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Opting Out at Appomattox

             Generals expect staff officers to do their bidding, but at Appomattox Lee and Grant each excused an aide from a designated task.    April 9, 1865 marked the end of the Army of Northern Virginia.  Union infantry had joined General Phil Sheridan’s cavalry at Lee’s front in time to thwart General […]