On April 9, 1865, Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee surrendered his Army of Northern Virginia to Union Lt. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant at the village of Appomattox Court House in Virginia, effectively ending the American Civil War. (Remaining Confederate units elsewhere would formally surrender by early June of 1865, closing out the bloodiest conflict on American soil without further major combat.)
On April 9, 1865, Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee surrendered his army to Union Lt. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox Court House in Virginia after four years of Civil War in the United States.
On Dec. 21, 1988, 270 people were killed when a terrorist bomb exploded aboard a Pan Am Boeing 747 over Lockerbie, Scotland, sending wreckage crashing to the ground.
A descendant of a Union soldier getting the Medal of Honor from President Joe Biden for conspicuous gallantry during the Civil War says it's an opportunity for his ancestor to be remembered as "a brave soldier who did what he thought was right." Brian Taylor is a great-great-great-nephew of U.S. Army Pvt. Philip G. Shadrach. Biden is awarding the Medal of Honor on Wednesday to Shadrach and Pvt. George D. Wilson, who stole a locomotive deep in Confederate territory and drove it north while destroying railroad tracks and telegraph lines. Shadrach was from Pennsylvania and Wilson from Ohio. Wilson's great-great-granddaughter says she gets chills reading his final words about having no ill feelings for the South.
