I’m not sure I’d say I’m outraged. Outrage is a cheap emotion anyway. But this is a pretty odd way for the federal government to sum up the curtain call of the Civil War at Appomattox 150 years ago.
From TPM Reader CV …
Greetings TPM folk,
Today is the 150th anniversary of Lee’s surrender at Appomattox and if you go to the NPS website for the Park you find this explanation: “On Palm Sunday (April 9), 1865, Lee’s surrender at Appomattox Court House, Virginia signaled the end of the Southern States attempt to create a separate nation. It set the stage for the emergence of an expanded and more powerful Federal government. In a sense the struggle over how much power the central government would hold had finally been settled.”
I find that disturbing and offensive. *Thats* the nutshell takeaway from the Civil War?
