Lee's Retreat to Appomattox

[@50pinkies67]

Thank you for a beautiful tribute. From the 6th Company South Carolina Confederate decendant by my 3x and 4x Georgia born grandfathers. They made it home to Georgia but there was little left. Starting over with a terrible food shortage was horrific for decades. 😢

[@honeylamb23]

Beautiful, poignant tribute to the fallen. The landscapes are breathtaking.

[@MrVerno1960]

I am glad you guys got Lee's Retreat route map correct in the Video. I saw one in Farmville, VA that was full of errors and not based on the history of the time. I grew up on River Road, Rt. 36 in Southern Chesterfield County and one of the main retreat routes went directly past our family home. In fact, in 1965, reenactors on horseback and in wagons went past our house in April, to commemorate the 100 year anniversary of the retreat from Petersburg. I was 5 years old but remember it well. Thanks for the video.

[@orfulmeany]

That is VERY cool! Thank you for watching. We’re three guys from Cleveland Ohio who enjoy visiting Civil War sites. Basically, my videos are not much more than a travelogue of our experiences. I’m glad it brought back memories for you. This trip was an attempt to pick up where we left off when we visited Richmond and Petersburg the year prior. We were fortunate to have seen Monument Ave before they removed most of the monuments. We visited Vicksburg, Chattanooga and Chickamauga in 2023. - That was long trip for us…a full week. Happy New Year!

[@orfulmeany]

You’re very welcome!

[@davidkirkman6294]

A great job on the video of Lee’s Retreat and surrender of the Army of Northern Virginia. At Appomattox Courthouse, Virginia. If Lee and his Army of Northern Virginia had been able to link up with Joesph E Johnston’s Army of Tennessee in North Carolina, the war would have dragged on probably a few more months or years. With Sherman’s Army coming up from the south and Sheridan’s Army of the Shenandoah Valley and Grant’s Army of the Potomac. The end result would have been the same.

[@orfulmeany]

Thank you for watching.

[@trentsmillmansion1]

Excellent video Mike! As a new relic hunter way back in 2005 I found my first Civil War relic, a bayonet, at the Battle of Cumberland Church. What a blessing to be able to recover and relive history.

[@orfulmeany]

That's amazing! Keep on hunting!

[@euntaekkim]

Great video!

[@crusader4273]

Excellent Video 👏🏻

[@orfulmeany]

Thank you!

[@travisbayles870]

I must now go and see General Grant and I'd rather die a thousand deaths General Robert E Lee Confederate Army

[@orfulmeany]

Grant understood the math

[@travisbayles870]

@@orfulmeany Lee was a hero

[@Vic-mv8iz]

The confederates lost the war in july 1863 at the defeat at Gettysburg but it carried on for two more bloody years. Several high ranking officers said its impossible the men having to walk mile half in the open to get to the union lines. They must have lost a quarter of their men . At close quarters the union artillery used grspe shot to decimate the on coming soldiers terrible but saying that the confederates had the wall at Fredrickburg early in the year

[@marknewton6984]

Jefferson Davis should have called a truce after Gettysburg.

[@luisdeleon9819]

Lee should have been prosecuted for treason.

[@orfulmeany]

Any President other than Lincoln would have made sure of that.

[@mattkoch692]

Absolutely agree