The Civil War Reenactment was a very educational experience. The experience started by witnessing the reenactment of Battle of Appomattox Courthouse. The reenactment was a very didactic. It allowed me to witness the events of the battle, such as the canons firing unbelievably loud and the movement of the troops across the battle. After some research I found some information on the battle. It was fought on the morning of April 9, 1865 and it was one of the last battles of the Civil War. It was the final engagement of the North Virginian army of the Confederacy under Robert E. Lee before it surrendered to Ulysses S. Grant of the Union. Lee abandoned the Confederate capital of Richmond, Virginia and retreated west. He hoped to join his army with the Confederate forces in North Carolina but Union forces pursued and cut off the…show more content… On the afternoon of April 9, the signing of the surrender documents occurred in the parlor of the house of Wilmer McLean. Afterwards, a formal ceremony marked the disbandment of the Army of Northern Virginia and the parole of its officers and men, causing the end of the war in Virginia. This seemingly ineffectual event triggered a continual series of surrenders across other battles in the south, which seemed to foreshadow the end of the war. Following the Battle of Appomattox Courthouse was the Gettysburg Address given by Abraham Lincoln, which was not written on the back of an envelope while Lincoln was on a train. It was delivered by Lincoln during the Civil War on November 19, 1863, at the dedication of the Soldiers' National Cemetery in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, four and a half months after the Battle of Gettysburg. Lincoln discussed the ideas declared in the Declaration of Independence about the principles of human equality. He also expressed the idea of the Civil War by redefining it as a struggle for the principle of human equality not just for the