America First: 100 Stories from Our Own History

Leif the Lucky, the swamp march to Vincennes, the Pony Express — a hundred true adventure stories from American history, told the way children begged to hear them in 1920.

The Surrender of General Lee

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The Surrender of General Lee

At a house, in the little town of Appomattox, Virginia, on April 9, 1865, a memorable event took place. General Robert E. Lee here met…

The Surrender of General Lee: Grant

Grant was forty-three years of age, five feet, eight inches tall, with brown hair and full brown beard.

The Surrender of General Lee: Mexico

General Grant began the conversation by saying, "I met you once before, General Lee, while we were serving in Mexico. I have always…

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