Meeting at Appomattox

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April 8, 2026

General Ulysses S. Grant and Confederate General Robert E. Lee
agreed to meet at the home of Wilmer McLean in Appomattox on
the afternoon of April 9 to work out the terms of the surrender
of Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia, Upon signing the papers, the
grandly dressed Lee told the somewhat disheveled Grant that his
men were starving, Grant did not hesitate to agree to provide the
soldiers with provisions, The Civil War was not won, as the South
had imagined, by wealthy aristocrats, but by ordinary men of the
Union Army who, like Grant, knew that they had a job to do.

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