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1865-The End

“The deep waters are closing over us.” Mary Chestnut

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When I learned that Sherman’s army was marching through the Salkiehatchie Swamps, making

its own roads at the rate of a dozen miles per day and bringing its artillery and wagons with it, I made up my mind that there had been no such army in existence

since the days of Julius Caesar.” Joseph Johnston CSA

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“Thank God I have lived to see this. It seems to me that I have

been dreaming a horrid nightmare for four years, and now the nightmare is over.”

Lincoln early April 1865

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“The result of last week must convince you of the

hopelessness of further resistance. I regard it as my duty

to shift from myself the responsibility of any further

effusion of blood, by asking of you the surrender of that portion of the Confederate States Army known as the Army of Northern Virginia.” Grant April 7, 1865

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“There is nothing left for me to do but to go and see General Grant and I would rather die a thousand

deaths.” Lee, April 9, 1865

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Wilmer McLean

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“Boys, I have done the best I could for you. Go home now,

and if you make as good citizens as you have soldiers, you will do well, and I shall always be proud

of you. Goodbye, and God bless.” Lee April 9 1865

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John Wilkes Booth

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John Wilkes Booth

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“Our country owed all our troubles to Lincoln. God made me the

instrument of his punishment.” John Wilkes Booth

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“Bad news has just arrived. Corporal Thomas Parker has just

told Mr. Miller that President Lincoln was dead, murdered…”

Elisha Hunt Rhodes

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“Mother prepared breakfast-and other meals-as usual; but not a mouthful was eaten all day by

either of us. We each drank half a cup of coffee; that was all. Little was said. We got every

newspaper, morning and evening…and passed them silently to each other.” Walt

Whitman

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