Lee and Grant Exhibit

The MacArthur Museum would like to gratefully thank presenting sponsors Harriet and Warren Stephens, Stephens Inc. and Entergy Arkansas Inc. for the exhibit "Lee and Grant."

On April 9, 1865 after four years of conflict, approximately 630,000 deaths and over one million casualties, General Robert E. Lee surrendered the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia to Lieutenant General Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox Court House, signaling the end of the Civil War. The terms agreed to by the two became the model for other surrenders that soon followed. By the end of the Civil War, most Americans considered Lee and Grant to be heroes. This exhibit looked at the lasting impact that Lee and Grant have had on our society, not only through the war years but directly after the war during the Reconstruction Era, into the 20th and 21st centuries. The exhibit was funded and provided by the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Virginia Historical Society, and made available by the Mid-America Arts Alliance in Kansas City, Missouri.