Fifty-five years of living in the Southeast during which we enjoyed lots of travel resulted in visiting most of the National ...
Appomattox Court House National Historical Park is located in South Central Virginia. The park interprets the final events of the Civil War. In early April 1865, Confederate General Robert E. Lee ...
In the late summer of 1865, a few months after Confederate General Robert E. Lee surrendered to Union forces at Appomattox ...
Grant than Confederate General Robert E ... he surrendered what remained of his army to Grant at Appomattox Court House. After the war, Lee accepted the presidency of Washington College in ...
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 ...