The inevitable happened this day 150 years ago. Hotly pursued and tremendously outnumbered as his army which had fought so valiantly and for so long was hemorrhaging from desertion as the men saw the futility of further fighting, Robert E. Lee was forced to surrender this date.
It happened at Appomattox, Virginia.
The end, which had been so clearly coming since the capture of Atlanta and even the twin date disasters at Gettysburg and Vicksburg back even a year earlier.
Even though many consider this the end of the war, there was still one more major Confederate Army still in the field, that of General Joseph Johnston. Mobile still held out. Also, many groups of Confederates were still operating in the trans-Mississippi region.
At least, Lee did not go ahead and turn his army into a guerrilla one and continue the war. The Confederate States of America was not to be and it was better to get on with the reunification process.
All That Misery and Loss Comes to Naught. --Old Secesh
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