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Just before Robert E. Lee's surrender in April 1865, General Porter Alexander knowing of Lee's intentions to surrender proposed instead that the troops "scatter into the woods and hills".

What would have happened if Lee had agreed to this, or at least gave over the command to Alexander?

Would there have been a full blown insurgency? How long would it last? Would the South be fully occupied by Union troops? Could the Confederacy rise from defeat?
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