In Appomattox, Virginia, on April 9, 1865, Robert E. Lee surrenders his 28,000 Confederate troops to Union General Ulysses S. Grant, effectively ending the American Civil War. Forced to abandon the Confederate capital of Richmond, blocked from joining the surviving Confederate force in North Carolina, and harassed constantly by Union cavalry, Lee had no other option.
In retreating from the Union army’s Appomattox Campaign, the Army of Northern Virginia had stumbled through the Virginia countryside stripped of food and supplies. At one point, Union cavalry forces under General Philip Sheridan had actually outrun Lee’s army, blocking their retreat and taking 6,000 prisoners at Sayler’s Creek. Desertions were mounting daily, and by April 8 the Confederates were surrounded with no possibility of escape. On April 9, Lee sent a message to Grant announcing his willingness to surrender. The two generals met in the parlor of the Wilmer McLean home at one o’clock in the afternoon.
Lee and Grant, both holding the highest rank in their respective armies, had known each other slightly during the Mexican War and exchanged awkward personal inquiries. Characteristically, Grant arrived in his muddy field uniform while Lee had turned out in full dress attire, complete with sash and sword. Lee asked for the terms, and Grant hurriedly wrote them out. All officers and men were to be pardoned, and they would be sent home with their private property–most important, the horses, which could be used for a late spring planting. Officers would keep their side arms, and Lee’s starving men would be given Union rations.
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“Everyone should do all in his power to collect and disseminate the truth, in the hope that it may find a place in history and descend to posterity. History is not the relation of campaigns and battles and generals or other individuals, but that which shows the principles for which the South contended and which justified her struggle for those principles. ”
Robert E. Lee
“There are things in the old Book which I may not be able to explain, but I fully accept it as the infallible word of God, and receive its teachings as inspired by the Holy Spirit.”
Robert E. Lee
“Let us go home and cultivate our virtues.”
Robert E. Lee, addressing his soldiers at Appomattox
“A Union that can only be maintained by swords and bayonets has no charm for me. If the Union is dissolved and government disrupted, I shall return to my native state and share the miseries of my people, and save in defense will draw my sword on none.” Robert E. Lee
I believe this was the deep states first “color revolution”!
Free men just can’t be allowed,and they must fight physical enslavement with idealogical and financial enslavement.
Look at where both “sides”have ended up……..
“[T]he contest is really for empire on the side of the North, and for independence on that of the South, and in this respect we recognize an exact analogy between the North and the Government of George III, and the South and the Thirteen Revolted Provinces. These opinions…are the general opinions of the English nation.”
London Times, November 7, 1861
“The principle for which we contend is bound to reassert it’s self, though it may be at another time and in another form.”
President Jefferson Davis, C.S.A.
Just a quick reminder for the Southern Hillbilly Plantation owners and those who want to be like them:
You lost, but you can’t admit it because to do so would be admitting openly that you really are losers. You can’t even cope with the summer weather in Copper Harbor because you will freeze to death. You are an inferior species that required slaves to do all of your tasks because you lacked the strength and intelligence to do it yourself. The fact that you built nothing during your war proves this. You had to send out for the iron just to build that failed submarine and that ironclad conversion kit. You had to send out for any guns you couldn’t steal. Little wonder you are always broke. You blew all your slave-earned riches on having to buy what you were too mentally declined to manufacture for yourself.
Wow … a bunch of folks are actually taking your post seriously — totally missing the sarcasm …
It’s not funny
Eye Rolling. Next you’ll proffer that the Southerns were traitors. Drink deep of the corporate Kool-aid.
Aaaah!
Messed up your streak!
Sowwwy…