Posture erect, face tired but proud, Robert E. Lee walked down the steps of the McLean House in Appomattox, Va. The date was April 9, not 1865 but 2015, the 150th anniversary of the surrender of the ...
RICHMOND, Va. (WWBT) - On this day in history April 9, 1865, Confederate General Robert E. Lee surrendered to Union General Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox Court House in Virginia. Despite what many ...