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The Calamity of Appomattox by H.L. Mencken

I am posting the entire text of the article here, but I took this from the H.L. Mencken Society’s page. This piece appeared in The American Mercury, September 1930.
The Calamity of Appomattox
by H.L. Mencken
[From the American Mercury, Sept., 1930, pp. 29-31]
No American historian, so far as I know, has ever tried to work out the [...]