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037 - The Confederacy's "Greatest" Surrender - The Bennett Place
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It was a Tuesday, April 11, 1865 - only two days after Robert E. Lee had surrendered his Army of Northern Virginia. Down in North Carolina, with Major General William T. Sherman’s relentless blue wave only some 30 miles to the southeast of Raleigh, NC, Confederate General Joseph E. Johnston’s men of the Army of Tennessee began to march in and through the Old North State’s capital. Women, lining both sides of Raleigh’s Fayetteville Street, greeted them. They handed out meat, bread and tobacco. On the western edge of town, a favorite place for soldiers to linger as they…
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