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Who was wilmer mclean's wife?
virginia hooe mason mclean
Who was wilmer Mcclean and what was his claim to fame?
Wilmer McLean (May 3, 1814 - June 5, 1882) was a wholesale grocer fromVirginia. It is said that the American Civil War started in his front yard and ended in his front parlor.
Who owned the farmhouse where the two commanders of the Civil War met to end the war?
The surrender of the Army of Northern Virginia was signed in the parlor of Wilmer McClean's home at Appomattox Court House. It was a great irony for Wilmer McCleans other home in Manassas Viriginia was where Beauregard made his headquarters for the First Battle of Bull Run. It is said by many Civil War historians that the War of Rebellion began on Will McClean's porch and ended in his parlor.
When did General Lee surrender to General Grant officially ending the Civil War?
General Lee surrendered to General Grant at the home of Wilmer and Virginia McLean in the town of Appomattox Court House, Virginia on April 9, 1865.
Who could rightly state the civil war began in his backyard and ended in his parlor?
A Virginia farmer named Wilmer McLean. At the start of the war McLean had a farm near Manassass, Virginia, and part of the First Battle of Bull Run (or Manassass) was fought over his land. This was the first big battle of the war. McLean realized that being so close to Washington DC there was a good chance his home would see much more violence in the war, so he sold and moved to a new farm he bought further south in Virginia, near the tiny village of Appomattox Court House. Things were quiet there, until General Lee's retreating army was surrounded at that town in April, 1865. Lee and Grant met to draw up and sign surrender terms in McLean's parlor. Before that day was over most of McLean's furniture was stolen or sold to souvenir hunters. In the early 1890s he sold the house to promoters who intended to take it apart and move it to Chicago, reassemble it and to exhibit it for money at the Columbian Exhibition of 1892-3. They took the house apart, but never got it to Chicago. There is a duplicate built by the National Park Service today in the recreated village of Appomattox Court House.
