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[B]Confederate States of America[/B][/CENTER]

[B]Excerpts from the Confederate Surrender,[/B]

To the Generals and Officers of the Confederate Army and the Confederate Navy, let it forever be remembered you fought with great skill and strategy, with tactic and thought, and with honor and humbleness. However, we are faced a foe that drove men like cattle against us and we could not prevail over that. I ask you all to command your soldiers to lay down your arms.

To the People of the Confederate States of America, thank you for what you have given up, but it has been too much. I am finally hearing reports of how we have actually fared in this war, and it has been estimated that we have lost over two hundred thousand of our boys in this fruitless war. We have lost. It brings tears to my eyes that it is so, but we shall only suffer more if we keep pushing. Those damned Europeans that feigned friendship early on left us treading water, and now we must ask to be saved. The time has come to surrender, for God cannot condone such reckless bloodshed.

To my old friend Abraham Lincoln, it feels a lifetime ago since we where in the Whig party. This war shall forever change the character of our nation, but first it must become OUR nation again. While I offer the Confederate surrender unconditionally, I ask that you find a way to give amnesty to all those wanted for any shade of treason. I hope with the war drawing to an end after five years that we can become friends again, truly.

[B]- Alexander H. Stephens, Acting President of the Confederate States of America[/B] [I](on December 25, 1866)[/I]