By The Associated Press Today is Wednesday, April 9, the 99th day of 2025. There are 266 days left in the year. Today in ...

Lee’s surrender at Appomattox—dramatically illustrates the dangers of letting myth substitute for accurate history. For ...

April 9th has witnessed numerous significant events throughout history, spanning a variety of categories including politics, ...

Robert E. Lee spent the first days of April 1865 dodging and weaving across southern Virginia in an effort to stave off the relentless pursuit of Gen. Ulysses S. Grant, whose Union army outmanned ...

No man proved a more worthy opponent to Ulysses S. Grant than Confederate General Robert E. Lee. Lee was born the fourth child of Colonel Henry Lee and Ann Hill Carter on January 19, 1807.

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On orders from generals Robert E. Lee and John Gordon ... The Union army, led by General Ulysses S. Grant, had relentlessly pursued the Confederate troops—this time, there would be no possible ...

Robert E. Lee abandons his position the night of April ... Still, when a note arrives from Ulysses Grant suggesting Lee’s position is no longer tenable. When his staff advises him not to answer ...

Before Ulysses S. Grant became the 18th president - He was ... including the Fall of Richmond in April of 1865 - General Robert E. Lee surrendered to General Grant at Appomattox Courthouse ...

Ulysses S. Grant was born. U. S ... As commander, Grant worked to constantly occupy Robert E. Lee's rebel army in the East, while Union troops struck at the heart of the South, destroying ...

Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee surrendered his army to Union Lt. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox Court House in Virginia after four years of Civil War in the United States.

In the village of Appomattox Court House, Virginia, on April 9, 1865, Robert E. Lee surrenders his 28,000 Confederate troops ...