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When Robert E. Lee surrendered the Army of Northern Virginia at Appomattox Courthouse, the force that had numbered from 65,000 to upwards of 75,000 men less than two years earlier at Gettysburg was down to approximately this many troops.

  • 15,000
  • 25,000
  • 35,000
  • 45,000
  • 55,000