On this day in 1865: Lee surrenders to Grant at Appomattox

Tampico, Illinois

The American Civil war essentially ended on this date in 1865 when Confederate forces under General Robert E. Lee surrendered to Union commander Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox Court House.

Two of my ancestors, Patrick Curran (5th Pennsylvania) and Joseph Henry Ruberry (23rd Illinois) were present at Appomattox on that day.

Roughly 750,000 soldiers and sailors--all of them Americans--lost their lives in the Civil War.

For more on the deadliest American war, scroll down and start clicking.

Vicksburg posts:

• Vicksburg Battlefield, Part One
• Vicksburg Battlefield, Part Two, State Memorials
• Vicksburg Battlefield, Part Three, Illinois Memorial
• Vicksburg Battlefield, Part Four, The USS Cairo
• Vicksburg Battlefield Part Five
• Memorial Day--a time to remember
• (Photos) Memorial Day 2013: Chicago's Rosehill Cemetery, Vicksburg, and the Civil War

Shiloh posts:

• Shiloh Part One

  

  US Grant Highway in Illinois

• Shiloh Part Two
• Shiloh Part Three
• Shiloh Part Four
• Corinth

Lincoln posts:

• Thirty hours in Lincoln's Springfield, Illinois
• "My earliest recollection is of the Knob Creek place"
• Abraham Lincoln birthplace site
• Abraham Lincoln birthplace site's log cabin
• Jonesboro, site of the third Lincoln-Douglas Debate
• The only statue of Lincoln in military dress is in Dixon, Illinois
• Stephen A. Douglas Tomb in Chicago

Other entries:

• The Battle of Tupelo
• Midwestern Presidential Pathway: Where Grant worked as a clerk
• Midwestern Presidential Pathway: Ulysses S. Grant Home
• Photos: Confederate Charlotte
• Video and photos: Charlotte and the Fall of the Confederacy