Pineville, a historic refuge—The Horror of Reconstruction
This etching depicts freedmen and women lining up at an office of the Freedmen’s Bureau. Gen. Robert E. Lee surrendered to Gen. U.S. Grant at Appomattox Court House April 9, 1865, and the Confederate States of America ceased to exist, and so did slavery and the economic system it supported. The South had lost the
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