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Ok, these two didn't come on a bike trip but I thought I'd include them anyway.
In this house, at Appomattox Court House, Virginia, Robert E. Lee, commanding the Army of Northern Virginia (CSA), surrendered to U.S. Grant, commanding the Army of the Potomac (US). For all intents and purposes, the American Civil War, ended here. The house was owned by Mr. Wilmer McClean. (Actually the house is a recreation.)
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We found this little cemetary, just outside of the village of Appomattox Court House, and stopped for a picnic lunch. There are a dozen or so men buried here, who fell in the last battle as Lee tried to break out. One of them, had enlisted in the Confederate Army just after Fort Sumpter, and fought through 1460 some odd days with the Army of Northern Virginia, only to die in the last 72 hours of the war.
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In this house, at Appomattox Court House, Virginia, Robert E. Lee, commanding the Army of Northern Virginia (CSA), surrendered to U.S. Grant, commanding the Army of the Potomac (US). For all intents and purposes, the American Civil War, ended here. The house was owned by Mr. Wilmer McClean. (Actually the house is a recreation.)
We found this little cemetary, just outside of the village of Appomattox Court House, and stopped for a picnic lunch. There are a dozen or so men buried here, who fell in the last battle as Lee tried to break out. One of them, had enlisted in the Confederate Army just after Fort Sumpter, and fought through 1460 some odd days with the Army of Northern Virginia, only to die in the last 72 hours of the war.
