09 April 2010

Civil War history for the day

On 9 April 1865, General Robert E. Lee surrendered the Confederate armies to Union General Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox Court House in Virginia.

Rico says that, actually, he just signed the armistice, as shown above; the actual surrender, shown below, was on 12 April:

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