A week later, he surrendered what remained of his army to Grant at Appomattox Court House. After the war, Lee accepted the presidency of Washington College in Lexington, Virginia, where he died on ...

Grant met Lee's army of 64,000 on May 5 ... William Tecumseh Sherman at Durham Station, North Carolina. The Civil War ended. Ulysses S. Grant's final campaign had worked as he had intended.

Lee, he succeeded at depleting Lee's forces ... substantial gains against the Confederate forces in the American Civil War. Grant, replacing Halleck, took the risky gamble of attacking the ...

Every year, the state of Florida observes the birth of Confederate General Robert E. Lee as an official state holiday.

Issued from his headquarters in Oxford, Grant’s General Order s No. 11 read that “the Jews, as a class, violating every regulation of trade established by the Treasury Department, and also ...