And how many years before the Never Trumpers surrender?
Longstreet then shooed Custer off by reminding him that he was an enemy combatant behind opposing lines and subject to capture. Abashed, Custer returned to General Grant who then made the formal offer to General Lee.
Custer's wife Libbie was given the table on which the armistice was signed. General Phil Sheridan had bought it from its owner, Wilmer Maclean, for $20.
It was the greatest defeat ever suffered by the DemonRats but they are ready to do it again.
What is interesting is that we see the war as ancient times when it is really not that far behind us. We see such war as nearly impossible today but they probably did too.
There was a respect between these men that I wish we had today.
According to Grant and Sheridan, the Greatest General on either side in the Civil War was Nathan Bedford Forrest.
If you say “Whoa” on that, I would say ok IF you define it a little more tighter and say “Greatest Fighting General”.
Once you say it that way, there can be no dispute. Forest always led from the front and killed, in personal hand to hand combat, approximately 28 Yankee soldiers.
Post War Liberal Historians, much like today, attacked and maligned him unmercifully because he was a Confederate General and was involved with the KKK to some degree after the war.
Never mind that historians ignore the fact that
soon after becoming involved with the KKK he advised it’s leaders that if they didn’t cease and desist from their most onerous activities he would personally lead a force to kill every last one of them.
So, in many peoples opinion, Nathan Bedford Forest was objectively our greatest fighting general hands down and no contest.
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But the WAR was NOT over! Down in Texas, a month later, the Union attacked a confederate “Stand Down” army and the confederates won!
In the Indian territories, Stand Watie, the LAST Confederate General later dismissed his troops, and on the High Seas, the CSS Shenandoah continued to “Save the Whales” by sinking Union whaling vessels. When she quit in the fall of 1865, she steamed into a British Port with her Confederate National Flag flying high.
Meanwhile, in several of those Slave States that had joined the Union, SLAVERY went on as usual until the ratification of the 13th Amendment, eight months after the end of the war and the death of Lincoln.
Fifteen-twenty years later, US Troops were still freeing slaves held by the Indians in the west, mostly whites, Mexicans and other captive Indians.
