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 ...

On this day, Confederate General Robert E. Lee agreed to surrender his Army of Northern Virginia, marking a symbolic end to the Civil War on April 9, 1865. The overall Confederate surrender took place ...

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The surrender of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia to Union Gen. Ulysses S. Grant near Appomattox on April 9, 1865 was an event remembered as essentially the end of the ...

RICHMOND, Va. (WWBT) - On this day in history April 9, 1865, Confederate General Robert E. Lee surrendered to Union General Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox Court House in Virginia. Despite what many ...

No man proved a more worthy opponent to Ulysses S. Grant than Confederate General Robert E. Lee. Lee was born the fourth ...

We're covering the final days of the Civil War exactly 150 years later. This is the eighth installment of the series. The Union breakthrough at Petersburg on April 2, 1865 spelled the end of the ...

When Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee surrendered to Union Lt. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant in a farmhouse parlor in Appomattox Court House, Va., on April 9, 1865, standing with other war correspondents in the ...

General Robert E. Lee surrendered to General Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox Court House on April 9, 1865. Grant offered magnanimous terms, allowing Confederate soldiers to keep their horses and small ...

Robert Edward Lee was the fourth child born to Colonel Harry and Ann Lee, prominent members of the Virginia aristocracy.