How The Civil War Started And Ended On Wilmer McLean’s Property
Wilmer McLean moved his family 100 miles south after the first battle of the Civil War broke out in his yard — but through a strange twist of fate, Robert E. Lee would surrender to Ulysses S. Grant in McLean’s new parlor. Library of CongressWilmer McLean and his kin on the front porch of their household in Appomattox in 1865 . Wilmer McLean holds a strange spot in American history ....