4-Mercy at Appomat I. Text Analysis For reference: The South itself was a maze and a tangle of hills and swamps and streams and forests. They have the temperament, the ability and the incentive and arguably, if they had decided to wage guerilla warfare, they would have been one of the most formidable guerilla armies in all of history. And in fact, at this very moment Jefferson Davis, the Confederate president, his government was on the run calling for a guerilla warfare, but in the end, Lee says no to guerilla warfare because he reasons that it will destroy not only the North but the South and quite impressionably he says, it will take many generations before this country recovers W BTL E To be continued on the next page.W B T L E I. Text Analysis  To be continued on the next page. Lesson 14 – Mercy at Appomattox For reference: The South itself was a maze and a tangle of hills and swamps and streams and forests. They have the temperament, the ability and the incentive and arguably, if they had decided to wage guerilla warfare, they would have been one of the most formidable guerilla armies in all of history. And in fact, at this very moment, Jefferson Davis, the Confederate president, his government was on the run calling for a guerilla warfare, but in the end, Lee says no to guerilla warfare because he reasons that it will destroy not only the North but the South and quite impressionably he says, it will take many generations before this country recovers