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The ending of the long and bloody Siege of Petersburg, a last Confederate charge by General John B. Gordon, and then the final surrender of the barefoot and starving Army of Northern Virginia by Robert E. Lee, who went to meet U.S. Grant at Appomattox Court House, declaring "I would rather die a thousand deaths."

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