War is Over ?

One hundred and fifty years ago today, General Lee mounted Traveller and rode away, gallantly, from Wilmer McLean's farmhouse after effectively accepting General Grant's terms of surrender.  His men were allowed to return to their farms, Lee having successfully negotiated for them to keep their horses or mules for plow work, and some say the Civil War in this country ended.

Not true, exactly.

An honest argument could be made that that Civil War didn't really end until Civil Rights legislation was enacted a century later.  Some might argue that the Civil War still continues today...

In a few days, we'll be noting the 150th anniversary of the assassination of President Lincoln.  Had he lived, things perhaps would have turned out differently, letting them up easy and all...