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Show The Ht to Surrender. j The last Confederate soldiers to surrender were Sergeant Tews bur' 'and guard from Dismal Swamp, lie and his companions had been posted on the edge of the swamp to I watch movements of the Union 'troops from Norfolk, " with orders 1 to remain until relieved. lie was - never relieved, and subsisted on j fish and game tor three years. At ! last be met an old negro who told J him the war had been over for I about a. year, which "tickled him better than if lie had been kicked ' by a mule,'' as he expressed it. |