Wilmer McLean: "The war began in my front yard and ended in my front parlor."
Posted on 01/16/2014 2:57:22 PM PST by Davy Buck
On November 25, 1947 bids for the reconstruction of the McLean House were opened and on April 9th 1949, eighty four years after the historic meeting reuniting the country, the McLean House was opened by the National Park Service for the first time to the public. At the dedication ceremony on April 16, 1950, after a speech by Pulitzer Prize winning historian Douglas Southall Freeman, Major General U.S. Grant and Robert E. Lee IV, direct descendents of Robert E. Lee and Ulysses Grant, cut the ceremonial ribbon. The event was attended by an audience of approximately 20,000 . . .
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Wilmer McLean: "The war began in my front yard and ended in my front parlor."
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