On April 9, 1865, General Robert E. Lee surrendered to General Ulysses S. Grant in Appomattox VA. 150 years later Mr. RCGG and I went to the reenactment of the surrender. You could see all the emotion on the faces of the reenactors as they probably could feel the experience of the civil war soldiers that they were portraying.
This is McLean house where General Lee signed the surrender. When you go the house, there’s two rooms downstairs. The room to the left is the parlor, where the surrender took place.
The coat and gloves General Lee was wearing when he signed the surrender along with the pen he used.
Mr. RCGG and me with the General.
When we went to Appomattox, I actually learned quite a lot about the surrender that I didn’t know. I had no idea that there was a final battle on the morning of the surrender.
