"They Were Proud of Their Success, and We Were Not Ashamed of Our Defeat"
Life on the Civil War Reserach Trail
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Major Edward Mortimer Boykin of the 7th South Carolina Cavalry and his surviving comrades were surrendered at Appomattox. In his 1874 memoirs, "The Fallen Flag," he shared his recollection the reaction to General Robert E. Lee by the Southern soldiers, and how they were treated by victorious Northern soldiers.
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