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the lifting of the siege
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and the march to Appomattox and the surrender
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for Thursday,
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because it makes a perfect segway
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back into wartime reconstruction plans,
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because the nature of that surrender at Appomattox
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has a great deal to do with
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the kind of reconstruction ideas and plans
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that were boiling as early as 1863 really,
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out of Congress and from Lincoln himself.
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And let me just end with this little story.
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I mentioned that Sherman made it to the sea at Savannah,