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Title: The photographic history of the civil war..
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Miller, Francis Trevelyan, 1877-1959 Lanier, Robert S. (Robert Sampson), 1880-
Subjects: United States -- History Civil War, 1861-1865 United States -- History Civil War, 1861-1865 Pictorial works
Publisher: New York, The Review of Reviews Co.
Contributing Library: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
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ter all. the Federal commander was notoutfought. He had to submit to the delay involved in tak-ing Petersburg before he could take Richmond, but the fallof the Confederate capital was inevitable, since his own lossescould be made up and Lees could not. On June 18, 1864, Lees forces joined in the defense ofPetersburg, and Grant was soon entrenching himself for thesiege of the town. The war had entered upon its final stage,as Lee clearly perceived. The siege lasted until the end ofMarch, 186.5, Grants ample supplies rendering his victory cer-tain, despite the fact that when he tested the fighting qualityof his adversaries he found it unimpaired. In one sense it wassheer irony to give Lee. in February. 18(5.5. the commander-ship-in-chief of the Confederate armies: yet the act was the out-ward sign of a spiritual fact, since, after all. he was and hadlong been the true Southern commander, and never more sothan when he bore privation with his troops in the wintrytrenches around Petersburg.
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LEE AND HIS STAKE AS THE WAR ENDED MENWHO STAYEDTHROUGH APPOMATTOX These twelve members of General Robert E. Lees staff surrendered with him at Appomattox Court House, and with lum signed aparole drawn up by Grant, to the effect that they would not take up arms against the United States until or unless they were exchanged.This military medallion was devised by the photographer Rockwell during General Lees stay in Richmond in April, 1865. Thesefacts are furnished by Major Giles B. Cooke (No. 12, above), who had verified them by writing General Lee himself after the surrender.

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