On April 9, 1865, Gen. Robert E. Lee surrendered to Gen. Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox Court House in Virginia. That moment marked the United States of America’s military defeat of the Confederate States of America, a treasonous breakaway republic that, in the infamous words of Confederate Vi...
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