Grant's Groomsmen Surrender at Appomattox

When Ulysses S. Grant married Julia Dent in 1848, two of his groomsmen were fellow West Point graduates James Longstreet and Cadmus Wilcox. Seventeen years later, the three men met again, but on opposite sides of the American Civil War. At Appomattox in 1865, Generals Longstreet and Wilcox surrendered to their former friend, now General Grant, marking the war's end.

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