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After Appomattox: Military Occupation and the Ends of War ... I'm used to, for instance, thinking of ex parte Milligan as largely irrelevant, as it came after the end of the fighting and the use of military commissions in the Northern states. Yet with the continuance of military commissions in the ex-Confederate states, the case does have imp It should be a truism that the war did not end at Appomattox. After Appomattox Gregory P. Downs Harvard University Press Voters in the North also could not stomach an expensive and demoralizing occupation. Under those pressures, by 1871, the Civil War came to its legal end. The wartime after Appomattox disrupted planter power and established important rights, but the dawn of legal peacetime heralded the return of rebel power, not a sustainable peace. After Appomattox: Military Occupation and the Ends of War ... After Appomattox: Military Occupation and the Ends of War [Gregory P. Downs] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. On April 8, 1865, after four years of civil war, General Robert E. Lee wrote to General Ulysses S. Grant asking for peace. Peace was beyond his authority to negotiate
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