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U.S. Civil War History
U.S. Civil War History
1815 - Philip Kearny was born. He was killed on September 1, 1862, while behind Confederate lines at Chantilly, Virginia. General Robert E. Lee returned Kearny's body under a flag of truce.
1864 - Union General Ulysses S. Grant prepared for a major assault along the entire Confederate front. He attacked the next day.
1865 - Confederate General Edmund Kirby Smith officially laid down his arms at Galveston. On May 26, he became the last Confederate general to surrender.
| "The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present...fellow citizens, we cannot escape history...The fiery trial through which we pass will light us down, in honor or dishonor, to the latest generation. We say we are for the Union. The world will not forget that we say this. We know how to save the Union...In giving freedom to the slave, we ensure freedom to the free--honorable alike in what we give, and what we preserve. We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, the last, best hope of earth." - U.S. President Lincoln, the last paragraph of his State of the Union address on December 1, 1862. |
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