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The American Flag Daily: Appomattox
The American Flag Daily ^
| April 9, 2014
| FlagBearer
Posted on 04/09/2014 5:32:08 AM PDT by Master Zinja

149 years ago today, the Civil War all but came to an end with the surrender of Robert E. Lee and the Army of Northern Virginia to Union forces headed by Ulysses S. Grant. While a few battles were still to be fought and many other Confederate units or forces would surrender over the following weeks and months, Lee's surrender marked the end of the war in the Eastern Theater.
TOPICS: History; Military/Veterans; Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: appomattox; civilwar; robertelee; ulyssessgrant
To: Master Zinja
And everyone went home and lived happily ever after.
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posted on
04/09/2014 5:40:42 AM PDT
by
Vermont Lt
(If you want to keep your dignity, you can keep it. Period........ Just kidding, you can't keep it.)
To: Vermont Lt
Lee and Grant wished it were so. There was no rancor in the proceedings at Appomattox.
Grant allowed Confederate officers to keep their side arms & horses; any Confederate soldier who claimed to own a horse or mule could take it home once paroled.
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posted on
04/09/2014 5:51:28 AM PDT
by
elcid1970
("In the modern world, Muslims are living fossils.")
To: elcid1970
Any three of my confederate ancestors (all Great-Great Uncles who were members of Quantrill’s Raiders) continued to fight for another two months. One of them was one of Quantrill’s right-hand men (along with Frank James) and was with Quantrill when he was shot and killed in Louisville, KY. Great Uncle Ves then escaped prison in Lexington and walked home to Missouri to a burned out farm. I can find no more records of him until he started turning up at Quantrill’s Raiders reunions around 1908. His other two brothers escaped to Texas with one coming back to Missouri and the other settling in Texas. They had another brother who was disabled and was unable to fight (My Great-Great Grandfather). He died not long after the war but was able to get the hell out of Jackson County, Missouri and went back to Lawrence County Kentucky, where the family originally came from before the war. I have always thought that story or part of these stories would make a good book.
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posted on
04/09/2014 6:16:26 AM PDT
by
ohioman
To: ohioman
One of my Dad’s ancestors was with McNeil’s raiders when they captured General Crook. He relieved the good General of his sidearm, a Whitney Dragoon and and its been handed down in our family since. I am the current caretaker.
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posted on
04/09/2014 7:26:49 AM PDT
by
Georgia Girl 2
(The only purpose o f a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped.)
To: Master Zinja
Appomattox....a lovely little farming community ten miles down the road from me, now overrun with Muslims.
It’s sad to see.
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posted on
04/09/2014 9:12:32 AM PDT
by
CatherineofAragon
((Support Christian white males---the architects of the jewel known as Western Civilization).)
To: Georgia Girl 2
That is priceless. I wish I had a relic from that era.
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posted on
04/09/2014 9:18:58 AM PDT
by
ohioman
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