One of his biographers, Edward E. Leslie, believes that Quantrill saw himself as a regular Confederate soldier, one who "kept promises he made to the enemy, accepted surrender, granted paroles, tried to exchange prisoners, and made certain that none of his men ever raped or assaulted a woman".
Two weeks later, in Suhrawardy Udyan, the commander of Pakistan's occupying forces surrendered, granting Bangladesh its independence.
The phrase dates back at least to 1886, and the writer Joel Garreau counts "at least six major, widely hailed, New Souths since Lee's surrender to Grant, not to mention the minor, trial-balloon, New Souths that the sad surplus of New Southern journalists float from time to time (everybody's got to eat)." But repetition does not make a label false.
But Gettysburg, coming as it did on the same weekend that Vicksburg, the Confederacy's last citadel on the Mississippi River, surrendered to Grant, transformed that depression.
Following an extensive land campaign, and a siege by combined army and naval forces, Vicksburg's commander, Gen. John C. Pemberton, surrendered to Grant on July 4, 1863, with the garrison at nearby Port Hudson following soon after.
Critics of Mr. McClendon see the proposed settlement with the township as a white flag of surrender, essentially granting him a waiver from zoning restrictions and allowing him to build a 66-slip marina, 9-story hotel, golf course and up to 100 residential units.
According to one version, it was first celebrated in 1865, a few weeks after Lee surrendered to Grant; freed slaves and black and white Union soldiers marched to the site of a Confederate prisoner-of-war camp in Charleston, South Carolina, for some hearty hymn-singing and picnicking.
In little more than a month, Lee surrendered to Grant at Appomattox Court House.
The decree, which reveals the increasing influence of Egyptian natives, remitted debts and taxes, released prisoners, pardoned rebels who surrendered, and granted increased benefactions to the temples.
Gettysburg marked the high-water mark of the Confederacy; thereafter Lee's army would retreat until its final surrender to General Grant at Appomattox Court House.
