Later, in 1863, McLean moved his family 200 miles away to a tiny one-horse two built up around a crossroads called Appomattox Court House. On April 8, 1865, a messenger knocked on the door and asked to use the house. Robert E. Lee and Ulysses S. Grant needed a place to meet. Lee surrendered to Grant in the parlor of McLean's house. McLean thereafter was able to tell people that the war started in his front yard and ended in his front parlor.
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