Thankfully, Brian Williams was there to assure Lee signed the surrender.
Posted on 04/09/2015 10:03:31 AM PDT by Leaning Right
The surrender of Confederate Robert E. Lee to Union Lt. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant 150 years ago Thursday was the definitive milestone of the end of the Civil War.
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Old times there are not forgotten...
We should just look away, look away, look away...
Sometimes wonder how things would be w/o our capital in D.C.
Family and I headed over there for the commemorations. Live about 70 miles from there.
The slavery of the Old South is coming to be seen as small potatoes compared to that imposed by our modern Federal overseers.
Not sure it matters where the roaches and locusts gather.
I really think we need more members of the House. Article 1, Section 2 calls for one representative for every 30,000 citizens. That would be about 10,000 representatives. You can't lobby 5,001 reps to get a law passed. They would have to reside in their state.
What did they have at the Commemoration?
My GG-uncle was there that day...took the oath of allegiance and was paroled.
Speech by anyone?
There are re-enactors, demonstrations, and lectures at the park. The Museum of the Confederacy and other groups are also sponsoring events.
Hyperbolize much?
I’m about eight miles from Appomattox. I’m staying out of the traffic mess, LOL.
Hope you and yours had a nice time, though.
Thankfully, Brian Williams was there to assure Lee signed the surrender.
Lee never signed a surrender. He wrote a letter accepting the terms.
Same thing? Maybe, but he felt he had no authority to sign a surrender on behalf of his government. He accepted terms for the Army of N Virginia.
Ha Ha Ha!
That’s a more powerful image than when the Japanese surrendered on the USS Missouri.
A sad day for the south—a day of great joy for the north. BUT! The war was still going on—Jefferson Davis was still leading a government—other armies were still in the field and Confederate warships still at sea. The real surrender would be weeks away.
Then Grant opened the Union commissary to Lee’s starving troops, allowed paroled Confederates who claimed to own a horse or mule to take it home, and exempted officers’ side arms from the general surrender of weapons.
Grant later wrote that he could not bear requiring Lee to hand over his saber, hence the proviso on sidearms.
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