Talk:Appomattox campaign

message: In conjunction with maintenance and upgrading that I am doing for the Siege of Petersburg article and its related battle articles, I am also planning to convert this campaign as well. Although anyone is welcome to participate, I expect that this effort will take me until at least July. Hal Jespersen (talk) 02:31, 27 May 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Updating

message: The article lacks the , for a quick reference on the most important details. The first section is unreferenced, and the following ones are too small. We don't need an individual section for each battle, if they can't grow more than this, seek a way to merge many into a single section. "Aftermath" has text sandwiched between images. The "notes" should not be just links, add more info ( can be helpful, although not mandatory). The books in references should be books actually used for the article, that may be hold in doubt if no footnote mentions them. Cambalachero (talk) 05:01, 15 January 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Requests for assessment 

message: After considerable delay, I have revised the first parts of the article which I believe are now clearer and more in line with the discussion above. I assume I may need to make a few minor corrections or revisions when I re-read the revised part of the article. I plan to proceed with some revisions and additions to the articles about the battles, including a few more subsections about important occurrences on the few days when there were no battles and aside from actions in the battles themselves. I also plan to cut back the introductions to a few of the battle articles that I wrote at earlier dates but to expand a few of the other articles which are rather brief. Just to start, the first article which needs revision, the Lewis's Farm article, has too long an introduction and needs some reorganization at the end as well. I can be critical because I added most or all of the extra content. Because I did not get to this work at an earlier date (although I did some reading) I will need to work diligently at the revisions because I want to have them done by the end of February or mid-March at the latest because the 150th anniversary of these events begin on March 24 with Grant's initial orders for the offensive. Donner60 (talk) 09:00, 4 February 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: I may separate the substantive notes from the citation footnotes because I think that format, which is used in a few of the longer articles, may be easier to follow here. Any comment will be welcome. Donner60 (talk) 09:06, 4 February 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: I did not quite make the full expansion of this article and related battle articles by the 150th anniversary as campaign article is linked on main page today and the later paragraphs of the article, after April 1, are still mainly "stub-like". I put expanded article on Third Battle of Petersburg up just a short while ago. The later battle articles need various amounts of expansion and some correction or revision. I will get as much more information into later days' summaries as I can as quickly as I can. I also will be working on articles for later minor battles, plus Sailor's Creek and Appomattox Court House as quickly as I can. I wish I could have gotten it all expanded by today but real life intervened some over the past two months. And I felt as if I should do a comprehensive job on these articles. Overall, and despite my long background sections, I suppose the current article and related articles are more informative and better presentations for the project than they were a few months ago. I will finish as soon as time permits, perhaps putting up some information quickly and getting it in proper form and well cited a few days later. Donner60 (talk) 10:00, 29 March 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Revisions and References Under Construction: Update 

message: I plan to add much of this new content as background to Battle of Dinwiddie Court House and Battle of White Oak Road. In turn, that should enable me to cut down this section without losing the content altogether. Enough happened on March 30 for a few more additions and a stand-alone article. The prelude of March 29 and March 30, with some discussion of Lewis's Farm, is a whole chapter in Bearss's book. That really would not work as a stand-alone article in Wikipedia, however. Donner60 (talk) 23:24, 12 February 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Additions for March 30, 1865 

message: The wiki articles on the individual battles of the Appomattox campaign are seriously unmanageable, too densely written, and the ledes are at least twice as long as they should be  -  except, for some reason, Sailor's Creek, which is much too short. I tried to lengthen it, but found the main article quite impossible to summarise. A bit of editorial leadership needed here, I think. Valetude (talk) 00:38, 18 December 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Individual battle articles 

message: I found an interesting c.1865 Currier & Ives lithograph at the Library of Congress which I've put on Wikimedia Commons that shows a meeting of the four in March, 1865. Grant, Lincoln and Sheridan were in City Point on March 26th (Greene, p. 151), but Sherman didn't arrive until the 27th (Harris, p. 197). It likely happened on the night of March 27th, or possibly on the morning of the 28th (Greene, p. 151), since Sheridan's forces were near Petersburg on the 28th (Harris, p. 198) as in article: Although delayed by a train derailment, Sheridan met with Grant and Sherman at City Point late on March 27 and on the morning of March 28 when he again opposed joining Sherman's forces in North Carolina despite some effort by Sherman to persuade him to take that course of action (Greene, p. 151).  This lithograph could be added to the article; however, I haven't found another source—aside from the picture itself—placing all four in the same room. Any thoughts? MrFrosty2 (talk) 00:13, 21 February 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Lincoln meeting with Grant, Sherman and Sheridan in March, 1865 

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message: How was the surrender of the Army of Northern Virginia "unconditional"? Grant and Lee were exchanging correspondence and both came to mutually-agreeable terms on which Lee would surrender. That's not "unconditional". -- Veggies (talk) 14:50, 28 March 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Unconditional Surrender??