Confederates Report Final Surrender, 1865
In the South, the Tri Weekly Constitutionalist in Augusta, Ga., gives "sad details" to its readers. This account includes the popular myth that Gen. Ulysses S. Grant refused to accept Robert E. Lee's sword when the Confederate general offered it in surrender. Grant later dismissed the tale as "the purest romance."
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'Tri Weekly Constitutionalist,' April 23, 1865
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