Surrender can be indicated by raising a white flag, throwing away weapons or raising one’s hands. On April 9, 1865, for example, Robert E. Lee surrendered to Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox Courthouse, ...

Surrender can be indicated by raising a white flag, throwing away weapons or raising one’s hands. On April 9, 1865, for example, Robert E. Lee surrendered to Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox ...

a few months after Confederate General Robert E. Lee surrendered to Union forces at Appomattox Court House, Representative Thaddeus Stevens received a surprising but surely welcome letter.

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Once Grant was brought East, Confederate commander Robert E. Lee faced the military ... and horses and doggedly pursued Lee. It was unsustainable and resulted in the surrender at Appomattox.

Robert E. Lee faced the military equivalent of a $36 trillion national debt. Grant had more men, equipment and horses and doggedly pursued Lee. It was unsustainable and resulted in the surrender ...

Robert E. Lee’s surrender at Appomattox in April 1865 is Continue reading » Please Yell at My Kids: What Cultures Around the World Can Teach You About Parenting in Community, Raising ...

A couple blocks east of Lincoln Street is Grant, named after the eighteenth U.S. president who, as general of the Union Army, accepted the surrender of Confederate General Robert E. Lee.

For example, in 1902 Charles Francis Adams compared George Washington and Robert E. Lee, arguing that we may view ... them as “the rebels of ’76,” much as Lee later commanded, and at last surrendered, ...