Keywords: Leecrop.jpg Confederate General Robert E Lee poses in a late April 1865 <small>http //www archives gov/research/civil-war/photos/ portraits</small> portrait taken by Mathew Brady in Richmond Virginia Lee's surrender to Union General Ulysses S Grant at Appomattox Court House on 9 April 1865 soon before this portrait was taken marked the end of the American Civil War http //www archives gov/research/civil-war/photos/images/civil-war-145 jpg NARA-image 525769 2007-07-29 creator Mathew Brady PD-old-100 image lee jpg; image leeedit jpg Robert Edward Lee |