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This image provided buy the Library of Congress shows an artist rendering of the surrender of Confederate General Robert E. Lee to Union General Ulysses S. Grant in the front parlor of the McLean house at Appomattox Court House on April 9, 1865. A reenactment of the surrender will take place in Appomattox on April 9, 2015, to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the surrender. (AP Photo/Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Kurz and Allison) (AP)

Civil War: 150th anniversary of Lee surrender at Appomattox

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In this Jan. 14, 2009 image shows a Civil War bottle with a message that was tucked inside at the Museum of the Confederacy in Richmond, Va. The message to Lt. Gen. John C. Pemberton says reinforcements will not be arriving. The encrypted dispatch was dated July 4, 1863 _ the date of Pemberton's surrender to Union forces led by Ulysses S. Grant in what historians say was a turning point in the war. (AP Photo/Museum of the Confederacy) (AP)

Civil War message opened, decoded: No help coming

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