 FACT: If Captain Parmenter was transferred to Fort Courage  immediately after he "led" the cavalry charge that led to the  Confederate surrender at Appomatox Court House, then Trooper Hanibal  Dobbs should not have been there. Immediately after the Civil War,  Dobbs, being a Southerner, would have been ineligible for service in  the United States Army. Lees surrender at Appomatox did not, in  fact, end the Civil War. The war would not end for another ten  weeks. So, it is possible that when newly