Posted by Ultradog MN on April 09, 2012 at 05:30:27 from (65.103.0.145):
In Reply to: 147 years ago today! posted by Deere Scotty on April 09, 2012 at 02:32:12:
Thank you for the reminder. Sad day. It is interesting to read Grant's account of that day. He respected Lee a lot and hated doing what he had to do. At first, though Lee was older and had graduated from West Point some years before Grant, they sat around like old friends and talked about officers and people they mutually knew and Grant said he kind of lost track of why they were there. But then Lee reminded him they were there for a reason and had better get on with the business at hand. Grant caught a lot of heat for allowing the Southern men to keep their horses and the officers their side arms. But Lincoln supported him so that was that. For Grant the end of the war was a pretty big let down. He'd been mostly a failure in life till the war came and didn't know what he was going to do to support his family after it was over.
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