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A few days later they were all gone.
幾天后，他們都走了。
After the surrender the village went right back into its cocoon, I was told by Ron Wilson, historian of Appomattox Court House, which is now a National Park Service site consisting of the reconstructed McLean house and courthouse and more than 20 smaller buildings. He and I were sitting on the porch of the restored Clover Hill Tavern where printing presses ordered by Grant had printed 28,231 parole passes for the Confederate soldiers. We were looking across a vista of overwhelming stillness. The road that the surrendering rebels took into the village climbed across countryside so recognizable from 19th-century paintings that I almost expected to see them coming down the road again.
“投降之后，村莊又恢復了往日的寧靜。”阿波馬托克斯的歷史學家羅恩·威爾遜告訴我。現在的阿波馬托克斯是一個國家公園軍事遺址，包括重建的麥克萊恩的房子、縣法院大樓和20多個小型建筑物。我和他坐在重建的克洛弗山酒店的前廳，在那里格蘭特曾下令為南方軍隊士兵印制了28，231份釋放通行證。我們看著遠方無比寂靜的景色。降軍進入村莊的那條路在19世紀的繪畫中清晰得一眼可辨，我甚至以為他們又從那條路上走來了。
Today the site gets roughly 110,000 tourists a year. "They come to Appomattox because they really want to—it's off the usual path," said superintendent John B. Montgomery. "They're looking for inspiration. The story we try to tell is not the final battle. It's the reconciliation of the country and the generous terms offered by Grant. He didn't play the conquering hero."
如今，每年大約有11萬旅游者來此觀光。“他們來到阿波馬克斯，因為他們真心想來這里看看——這里很偏僻，”管理員約翰·B.蒙哥馬利說，“他們來尋找靈感，我們所要講述的故事并不是最后的戰役，而是國家的和解和格蘭特提出的寬宏大量的條款，他并沒有以一個征服者自居。”
That theme of forgiveness and reconciliation kept booming in my ears through the stillness at Appomattox.
在寂靜的阿波馬托克斯，寬恕與和解的主題始終在我耳邊回蕩。
