\"A Stillness at Appomattox\" A somber delivery
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Middle Aged (35-54)Accents
North American (General)Transcript
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I remember how we sat there and pitied and sympathized with these courageous southern men Who had fought for four long and dreary years, also stubbornly, so bravely and so well and now whipped beaten completely used up. We're fully at our mercy. It was pitiful, sad, hard, and seemed to us altogether too bad of pennsylvania and the V corps dodge past the skirmish line and strolled into the lines of the nearest confederate regiment and half a century after the war, he recalled it with a glow. As soon as I got among these boys, I felt and was treated as well as if I had been among our own boys and a person would have thought we were of the same army and had been fighting under the same flag down by the roadside near appomattox courthouse, Sheridan and Order and other officers sat and waited while a brown bearded little man in a mud spattered uniform rode up. They all saluted him, and there was a quiet interchange of greetings, and then General Grant tilted his head toward the village and asked, is General lee up there. Sheridan replied that he was, and Grant said, Very well, let's go up. The little cavalcade went trotting along the road to the village and all around them. The two armies waited in silence as the generals near the end of their ride, a yankee band in the field near the town struck up auld langs een