Grant und Lee treffen an Appomattox, Virginia durch Louis Mathew Didier Guillaume.The Battle of Appomattox Court House, kämpften am Morgen des 9. April 1865, war das letzte Engagement der Confederate States Army General Robert E. Lee Armee des nördlichen Virgi
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Grant and Lee meeting at Appomattox, Virginia by Louis Mathew Didier Guillaume.The Battle of Appomattox Court House, fought on the morning of April 9, 1865, was the final engagement of Confederate States Army General Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia before it surrendered to the Union Army under Lt. General Ulysses S. Grant, and one of the last battles of the war. Lee, having abandoned the Confederate capital of Richmond, Virginia, after the Siege of Petersburg, retreated west, hoping to join his army with the Confederate forces in North Carolina. Union forces pursued and cut off the Confederate retreat. Lee's final stand was at Appomattox Court House, where he launched an attack to break through the Union force to his front, assuming the Union force consisted entirely of cavalry. When he realized that the cavalry was backed up by two corps of Union infantry, he had no choice but to surrender. The signing of the surrender documents occurred in the parlor of the house owned by Wilmer McLean on the afternoon of April 9. On April 12, a formal ceremony marked the disbandment of the Army of Northern Virginia and the parole of its officers and men, effectively ending the war in Virginia.
