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These are detailed and moving first-hand accounts from a number of historically prominent witnesses to Robert E. Lee's surrender of the Army of Northern Virginia at Appomattox. Accounts from: Major-General Wesley Merritt, USA
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On April 7th, after the Confederates had suffered a catastrophic defeat at the Battle of Sailor’s Creek, Grant asked Lee to surrender and declared any “further effusion of blood” was solely Lee’s responsibility.
Nov 24, 2009 · In the village of Appomattox Court House, Virginia, on April 9, 1865, Robert E. Lee surrenders his 28,000 Confederate troops to Union General Ulysses S. Grant, effectively ending the...
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May 24, 2010 · These are detailed and moving first-hand accounts from a number of prominent witnesses to Robert E. Lee's surrender of the Army of Northern Virginia at Appomattox. Accounts from: Major-General Wesley Merritt, USA. Major-General John Gibbon, USA. Colonel Charles Marshall, Aide-de-cainp and Military Secretary to General R. E. Lee.
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Surrender at Appomattox: First-hand Accounts of Robert E. Lee's Surrender to Ulysses S. Grant (Audio Download): Ulysses S. Grant, Andrew Mulcare, Wesley Merritt, John Gibbon, Charles Marshall, E. P. Alexander, James Longstreet, Phil Sheridan, Wetware Media: Amazon.in: Books
May 3, 2024 · The surrender at Appomattox Court House occurred in April 1865 when Confederate general Robert E. Lee submitted to Union general-in-chief Ulysses S. Grant, all but ending the American Civil War (1861–1865).
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Mar 14, 2011 · On the 12th of April, 1865, the Army of Northern Virginia marched to the field in front of Appomattox Court-House, stacked their arms, folded their colors, and walked empty handed to find their distant, blighted homes.
