In Appomattox, Virginia, on April 9, 1865, 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.
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Sad day for freedom !
When there was still some honor in the union army. Reconstruction wiped that out. We are living in the second Reconstruction now.
There was never any honor in the Union Army…. It was degenerate cockroaches leading foreign born mercenaries to rape, rob and slaughter a native people who wanted to be free of the Empire of Lies and had every right to do so. Republicans were the party of shit-eating dogs then, just as they are today. They don’t work for We the People and never did.
“Everyone should do all in his power to collect and disseminate the truth, in the hope that it may find a place in history and descend to posterity. History is not the relation of campaigns and battles and generals or other individuals, but that which shows the principles for which the South contended and which justified her struggle for those principles. ”
Robert E. Lee
Facts and falsehoods concerning the war on the South 1861-1865
by Edmonds, George
https://archive.org/details/factsfalsehoodsc00edmo/page/n7/mode/2up
Amen, Brother!
War of Northern Aggression
Meets no criteria for a civil war.
Honor in the Union army? That’s a sick assertion.
Lee would never live to know the honor of having a Dodge Charger named after him.
Long live the Empire of Lies….reeeeee
We should have picked our own cotton.
Lee should have gone asymmetric on the Yankees. The puritanical pussies would have lost.
Deo Vindice