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150th anniversary: Confederate surrender at Appomattox By JD GEE One hundred and fifty years ago today - April 9th, 1865 - Confederate General Robert E. Lee formally surrendered his army to U.S. General Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox Court House. The surrender came almost exactly four bloody, wearying years after the first shots of the Battle of Fort Sumpter, the engagement that finally sparked the short fuse of the powder keg of war. By war's end, over 600,000 soldiers had died, many more of those casualties from disease than on the battle field (or from wounds suffered in battle), and multiples of that number returned home forever scarred -- broken of body, mind, or spirit. In 1913, a grand reunion of blue and gray alike drew some 50,000 old soldiers to Gettysburg, a number nearly identical to the number of brave men who had given "the last full measure of devotion" in that awful July battle there half a century earlier when the federal army prevailed. However, wrote one person shortly after the reunion, "The second meeting [at Gettysburg] was victory for both sides and showed the magnanimity fathered by true courage and nobleness of heart...The old soldiers no longer linger in the realm of bitterness, but pride in good will and respect for those who opposed them on the fields of battle..." This story was posted on 2015-04-09 08:40:27
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