Zebulon+Vance

Zeb Vance was born on May 13, 1830 in Buncombe County, NC. He was a well educated man, and he was one of the most popular polititians from North Carolina. He was against both slavery and seccession. However, he still fought as a captain (later colonel) for the confederacy in the Cvil War. In fact, Zebulon B. Vance was actually arrested on his birthday by Union Forces. Vance had many different jobs involving politics during his life, serving in the United States Senate, Governer of NC, and the Thirty-fifth and Thirty-sixth Congress, to name a few. The people loved him and some thought he was among the greatest men alive.
 * //__Zebulon Vance__//**



The surrender of Robert E. Lee at Appomattox courthouse in Virgina was virtually the end of the Civil War, or the beginning of the end I should say. Shortly after this came the surrender of Bennett Place and the total end of all fighting. General Ulysses S. Grant had Lee surrounded and the Southern General knew he was out of luck, so in order to prevent any more bloodshed, he faced Grant and decided on the terms of the surrender. This was a hard thing for Lee to do and would rather have "died a thousand deaths." It turned out that Grants terms were much more generous than Lee had been expecting, and he agreed instantly. Grant looked upon Lee as a fellow countryman and didn't take him as a prisoner. As strange as it seems, he was even a sort of depressed that he had defeated the enemy he had fought for so long. Just like that, the soldiers who had once been fighting one another, were sitting and chatting with their former foes, just glad that it was all over. The civil war would surely not last much longer now.
 * //__Appomattox__//**

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