Lee surrendered what remained of his Army of Northern Virginia to Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox.

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In January 2010, Speight turned himself in after an all-night stand-off with police, who had surrounded the woods just outside Appomattox.

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And as the first African-American president, he can't help but see himself as a transformational figure, the modern-day incarnation of Lincoln's legacy at Gettysburg and at Appomattox.

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