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 ...
When Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee surrendered to Union Lt. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant in a farmhouse parlor in Appomattox Court House, Va., on April 9, 1865, standing with other war correspondents in the ...