Only twenty-five months had gone since Appomattox Court-House. |
But an unsated hunger for meaning forbids us cynicism, even a hundred and forty-eight years after Appomattox. |
Custer was but twenty-six when Lee surrendered at Appomattox. |
For it was he who accepted the surrender of the Confederate colours at Appomattox. |
The other was with Lee at Appomattox, and came home to settle down. |
Grant chased Lee and got in front of him, so that when Lee's army reached Appomattox Court House, they were surrounded. |