The Battle of Appomattox Court House, fought in Appomattox County, Virginia, on the morning of April 9, 1865, was one of the last, and ultimately one of the most consequential, battles of the American
A print depicting Ulysses S. Grant, Commanding General of the Union Army, accepting Confederate General in Chief Robert E. Lee's surrender on April 9, 1865
General Custer receiving the flag of truce at Appomatox, sketched by Alfred Waud
Flag used by the Confederacy to surrender
Union soldiers at the courthouse in April 1865
Battle of Five Forks
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The Battle of Five Forks was fought on April 1, 1865, southwest of Petersburg, Virginia, around the road junction of Five Forks, Dinwiddie County, at the end of the Siege of Petersburg, near the concl
Sheridan's charge at Five Forks (lithograph published c. 1886)
Major General Fitzhugh Lee
Major General George Pickett
Major General W. H. F. "Rooney" Lee