Lee surrendered at Appomattox courthouse, 9 April 1865

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1. Mister, here's your mule

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2. John Brown's body

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13. John Brown's Song

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3. Battle Hymn Of The Republic

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39. I had not heard this version. It's beautiful.

I usually think of the Mormon Tabernacle Choir when I think of this song, but no more.

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4. Just Before The Battle, Mother

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5. Tenting tonight on the old campground

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6. Battle Cry of Freedom

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7. Grafted into the Army

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8. Weeping Sad And Lonely

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9. Tramp tramp tramp

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31. Tramp! Tramp! Tramp! (Harlan and Stanley: 1907)

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10. Just After The Battle

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11. Write A Letter To My Mother

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12. Funeral March

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14. 'I'm a Good Old Rebel' arranged by Ry Cooder from the 'Long Riders' sound track

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27. Reconstruction Song

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15. Great Civil War song by Richard Shindell

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25. +

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16. That's why the white flag should be displayed by all of today's necrofederate yahoos

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29. Marching through Georgia (Stanley and Harlan: 1904)

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17. History tetbooks can be misleading.

For years, I thought the surrender was signed at the courthouse in Appomattox, Virginia. Turns out, it was signed in the parlor of a private home located in the town of Appomattox Court House (italics mine), Virginia.

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18. Another interesting item

Another interesting item is the first real battle the of the civil war, the battle of bull run, the land was owned by Wilmer McLean. He sold the land and moved to Appomattox court house hoping to escape the war. The surrender treaty was then signed at his home that he moved to.

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20. Beat me to it.

This guys tie-in was weird huh?

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19. This man hosted the start, and end of the civil war.

The opening salvos damaged his home, at the start of the first battle of Bull Run. Later he moved south, and Lee surrendered in his parlor in Appomattx Court House, VA.

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilmer_McLean

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23. What a great story! It was mentioned in Ken Burns' long film on the war

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22. “The war began in my front yard and ended in my parlor.” -- Wilmer McLean

... On July 18, 1861, Confederate General Beauregard had sat down for supper in the home of a Manassas local when a cannonball pierced through the house and landed in the kitchen fireplace ... Perhaps the shell would have been more of a shock had it not been just one of many volleys in the first major campaign of the Civil War: the Battle of Bull Run. The house belonged to a man named Wilmer McLean, who had purchased the property in 1854 ... McLean was happy to oblige the general as he himself was a retired officer in the Virginia militia ... But by the time the Second Battle of Bull Run had occurred on his doorstep and a pregnant wife, McLean had had enough ... In 1863, Wilmer McLean settled on the property surrounding the Two Rein Tavern at a small and quiet crossroads over 100 miles south of the chaos of Civil War battlefields. For two years, his family lived in the relative quietude of southern Virginia until, on April 9, 1865, Charles Marshall ... asked McLean to show him a place that was suitable for Lee and another general to meet ... Such it is that the Civil War started in Wilmer McLean’s kitchen and ended in his parlor.

[Bucky]

21. Um, you might want to put a spoiler alert on that thread title

I'm still only on Season 3, so I don't know how the war turns out

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24. *SPOILER ALERT*

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26. Love that song!

Thanks for posting it!

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28. Dixie

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32. Hint: some people sign a piece of paper

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38. I really did laugh out loud

Nicely done!

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30. Lorena

Popular in both Federal and Confederate armies.

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33. Veteran's Last Song

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35. Thank you so much for this thread.

I've been an avid reader of History for almost fifty years now (enough so that I earned both BA and MA in History though I worked construction my whole life) and I've never found a subject that could quite hold my interest as well as the American Civil War.

My GG and GGG grandfathers (father and son) both enlisted in a Minnesota infantry regiment at the end of 1861. The father was wounded and invalided at Vicksburg, while the son served through the war's end in 1865. I've got a bunch of their stuff; uniform parts, swords (the father was a captain, the son a sergeant) belt buckles, letters, etc. .

So many aspects to that whole conflict are fascinating to me.

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34. Ashokan Farewell

JAY UNGAR: "Ashokan Farewell" is a tune that I wrote unintentionally, really. It was a moment of deep emotion after the summer camps at Ashokan had ended. It was the third summer, and it was an experiment every summer, you know, pulling this together. And it had been such a deeply moving experience and the community of people and the feeling of unity that we had had through music, and being away from the regular world was so important to me that when I’d gotten home, I had a sense of loss and longing; and I was looking for a Scottish lament, you know, that would express how I felt. And I couldn’t think of one, so I just started playing, and this tune came out ... We were asked by Ken to come to Brattleboro, Vermont, and record music for The Civil War series, and this would be a lot of the traditional, period music ... The first scenes that we saw were at the end of our day of recording in Brattleboro. We went back to Ken’s house in Walpole, New Hampshire, and he showed us a trailer that used "Ashokan Farewell" ...
http://www.pbs.org/civilwar/film/music.html

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36. Yeah, I love that song.

One among many of the elements of Burns' Civil War series that makes it such a great viewing experience.


Here is one my mom used to play when I was a kid (a bit more on the maudlin side than "Ashokan Farewell&quot .

My eldest daughter went to college in Philly. I drove her back there from California, and stopped at Shiloh battlefield on the trip back home. Beautiful national park.

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37. Shiloh's Hill