On this day in 1865, Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee surrendered to Union Lt. Gen. U.S. Grant, marking a great victory for America.
While the surrender of Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia to Grant at Appomattox Court House was not the end of the U.S. Civil War (another Confederate army had yet to surrender), it was undoubtedly a decisive victory for Grant and the Union and spelled the inevitable and final defeat of the Confederacy. And it was also a victory of the patriots over the traitors, of the freedom fighters over the racists. This had been made clear by Abraham Lincoln and Grant ardently supporting the abolishment of slavery even as Lee’s army went wild, rounding up, enslaving, or even killing every black person they could.
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