In Appomattox Court House, Virginia, Robert E. Lee surrenders his 28,000 Confederate troops to Union General Ulysses S. Grant, effectively ending the American Civil War. Forced to abandon the Confederate capital of Richmond, blocked from joining the surviving Confederate force in North Carolina, and harassed constantly by Union cavalry, Lee had no other option.
In retreating from the Union army’s Appomattox Campaign, the Army of Northern Virginia had stumbled through the Virginia countryside stripped of food and supplies. At one point, Union cavalry forces under General Philip Sheridan had actually outrun Lee’s army, blocking their retreat and taking 6,000 prisoners at Sayler’s Creek. Desertions were mounting daily, and by April 8 the Confederates were surrounded with no possibility of escape. On April 9, Lee sent a message to Grant announcing his willingness to surrender. The two generals met in the parlor of the Wilmer McLean home at one o’clock in the afternoon.
Lee and Grant, both holding the highest rank in their respective armies, had known each other slightly during the Mexican War and exchanged awkward personal inquiries. Characteristically, Grant arrived in his muddy field uniform while Lee had turned out in full dress attire, complete with sash and sword. Lee asked for the terms, and Grant hurriedly wrote them out. All officers and men were to be pardoned, and they would be sent home with their private property–most important, the horses, which could be used for a late spring planting. Officers would keep their side arms, and Lee’s starving men would be given Union rations.
Shushing a band that had begun to play in celebration, General Grant told his officers, “The war is over. The Rebels are our countrymen again.” Although scattered resistance continued for several weeks, for all practical purposes the Civil War had come to an end.
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A dark day for sure
You wish the Slavers would have prevailed, preserving slavery and spreading it into new areas of America? Shame on you.
Slavery didn’t end at Appomattox Courthouse in 1865. It HAS since spread to ALL areas of America. We are all slaves now; either a wage/tax slave or a welfare slave. Rattle your chains.
Besides, there were still slaves in the Union north anyways.
In the border states, yes, and they were Southern states that chose to stay in the Union. After the 13th Amendment, Slavery was outlawed in the entire U.S.
Chattel slavery is what ended with the 13th Amendment.
Chattel slaves are property, they can be bought and sold, given away; in it’s worst form, a slave can be killed by it’s owner for any reason, or no reason. Chattel slaves can be bred like cattle and their children sold. Children born to chattel slaves are themselves the property of their mother’s owner.
Only anarchists believe that no taxes should ever be collected, and only a Marxist anarchist would talk about “wage slavery” and try to compare whatever that means to chattel slavery.
Underwood…get your head out of your underwear/ass .
How is it that every single comment you make is retard-level gibberish?
He can’t help it, Jack. He’s a gibbering retard.
Underwood, I’m used to seeing people who don’t know anything, but you…shitfire, boy, you don’t even suspect anything.
“The consolidation of the states into one vast empire, sure to be aggressive abroad and despotic at home, will be the certain precursor of ruin which has overwhelmed all that preceded it.” ― Robert E. Lee
He’s talking there about the CSA’s likely future, had it not been defeated in war. It would have been, if it worked as the slavers planned, a slave empire.
I always wondered why someone as smart as Lee could have failed to see that the war was lost even before Gettysburg.
How many more people died because he persisted in the lost cause to perpetuate a great evil?
Underwear…you’re an underwear skid mark on this site . The question of the day is “Want to see a moron ” ? Look in the mirror and you’ll see one daily…just you .
You understand that Lee was not in charge of the Confederate States, right? That was Jefferson Davis.
Sure, everybody knows that Davis was a dictator, but nothing prevented Lee from surrendering his army when he realized the cause was hopeless. Instead, he chose to persevere, at the cost of many more lives.
Remember this….
Only Lees Army surrendered.
There was no official surrender of the Confederacy.
The North never recognized the Confederacy as a Nation.
If the North recognized the confederacy as a Nation, it would have been entitled to certain rights as a vanquished Country and not been rapped and pillaged after.
Lincoln saw the the South seceding as theft of U. S. corporate Property
Also it was started over Taxes.
Every war is about MONEY!
The war of Northern Aggression never ended.
Amen my brother!!!
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By “traditional conservative South”, you mean the system of Chattel slavery and semi-feudalism that has grown up in the South, right?
And you think it was worth fighting and dying to save that evil system.
Who did recognize the CSA as a nation?
No one. No nation on earth recognized the legitimacy of the Slavers nascent slave empire.
Everyone outside the slave states recognized that the Confederacy seized federal military bases and armory’s and forts. It was their first action, and started the war.
Why the apostrophe in “armory’s” ?
Because he’s an uneducated shitbag cocksucker, Vakr ; at least, that’s my considered opinion after seeing him smear shit everywhere he posts.
You don’t like me smearing shit on advocates of chattel slavery?
I’m honored to have your hatred, if that’s the cause of it.
I never really expected a rational defense of the intentions and plans of the CSA, or of the evil they sought to preserve.
In fact, I expected exactly what you provide here Ed.
The slavers are defended by referring to their evil semi-feudal system of chattel slavery as “the traditional conservative South”, as if that somehow masks or alters the evil they did.
Why don’t you do ALL of TBP a big favor and just take your ignorant libtard ass to another website more to your liking?
I suggest http://www.FaggotsWhoNeverLearn.com
TIA
Stuck,
I find it illuminating that you think I’m liberal minded and hate me for it.
It exposes you as narrow minded…
Your lack of defense for the “traditional conservative South”, which certainly included chattel slavery and then Jim Crow laws is no surprise, as there is no real defense for it.
You must have a vision of what the CSA would have become had they not started a war with the U.S. and simply been allowed to secede unimpeded, preserving chattel slavery and expanding it into new territories as their constitution required…
Where would they have expanded? Into U.S. territories, or into Mexico (where slavery was already outlawed)?
Because I didn’t use the correct word, “armories”.