Capitulation and Surrender of Robert E. Lee and His Army at Appomattox Court House, Va. to Lt. Gen. Grant NRG_Stadium_Art The American National Chart 199

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General James Ewell Brown Stuart's Raid Around McClellan

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Capitulation and Surrender of Robert E. Lee and His Army at Appomattox Court House, Va. to Lt. Gen. Grant NRG_Stadium_Art The American National Chart 199Capitulation and Surrender of Robert E. Lee and His Army at Appomattox Court House, Va. to Lt. Gen. Grant a documentary engraving of the April morning the Confederacy laid down its arms in a parlor in Virginia, the war's blood soaked ledger closed with a signature and a borrowed table. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical societies,