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Fifty-five years of living in the Southeast during which we enjoyed lots of travel resulted in visiting most of the National Park Service’s many Civil War sites. Each proved enjoyable and educational, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Robert E. Lee surrendered the Army of Northern Virginia to Union General and future United States President, Ulysses S. Grant. The surrender took place at the McLean farmhouse at Appomattox Court ...

3 people, 4 dogs and a cat displaced following Roanoke County house fire One person was taken to the hospital following a house fire on Saturday in Roanoke County that left three people and their pets ...

"Lee's surrender to Grant at Appomattox Court House evokes a highly gratifying image in the popular mind-it was, many believe, a moment that transcended politics, a moment of healing, a moment of ...

ZOAR — Ohio's largest Civil War reenactment returns to Historic Zoar Village Sept. 20-21. According to a community announcement, the event will feature a recreation of the Battle of Appomattox, ...

Hutchins was at every major Civil War battle in the East: Seven Pines, Gaines Mill, Malvern Hill, the second battle of Manasses or Bull Run, Antietam, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, the Wilderness, ...