Appomattox - The end of the War

Appomattox - Online Textbook

Read the selection from the online textbook to get background information about the events that led up to Lee's Surrender.

Read the exchange text exchange between Grant and Lee

1. Why do you think the exchanges between Grant and Lee were so formal?

2. Summarize the each exchange between Grant and Lee in one sentence.

3. How were the descriptions of each general different?

4. What was the scene like as they left the house?

Then read the Road to Reunion - why do you think the North was so "nice" at the end of the war?

also check out the Cross Dressers of the Civil War