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April 09, 2015
150th Anniversary of Lee's surrender to Grant.
On April 9, 1865, America passed its first big test squaring its ideals with its actual performance as a young democracy when Confederate General Robert E. Lee surrendered 28,000 troops to Union General Ulysses S. Grant in the parlor of Wilmer McLean home in Appomattox Court House, Virginia. Although the American civil war raised all manner of unresolved issues concerning the states' rights, and proper limits power of the federal government, it did irretrievably shut down the institution of slavery, and most of economic and cultural forms that it had enabled for nearly 200 years in the new world.
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