Appomattox: Where Our Nation Reunited

April 9, 1865, is cemented into American history as the date of the surrender of General Robert E. Lee to Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox Court House, Virginia. Historian Jim Ward will discuss the final throes of the Confederacy, beginning with the retreat from Petersburg, the Fall of Richmond, and then the Gentleman's Agreement between Lee and Grant to effectively end the American Civil War.