`  == Edit request from Ari14850, 6 January 2011 ==    The third paragraph says Lee surrendered at Appomattox Courthouse. This is a substantive error.  Courthouse as one word refers to the actual court house in a village or town. The surrender actually occurred at the McLean house (it was purposefully not done in the actual Court House so as to avoid giving it a legal imprimatur - formally recognizing the confederacy which the union never did.  The correct text should read ``Lee surrendered to Grant at Appomattox Court House on April 9, 1865``. It is correctly spelled later in the article (general in cheif section, 2nd para)     `