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This postcard features a painting by Louis Mathieu Didier Guillaume depicting the surrender of General Robert E. Lee to General Ulysses S. Grant on April 9, 1865, at Appomattox Court House, Virginia. The image shows the historic moment when the Army of Northern Virginia surrendered in the parlor of Wilmer McLean’s home. The painting symbolizes the end of the Civil War and the reunification of the nation. The postcard is printed by Consolidated/Drake Press in Philadelphia, PA.