The Stillness at Appomatox

We should remember that when the civil war came to an end the 2 generals in charge handled it with a grace we could use now.

I love the last paragraph of this:

In no other nation on earth might such a fiery trial, one that claimed 630,000 lives, have ended so magnanimously as ours did at Appomattox. Britain hanged rebels—in Canada in 1837—and shot them in Ireland in 1916. The Mexicans killed every Texas rebel at the Alamo in 1836.

Only in America could we have seen “the stillness at Appomattox.” It was a miracle then.