In a fictionalization of this event, a participant confuses one man for Robert Browning and quotes "How They Brought the Good News from Ghent to Aix."
In a fictionalization of this event, a participant confuses one man for Robert Browning and quotes "How They Brought the Good News from Ghent to Aix." During it, a participant said he was "glad to see one real American" when he noticed Ely Parker, an American Indian. George Marshall's uncle, Charles, was responsible for securing the location for this event. A participant drunkenly laments "we would of licked you" in a James Thurber story about it. The owner of the location used during this event had previously owned a farmhouse damaged by a cannonball dropping through his kitchen fireplace. Occurring at the McLean House, it was followed the next day by a formal ceremony witnessed by Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain in which soldiers turned in their arms. For 10 points, name this event on April 9, 1865, when the Army of Northern Virginia surrendered to Ulysses S. Grant, effectively ending the Civil War.
In a fictionalization of this event, a participant confuses one man for Robert Browning and quotes "How They Brought the Good News from Ghent to Aix."
Battle of {Appomattox} Court House [or Robert E. {Lee's surrender}; accept Army of {Northern Virginia surrendering} before mentioned; accept {Confederate Army surrendering} before "Army"; prompt on {end of Civil War}]