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When at last through sheer exhaustion the Confederate Armies ceased resistance and surrendered, they did so on precisely the same terms that had been offered by the Government of the Union three months before.
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Blaine notes the irony of the Confederate surrender terms being the same as those previously offered by the Union.
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