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Who watches Jeopardy?
04-24-2019, 07:51 AM
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On April 9 1865, Robert E. Lee, then in charge of the Confederate Army, surrendered at Appomattox Court House, Virginia to Ulysses S. Grant, then in charge of the Union Army. By May 1869, Grant was President of the United States, while Lee was President of Washington College in Lexington, Virginia (now Washington and Lee University).

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On May 1, 1869, President Ulysses S. Grant welcomed the president of Washington College, Robert E. Lee, to the White House. Lee had considered inviting President-elect Grant to visit Washington College before Grant was inaugurated, but Lee didn’t want to make a request that his busy former adversary felt obligated to accept. After Grant was inaugurated in March 1869, he learned of Lee’s interest in visiting with him, and the President invited Lee to the White House. Unfortunately, there are no definitive answers to what was said between President Grant and General Lee [and the meeting lasted only 15 minutes].

Robert E. Lee may have been the only American in history to visit the White House after being stripped of his citizenship. A bill to restore General Lee’s American citizenship was passed by Congress in 1975 – 110 years after the Civil War ended – and President Gerald Ford signed off on the restoration of Lee’s citizenship in a ceremony at Arlington House, the home that Lee lived in before it was occupied by Union soldiers during the Civil War and turned into a National Cemetery.

(Source: Anthony Bergen – Presidential Historian)

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