APPOMATTOX, Va . (WSFA) - April 9 marks the 159th Anniversary of the Battle of Appomattox Courthouse and Confederate General Robert E. Lee’s surrender of his 28,000 Confederate troops to Union ...

1867. Courtesy: Library of Congress. The official surrender document of Lee's troops to the Union Army, signed at Appomattox Court House on April 9, 1865: We, the undersigned Prisoners of War ...