The Surrender of the Confederates: The END of the CIVIL WAR — Transcript

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1. 0:00[Music]
2. 0:00foreign
3. 0:03[Music]
4. 0:06welcome back to a moment in history I'm
5. 0:09Seth udinski in tonight's episode we
6. 0:11journey back to the spring of 1865. the
7. 0:15American Civil War had ravaged the
8. 0:17United States for four long years
9. 0:19thousands of men and boys had died in
10. 0:22this brutal War Between Brothers a war
11. 0:24to ultimately saved the union and
12. 0:27finally end the horrid practice of
13. 0:29racial slavery in the nation and on
14. 0:31April 9 1865 the United States was saved
15. 0:35from destruction as the Confederate Army
16. 0:37formally surrendered to the union at
17. 0:39Appomattox Virginia
18. 0:41one week earlier on April 2nd the union
19. 0:44saw its Anaconda Plan come to fruition
20. 0:46as General Ulysses S Grant's Army of the
21. 0:49Potomac besieged and captured Richmond
22. 0:51the capital city of the Confederate
23. 0:54States now you might be asking what in
24. 0:56the world is the Anaconda Plan well the
25. 0:59Anaconda Plan was a proposed war
26. 1:01strategy first introduced by Union
27. 1:03General Winfield Scott at the beginning
28. 1:05of the war for the plan to succeed it
29. 1:08required the union to cut off the
30. 1:10South's Supply chains attack and take
31. 1:12over major port cities and major cities
32. 1:15in general and use its vastly Superior
33. 1:18size and Military might to squeeze the
34. 1:20life out of the Confederates like a
35. 1:22giant snake
36. 1:23due to the utter incompetence of most
37. 1:25Union Generals in the first two years of
38. 1:27the war the Confederates pushed the
39. 1:29Union to the Limit until President
40. 1:31Abraham Lincoln called on a quiet
41. 1:33General from the West to turn the tide
42. 1:36of the war
43. 1:37Lincoln turned in desperation to the
44. 1:39brilliant General U.S Grant who led the
45. 1:41union to great success in the western
46. 1:43theater and he made him supreme
47. 1:45commander of the Union Army
48. 1:47Grant reinstituted the Anaconda Plan and
49. 1:50in less than two years the Union Army
50. 1:53strangled the struggling Rebels after
51. 1:55the fall of Richmond Supreme Confederate
52. 1:57General Robert E Lee LED his battered
53. 2:00and diminished Army of Northern Virginia
54. 2:02Through The Virginian Countryside in a
55. 2:04last-ditch race to outrun the Union Army
56. 2:07to Lynchburg if they could reach the
57. 2:09railroad of Lynchburg they could regain
58. 2:11supplies and perhaps regroup to continue
59. 2:13the war but the Union Army cut them off
60. 2:16at the little Hamlet of Appomattox
61. 2:18Courthouse in Virginia on April 9
62. 2:21General's Grant and Lee met at the
63. 2:23McLean house in Appomattox to negotiate
64. 2:25the terms of surrender General Lee a
65. 2:28brilliant and dashing military leader
66. 2:30who did not support slavery but refused
67. 2:33to fight against his home state of
68. 2:34Virginia was heartbroken at his
69. 2:36impending loss yet he knew he had no
70. 2:39choice
71. 2:40he told his generals the day before the
72. 2:42surrender there is nothing left for me
73. 2:44to do but go and see General Grant and I
74. 2:46would rather die a thousand deaths
75. 2:49after the terms of surrender were
76. 2:51created The Battered and beaten
77. 2:53Confederates approached the Union Army
78. 2:54to lay down their weapons in a great Act
79. 2:57of chivalry and respect Union general
80. 3:00Joshua Chamberlain a hero from the
81. 3:02Battle of Gettysburg ordered his
82. 3:04division to salute their enemies as they
83. 3:06surrendered this act of Goodwill between
84. 3:08military enemies was a poignant reminder
85. 3:10that these men were brothers and fellow
86. 3:13countrymen the union was saved it had
87. 3:16survived its greatest crisis we live in
88. 3:19a free Nation today a nation that is
89. 3:21still divided on many issues but free
90. 3:23nonetheless thanks to brave men like
91. 3:25these who fought to establish freedom
92. 3:28for all thanks so much for joining me
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