having been this day surrendered by General Robert E. Lee, CSA, Commanding said Army, to Lieut. Genl. U. S. Grant, Commanding Armies of United States, do hereby give our solemn parole of honor ...

Gen. J.L. Chamberlain, of Maine, the officer who was designated by Gen. Grant to receive the surrender of Lee's army, recently described the scene in a lecture in Memorial Hall, Bowdoin College.

Robert E. Lee’s surrender at Appomattox in April 1865 is Continue reading » Please Yell at My Kids: What Cultures Around the World Can Teach You About Parenting in Community, Raising ...

“Robert E. Lee Day has a nice ring to it,” an anonymous ... fighting to maintain slavery in the South until his surrender to the Union in 1865. The general’s personal opinions on race ...

But in Alabama and Mississippi, Monday is also Robert E. Lee Day in honor of the Confederate general. The two states recognize King and Lee on the third Monday in January. Their state governments ...