• The village of Appomattox Court House from the west, the McLean House is on the right.

    Appomattox Court House

    National Historical Park Virginia

Historic postcards of the Surrender

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Lt. Colonel Charles Marshall (left), Chief Justice John Marshall (right)

Colonel Charles Marshall, Lee's aide-de-camp, was the great-nephew of Chief Justice John Marshall.  Charles Marshall chose the site of the surrender meeting and was the only Confederate present in the McLean House besides General Lee.