Center for Strategic Communication

This Day in History: The Beginning of the End for the Civil War

by | Apr 9, 2015 | Monitor

This Day
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In History

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Seven score and ten years ago, General Robert E. Lee of the Confederacy surrendered his army to Union General Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox, Virginia. That spring day in 1865 ultimately marked the closing of the deadliest war in American history. 

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