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I think news got to NY faster when it used to come by ship.
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Somebody wana break the news to him that Lee surrendered at Appomattox and the boys will be comin' home?
"It would be useless and therefore cruel to provoke the further effusion of blood, and I have arranged to meet with General Grant with a view to surrender."
General Robert E. Lee, April 9, 1865

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Somebody wana break the news to him that Lee surrendered at Appomattox and the boys will be comin' home?

"It would be useless and therefore cruel to provoke the further effusion of blood, and I have arranged to meet with General Grant with a view to surrender."
General Robert E. Lee, April 9, 1865