article_snippet.sent: The surrender of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee to Union Lt. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant 150 years ago on Thursday was a milestone event in the end of the Civil War.
article_snippet.sent: Thursday's commemoration in Appomattox, Virginia, included a reenactment of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee's last clash with Union Lt. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant's troops and of the Confederate surrender in a Virginia farmhouse on April 9, 1865.
article_snippet.sent: Today is the 150th anniversary of Confederate General Robert E. Lee's surrender of the Army of Northern Virginia to Union forces commanded by General Ulysses S. Grant in Appomattox Court House at Appomattox, Virginia .
article_snippet.sent: Confederate General Robert E. Leesurrender in Appomattox
article_snippet.sent: Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee's forces, seeking an escape route, had crossed the Appomattox River while burning bridges.
article_snippet.sent: Union forces 'attacked Union forces ' vigorously' in the hours before Lee's surrender in Appomattox, convincing Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee the fight was over.
article_snippet.sent: But in 2015, a stoic Chris Ferree couldn't contain a stoic Chris Ferree excitement when asked about a stoic Chris Ferree role in the 150th commemoration of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee's surrender here, effectively ending the Civil War 150 years ago on Thursday. '
article_snippet.sent: This is part of what I like to call the armistice that was signed on April 9, when Gen. Lee surrendered the Army of Northern Virginia,' Gen. Lee said.
article_snippet.sent: This image provided buy the Library of Congress shows an artists rendering of the surrender of Confederate General Robert E. Lee to Union General Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox Court House on April 9, 1865 .
article_snippet.sent: This image the Library of Congress Congress shows Federal troops in front of Appomattox Court House near the time of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee's surrender .
highlights_snippet.sent: Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee surrendered to Union Lt. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant on April 9, 1865 .
  
highlights_snippet.sent: The surrender in Appomattox, Virginia, is considered a milestone event in the ending of the Civil War .
  