The Confederate rank and file said goodbye to many things in and around Appomattox Court House in the days following the surrender of Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia on April 9, 1865. Three days following the formal surrender Lee's men were separated from the weapons they carried over the previous four years through Virginia, Maryland and Penn…
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