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Appomattox Courthouse

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Appomattox Courthouse
scene of Lee’s surrender to Grant (1865). [Am. Hist.: Jameson, 22]
See : Defeat


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Detouring from the historical timeline momentarily, the two sides re- enacted Lee's surrender at the Appomattox Courthouse before re-engaging with the battle of Sayler's Creek.
For example, pictures of the Appomattox Courthouse were taken to show a setting from Ann Rinaldi's book, In My Father's House.
In a deep sense, the copyright drama playing out in Atlanta--the City Too Busy to Hate--is really about how Gone With the Wind should be read 65 years after its publication and 136 years after the society it romances surrendered at Appomattox Courthouse.
 
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