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The Birth of a Nation - timeline
9th April: Col. Ben Cameron "The Little Colonel" is released from a Northern hospital and returns to South Carolina. (Northern USA)
9th April: General Robert E. Lee C.S.A. surrenders to General Ulysses S. Grant in the Appomattox Court House, bringing an end to hostilities between the North and South. (Appomattox County, Virginia)
22nd April: The Little Colonel, Ben Cameron, learns of the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, bemoaning: "We have lost our friend. What is to become of us now?" (Piedmont, South Carolina)