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To: Aurelius
Lee surrendered at Appomattox Courthouse April 9, 1865.

Do you have another answer?
157 posted on 06/12/2003 8:08:12 PM PDT by conservativemusician
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To: conservativemusician
"Do you have another answer?"

Yes I do.

"A question settled by violence, or in disregard of law, must remain unsettled forever."
Jefferson Davis

"Governor, if I had foreseen the use these people desired to make of their victory, there would have been no surrender at Appomattox, no, sir, not by me. Had I seen these results of subjugation, I would have preferred to die at Appomattox with my brave men, my sword in this right hand."
Robert E. Lee
— as told to Texas ex-governor F. W. Stockdale

"I would have never surrendered the army if I had known how the South would have been treated."
"Well, General, you have only to blow the bugle."
"It is too late now."
— exchange between Lee and Colonel T. M. R. Talcott Robert E. Lee

162 posted on 06/12/2003 8:47:54 PM PDT by Aurelius
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