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This article which provides General Joshua Chamberlain's comments and memories concerning the Army of Northern Virginia's Surrender at Appomattox.

Robert E. Lee's letter to Jefferson Davis explaining the surrender, the fatigue of the army and of the confederacy and the need to end the war...

VIDEO | In this War Department™ episode, American Battlefield Trust Director of History and Education Garry Adelman visits the West Point Museum to...

Historian Garry Adelman describes the progression of the battles in the Eastern Theater throughout the Civil War. This video is part of the American...

NPS Historian Patrick Schroeder describes the 1865 Appomattox Campaign that led to the eventual surrender of Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia...

NPS historian Ernie Price describes the meeting between Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E. Lee that led to the surrender of the Army of Northern Virginia...

NPS Historian Patrick Schroeder describes the battles preceding Robert E. Lee's decision to surrender the Army of Northern Virginia at Appomattox...

John McCausland Jr. was born on September 13, 1836, in St. Louis, Missouri, to an Irish immigrant. When McCausland was left orphaned at the age of...

Learn more about the final battles of the Eastern Theater in this article by NPS historian Patrick Schroeder.

Henry Andrew Wise was born on December 3, 1806, into a prominent landowning family. His father John was a major in the Virginia militia during the...

HISTORICAL MAP | Appomattox Court House. [1865]

BATTLE MAP | American Battlefield Trust’s map of the Battle of Appomattox Court House, Virginia on April 9, 1865