In order to reproduce the setting where Gen Robert E. Lee surrendered the Confederate States Army of Northern Virginia the National Park Service chose the Appomattox Court House as the center of the reproduced village. However, the actual surrender did not occur at the Court House -- it was done at the McLean House.
[Photos taken on 5 Jul 2015]
This was leaning against one of the bottom windows in the McLean House; it summarizes the terms of surrender upon which both General Grant and General Lee agreed: CSA officers could keep their side arrms; all other weapons were to be surrendered; CSA enlisted men and officers could return home with their personal horses and baggage.
The Weeks Store, which was run by Francis Weeks and served as the Appomattox Post Office. [Appomattox was originally known as Clover Hill.]
"At midday on April 9, 1865, General Robert E. Lee rode into this yard, dismounted, and disappeared into the McLean House. Grant, surrounded by generals and staff officers, soon followed. After 90 minutes Grant and Lee emerged. To silent salutes of Union officers, Lee rode back through the village -- to his defeated army."
While the Union Army employed many different tactics in delaying Lee's arrival at Appomattox, his loss of a train of supplies at the Appomattox Train Station to Union Gen George A. Custer left Lee few alternatives.
The McLean House Parlor where Grant and Lee met to end the hostilities.
A McLean House bedroom. Wilmer McLean, a sugar speculator, bought the property in Appomattox to be near the railroad in the fall of 1862.
The McLean House Kitchen, where the black slaves prepared the meals.
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