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The Surrender at Appomattox

by Peter Benoit · 2011

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Recalls the events of April 9, 1865 at Appomattox Court House, Virginia when Robert E. Lee surrendered to Ulysses S. Grant, bringing the bloody and destructive American Civil War to an end.

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childrens
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short · 64 pages

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