APRIL 9, 1865: General Lee met General Grant at Appomattox Court House and formally surrendered the Army of Northern Virginia. Tear Admiral Semmes and his naval brigade, charged with the defense of Danville were included in the surrender.
Lee's struggle to break free from Grant's overwhelming army, well-fed and supplied from City Point, had failed. His effort to join Johnston, hopefully far enough from the sea to limit Grant's logistical naval superiority, had come fatefully to an end.
One of the greatest armies and leaders of history without an adequate Navy had succumbed to the united power of land and sea.
--Old B-R'er
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