Word: appomattox
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PERIL Despite suffering enormous casualties, he relentlessly pounded Lee's army through Virginia to the siege at Petersburg and, finally, Appomattox...
...comes down South and drops into a country store," he says. "Something comes up about the Civil War, and he says, 'When is the South going to get over that?' The guy tells him, 'When it's over.' So the Yank says, 'What would you call what happened at Appomattox Court House? And the Southerner says, 'Longest cease-fire in history...
...powerful amends can be made for the cruelties of slavery without resorting to direct payments. As Americans, we should not deny the dark era of our history when slavery existed, as well as the hundred years after Appomattox during which African-Americans were systematically discriminated against and often brutalized—in all parts of the country, not only the South. The best way to make amends for participation in the injustices of both slavery and Jim Crow would be to recognize them publicly and to ensure equal opportunities for all Americans in the future...
...infancy to manhood deserved its exclamation point. It was a full-throated barbaric howl, the one profitable rebel yell of the Internet that really drove fear deep into the hearts of the old-media infantry. By last Wednesday, when the Robert E. Lee of this rebel force reached his Appomattox, the yell sounded more like an ironic groan. First-quarter sales set to be 40% off last year's estimate? Ya-hoo. Stock down 92% from its peak, with no end to the freefall in sight? Ya-hooey...
...Americans are upset, of course. But since Appomattox, they have refrained from slaughtering one another for political reasons, except on an informal basis. I doubt the outcome of the election of 2000 is going to cause bloodshed...