appomattox (va.)

For two sisters growing up in Appomattox during the Civil War, there is conflict both outside and inside their home.

Recounts the surrender of Robert E. Lee's army at Appomattox Court House, Virginia in April of 1865 from the perspective of eleven-year-old Willie McLean, who may have witnessed the event.

Presents the true story of eight-year-old Lula McLean, in whose parlor Robert E. Lee surrendered to Ulysses S. Grant in 1865, and her rag doll that was left on the parlor sofa and taken by Union Colonel Thomas Moore as a souvenir.