Fifty-five years of living in the Southeast during which we enjoyed lots of travel resulted in visiting most of the National ...

One of the last battles of the Civil War took place in and around the Appomattox Court House National Park on the 9th of April 1865. To understand why the Appomattox Campaign was a pivotal moment ...

Lee surrendered to Union General Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox Courthouse. The Civil War in Virginia had ended. More in History: The Civil War (26 of 30) ...

Done at Appomattox Court House, Va., this 9th day of April ... I need not tell the brave survivors of so many hard fought battles who have remained steadfast to the last, that I have consented ...

A battle between Confederate troops and federal ... which added that all of this took place a week before Lee’s final surrender at Appomattox Court House, according to the National Park Service.