Appomattox Court House
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- That outta teach ya a lesson about rebelling!
- Time for total war!
- GIVE ME YOUR ANIMALS AND BREAD... and potatoes!
- HERE!
- He and his men burned homes and towns, first taking food and any valuables. They would also take confederate soldiers hostage while fighting their way through the south.
- KEEP IT MOVING!
- I don't want to die!
- General William Sherman led a march into the south to "Make Georgia Howl". The purpose was to make life really bad for the people in the south so that they would demand an end to the war.
- "There is nothing left for me but to go and see General Grant, and I would rather die a thousand deaths."
- The Union soldiers raided farms and plantations, stealing and slaughtering cows, hogs, and chickens. They also took as much other food-especially bread and potatoes-as they could carry. They needed the supplies, but they also wanted to teach the Georgians a lesson.
- The rebels are our countrymen again. We can best show our joy by refusing to celebrate their defeat.
- BANG!
- Pew, pew!
- Some of the Confederate soldiers they captured were put in the front lines as they marched down the streets because the Confederates would often lay the roads with booby traps and mines. Knowing that their own men would now be the ones to trigger the traps, they stopped laying them.
- Finally, on April 9, 1865, Gen. Robert E. Lee of the Confederate forces surrendered and met Gen. US Grant of the Union forces met in the from parlor of the home of Wilmer McLean, now more commonly known as Appomattox Court house.
- General Robert E. Lee signed the terms of agreement, stating that the Confederacy would give it's weapons and public property to the Union. When Gen. Robert E. Lee left, the Union officers stood up as a sign of their respect. Artillerymen fired their guns to cheer the victory over Lee’s army. Grant quickly ordered it to stop. The war was finally over!
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