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Battle of Appomattox: Understanding General Lee's Surrender
Ammo.com ^ | 7/26/2021 | Sam Jacobs

Posted on 07/26/2021 4:33:01 PM PDT by ammodotcom

The Battle of Appomattox Courthouse is considered by many historians the end of the Civil War and the start of post-Civil War America. The events of General Robert E. Lee’s surrender to General and future President Ulysses S. Grant at a small town courthouse in Central Virginia put into effect much of what was to follow.

The surrender at Appomattox Courthouse was about reconciliation, healing, and restoring the Union. While the Radical Republicans had their mercifully brief time in the sun rubbing defeated Dixie’s nose in it, they represented the bleeding edge of Northern radicalism that wanted to punish the South, not reintegrate it into the Union as an equal partner.

The sentiment of actual Civil War veterans is far removed from the attitude of the far left in America today. Modern day “woke-Americans” clamor for the removal of Confederate statues in the South, the lion’s share of which were erected while Civil War veterans were still alive. There was little objection to these statues at the time because it was considered an important part of the national reconciliation to allow the defeated South to honor its wartime dead and because there is a longstanding tradition of memorializing defeated foes in honor cultures.

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TOPICS: History; Military/Veterans
KEYWORDS: 1of; appomattox; blogpimp; civilwar; history; neoconfederates; pimpmyblog; postandleave; postandrun; selfpromotion
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To: Pikachu_Dad

It’s a wonderful article, well written and with a wonderful point.


21 posted on 07/26/2021 5:43:28 PM PDT by DesertRhino (A coup government may not claim the protection of the same constitution it overthrew. )
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To: Republican Wildcat

“And secession was over what? Slavery. Pure and simple.”

If the South was fighting for slavery, who was fighting against slavery?


22 posted on 07/26/2021 5:49:30 PM PDT by jeffersondem
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To: rstrahan

Presumably you mean the flag flown by pirates to let their prey know they were not going to take prisoners?


23 posted on 07/26/2021 6:01:13 PM PDT by rellic
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To: Stosh

Wow. Statues of Gen. Forrest are being torn down, when in fact I’d say he deserves more put up just for so instructing his men.


24 posted on 07/26/2021 6:06:38 PM PDT by Paul R. (You know your pullets are dumb if they don't recognize a half Whopper as food!)
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To: Hootowl

I believe the money quote from him was “the war started in my front yard and ended in my front parlor.”


25 posted on 07/26/2021 6:07:01 PM PDT by PLMerite ("They say that we were Cold Warriors. Yes, and a bloody good show, too." - Robert Conquest )
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To: zaxtres

U.S. Grant’s biography is full of comments about the war being fought over slavery. He did not agree with slavery and went so far as to make sure blacks were part of the union troops. Look up Port Hudson and the Siege of Vicksburg. The leader of the entire union army would disagree with you about the reason for he war.


26 posted on 07/26/2021 6:17:29 PM PDT by irish guard
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To: Stosh

Yeah, and look how well that turned out for the South. Reconstruction, with continued hatred and privation caused by the North. They STILL hate us to this day, even 156 years later.


27 posted on 07/26/2021 6:23:19 PM PDT by backwoods-engineer (But what do I know? I'm just a backwoods engineer.)
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To: Paul R.

We here in Alabama are taking care of General Forrest. I know several who went with his bones when they were removed from Memphis, and travelled with them, until they are re-interred in TN.


28 posted on 07/26/2021 6:25:25 PM PDT by backwoods-engineer (But what do I know? I'm just a backwoods engineer.)
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To: Paul R.

You are exactly correct - places like Northern Ireland and Kosovo have had blood feuds that have continued for generations - as I understand it, significant sentiment to persist in resistance through guerrilla-like action was common among Confederate factions at that time, and it was the leadership of great and noble men like Lee and Forrest that kept us from going down that bloody path.


29 posted on 07/26/2021 6:32:22 PM PDT by Stosh
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To: backwoods-engineer

I’m a transplanted Yankee city boy who spent the best years of his life in the Deep South, and you’re right about those pinheads up North who hate anything about the South, its people and its culture - but they’re not the majority, and they’re mostly jackoffs who despise anybody and anything that doesn’t align with their radical lefty agenda.


30 posted on 07/26/2021 6:39:26 PM PDT by Stosh
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To: Reily

No…didn’t you hear the news? It was Juneteenth when the slaves were freed. It was in all the papers this year. It’ll be a federal holiday next year.


31 posted on 07/26/2021 6:40:04 PM PDT by ealgeone
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To: ealgeone

Oh yeah , ok .....

As Mark Twain said “If you don’t read the newspaper, you’re uninformed. If you read the newspaper, you’re mis-informed.”


32 posted on 07/26/2021 7:24:58 PM PDT by Reily
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To: zaxtres

One of Lincoln’s first acts was to free the slaves in Washington DC. He knew that he didn’t have the authority to unilaterally free the slaves nationally. For that an amendment to the constitution was needed. That is the province of congress and the states, not the president.


33 posted on 07/26/2021 8:31:24 PM PDT by rockrr ( Everything is different now...)
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To: Republican Wildcat

Everyone points to those speeches and documents, brought by the Southern societal elite and conclude it was only about slavery, dismissing all the other evidence that points to freedom to make their own choices; which slavery just happened to be the immediate point of contention.

It is ridiculous to think that tens of thousands of men would force march to battle to fight for something they had no share in.

If it wasn’t slavery, it could have been something else; chiefly that the north and south were two different peoples that didn’t have a lot in common.


34 posted on 07/26/2021 8:38:08 PM PDT by Salvavida
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To: ammodotcom

Bkmk


35 posted on 07/26/2021 8:57:29 PM PDT by sauropod (Amateurs built the ark; Professionals built the Titanic. Anon)
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To: Salvavida

“ Everyone points to those speeches and documents, brought by the Southern societal elite and conclude it was only about slavery, …”

Everyone, including the southerners writing the secession declarations in Georgia, Virginia, Mississippi, Texas, and the one that got the party started, South Carolina.


36 posted on 07/26/2021 9:10:11 PM PDT by SoCal Pubbie
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To: zaxtres

But in the end, the slaves were freed, something the secessionists had been desperate to avoid.


37 posted on 07/26/2021 9:15:24 PM PDT by x
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To: rockrr

One of Lincoln’s first acts was to free the slaves in Washington DC. He knew that he didn’t have the authority to unilaterally free the slaves nationally. For that an amendment to the constitution was needed. That is the province of congress and the states, not the president.


This is absolutely wrong. Abraham Lincoln was sworn into office on March 4, 1861. President Lincoln signed legislation to free Washington DC slaves on April 16, 1862, one year and one month after his inauguration. So his first acts was not to free the slaves in DC. Another thing, it was not President Lincoln who signed an EO to free the slaves in DC. This legislation was brought forward by a Jr. Senator from Massachusetts in December 1861 and took awhile for Congress to pass it. Lincoln did not free the slaves in DC, Congress did on April 3, 1862. Lincoln only signed the Bill. The Civil War started on April 15, 1861. Lincoln hadn’t even been in office 1 month when the war started.

The legislation titled “An Act for the release for the release of certain persons held to service or labor in the District of Columbia,” it freed the 3,100 women, men and children who were still enslaved in 1862. The act also allowed for slaveowners to be compensated up to $300 for each individual they had legally owned. In addition, newly-freed African Americans could receive up to $100 if they chose to emigrate to another country. (Reparations)

One of Lincolns first acts was to go to war with the South by issuing the Call for Troops. The Emancipation Proclamation was a Presidential Proclamation and Executive Order on January 1, 1863.

The War came first then the freeing of the slaves.

Please get your history correct.


38 posted on 07/26/2021 9:16:48 PM PDT by zaxtres (`)
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To: Pikachu_Dad
It was the democrats who initiate the secession and the war OVER SLAVERY.

No, that is the propaganda we have been fed in the intervening 150 years to justify why a bunch of states invaded other states and killed people because those states wanted to leave the Union.

The war had absolutely nothing to do with slavery. We've just been taught that crap all our lives.

39 posted on 07/26/2021 9:16:50 PM PDT by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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To: Stosh

Or else they had dealings with the “the South was Right!” crew and got really tired of their eternal, repetitive BS ...


40 posted on 07/26/2021 9:18:02 PM PDT by x
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