Friday, October 15, 2021
Battle of Appomattox: Understanding General Lee's Surrender
The Battle of Appomattox Courthouse is considered by many historians the end of the Civil War and the start of post-Civil War America. The events of General Robert E. Lee’s surrender to General and future President Ulysses S. Grant at a small town courthouse in Central Virginia put into effect much of what was to follow.
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I live maybe twenty minutes from Appomattox. Loved that place. My first visit years ago I went to the house where the surrender was signed. Ya couldn't go in the room but could walk up to a Dutch door and look in. Accordingly everything was exactly the same in the room as that day in 1865. Grant was at one table and Lee at another. Several other people too. I reckon wax figures. Anyway, first time and I was looking and alla sudden it hit me, this is where the blood shed ended. Kind a made the hairs on my neck stand up. It's a hollowed and scared place for sure. If you get a chance, visit.
ReplyDeleteI've always thought so.
ReplyDeletehttps://onthenorthriver.com/2020/07/05/death-of-history-reposted-from-2015/
The sentiment expressed in that story is a million miles from today's reality. Rural America and not just in the south, is considered Rubeville by the REgressive elites. Of both parties.
ReplyDeleteThey hate us for our values & beliefs and are doing everything in their power to destroy the traditional foundations of our country. And now that voting is pointless, exactly what remedies are left to us?