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

The Confederate capital of Richmond, Virginia, had fallen into Union hands on April 2, 1865. Robert E. Lee and the Army of Northern Virginia were forced to flee, but soon found themselves cut off ...

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Appomattox Court House National Historical Park is located in South Central Virginia. The park interprets the final events of the Civil War. In early April 1865, Confederate General Robert E.

At the end of the war, Pickett and his remaining troops served at the Battle of Appomattox Court House and surrendered with Lee's army. Pickett worked as an insurance agent after the war.

The Civil-War was the deadliest conflict in American ... Lee’s 1865 surrender at Appomattox, Union forces also suffered more casualties than the Confederacy, with 642,427 casualties, compared ...

Although the American Civil War ended April 9, 1865, when Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee surrendered the Army of Northern Virginia to Union Gen. Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox Courthouse, the war ...

The Appomattox Raiders girls basketball team is playing some red hot basketball in recent weeks, racking up a six-game ...

If you decide to travel further afield to Appomattox, you'll find an "The End of the War & Its Legacies," which delves into the start of reunification following the war. You can visit Tredegar and ...

General Lee and 21 confederate generals on horseback. 1867. Courtesy: Library of Congress. The official surrender document of Lee's troops to the Union Army, signed at Appomattox Court House on ...