116. After years of fighting the Civil War, General Robert E. Lee surrendered the Confederate Army to Lieutenant General Ulysses S. Grant of the union, in Appomattox Court House, Virginia. This all resulted from Grants plea to Lee to surrender, first lee was reluctant and refused countlessly. They went on to battle again, but when he realized that his army was weakening he had succumbed to his fate. He forfeited the fight peacefully and accepted his defeat. However at first he was very reluctant and determined to keep fighting, but he had no other choice to surrender when his army fell short in the last
