Visited: Wednesday, September 11, 2024
While I know there was a town of Appomattox Court House where the Civil War ended, and always assumed there was a court house there (and there is), I didn't realize that the treaty wasn't signed at the court house. Instead, it was signed at the residence of Wilmer McLean, who along with his family were actually in the house during the event; they lent Grant and Lee their living room. The site is very well preserved - in part because the McLean house was disassembled, taken to Washington DC, and later returned to Appomattox (never having been rebuilt in DC), and reassembled. Nice site, and about the only Civil War site that isn't sad to visit.
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