https://padlet.com/hannahzbrewer/ulhmptx0h6j4 en-us 2016-11-11 13:42:21 UTC 2026-01-26 06:45:36 UTC hello@padlet.com hannahzbrewer https://padlet.com/hannahzbrewer/ulhmptx0h6j4/wish/137000940 In 1869, the house where Lee surrendered to Grant was sold at public auction after owner Wilmer McLean defaulted on his loan repayments. In the ensuing years, the house had a series of owners before it was reconstructed and opened to the public by the National Park Service in 1949.

]]> 2016-11-11 13:55:17 UTC https://padlet.com/hannahzbrewer/ulhmptx0h6j4/wish/137000940 hannahzbrewer https://padlet.com/hannahzbrewer/ulhmptx0h6j4/wish/137001496 2016-11-11 13:57:34 UTC https://padlet.com/hannahzbrewer/ulhmptx0h6j4/wish/137001496 hannahzbrewer https://padlet.com/hannahzbrewer/ulhmptx0h6j4/wish/137001850 On April 9, 1865, Confederate General Robert E. Lee (1807-70) surrendered his approximately 28,000 troops to Union General Ulysses S. Grant (1822-85) in the front parlor of Wilmer McLean’s home in Appomattox Court House, Virginia, effectively ending the American Civil War (1861-65). Days earlier, Lee had abandoned the Confederate capital of Richmond and city of Petersburg, hoping to escape with the remnants of his Army of Northern Virginia, meet up with additional Confederate forces in North Carolina and resume fighting. When Union forces cut off his final retreat, Lee was forced to surrender, finally ending four years of bloody sectional conflict.]]> 2016-11-11 13:58:49 UTC https://padlet.com/hannahzbrewer/ulhmptx0h6j4/wish/137001850 hannahzbrewer https://padlet.com/hannahzbrewer/ulhmptx0h6j4/wish/137002101 2016-11-11 13:59:42 UTC https://padlet.com/hannahzbrewer/ulhmptx0h6j4/wish/137002101