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Lee really didn't ever, ever want to give up.
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But he had to.
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He was cut off.
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There was an emerging lethal mixture now,
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of no supplies, desertion,
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and the almost unfathomable oversupply of the Union forces.
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He was grossly outnumbered
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and finally he had to send a note,
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after this last little battle they actually fought,
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on the 11th of April, where eighteen men were killed.
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And there's a little cemetery at Appomattox today
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where you can see the gravestones of those eighteen men.