Reply #28: "With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us

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to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds, to care for him who shall have borne the battle and for his widow and his orphan, to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations." -- Lincoln, 1865

Enough people died; everyone was finally sick of killing. It was all finally ended better than it began


... Presiding over the Confederate surrender was General John B. Gordon .. wounded five times during the war and a frequent adversary of Chamberlain. As the .. columns of Lee’s .. army .. approached, Chamberlain .. he suddenly gave the order for Federal troops to “carry arms” ... A bugle called and .. the .. Union soldiers raised their muskets to their shoulders, the salute of honor ... http://www.virginiawestern.edu/faculty/vwhansd/his269/Documents/Surrender.html



... After the surrender, Sherman issued rations and supplies to Johnston’s men, an act that Johnston never forgot ...

... Johnston attended Sherman's funeral in New York in 1891, stood in the rain to watch the cortege pass ... http://www.history.com/topics/william-t-sherman

... during the procession .. he kept his hat off as a sign of respect in the cold, rainy weather. Someone with concern for the old general's health asked him to put on his hat, to which Johnston replied "If I were in his place and he standing here in mine, he would not put on his hat." He caught a cold that day, which developed into pneumonia, and he died several weeks later ... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_E._Johnston