Posted on 04/09/2015 9:55:17 AM PDT by smokingfrog
Bells will ring across the country and in Lynchburg on Thursday to mark the 150th anniversary of Gen. Robert E. Lee’s surrender to Gen. Ulysses S. Grant in Appomattox, the symbolic end of four years of bloodshed.
A historic bell will be rung at Appomattox Court House National Historical Park at 3 p.m., the time the surrender occurred. People at historic sites, schools, parks, government buildings and within communities throughout Lynchburg and the country will join in at 3:15 p.m., ringing bells for four continuous minutes, representing the four years of fighting.
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Running to store for popcorn now....
Do you think Obama will remember and say anything?
After all, this was the war that ended slavery in America.
Do you think any one in his Administration will say anything?
No, today, the topic d’jour is: stop conversion therapies for kids!
No, I doubt it.
It’s a shame that the 150th anniversary just didn’t seem to garner a lot of national interest. For the most part, it was a complete non-event(s) despite it still affecting the nation almost 200 years later.
What!? Over???
Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
We are on a path to repeat, but this seems necessary.
If he does, it will only be in the most begrudging manner possible. Roughly 1.1 million dead out of a population of 31.5 million. Even if he only counts the Union troops, that’s about 600,000. In today’s numbers, that would be nearly 11 million total deaths, or 6 million Union. Yeah, I’d say we paid plenty for the “sin of slavery”. I won’t be paying any more.
In fact, the last organized Confederate field unit in the Trans-Western theater did not surrender until June, and the last Confederate warship did not surrender until November 6, 1865, when the CSS Shenandoah arrived at Liverpool, England.
President Andrew Johnson formally declared the end of the war on August 20, 1866.
The slavery of the Old South is coming to be seen as small potatoes compared to that imposed by these modern Federal overseers.
“After all, this was the war that ended slavery in America.”
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War had nothing to do with slavery don’t ‘cha know!!!!
And the troll appears.
What end? It’s still going on...
Or the start of the new one.
GOD rest the souls of these AMERICAN Heroes UNION and CONFEDERATE.
Bells will ring across the country and in Lynchburg on Thursday to mark the 150th anniversary of Gen. Robert E. Lee’s surrender to Gen. Ulysses S. Grant in Appomattox, the symbolic end of four years of bloodshed.
The first sentence of the story is accurate. The headline is not.....
I can’t help but see the irony of the current situation in this country. There are more slaves in this country now under a black President than there ever were in the 1800’s.
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