Caroline Janney
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206 appearances
2 recordings
1 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 12 Apr
Caroline Janney’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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He's looking for another railroad connection to make his way down to North Carolina.
But all throughout the way, the United States Army is cutting off his path.
Finally, on the night of April 8th, Lee realizes that he is surrounded on three sides by the United States Army.
He's met with his men.
He tells them, if we wake up in the morning and we have infantry in front of us, it's over.
And so there's a small battle the morning of April 9th.
It becomes clear that Lee is in fact surrounded.
And so he had been exchanging notes throughout the week with Grant about terms of surrender.
And on the morning of April 9th, they will finally meet at Appomattox Courthouse.
Grant, as a military officer, cannot negotiate terms of peace.
That's a political issue for office holders to negotiate.
Lincoln has told him, all you can do is compel the surrender of the army in front of you.
And that's precisely what Grant will do.
When word reaches Joe Johnston in North Carolina that Lee has capitulated, he too will initiate conversations with Sherman, who's the Union officer that he is up against, and they too will come to terms of surrender.
But there's never a peace treaty in the American Civil War.
A peace treaty would have negated the very idea that this was a rebellion.
If the Lincoln administration had offered a peace treaty, it would have recognized the Confederacy as a legitimate nation.
And he spent four years saying, you're not a nation, you are a people in rebellion.
Surrender doesn't end their commitment to the Confederate cause.
And one of the really striking things is that both Union soldiers and Confederate soldiers will say that the way the war ended, it didn't quash the Confederate spirit.
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