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Economy: Economic News, Policy & Analysis - The Washington Post: Lee’s surrender sword, and echoes of the Lost Cause, at new Appomattox museum
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APPOMATTOX, Va. — The sword's hilt was made of ivory and gold, with a pommel shaped like a lion's head, but as the weary, gray-haired general walked up the steps of the simple brick house here, he had never drawn it in battle.