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“If you want to leave, take good care, hope you make a lot of nice friends out there.” — from “Wild World” by Cat Stevens

The first time, you will recall, was in April of 1865, when he and his tattered army abandoned the city, fleeing east before finally surrendering at Appomattox Courthouse to federal forces commanded by General Ulysses S. Grant. This latest — and, one hopes, last — retreat was similarly ignob…

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