re: #77 HappyWarrior

I always found the WIlmer McLean full circle of the Civil War interesting. War started in his backyard in Mantissas, Virginia and then ended in his parlor in Appomattox. Or how the first and last British soldiers to die in WWI are buried side by side and that wasn’t by design.

That works as the effective end of the war, but it died a sputtering death. (Alabama surrendered a week or so later.) The last Confederate general to surrender was a Cherokee, who had spent most of the war fighting Union Cherokees. The last ship was the commerce raider CSS Shenandoah, six months later. They were concerned they would be treated as pirates because they hadn’t got the message. Couple weird facts in there.

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