Lee’s surrender at Appomattox—dramatically illustrates the dangers of letting myth substitute for accurate history. For generations, Americans learned the same basic story about the end of the Civil ...

Generals Grant and Lee agreed to convene at the home of Wilmer McLean at Appomattox Court House to stop the fighting ... The war at times seemed to have no resolution. But the previous December ...

“where the sound of battle would never reach them.” He found what he wanted at Appomattox Courthouse—a remote hamlet, better than two miles from the railroad and clearly of no military value ...

The American Civil War ended with the Battle of Appomattox Courthouse in Virginia on April 9, 1865. At the Varnum Armory Museum, a band playing Civil War era music played some tunes, and several ...

The Liberty Rifles and 1st Section, in partnership with Appomattox Court House National Park will be providing U.S. Army, Confederate, and civilian living history impressions on April 12 and 13.

Grant at Appomattox Court House, Va. In a sublime moment of selflessness ... The story served as a resolution to help prove that America was unique and not destined to experience the interminable ...