj. Gen. John B. Gordon to Union Brig. Gen. Joshua Chamberlain 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.