Word: appomattox
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...thank God that at Appomattox we were with General Lee and not with General Grant...
Charles Manly Stedman of North Carolina-only Civil War veteran in House, 87 years old. Was a major in Lee's army, wounded three times. Surrendered at Appomattox. Snow-white hair and beard, stooped shoulders, almost blind, a fine face. The House simply adores him. He rarely speaks. He is a small man in stature. A secretary conducts...
...year after Appomattox, her parents christened her Martha McChesney Berry. For her they must have envisioned a gracious membership in the Colonial Dames of America, and the Daughters of the American Revolution, also a brilliant Southern marriage. But Miss Berry never married. Nor did she choose the delicately charming life of a Southern aristocrat...
...been kept at Harvard College, despite the draft, should be put on his staff and "not in the ranks." Tyler had two grandsons, privates in the Confederate Army, one of whom was killed and the other wounded, and two sons by his second marriage who surrendered at Appomattox aged...
...losing men. Grant lost more, but had more to lose. The pressure was beginning to tell on Lee. In the spring of 1865, a gallant remnant of Lee's army, to whose "tattered standards the fortunes of the Confederacy had been nailed," laid down its arms at Appomattox...