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sarahtaber@mastodon.online ("Sarah Taber") wrote:

160 years ago today, Robert E. Lee surrendered to Union forces in Richmond Virginia.

There are a lot of reasons the Confederates lost. Among them, its leaders didn't know how to run a functional economy.

Crippled by hyperinflation, trade deficits, & inability to industrialize, the Confederacy tore itself to shreds in just four years.

Newspaper announcement of the end of the US Civil War. Head caption: "General lee and his army have surrendered!" An eagle in the center. Underneath, the caption "Slavery and treason buried in the same grave!"