![]() ![]() Now Lee, in a spotless dress uniform, accepted generous terms from the more informally dressed Grant, who paroled the Confederate soldiers and allowed the officers to keep their sidearms and horses. Within hours an elated Grant hosted his adversary in the drawing room of a house owned by Wilmer McLean, who four years earlier had fled his home near the fighting at the First Battle of Manassas for the comparative quiet of the Appomattox countryside. After the fall of Richmond on April 2–3, Lee and his Army of Northern Virginia had retreated west to the village of Appomattox Court House when, on April 9, the well-positioned Army of the James forced them to raise a white flag. Grant, all but ending the American Civil War (1861–1865). Lee submitted to Union general-in-chief Ulysses S. The surrender at Appomattox Court House occurred in April 1865 when Confederate general Robert E. ![]()
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