General Lee and 21 confederate generals on horseback. 1867. Courtesy: Library of Congress. The official surrender document of Lee's troops to the Union Army, signed at Appomattox Court House on ...

Sitter Robert Edward Lee, 19 Jan 1807 - 12 Oct 1870 Ulysses Simpson Grant, 27 Apr 1822 - 23 Jul 1885 Credit Line National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution Date 1865 Object number NPG.84.87 ...

Sixteen months after General Lee surrendered, the war was officially over. One of the last battles of the Civil War took place in and around the Appomattox Court House National Park on the 9th of ...

Robert E. Lee surrendered tou0003Union Gen. Ulysses S. Grant on April 9, 1865 — 160 years ago Wednesday. In fact, reality was a little more complicated than that.

For generations, Americans learned the same basic story about the end of the Civil War. On April 9, 1865, Lee surrendered to Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox Court House, Va.

April 9 marks the 160th anniversary of the day America’s Civil War ended when General Lee surrendered to General Grant at the Appomattox Court House in Virginia. What is perhaps less well-known is ...

This year, the United States marks three milestones in its military history: The American Civil War ended April 1865, when Confederate General Robert E. Lee surrendered his troops to Union General ...