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Article: Defeated Rebels find new causes.(SATURDAY)(THE CIVIL WAR)
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- The Washington Times (Washington, DC)
- Article date:
- June 22, 2002
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Byline: Peter Bridges, SPECIAL TO THE WASHINGTON TIMES
At the end of May 1865 in New Orleans, Lt. Gen. Simon Bolivar Buckner surrendered the last significant Confederate forces still in the field. Gen. Joseph Orville Shelby refused to surrender, however, and led his Iron Brigade to Mexico to enter the service of the Emperor Maximilian. Judah P. Benjamin, who had been Confederate attorney general, secretary of war and secretary of state, feared he would be tried for treason and escaped to England, where he became an eminent barrister.
Several years after the war, five former Confederate generals were among four dozen veterans, mainly Southerners, who ...
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