2-365-482 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

General Robert E Lee, American Confederate soldier, 1865 (1955).The foremost Confederate general of the American Civil War, Lee (1807-1870) took command of the Army of Northern Virginia in 1862. In 1865, the final year of the war, he was appointed General-in Chief of Confederate forces, but was forced to surrender at Appomattox Courthouse on 9th April 1865. He remains a revered figure to many in the American South. Photograph taken after Lee's surrender at Appomattox, shot in the basement below the back porch of Lee's Franklin Street home in Richmond, Virginia. A print from Mathew Brady Historian with a Camera by James D Horan, Bonanza Books, New York, 1955.