On this date units of Patton's 3rd Army entered Buchenwald concentration camp. The principle of my Elementary and Jr High school in rural NW Ohio, was a Sargent of the first unit to enter the Camp. His graphic descriptions of the camp and further study I did in our school's library of old National Geographic magazines, burned into my soul the horror.
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Grant took Lee's surrender at the McLean house in Appomattox, Virginia.