As we celebrate National Volunteer Week, it’s a good time to acknowledge how volunteers shaped Grant’s life and career and how they still preserve his legacy today.
A Lasting Peace Forged at Appomattox
In the spring of 1885 as an ailing Ulysses Grant sat at Drexel Cottage on Mt. McGregor contemplating his legacy, he received many heartwarming letters of support. Though the surrender of General Robert E. Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia at Appomattox Court House, VA had occurred 20 years before it was fresh in his mind since he had just written about it for his memoirs.
