At Appomattox Court House, where Robert E. Lee surrendered, a tea towel was used as a flag of truce. |
Description: In April 1865, the main Confederate army surrendered to the United States at Appomattox. |
It is estimated that as many as 12,000 deserted on the road to Appomattox. |
But an unsated hunger for meaning forbids us cynicism, even a hundred and forty-eight years after Appomattox. |
Custer was but twenty-six when Lee surrendered at Appomattox. |
For it was he who accepted the surrender of the Confederate colours at Appomattox. |