Civil War History

This 32 year-old reminiscence of the closing moments of the Civil War, told from a Southern perspective, recall it all in the simplest terms - the letters exchanged between the commanders, the McLean House secured, agreeing to terms and Lee's exit. The intended audience for this article was the young men of the South who came after the war.

"Is it strange that the world wondered when 7,892 infantry, 63 pieces of artillery, and 2,100 cavalry was all that was left to surrender to an army of more than 75,000 men?"

General Lee's Farewell Address (Richmond Dispatch, 1896)

 

General Sherman and the Surrender in the West (Harper's Weekly, 1865)

General William Tecumseh Sherman (1820 - 1891), U.S. Army, found himself in hot water at war's end when he accepted the surrender of Confederate General Joseph Johnston (1807 – 1891) after having provided far more lenient terms than President Lincoln preferred.

 

The Victory Parade Down Pennsylvania Avenue (Literary Digest, 1919)

Here is a reminiscence of the grand parade following the close of America's bloody Civil War. It took two days; with the Army of the Potomac marching on the first day followed by General Sherman's Army of the West on the next. The Grand Review was the brain-child of Secretary of War, Edwin M. Stanton and was attended by (so it was believed) over one hundred thousand people from the victorious Northern states.

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