S1 E6 The Real End of the Civil War

If you look at virtually any United States History book, any book, video, film, poem, or whatever, you will be told that the civil war ended with Robert E. Lee's surrender to Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox Courthouse on April 9, 1865. But did it really? How do you define the end of a War, particularly a civil war. Most people will look at the end when the peace treaty is signed, but in a civil war there is really no peace treaty. So does it end with the first fighting force that surrenders, or the last? Does it end with the last battle? Does it end after all of these events, or when the goal of the war was accomplished? Or does it end when someone with the political power to say so says it has ended? This podcast explores the period between Appomattox Courthouse and the Presidential Proclamation announcing the end of the war. The nation, both of them, were tired of war. It was obvious to all that the Confederacy could not endure much longer. 

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