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McLean's House, Appomattox Court-House, Virginia, Where the Capitulation was Signed between Generals Grant and Lee

Date

April 1865

Medium

Albumen silver print

Culture

American

Department

Photographs

Institution

Getty Museum

View of the house belonging to Wilmer McLean at Appomattox Court House, Virginia where Generals Robert E. Lee and Ulysses S. Grant signed the surrender terms of Lee's Army of Northern Virginia. A group of people sit on the steps leading up to the front porch of the house to pose for the camera. A row of trees lines the lawn on the left side of the house and crosses the view of the house in the foreground.

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