This week marks the anniversary of Robert E. Lee's surrender near the end of the Civil War. Southern California, part of a free state from its beginning, held profound Confederate sentiment in the 1860s and beyond.
Of all the sounds now vanished from the heart of old downtown Los Angeles — the songs of the Tongva, the whistles of steam locomotives, the clanging of streetcars — there’s one you’d never have expected: the Rebel Yell. The battle cry of the Confederacy resounded a long way from its home, but throughout the Civil War, you could hear it in secessionist hangouts like the old Bella Union Hotel.
The Confederates charged Hancock’s position in the disaster that became known as Pickett’s Charge. Garnett died in the field. Armistead lived long enough to tell a field surgeon, “Say to General Hancock for me that I have done him, and you all, a grievous injury, which I shall always regret.” Pickett survived but fell into a slough of despond and vengefulness. Another dinner guest, the Southerner Cameron Thom, was wounded at Gettysburg but returned to L.A. to become its 16th mayor.
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