Click to open image viewer. CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. On April 9, 1865, General Ulysses S. Grant and General Robert E. Lee met in the home of Wilmer McLean at Appomattox ...

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 was ...

This Tuesday marked the 159th anniversary of Robert E. Lee’s surrender to Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox — the beginning of the end of a bitter and bloody civil war. From the modern American ...

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 April ...

Thursday, April 9, marks the 150th anniversary of the Confederate surrender at Appomattox Court House, Virginia. In recognition of this historic event that symbolized the end of the Civil War, take a ...

When the National Park Service observed the 150th anniversary of Lee’s surrender to Grant at Appomattox Courthouse in 2015, it invited Thomas Jessee to portray Lee and Curt Fields, Grant. The two will ...

Surrender documents to return to Appomattox Court House Robert E. Lee’s copy of the surrender terms is among several artifacts that will be on public display for the first time during the ...

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) – The sword Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee had at his side when he surrendered to Union Gen. Ulysses S. Grant is returning to Appomattox as the centerpiece of a new museum examining ...