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‘The Rebels Are Our Countrymen Again’: Grant and Lee Meet at Appomattox

Endgame

It was a war that no one expected to last long, and then a war that some suspected would never end. But when Lee surrendered to Grant on April 9, 1865, America’s Iliad was finished.

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