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The Dover Hotel as it looked on the 149th Anniversary of the surrender.
On February 16, 1862, after exchanging communications earlier in the morning, Confederate General Simon B. Buckner surrendered his army, and himself, to his opponent, and old friend, Union General Ulysses S. Grant. The two men met at the Dover Hotel, along the Cumberland River, and discussed the terms and logistics of surrender. The Dover Hotel is the only surviving "surrender" building that survives from the Civil War era. Click here to hear a brief history of the event.