<P> Grant 's response was remarkable in that it let the defeated Lee choose the place of his surrender . Lee received the reply within an hour and dispatched an aide , Charles Marshall , to find a suitable location for the occasion . Marshall scrutinized Appomattox Court House , a small village of roughly twenty buildings that served as a waystation for travelers on the Richmond - Lynchburg Stage Road . Marshall rejected the first house he saw as too dilapidated , instead settling on the 1848 brick home of Wilmer McLean . McLean had lived near Manassas Junction during the First Battle of Bull Run , and had retired to Appomattox to escape the war . </P>
<P> Grant 's response was remarkable in that it let the defeated Lee choose the place of his surrender . Lee received the reply within an hour and dispatched an aide , Charles Marshall , to find a suitable location for the occasion . Marshall scrutinized Appomattox Court House , a small village of roughly twenty buildings that served as a waystation for travelers on the Richmond - Lynchburg Stage Road . Marshall rejected the first house he saw as too dilapidated , instead settling on the 1848 brick home of Wilmer McLean . McLean had lived near Manassas Junction during the First Battle of Bull Run , and had retired to Appomattox to escape the war . </P>
where did the confederates surrender to the union
where did the confederates surrender to the union
Appomattox Court House , a small village of roughly twenty buildings that served as a waystation for travelers on the Richmond - Lynchburg Stage Road brick home of Wilmer McLean
Appomattox Court House , a small village of roughly twenty buildings that served as a waystation for travelers on the Richmond - Lynchburg Stage Road brick home of Wilmer McLean