Easter 1865--Some Little Known American History and the Seeds of the Modern Deep State

HISTORICAL LINKS CAN BE FOUND HERE VVV
Easter 1865—a short discussion of the period between April 1, 1865 and Palm Sunday, April 14, 1865: It was the end of an era in the United States and the beginning of the modern deep state.

Siege of Petersburg
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Petersburg

Battle of Five Forks
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Five_Forks

Battle of Sailor's Creek (also known as Sayler's Creek)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Sailor's_Creek

Battle of Appomattox Court House (In the video, I said this happened on the 7th. This was apparently wrong. Guess my memory is beginning to fail me!)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Appomattox_Court_House

The meeting under the apple tree (had this wrong by a day also...gonna have to start working from notes or eat a lot of B12)
https://www.nps.gov/apco/the-meeting.htm

Lincoln's visit to Richmond
https://www.nps.gov/rich/learn/historyculture/lincvisit.htm

Lincoln and the Greenbacks (This is an interesting take on the subject of Lincoln, the greenbacks, the City of London Banks, the war debt and the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. I just found it and it tells a pretty good story in regard to the reasons for Lincoln's assassination, which I only briefly covered in the video discussion of this history.)
https://strategic-culture.org/news/2020/09/09/how-to-save-a-dying-republic-lincoln-and-the-greenbacks/

Assassination of Lincoln (the official version)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_Abraham_Lincoln