People gather outside the Trinity Episcopal Church bell tower as bells toll commemorating the 150th anniversary of the Confederacies surrender to Union forces at Appomattox Courthouse in Virginia. Several other places around Natchez rang their bells at 2:15 p.m. as well. (Sam Gause / The Natchez Democrat)

Copiah-Lincoln Community College professor James Wiggins gives a presentation entitles “Remembering ‘The Long Civil War,’ 1861-1877”. During an event at Trinity Episcopal Church commemorating the 150th anniversary of the end of the Civil War. (Sam Gause / The Natchez Democrat)