General Mahone to General Lee: "You Are the Country Now."
Life on the Civil War Research Trail
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On April 9, 1885, the twentieth anniversary of the surrender at Appomattox, the Boston Globe published an interview with former Confederate Maj. Gen. William Mahone about his part in the final days of the Army of Northern Virginia. Here's what he remembered.
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