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Appomattox was the spot of the final battle of the Cival War. General Ulysses S. Grant had captured the troops of Robert E. Lee forcing him to surrender. The two leaders agreed to meet at Wilmer and Virginia McLean's house in the town of Appomattox Courthouse, Virginia. The meeting lasted about two and a half hours and General Grant wrote out the terms Lee peacefully agreed, and the two men parted ways with salutes of respect and each went to tell their men of the news good or bad. This agreement was the conclusion to the Civil War the bloodiest war known to America.



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