Full Text of HR0327 99th General Assembly
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| 1 | | HOUSE RESOLUTION
| 2 | | WHEREAS, On April 9, 1965, at the Appomattox Court House in | 3 | | the State of Virginia, Robert E. Lee, Commander of the Army of | 4 | | Northern Virginia, surrendered his Confederate forces to | 5 | | Ulysses S. Grant, Commander of the Union Army; and
| 6 | | WHEREAS, This was the beginning of the end of the American | 7 | | Civil War, which saw over 750,000 Americans on both sides | 8 | | killed; and
| 9 | | WHEREAS, The end of the Civil War also saw the end of | 10 | | slavery in America, freeing a slave population that had reached | 11 | | nearly 4 million in 1860; and
| 12 | | WHEREAS, On April 9, 2015, the 150th anniversary of the end | 13 | | of the Civil War, at 2:15 p.m., as part of the "Ring the Bell" | 14 | | campaign, churches, temples, schools, city halls, public | 15 | | buildings, and historic sites are invited to ring their bells | 16 | | for 4 minutes to represent the 4 years of the Civil War; the | 17 | | bells will first ring at the Appomattox Court House National | 18 | | Park to coincide with the moment when General Grant met General | 19 | | Lee to set the terms of the surrender of the Army of Northern | 20 | | Virginia; therefore, be it
| 21 | | RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE |
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| 1 | | NINETY-NINTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we | 2 | | recognize the 150th anniversary of the end of the American | 3 | | Civil War and the end of slavery in the America; and be it | 4 | | further | 5 | | RESOLVED, That we encourage people to take part in the | 6 | | "Ring the Bell" campaign in recognition of those who fought in | 7 | | the Civil War and the continuing struggle for Civil Rights.
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