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They went to the Confederate camps and emptied their haversacks of the beef, bacon, sugar and other delicacies that the rebels had long gone without.
他們直接來到南方盟軍營地，傾其所有，從干糧袋里倒出叛軍短缺已久的牛肉、熏肉、糖和其他美味。
On April 12, four years to the day after the attack on Fort Sumter which started the war, Lee's Confederate troops marched into the village and stacked their arms. Here the final act of healing that runs through the whole Appomattox story took place, set in motion by another remarkable figure—Joshua L. Chamberlain, the Union general designated to receive the surrender. A Bowdoin College professor who left to enlist in the army, Chamberlain won a battlefield commission for repeated acts of bravery and was wounded six times, once so severely that an army doctor gave him up for dead.
4月12日，李的盟軍進(jìn)入阿波馬托克斯，放下了武器。而四年前的這一天，對薩姆特堡的進(jìn)攻引發(fā)了內(nèi)戰(zhàn)。在這里貫穿于整個阿波馬托克斯故事核心、愈合戰(zhàn)爭創(chuàng)傷的一幕上演了，這一幕是由聯(lián)軍另一位卓越的人物——喬舒亞.L.張伯倫將軍開始的，他奉命接受投降張伯倫原是鮑登大學(xué)的教授，后來投筆從戎，并因多次英勇作戰(zhàn)而榮獲戰(zhàn)地指揮官軍銜。他曾先后六次負(fù)傷，最嚴(yán)重的一次，軍醫(yī)都已經(jīng)放棄了，以為他必死無疑。
Now, with his soldiers standing at attention, General Chamberlain watched the first ragged Confederate soldiers coming up the road, led by Gen. John B. Gordon.
此刻，他的士兵正立正站好，張伯倫將軍看見了第一隊衣衫襤褸的南方軍士兵沿路走來，領(lǐng)頭的是約翰·B.戈登將軍。
The momentous meaning of this occasion impressed me deeply, Chamberlain later wrote. "I resolved to mark it by some token of recognition: which could be no other than a salute of arms. I was well aware of the criticisms that would follow. My main reason, however, was one for which I sought no authority nor asked forgiveness. Before us in proud humiliation stood the embodiment of manhood: men whom neither toils and sufferings, nor the fact of death, nor disaster, nor hopelessness could bend from their resolve;
“那個場合的深遠(yuǎn)意義令我印象深刻，”張伯倫后來寫道，“我決定用某種象征敬意的舉動來紀(jì)念這一時刻，那只能是行軍禮。我很清楚批判會接踵而至。然而，我這樣做既不想得到上級的批準(zhǔn)，也不想尋求諒解。站在我們面前的是雖受屈辱卻保持高傲的男子氣概的化身：勞苦、死亡、災(zāi)難、無望都不能屈服他們的意志；
