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The scene of the largest surrender of Confederate troops at the end of the American Civil War.

For nearly a year, General Ulysses S. Grant was based here during the American Civil War.

An eerie smiling woman looms above the granite tombstones.

A towering cemetery monument honors a man who threatened to expose the Freemasons and paid with his life.

All that remains of one of the Civil War's more deadly POW camps is a simple flagstone.

This iron and wood Civil War city-ship was the first vessel to be sunk by an electrically detonated torpedo.

The wooden octagon in which Huckleberry Finn and A Connecticut Yankee were born can still be visited in upstate New York.