Thursday, April 09, 2015

 

Appomattox


Carl M. Cannon:
One hundred and fifty years ago today, Robert E. Lee acknowledged the inevitable.
His forces shrunken and surrounded, his provisions dwindling rapidly, the Union Army pressing the attack, Lee first acknowledged to himself, then to his fellow Confederate officers, and finally to Ulysses Grant that the South was defeated.
Read the whole thing.

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