Took a ride to the Lynchburg area with Kaye (who rode her Harley) on a nice but very warm and humid Saturday. Took this photo at Appomattox, this is the very house where the surrender was signed. I actually later took a nice photo of the people in this photo (from Canada) and they took a nice photo of Kaye and me in front of the house. Amazing that these sights are still here, glad that Virginia has done so well keeping this and many other Civil War sites up...it is remarkable to see the places where history happened and to see largely what they saw when all this was going on.
This is the room where General Lee surrendered the Army of Northern Virginia to General Grant. The tale of the surrender was amazing, General Grant gave Lee some very generous terms which later on always stuck with Lee. In fact he would tolerate no negative terms of Grant in his presence.
I have seen paintings of this room but it is remarkable to stand in the very place. Not sure the furniture is the actual furniture....as with all armies after the surrender much of the furnishings were taken as trophies of the event. It was a monumental event in the history of the US ending a very terrible war.
Speaking of war, this is the War Memorial in Lynchburg, VA. Went there to see this (which started out as a WW1 Memorial and then was added too) but a bit different. We spent some time walking around, stopped into a restaurant on the shores of the James River.
Lynchburg is a very cool town, I have been there a long time ago (well a few years) but nice to be back though the visit was short. Due to the heat we did not stay standing real long...felt better to have the breeze and be moving on the bikes. It was cool though and had a good time on the ride which covered some 260 miles in all. Great company was also a wonderful thing!
Love this part of Virginia and will be back again. I think it will be remarkable in the fall, and really looking forward to that...both the fantastic colors and the cooler temperatures.
Hope you enjoy these photos though, and look forward to my next adventure in the RVA.
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