Dr. David Silkenat is the Senior Lecturer in American History at the University of Edinburgh and an expert on the Civil War. He also co-hosts The Whiskey Rebellion podcast with Dr. Frank Cogliano, also a professor at the University of Edinburgh. Silkenat's works include, Driven from Home: North Carolina's Refugee Crisis (UGA, 2016), Moments of Despair: Suicide, Divorce, and Debt in Civil War North Carolina (UNC, 2011), and most recently, Raising the White Flag: How Surrender Defined the Civil War (UNC, 2019). You can follow David on twitter @DavidSilkenat

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Some Highlights from the Conversation:

What it means to surrender in war

General Robert E. Lee and Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox

Vicksburg, July 1865

Robert Anderson and Ft. Sumter

Thousands of paroled soldiers in the Civil War

Statistics of Surrender

Fort Pillow Massacre

Individual Surrenders of all levels

700,000+ deaths in the American Civil War

The Unity Monument at Bennett Place

African Americans, Guerrillas, and Southern Unionists

Suggestions:

David: The American Civil War Museum in Richmond and the American Civil War Museum near the Appomattox Courthouse

Steven: Statues Speak @ Duke University

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