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The surrender of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia to Union Gen. Ulysses S. Grant near Appomattox on April 9, 1865 was an event remembered as essentially the end of the ...
General Robert E. Lee surrendered to General Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox Court House on April 9, 1865. Grant offered magnanimous terms, allowing Confederate soldiers to keep their horses and small ...
Robert E. Lee surrendered the Army of Northern Virginia to Union General and future United States President, Ulysses S. Grant. The surrender took place at the McLean farmhouse at Appomattox Court ...
The Associated Press was at Appomattox for the surrender of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee in 1865 and again Thursday for the 150th anniversary of this milestone to the end of the nation's bloodiest ...
The Civil War’s final months were a desperate struggle as the Confederacy crumbled from within. Grant’s siege tightened around Petersburg while Sherman carved a brutal path through the Carolinas, ...