#appomattox

[unteriors]

Old Grist Mill Road, Appomattox, Virginia.

[floridaboiler]

Appomattox Courthouse

April 9 1865, After the surrender the commanders meet and Lee mentions that his men have been without rations for several days. Grant arranged for 25,000 rations to be sent to the starving Johnny Rebs with Lee replying, "This will have a very happy effect on my Army."

[whencyclopedia]

A map of the American Civil War (1861–1865), a nationwide conflict sparked by the secession of eleven Southern states following Abraham Lincoln’s election in 1860. The Confederacy, founded on the preservation of slavery, clashed with the Union over secession, federal authority, and emancipation. The war opened with the Confederate attack on Fort Sumter in April 1861 and quickly spread across multiple...

[simply-ivanka]

April 9, 1865 -- General Lee surrenders at Appomattox, Virginia.

[grants-blue-eyed-stare]

Grant and Longstreet after the surrender of Appomattox

They missed each other so they played brag

[uboat53]

Happy Appomattox Day everyone! Today is the day in 1865 when the Confederate General Robert E. Lee surrendered his Army of Northern Virginia to Union General Ulysses S. Grant, effectively ending the United States Civil War, and we can all be thankful that conflict did not go the other way.

On the occasion of this event, I thought I'd leave you with Grant's reflections upon Lee in that moment:

"I felt like anything rather than rejoicing at the downfall of a foe who had fought so long and valiantly, and had suffered so much for a cause, though that cause was, I believe, one of the worst for which a people ever fought, and one for which there was the least excuse."

Also, given the more than a century that Grant has been slandered as nothing more than a boor or a drunk by the Lost Cause movement that seeks to rehabilitate the Confederacy, I thought I'd also share General William Tecumseh Sherman's comparison of himself to Grant and why Grant, ultimately, was the better general:

"I am a damned sight smarter man than Grant; I know a great deal more about war, military history, strategy, and grand tactics than he does; I know more about organization, supply, and administration and about everything else than he does; but I’ll tell you where he beats me and where he beats the world. He don’t care a damn for what the enemy does out of his sight, but it scares me like hell!"

[shimbongulus]

happy appomattox anniversary! your friendly reminder that the confederacy sucked shit in every aspect of existence and the only positive of its existence is that it polarized the united states into passing the 13th amendment.

[bellemagedon]

slay-push!