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DescriptionAppomattox surrender.jpg
English: This image provided buy the Library of Congress shows an artists rendering of the surrender of Confederate General Robert E. Lee to Union General Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox Court House on April 9, 1865. (AP Photo/Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Kurz and Allison)
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Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division
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AP
Short title
Civil War 150th End of the Road
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This image provided buy the Library of Congress shows an artists rendering of the surrender of Confederate General Robert E. Lee to Union General Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox Court House on April 9, 1865. A reenactment of the surrender will take place in Appomattox on April 9, 2015, to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the surrender. (AP Photo/Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Kurz and Allison)