Swanky: Here with Gregory Plantain how ya doing man?
Plantain: Im good man glad to be home, glad the war is finally over.
Swanky: yea man I feel you. So word on the street is not only were you first hand on the Battle of Appomattox, you were in the room when " the meeting" went down.
Plantain: Ahh yea man it soound about right .
Swanky: So man explain to us what that last battle was like.
Plantain: Well actually I have a book describing the events it was my little diary for when I was out at war.
Swanky: Ahh yea thats perfect read us some.
Plantain: Approximately 9,000 men under Gordon and Fitzhugh Lee deployed in the fields west of the village before dawn and waited. The attack, launched before 8:00 a.m. We outnumbered the Union and they fell back, and opened the road for us to continue. Little did we know General Grant was dicing down our army from the weak side on another side of town Lee ordered us troops to retreat through the village and back across the Appomattox River. Small pockets of resistance continued until flags of truce were sent out from the Confederate lines between 10:00 and 11:00 a.m. Rather than have us all killed , Lee decided to surrender the Army of Northern Virginia.Although not the end of the war, the surrender of Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia set the stage for its conclusion. Through the lenient terms, we were paroled and allowed to return to our homes. Surprisingly Union soldiers did no celebration or taunting. These measures served as a blueprint for the surrender of the remaining Confederate forces throughout the South. Although a formal peace treaty was never signed by the combatants, the submission of the Confederate armies ended the war and began the long and difficult road toward reunification.
Swank: Wow that sounds great man
Plantain: Yea man you wanna hear more you gotta cop the book thats all I'm giving right now(laughs)
Swanky: Hey man just glad you stopped by to talk with us man very much appreciated.
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