By The Associated Press Today is Wednesday, April 9, the 99th day of 2025. There are 266 days left in the year. Today in ...

For generations, Americans learned the same basic story about the end of the Civil War. On April 9, 1865, Lee surrendered to ...

The Union army, led by General Ulysses S. Grant, had relentlessly pursued the ... the war effectively came to an end. On April 9, 1865, a lone Confederate horseman violently waving a white towel ...

Ulysses S. Grant continued the American tradition of electing military figures as presidents—those men who led and won key battles in war. Attempting to be apolitical, Grant campaigned on the ...

Before Ulysses S. Grant became the 18th president - He was ... After continued Confederate defeats including the Fall of Richmond in April of 1865 - General Robert E. Lee surrendered to General ...

April 9th has witnessed numerous significant events throughout history, spanning a variety of categories including politics, ...

Photo courtesy of flickr user _Gavroche_ In his memoirs, Ulysses S. Grant makes scant mention ... After the war ended in 1865, Grant returned to Galena as general in chief to be greeted by 20,000 ...

STARKVILLE, Miss.—Ryan P. Semmes, historian and Mississippi State Ulysses S. Grant Presidential Library research director examines the far-reaching implications of Reconstruction in his first book ...

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

On April 9, 1865, Lee surrendered to Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox Court House, Va. In a sublime moment of selflessness, the two great leaders nobly transcended their differences and chose the ...