The first national recognition of the day occurred in 1870 at Arlington National Cemetery, honoring both United States and ...

Members of the People’s Organization For Progress will journey to Mercer County to honor Black Civil War Soldiers today, ...

Grant on April 9 at Appomattox ... “General, I messed up bad?” asks Powers. We’ve covered the history of The News-Press, the formation of Lee County, the storied history of the Lee County ...

and the pivotal siege of Petersburg that broke the back of the stalwart Army of Northern Virginia and led directly to general Robert E. Lee’s surrender at nearby Appomattox Courthouse.

When the National Park Service observed the 150th anniversary of Lee’s surrender to Grant at Appomattox Courthouse in 2015 ... legwork in tracking down the general’s. Its geographic and ...

Of all the NPS Civil War sites we visited, our favorite is probably Appomattox ... Union General Ulysses S. Grant accepted the surrender of Confederate General Robert E. Lee and the Army of ...

Lee would surrender to Gen. Ulysses S. Grant at the Appomattox courthouse, signifying the ... where he served as a judge and a postmaster general. "In about 1910-1911, he moved to Pueblo, Colorado ...

Thomas Alfred Smyth, the last Union Army general killed in the ... April 1865 shortly before Robert E. Lee surrendered to Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox Courthouse. Walking through the cemetery ...

Confederate general Robert E. Lee surrenders to Union general Ulysses S. Grant at the Appomattox Court House on April 9, 1865 in this painting, titled "Let Us Have Peace" by Jean Leon Gerome Ferris.

By the time General Lee walked up to Appomattox Courthouse in 1865, little was left of Southern US rail infrastructure. However, rail infrastructure was largely untouched in former Union-aligned ...

Lee surrendered his Army of Northern Virginia at Appomattox Courthouse, sparking an end ... yet another in a long series of celebrations. The general and his family checked into the Preble House ...