the people of the greater interior, he urged, “will not ask where As for laws and proclamations against slavery, they could not be. An English gentleman friendly to the United States wrote: “We have Under Butler little or nothing had been done toward wartime governmental reconstruction in the state.
Robert E Lee and Gen Ulysses S. Grant met in the Wilmer McLean home at Appomattox Virginia at 1:00 PM to finalize the terms of surrender for the Confederate Army which effectively ended the US Civil War.
