Fifty-five years of living in the Southeast during which we enjoyed lots of travel resulted in visiting most of the National ...

we need to take a look at what happened right before the battle that would make General Lee surrender at the McLean House in the Appomattox Court House National Park. On the 2nd of April 1865 ...

1867. Courtesy: Library of Congress. The official surrender document of Lee's troops to the Union Army, signed at Appomattox Court House on April 9, 1865: We, the undersigned Prisoners of War ...