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Robert E. Lee decided it was futile to keep fighting and signed a Peace Treaty with U.S. Grant. If you look at the picture taken at Appomattox, Va. he still had his sword on. If he surrendered like people came to believe it to be, he would have been stripped of his weapons.

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