Word: appomattox
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Four of the 29 surviving soldiers of the Confederate Army tramped into Little Rock, Ark. last week for their 59th annual reunion, chortled in high glee over a new explanation for the surrender at Appomattox. The story: that General Robert E. Lee handed his sword and hat to General U.S. Grant because he took him to be the doorman. Then, with a sidelong glance at the last survivors of the G.A.R., who had held their last encampment four weeks ago, they decided to keep meeting each year "as long as there are two of us able to meet...
...Irishman named "Jockey" John Robinson, who had made a fortune out of the "finest, fruitiest, most ropey" rye whisky in the region, gave $50,000 too. That did not mean the college's troubles were over. The Civil War left Washington College in desperate straits. Four months after Appomattox, it invited Robert E. Lee himself to be president. He was the one man, the college thought, who could save the day. Lee agreed to try, at a salary of $1,500 a year ("if that sum can be raised"). He started the schools of law, commerce and engineering, raised...
Connally (Texas) . . . We hear talk today about the sufferings of nations that were conquered in the last war. They do not compare with the sufferings borne by and outrages practiced among the people of the South following Appomattox . . . Let us not destroy the forum in which Calhoun thundered. Let us not wipe out this particular place where Daniel Webster became known to history as one of the greatest orators and statesman of all time...
Strom Thurmond's Southern politics was bred in his bones. His grandfather, George Washington Thurmond, a corporal with Lee, had trudged home from Appomattox to find Columbia in the ruins left by Sherman's march. Eighty-four of Columbia's 124 blocks had been gutted by fire. Some 1,400 buildings had been destroyed...
...themselves. They were standing by in the swamps of Central Luzon to see whether the government would go ahead with the land redistribution the Huks demanded. In his maiden speech before Congress (where he at last assumed the seat that he had won in 1946), Taruc revealed that Appomattox was not exactly what he had in mind. Said he: "I did not come to surrender, but to cooperate . . . The word 'surrender' is poison to the crystal cup of better relations...