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McLean House
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The Room in the McLean House, at Appomattox
C.H., in which Gen. Lee surrendered to Gen. Grant
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Most written accounts of Robert E. Lee’s surrender
to Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox on April 9, 1865,
noted the difference between Lee’s stiff dignity
and Grant’s more relaxed demeanor. This lithograph
of the event, showing the two men as they waited
for the peace terms to be copied, captures that
difference better than most.
After the surrender, Wilmer McLean, the owner
of the house, lost much of his furniture to soldiers
desiring mementos of the historic event. Later,
in what proved to be a futile effort to recoup
his losses and raise funds for his needy family,
he commissioned this print.
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Major and Knapp Lithography Company
(active 1864–circa 1880), after photographs
Lithograph with tintstone, 1867
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution
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