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With the coming of April 2015 the sesquicentennial of the Civil War draws to a close giving ample cause to look back on one of the most cataclysmic months in the nation rsquo s history It is now hard to imagine the surge of contrasting emotions that Americans felt first on April 9 1865 when Ge