Civil War coloring pages - General Lee Surrenders

On April 9, 1865, at the McLean House in the village of Appomattox Court House, General Robert E. Lee surrendered his Army of Northern Virginia to Union General Ulysses S. Grant. As a sign of Grant's respect for General Lee, and as a gesture toward future inclusion of the Confederacy back into the Union, General Lee was permitted to keep his officer's saber and his horse, Traveller.

The American Civil War was one of the earliest true industrial wars in human history. Railroads, steamships, mass-produced weapons, and various other military devices were employed extensively. The practices of total war, developed by Sherman in Georgia, and of trench warfare around Petersburg foreshadowed World War I in Europe. It remains the deadliest war in American history, resulting in the deaths of 620,000 soldiers and an undetermined number of civilian casualties. Ten percent of all Northern males 20-45 years of age died, as did 30 percent of all Southern white males aged 18-40.