I totally felt Lincoln's grief as he removed his hat going through the fallen at the battlefield and his respect for the dead.

the south will arise

Daniel Day-Lewis may be the only actor who made Lincoln come alive, just as the late Tom Wilkinson did with Benjamin Franklin. Not an easy feat.

Lincoln, the country's first dictator and mass murderer of its own people.

Ugh hate these scenes. Nobody abandons artillery or flags on the field and that was waaaaay too many corpses

Tyrants

The idea of Lincoln a usa president visiting the rebel capital the day after it surrender is mindbogoling

Thank you Matthew Brady

Fun fact about the lee surrender scene they don't show, as Lee and his officers leave on horse back, some of the Unions soldiers started to cheer and were immediately silenced by Grant.

I love how some comments are trying to put up the narrative of the “poor south just trying to uphold their state rights and the north unlawfully invaded” — as if the months leading up to secession didn’t happen and the North invaded unprovoked.

Congrats – those comments fell for and believe the narrative the south wanted to tell.

It took them almost 150 years, but we are still feeling the aftermath of the revision of history — it does boil down to a single thing that came to define the reason for the war: right to own slaves.

Hell drawing state borders were defined by right to own slaves — just look at Oklahoma. Ever wondered why it’s shaped like that? It’s because slavery wasn’t permitted above the the state border

I thought Grant arrived late to Appomatox covered in dirt and mud while Lee arrived in his best, clean uniform? Anyway, Lincoln was an interesting man. He wrote poetry about suicide (as he suffered from extreme depression), was not the 100% the benevolent anti-slavery leader the U.S. makes him out to be as he even suggested freed slaves should have been sent to Africa (Americans have the habit of replacing historical fact with black/white propaganda as their rigid mindsets cannot process complexity), and he might have had homosexual tendencies as he shared the same bed with Joshua Speed for five years, and wrote him very intimate, loving letters. It would have simply been better if the British had won the Revolutionary War almost 100 years earlier as they were already taking steps to eliminate slavery (20,000 blacks fought for the loyalists compared to a few thousand for the colonists). The Revolutionary War was more about the Founding Fathers (almost all of whom were slave owners) wanting to prevent the British from eliminating slavery than it was taxation without representation. Had the British won, we could have avoided the Civil War and today the U.S. would have a better healthcare model in regard to cost, access, and outcomes, higher minimum wage, almost no gun deaths, and a stronger social safety net

Imagine it's 2005 and George Bush takes a dirt bike across the battlefield aftermath, in Iraq…..Same thing

More American lives were lost in the Civil War than all other American-involved wars and conflicts combined.

Maybe peace should have had a bit more consequences. Maybe the south wouldn’t have needed military intervention again less than a century later in order to act like human beings.

This helps show what the reality of the Civil War. This is what I did in A Teenager’s Guide to the Civil War: A History Book for Teens.

Crazy. What a long and terrible road it was for those people.

Grant never cried during the war. Not through all the carnage, battles and death he saw. He only cried once at the very end of the war, when he got the news his good friend had been shot

U S Grant was also played by a UK actor here hes Jared Harris (King George VI in the crown and the opa pirate leader in the expanse and the main character in the terror miniseries). Oh and lane price in mad men

Crap

We are on the precipice of another bloody conflict. This one will be much worse.

What is this from, a movie or a series?

Removing their hats was such a hypocritical move after burning down the South killing civilians and blockading them and killing a third of the men in a war of annihilation and subjugation. Of course history is written by the victor and this war was not about states rights and free people choosing their way against an oppressive government, no, it was about the benevolent government saving and liberating people. Tell me how well that one went and what marvellous results it brought for those people.

Keep in mind. That was not a traditional defeated enemy. They were rebels and traitors

what a lie haha the prisoners were left to starve in open field cage – prisons like in wwII the rhine meadows camps.

They destroyed the real America by vanquishing South.