He rises at 4:45 each morning, drives to work (solemnly saluting a statue of General Lee along the way), reaches his office at precisely 5:40. At 1:15 he drives home (again saluting General Lee ...

April 9, 1865. With his Confederate armies on their last legs, Confederate General Robert E. Lee surrenders to General Ulysses S. Grant. The Rebellion is over. After four years of fierce fighting ...

General Lee and 21 confederate generals on horseback. 1867. Courtesy: Library of Congress. The official surrender document of Lee's troops to the Union Army, signed at Appomattox Court House on ...