Confederate General <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Robert_E._Lee" title="Robert E. Lee">Robert E. Lee</a> poses in a late April <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/1865" title="1865">1865</a>(<small><a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="https://www.archives.gov/research/civil-war/photos/#portraits">[1]</a></small>) portrait taken by <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mathew_Brady&amp;action=edit&amp;redlink=1" class="new" title="Mathew Brady (page does not exist)">Mathew Brady</a> in Richmond, Virginia. Lee's surrender to Union General <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Ulysses_S._Grant" title="Ulysses S. Grant">Ulysses S. Grant</a> at <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Appomattox_Court_House&amp;action=edit&amp;redlink=1" class="new" title="Appomattox Court House (page does not exist)">Appomattox Court House</a> on 9 April 1865, soon before this portrait was taken, marked the end of the <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/American_Civil_War" title="American Civil War">American Civil War</a>.
<bdi><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Mathew_Brady" class="extiw" title="w:en:Mathew Brady"><span title="American photographer (circa 1823–1896)">Mathew Benjamin Brady</span></a>
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2007-07-29
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