The Battle of Fort Fisher, N.C.

Friday, May 1, 2015

Bells Rang to Commemorate Lee's Surrender-- Part 1

From the April10, 2015, Chicago Tribune by Meredith Rodriguez.

Chicago joined the nation on Thursday in commemorating the unofficial, but highly climatic, end of the Civil War.  Church bells were rung around the city as well as one at the Chicago History Museum.  What made this bell even more special was that it was the one that was at Chicago's Camp Douglas, the largest military installation in Illinois during the war.  It was also a Confederate prison where over 6,000 captured Southerners died.

The National Park se3rvice asked that bells be rung to mark the 150th anniversary of Confederate general Robert E. Lee's surrender to Union General U.S. Grant on April 9, 1865.

--Old Secesh

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