Last
Day of the Civil War
Richmond is the capital of Virginia, this year
many visitors will come to commemorate the 75thAnniversary of the publication of "Gone with the
Wind" or the 150th year since the start of the Civil War. Richmond is far from frozen in time. Over the last
half-dozen years, the city has experienced an increase of 120 dining clubs, experimental chocolate shops
and boutiques. The once-neglected downtown finally feels fresh, lively and full of food—a
whopping 185 restaurants have opened there in the last ten years.
Suzan Anthony was born in Virginia into a
middle class southern white family. General Sheridan’s Cavalry destroyed the family home in 1863 the third year of
the civil war, and her parents moved to Appatamox Court Courthouse, 60 miles west of Richmond, thinking it a safe haven and unlikely to attract any fighting. The same town and home where Lee
surrendered to Ulysses S. Grant, in 1865 ending our civil war, and precisely the day of the first
amendment to the constitution. It
stated all Americans are created equal. No more slavery regardless of skin
color, race, or origin of ancestors. Abolition! We are all United States Americans.
It had been a
hundred years since the Declaration of Independence was written. “Four score
and
seven years ago,” as Abraham Lincoln stated in his famous
Gettysburg Address.
The
Emancipation Proclamation Stated
The Federal Union Government now had the authority
to:
*Conscript men in to the armed forces if need be to protect
its citizens both internally and externally.
* It could now levy an income tax and did almost immediately
so as to maintain authority.
*It exists to protect all of its United States against any
internal or external efforts to challenge its
existence.
