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- 1: Civil War
- ... Strike for your home and fireside" (Freeman, Douglas Southall, R.E. Lee: A Biography, Vol 3. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1935): they did. Rebel forces reached their objective, Appomattox Court House, around 3pm on April 8th. Lee received word that to the south, at Appomattox Station, supplies had arrived by train and were waiting there. However, the pursuing Union forces knew this also and took a faster southern route to the station. By 8pm that evening the Federals had taken the supplies and would wait there for the evening, preparing to attack the Confederates at Appomattox Court House in the morning. Meanwhile, Lee scribbled out a brave response to Grant's inquiry simply asking for explanation of the terms to be involved in the surrender. ...
- 2: History Of The Civil War
- ... Strike for your home and fireside" (Freeman, Douglas Southall, R.E. Lee: A Biography, Vol 3. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1935): they did. Rebel forces reached their objective, Appomattox Court House, around 3pm on April 8th. Lee received word that to the south, at Appomattox Station, supplies had arrived by train and were waiting there. However, the pursuing Union forces knew this also and took a faster southern route to the station. By 8pm that evening the Federals had taken the supplies and would wait there for the evening, preparing to attack the Confederates at Appomattox Court House in the morning. Meanwhile, Lee scribbled out a brave response to Grant's inquiry simply asking for explanation of the terms to be involved in the surrender. ...
- 3: Events of The Civil War
- ... Strike for your home and fireside" (Freeman, Douglas Southall, R.E. Lee: A Biography, Vol 3. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1935): they did. Rebel forces reached their objective, Appomattox Court House, around 3pm on April 8th. Lee received word that to the south, at Appomattox Station, supplies had arrived by train and were waiting there. However, the pursuing Union forces knew this also and took a faster southern route to the station. By 8pm that evening the Federals had taken the supplies and would wait there for the evening, preparing to attack the Confederates at Appomattox Court House in the morning. Meanwhile, Lee scribbled out a brave response to Grant's inquiry simply asking for explanation of the terms to be involved in the surrender. ...
- 4: Civil War 3
- ... Strike for your home and fireside" (Freeman, Douglas Southall, R.E. Lee: A Biography, Vol 3. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1935): they did. Rebel forces reached their objective, Appomattox Court House, around 3pm on April 8th. Lee received word that to the south, at Appomattox Station, supplies hadarrived by train and were waiting there. However, the pursuing Unio forces knew this also and took a faster southern route to the station. By 8pm that evening the Federals had taken the supplies and would wait there for the evening, preparing to attack the Confederates at Appomattox Court House in the morning. Meanwhile, Lee scribbled out a brave response to Grant's inquiry simply asking for explanation of the terms to be involved in the surrender. ...
- 5: The American Civil War
- ... Strike for your home and fireside" (Freeman, Douglas Southall, R.E. Lee: A Biography, Vol 3. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1935): they did. Rebel forces reached their objective, Appomattox Court House, around 3pm on April 8th. Lee received word that to the south, at Appomattox Station, supplies had arrived by train and were waiting there. However, the pursuing Union forces knew this also and took a faster southern route to the station. By 8pm that evening the Federals had taken the supplies and would wait there for the evening, preparing to attack the Confederates at Appomattox Court House in the morning. Meanwhile, Lee scribbled out a brave response to Grant's inquiry simply asking for explanation of the terms to be involved in the surrender. ...
- 6: Civil War
- ... Strike for your home and fireside" (Freeman, Douglas Southall, R.E. Lee: A Biography, Vol 3. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1935): they did. Rebel forces reached their objective, Appomattox Court House, around 3pm on April 8th. Lee received word that to the south, at Appomattox Station, supplies had arrived by train and were waiting there. However, the pursuing Union forces knew this also and took a faster southern route to the station. By 8pm that evening the Federals had taken the supplies and would wait there for the evening, preparing to attack the Confederates at Appomattox Court House in the morning. Meanwhile, Lee scribbled out a brave response to Grant's inquiry simply asking for explanation of the terms to be involved in the surrender. ...
- 7: Comparison Of Grant And Lee
- ... leaders reveal unqualified praise for General Grant. Robert E. Lee, specifically, spoke in glowing terms about his adversary. He was particularly grateful for the generous treatment he had received at Appomattox and that Grant threatened to resign his commission in the Army if Andrew Johnson continued to persecute Lee. In May of 1865, Lee spoke openly of his feelings on this ... who saved Lee from this ignominious fate, and a fate that Johnson passionately wished to enforce. Speed recalled, "Grant expressed his unalterable determination that the terms he had written at Appomattox not be violated. He said, "That is the way General Lee and I understood it at the time, and I will be drawn and quartered before they shall be violated ... was that the power and popularity of General Grant thwarted the jealous and vindictive President Johnson. There was never again any talk of imprisoning Robert E. Lee. The issue of Appomattox was one, which Grant discussed only reluctantly. Even his youngest son stated that his father never talked about the incident with his children. On one celebrated occasion when Grant ...
- 8: The American Civil War
- ... Strike for your home and fireside" (Freeman, Douglas Southall, R.E. Lee: A Biography, Vol 3. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1935): they did. Rebel forces reached their objective, Appomattox Court House, around 3pm on April 8th. Lee received word that to the south, at Appomattox Station, supplies had arrived by train and were waiting there. However, the pursuing Union forces knew this also and took a faster southern route to the station. By 8pm that evening the Federals had taken the supplies and would wait there for the evening, preparing to attack the Confederates at Appomattox Court House in the morning. Meanwhile, Lee scribbled out a brave response to Grant's inquiry simply asking for explanation of the terms to be involved in the surrender. ...
- 9: The Petersburg Campaign
- ... on April 3rd 1865, lasting a total of 292 days. To put the siege into perspective, I have included brief summaries of the Overland Campaign, the Shenandoah Campaign, and the Appomattox Campaign. The struggle for Petersburg has no equal in the entire war. All of the more famous sieges: Vicksburg, Atlanta, and Richmond, were inferior to this siege in terms of ... the trap laid for them. The pursuit of the enemy force found them on the south side of Swift Creek, lying three miles north of Petersburg, which lay beyond the Appomattox. Smith and Gillmore suggested pulling back to the entrenchments and building a bridge across the Appomattox to take Petersburg from the east. Butler thought that, once the struggle for Petersburg got sticky, such a bridge would be used as an avenue of retreat rather than ...
- 10: Biography of Robert E. Lee
- ... general in chief of all the Confederate armies. Richmond fell in April, 1865, and Lee's ragged army retreated westward. Northern forces cut off and surrounded Lee's troops at Appomattox Court House, Virginia, where Lee surrendered to Grant, on April 9, 1865. Grant tried to make the surrender as easy as possible, and allowed the Confederate troops to take their ... told his army, "Men, we have fought through the war together. I have done my best for you; my heart is too full to say more." Lee's defeat at Appomattox Court House, Virginia, marked the end of his brilliant military career.
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