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U.S. Civil War History
U.S. Civil War History
1863 - Confederate General Robert E. Lee sent Confederate President Jefferson Davis a letter of resignation as commander of the Army of Northern Virginia after his defeat at Gettysburg. President Davis refused the request by writing "To ask me to substitute you by someone...more fit to command, or who would possess more of the confidence of the army...is to demand an impossibility."
2000 - The C.S.S. Hunley was raised from where it had sank on February 17, 1864.
| "At what point shall we expect the approach of danger? By what means shall we fortify against it? Shall we expect some transatlantic military giant, to step the Ocean, and crush us at a blow? Never! All the armies of Europe, Asia, and Africa combined, with all the treasure of the earth...could not by force, take a drink from the Ohio, or make a track on the Blue Ridge, in a trial of a thousand years... If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide." - Abraham Lincoln |
