General Robert E. Lee surrendered the Northern Army of Virginia at Appomattox Courthouse on April 12. Three days later President Abraham Lincoln was assassinated. Gen. Joseph E. Johnston followed suit officially surrendering his army of 30,000 in North Carolina on May 3. But, as weary veterans from the north and south went home and the nation mourned the killing of the president, one full general of the Confederate army, Lt. Gen. Edmund Kirby Smith of the Trans-Mississippi Theater of Arkansas, L
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