re: 155 years ago today....Robert E. Lee surrendered to Ulysses S. Grant

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War criminal

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So I assume you apply that same standard to more modern American generals such as Patton, Eisenhower, and LeMay?

My kin BG Joshua Chamberlain was present.

On the morning of April 9, 1865, Chamberlain learned of the desire by General Robert E. Lee to surrender the Army of Northern Virginia when a Confederate staff officer approached him under a flag of truce. "Sir," he reported to Chamberlain, "I am from General Gordon. General Lee desires a cessation of hostilities until he can hear from General Grant as to the proposed surrender."[11] The next day, Chamberlain was summoned to Union headquarters where Maj. Gen. Charles Griffin informed him that he had been selected to preside over the parade of the Confederate infantry as part of their formal surrender at Appomattox Court House on April 12.[12]

Thus Chamberlain was responsible for one of the most poignant scenes of the American Civil War. As the Confederate soldiers marched down the road to surrender their arms and colors, Chamberlain, on his own initiative, ordered his men to come to attention and "carry arms" as a show of respect. In memoirs written forty years after the event, Chamberlain described what happened next:

Gordon, at the head of the marching column, outdoes us in courtesy. He was riding with downcast eyes and more than pensive look; but at this clatter of arms he raises his eyes and instantly catching the significance, wheels his horse with that superb grace of which he is master, drops the point of his sword to his stirrup, gives a command, at which the great Confederate ensign following him is dipped and his decimated brigades, as they reach our right, respond to the 'carry.' All the while on our part not a sound of trumpet or drum, not a cheer, nor a word nor motion of man, but awful stillness as if it were the passing of the dead.[13]

Chamberlain stated that his salute to the Confederate soldiers was unpopular with many Unionists, but he defended his action in his memoirs, The Passing of the Armies. Many years later, Gordon, in his own memoirs, called Chamberlain "one of the knightliest soldiers of the Federal Army." Gordon never mentioned the anecdote until after he read Chamberlain's account, more than 40 years later.[14]

In all, Chamberlain served in 20 battles and numerous skirmishes, was cited for bravery four times, had six horses shot from under him, and was wounded six times

We didn’t actually surrender that’s historical revisionism written by you know who

Pretty pathetic how you Yankees still celebrate murdering southerners all so y’all could get gay marriage and drag queen story hour

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Pretty pathetic how you Yankees

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I was born and raised in Alabama, bruh. My paternal family has been living in the state since the 1830s. Before that they had been living in Virginia.

A great day in US history.

This thread should be fun. The OT is filled with confederate defenders.

This is news to most of the board.

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Oh suck a dick the North profited from slavery that whole time too, but just didn’t want to get their hands dirty and they certainly weren’t on a moral crusade.

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There certainly was more of abolitionist movement up north. The war is economic one but most are.
The war probably doesn’t happen if the slave state’s weren’t afraid of losing the ability to own someone.

Spending the next 100 years with segregation didn’t help the south’s argument either.

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They committed treason.

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Are you certain of that?