Lee’s surrender at Appomattox—dramatically illustrates the dangers of letting myth substitute for accurate history. For ...

The city witnessed a bitter controversy over the removal of a Confederate statue in Travis Park in 2017. It's been in storage at an undisclosed site ever since.

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Gordon, Robert E. Lee, Stephen Dill Lee, or Howell Cobb. Only Confederate Avenue and East Confederate Avenue were renamed as a result, officially becoming "United Avenue" in 2019. Up the road ...

Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee surrendered his army to Union Lt. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox Court House in Virginia after four years of Civil War in the United States.

In the village of Appomattox Court House, Virginia, on April 9, 1865, Robert E. Lee surrenders his 28,000 Confederate troops ...