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Moreover, in November he had replaced old Colonel Gardner, a Northern veteran of "1812," by Page 3 Anderson the Southerner, in whom he hoped to find a good capitulator.

From Captains of the Civil War; a chronicle of the blue and the gray by Wood, William Charles Henry

People came from all over the country who had heard of Cornwallis and his wonderful genius as a capitulator.

From Comic History of the United States by Opper, F.