“You may forgive us but we won’t be forgiven. There is a rancor in our hearts which you little dream of. We hate you, sir.” (Said by a surrendering Rebel officer to Joshua Lawrence Chamberlin at Appomattox.)
In the 143+ years since Appomattox, their rancor and hate has long faded from memory. These brave men, so passionately committed to their different causes, now sleep together as brothers in the soil of this Great Nation which was formed out of that tragic conflict. R.I.P.