APPOMATTOX, Va. (AP) -- The surrender of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee to Union Lt. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant 150 years ago Thursday effectively ended the Civil War. This is ...

Sunday, April 9th, marks the 158th Anniversary of the Battle of Appomattox Courthouse and Confederate General Robert E. Lee’s surrender of his 28,000 Confederate troops to Union General Ulysses ...

When Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee surrendered the army of Northern Virginia to Gen. Ulysses S. Grant on April 9, 1865, he surrendered an estimated 28,000 Confederate troops.

On Palm Sunday, Robert E. Lee surrendered to Ulysses S. Grant. Lincoln was dead by Easter.

Robert E. Lee statue is removed in Richmond, ... Lee’s surrender came so fast — after less than an hour of work Wednesday — that hundreds of onlookers were caught by surprise.

Confederate Army Gen. Robert E. Lee was vilified during the Civil War only to become a heroic symbol of the South’s “Lost Cause” — and eventually a racist icon. His transformation, at the ...

Robert E. Lee's birthday is one of three Confederate holidays still on the books for Florida after well over a century, ... Lee surrendered at Appomattox Court House in Virginia on April 9, ...

Last Saturday in a small foundry, a man in heat-resistant attire pulled down his gold-plated visor, turned on his plasma torch and sliced into the face of Robert E. Lee.

After the Civil War, Robert E. Lee Couldn’t Run for President, ... Under President Andrew Johnson’s orders since Lee’s surrender, Southern states confined the ballot to whites.