The 150th Anniversary Of Robert E. Lee's Surrender At Appomattox Court House
It is April 9, 2015 and the American Civil War Sesquicentennial brings us to this point. On this day, in the year 1865, Confederate General Robert E. Lee surrendered at Appomattox Court House. It was the first time that Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E. Lee were in mutual presence since the Mexican-American War of the 1840s. A House Divided came together once again 150 years ago today.
The url for the above video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dRB_l4w5j5U The book is A House Divided: The Lives Of Ulysses S. Grant And Robert E. Lee by Jules Archer. Copyright 1995.
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