April 9, 2014 marked the 149th anniversary of Robert E. Lee’s surrender to Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox Court House. Abraham Lincoln would only be alive for less than a week following the surrender.
Read an electronic edition of Ulysses Grant's famous Personal Memoirs, a 19th-century bestseller. Battling terminal throat cancer, Grant raced to complete his account of the Civil War. Thousands of ...