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๐ฆ๐ฎ๐ณ๐ฎ๐ฟ๐ถShaneHappy Appomattox Day to all who celebrate ๐ #AppomattoxDay
mathew ๐ฆโThe National Museum of American History has the actual linen towel the Confederates used to surrender to US forces on this day in 1865. #AppomattoxDay
https://americanhistory.si.edu/collections/search/object/nmah_515980
https://americanhistory.si.edu/collections/search/object/nmah_515980
A Flag of Truce
By late 1864 the war was coming to an end. In December Gen. William T. Sherman completed his destructive march to the sea. Richmond, the Confederate capital, fell early in April, and on April 9, Gen. Robert E. Lee surrendered his army to Gen. Ulysses S. Grant. Over the course of the war, some 623,000 Northern and Southern soldiers died.