Lee spent the first days of April 1865 dodging ... He found what he wanted at Appomattox Courthouse—a remote hamlet, better than two miles from the railroad and clearly of no military value ...

In an official ceremony at the courthouse in Appomattox, Virginia, Lee surrenders to General Grant. Lee keeps his emotions under control as he signs a surrender document in Wilmer McLean's parlor ...

The two commanders sat across from each other; Lee in a tall ... Infantry near Appomattox Court House and asked for directions to the headquarters of Major General Philip Sheridan.

An ex-soldier, alcoholic, and newspaper editor, John Newman Edwards spent the years after Confederate general Robert E. Lee's surrender at Appomattox Courthouse searching for ways to venerate the ...

It is at Gettysburg that we get one of the most vivid of the few pictures left us of Lee in the very midst of the crash and tumult of conflict. It is from the excellent pen of General Alexander ...

Lee that are not found in Douglas Freeman’s R. E. Lee, as he tells the general’s story on a daily basis ... Lee, From Arlington to Appomattox is highly recommended.