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Civil War Re-Enactment; Monday, Period Three [ 06/22 ].
"This," Jasper informed the class, in case they didn't know it, "is the last week of this workshop, and so it comes to logic that we're covering the last battle of Confederate General Robert E. Lee's armies before they surrendered to Union General Ulysses S. Grant at the Appomattox Court House. Lee was hoping to break through the Union front under the assumption that it consisted only of cavalry. Turns out there were two corps of infantry there, too. Whoops."
"The way the class divided itself up works for that imbalance, so we'll," pretend shoot at each other, "re-enact that battle. And then you'll pair up and re-enact a peace treaty. The actual surrender took place between Lee and Grant, Lee very upstanding and proper despite his defeat and Grant mud-splattered and rambling and probably drunk." Jasper might be biased, though. "The Confederate soldiers were sent home with rations, to return to the South and start suturing back together the country. Word of the defeat spread to the North, inspiring celebration, but Grant was said to have sent word to put a stop to it. The war over, the United States were once again united, and 'the Confederates were now our countrymen, and we did not want to exult over their downfall.'"
Which, okay, Jasper had to admit, was a pretty good quote from a drunkard.
"There were still a few more smattering of battles here and there after the surrender and the results of the division of the nation and the crippling of the Southern states' economy stuck with the country for a long time; it's even still seen today in various things."
Like insisting Grant was a drunk.
"It was a big war, so we probably only touched on things here, but I hope you learned at least something, and you were a really good class, so thank you."
[[ OCDon the way has surrendered ]]
"The way the class divided itself up works for that imbalance, so we'll," pretend shoot at each other, "re-enact that battle. And then you'll pair up and re-enact a peace treaty. The actual surrender took place between Lee and Grant, Lee very upstanding and proper despite his defeat and Grant mud-splattered and rambling and probably drunk." Jasper might be biased, though. "The Confederate soldiers were sent home with rations, to return to the South and start suturing back together the country. Word of the defeat spread to the North, inspiring celebration, but Grant was said to have sent word to put a stop to it. The war over, the United States were once again united, and 'the Confederates were now our countrymen, and we did not want to exult over their downfall.'"
Which, okay, Jasper had to admit, was a pretty good quote from a drunkard.
"There were still a few more smattering of battles here and there after the surrender and the results of the division of the nation and the crippling of the Southern states' economy stuck with the country for a long time; it's even still seen today in various things."
Like insisting Grant was a drunk.
"It was a big war, so we probably only touched on things here, but I hope you learned at least something, and you were a really good class, so thank you."
[[ OCD