I keep missing all this important historical stuff. Who knew April was such a crowded month?
140 years ago last week, the week began with great joy and possibility as Robert E. Lee finally surrendered the Army of Northern Virginia to Ulysses S. Grant. The same week ended in abject despair as John Wilkes Booth assasinated President Lincoln.
230 years ago today, the day started with the voices of dispatch riders galloping through the Massachussetts countryside warning colonial leaders and militia that “The Regulars are coming!” By mid-morning, eight Minutemen lay dead on Lexington Green. At the end of the day, forty nine other colonists and a staggering seventy three British Regulars lay scattered along the “Battle Road” and a war that nobody was prepared to fight was on in earnest.
Springtime makes people antsy, I suppose.