General Lee desires a cessation of hostilities until he can hear from General Grant as to the proposed surrender.” By afternoon, General Grant joined General Lee at Wilbur McLean’s home in ...

APPOMATTOX, Va . (WSFA) - April 9 marks the 159th Anniversary of the Battle of Appomattox Courthouse and Confederate General Robert E. Lee’s surrender of his 28,000 Confederate troops to Union ...

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 ...

As a general thing, the took the surrender very calmly, few of them exhibiting any special emotion. Gen. LEE himself was very much affected, and in attempting a speech to the soldiers under ...

Lee surrendered to General Ulysses S. Grant, the head of the Union Army, after a desperate last stand. The surrender of ...

Gregg, now 94, was the first Black soldier to achieve the rank of Army lieutenant general. He taught at Fort Lee and chose to retire from Fort Lee in 1981. Adams, who died in 2002 at the age of 83, ...

Lee and John Gordon, the rider, Captain R. M. Sims, carried a message requesting a suspension of hostilities to allow negotiations of surrender to take place. He made his way to General George ...

There are several that people agree are the most iconic movie and TV cars of all time, with the General Lee — the chosen ride of Bo (John Schneider) and Luke Duke (Tom Wopat) on the adored ...