"THE SURRENDER" APPOMATAX COURT HOUSE-APRIL 9, 1865
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MAJOR GENERAL ULYSSES S. GRANT CALLED GENERAL ROBERT E. LEE, REQUESTING CONFEDERATE GENERAL LEE TO SURRENDER IMMEDIATELY. GENERAL LEE COMPLIED, AND SENT HIS TROUPS HOME.
AS A CONDITION OF THE SURRENDER, THE CONFEDERATE SOLDIERS WERE ALLOWED TO TAKE THEIR HORSE AND THEIR SIDEARM HOME. ALL OTHER EQUIPMENT HAD TO BE TURNED IN TO SUPERVISORS.
GENERAL LEE SIGNED THE SURRENDER DOCUMENTS IN THE COURT HOUSE AT APPOMATAX ON APRIL 9, 1865. SHY OF THREE DAYS, IT HAD BEEN
FOUR YEARS SINCE THE FIRST SHOT WAS FIRED AT FORT SUMTER.
THE SPRING OF 1861, THE CIVIL WAR BETWEEN STATES, NORTH AND SOUTH, BLUE AND GRAY, FATHER AND SON, BROTHER AND BROTHER.
THE UNITED STATES WAS PERMANANTLY STAINED WITH RIVERS OF BLOOD THAT SOAKED HOMES, FARMS, AND BATTLEFIELDS FOREVER.
THE ELEVEN STATES THAT SECEDED FROM THE UNITED STATES (UNION)
ALABAMA
ARKANSAS
FLORIDA
GEORGIA
LOUISIANA
MISSISSIPPI
NORTH CAROLINA
SOUTH CAROLINA
TENNESSEE
TEXAS
*VIRGINIA
*VIRGINIA SPLIT IN HALF, CREATING WEST VIRGINIA WHICH STAYED WITH THE UNION (USA).
SOUTHERN CONFEDERATE GENERAL ROBERT E. LEE
NORTHERN UNION
GENERAL ULYSSES S. GRANT
"THERE IS A TREMENDOUS AND VITAL NEED TO CHANGE A WAY OF LIFE THAT HAS A BEAUTIFUL EXTERIOR AND A CRUMBLING INTERIOR. THERE IS A CHALLENGE OF WORKING THROUGH THIS NATION'S PROBLEMS. HOPE LIES ALWAYS WITH LOVE. IT IS NOT A PRETTY STORY. IT HAPPENED. WE LOST.
THERE WERE NO VICTORS. WE STAINED AMERICA RED. "
GENERAL ULYSSES S. GRANT JULY 4, 1865
ONE WEEK AFTER THE CIVIL WAR WAS DECLARED OVER, AND THE SURRENDER DOCUMENTS WERE SIGNED, PRESIDENT ABRAHAM LINCOLN TOOK HIS WIFE, MARY, TO THE FORD THEATER TO SEE "OUR AMERICAN COUSIN." THINGS WERE LOOKING BETTER FOR PRESIDENT LINCOLN. HE HAD JUST BEEN
RE-ELECTED FOR A SECOND TERM BY THE REPUBLICAN PARTY. HIS
VICE-PRESIDENT WAS ANDREW JOHNSON WHO WAS APPOINTED
AND APPROVED BY THE REPUBLICANS.
THE DATE WAS APRIL 16, 1865. EASTER WAS NIGH.
"THE SHOT THAT SOUNDED AROUND THE WORLD" WAS REPORTEDLY FIRED BY JOHN WILKES BOOTH, AN ACTOR WHO WAS DISGRUNTLED ABOUT
THE SURRENDER OF THE CONFEDERATE ARMY.
BOOTH FLED TO VIRGINIA. ELEVEN DAYS LATER, HE WAS CORNERED IN
A BARN THAT WAS SOON ENGULFED IN FLAMES. BOOTH WAS SHOT
TO DEATH BY A UNION SOLDIER.
NINE OTHER PERSONS WERE REPORTEDLY INVOLVED IN THE ASSASSINATION OF PRESIDENT LINCOLN. FOUR WERE HANGED, FOUR WERE IMPRISONED,
AND ONE WAS ACQUITTED.
PRESIDENT LINCOLN'S NAME IS LISTED AMONG THE MORE THAN
