1865
Appomattox Court House
Appomattox, Virginia
Where General Robert E. Lee surrendered the Army of Northern Virginia to Ulysses S. Grant on April 9, 1865 in Wilmer McLean's parlor — ending the principal armed phase of the Civil War. Within months, the Thirteenth Amendment had abolished chattel slavery in the United States.
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