From the Pastor’s Desk: Triumph and tragedy
On Palm Sunday, April 9, 1865, Confederate General Robert E. Lee surrendered to Ulysses S. Grant, General of the Union Army, at the Appomattox Court House in Virginia. This surrender ended the bloodiest war ever fought on American soil. Five days later – Good Friday, April 14, 1865, America’s most revered president, Abraham Lincoln, was shot and mortally wounded by John Wilkes Booth in Ford’s Thea…