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| A painting at the Appomattox Courthouse, now a national park, depicts Lee signing the surrender documents. |
Gen. Robert E. Lee arrived at the McLean House near Appomattox, Va., On April 9, 1865, to meet with Union commander Gen. Ulysses S. Grant (born Hiram Ulysses Grant).
Nearly surrounded and with an undernourished army, Lee sought generous surrender terms from the Union army leader whose wartime nickname was "Unconditional Surrender Grant." Both men knew that what they decided on here would set the tone for the nation after the grueling four-year Civil War.
The two men grew up in a United States that embraced a strong Christian worldview. Keep reading
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Photo credit: Alaskan Dude [CC BY 2.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons
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