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General Robert E. Lee departing the McLean House after his surrender, sketch by Alfred Waud, April 9, 1865, zoomable image

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Library of Congress

Notes: 

Sized, cropped, and adjusted by John Osborne, Dickinson College, April 5, 2015.

Depicted content: 

• Robert E. Lee meets Ulysses Grant at the village of Appomattox Court House and surrenders his army
• Grant vs. Lee

Image type: 

drawing

Courtesy of: 

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division

Original caption: 

Robert E. Lee leaving the McLean House following his surrender to Ulysses S. Grant

Source citation: 

Morgan Collection of Civil War Drawings, Prints and Photograph Division, Library of Congress

Source note: 

Artist: Alfred R. Waud