we need to take a look at what happened right before the battle that would make General Lee surrender at the McLean House in the Appomattox Court House National Park. On the 2nd of April 1865 ...

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 ...

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