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She has to at least get the base vote in Appomatox.
Waldo Jaquith - Connie Brennan challenging Watkins Abbitt. 2007
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"The Gunfight at the OK Corral", "the Assasination of Julius Caesar", "Grant and Lee at Appomatox" ... we were there because Walter Cronkite took us there, and told us history's story in words, pure and simple.
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As for the Grant quote..at Appomatox his ice-breaker with Lee was to chit-chat about the good old days of the Mexican campaign.
"This war did not begin because of a miscalculation by Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili. Ann Althouse 2008
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As for the Grant quote..at Appomatox his ice-breaker with Lee was to chit-chat about the good old days of the Mexican campaign.
"This war did not begin because of a miscalculation by Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili. Ann Althouse 2008
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Our first step should probably be to figure out the Iraqi term for Appomatox.
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In April 1865, fifteen-year old Virginia drummer boys wept when they saw Robert E. Lee, then went off to die in battle, the day before Appomatox
Firedoglake » Late Nite FDL: Dear Wolfie: Can You Tell the Difference Yet? 2006
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Larry McMurtry, in his NYRB review of Grant and Twain: The Story of a Friendship That Changed America, by Mark Perry, quotes Grant's famous description of meeting the defeated Lee at Appomatox, one paragraph of which reads:What General Lee's feelings were I do not know.
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He was exchanged a short time before Lee surrendered at Appomatox.
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Until events at Gettysburg, in 1863, Britain and France were plotting to conduct war against the United States, to the purpose of imposing a peace which would leave the United States divided in the manner intended by August Belmont et al. With Appomatox, Lincoln and the United States had beaten the foreign powers and financier interests intent upon dismemb - ering the United States.
Europe 1992: BackTrail of The Assassination of John F. Kennedy by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr 1988
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Francis Adams's _Lee at Appomatox_ (1909); and _Transatlantic
Expansion and Conflict William E. Dodd
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