Word: appomattox
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...quietly, beginning with the selection of his father, in 1843, continuing through his education at the University of Illinois, Phillips Exeter and Harvard. The last of these he left in 1864 to go on the staff of General Grant. He was present at the fall of Petersburg and at Appomattox Court House. The day after his arrival back in Washington he was present at his father's assassination. Two years later he was admitted to the bar in Illinois and shortly afterward married. In 1881 he became Secretary of War under President Garfield. He arrived...