 So I went to Appomattox to find out the truth, and Patrick Schroeder, the park historian who has studied this for 25 years, believes that Chamberlain was given the command and did lead the surrender of the Confederate forces that remarkable April 12 day. And the moment that is debated, a salute to the Confederates? How did that happen? Yes, John Brown Gordon, like Chamberlain, a man who had not had any military training,