April 9th has witnessed numerous significant events throughout history, spanning a variety of categories including politics, ...

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Robert E. Lee surrendered to Union Gen. Ulysses S. Grant on April 9, 1865 — 160 years ago Wednesday. In fact, reality was a little more complicated than that. Lee surrendered only his army ...

Lee remarked on the morning of April 9, 1865, “to provoke the further effusion of blood, and I have arranged to meet with General Grant with a view to surrender.”1 The two generals met ...

The official surrender document of Lee's troops to the Union Army, signed at Appomattox Court House on April 9, 1865: We ... Genl. U. S. Grant, Commanding Armies of United States, do hereby ...

Lee spent the first days of April 1865 ... Grant, that the object of our present meeting is fully understood. I asked to see you to ascertain upon what terms you would receive the surrender ...

April 9, 1865. With his Confederate armies on their last legs, Confederate General Robert E. Lee surrenders to General Ulysses S. Grant. The Rebellion is over. After four years of fierce fighting ...

They made some small talk before Lee asked on what terms Grant would “receive the surrender of my army.” National Museum of American History One-hundred-and-fifty years ago, on April 9 ...

That means his smaller army can afford fewer casualties, which Lee knows that Grant ... surrender of the Army of Northern Virginia at the McClean House at Appomattox Courthouse on April 9, 1865.

In the village of Appomattox Court House, Virginia, on April 9, 1865, Robert E. Lee surrenders his 28,000 Confederate troops ...

April 9, the day that the American Civil War ended in 1865, should be a national holiday celebrating the defeat of the Confederacy, the end of slavery, and the triumph of liberty.