Ya Think It's Time To Move When A Bullet Tears Through the Kitchen?

That's what happened to Wilmer McLean in the summer of 1861. Two huge armies were clashing on his farm near Manassas, and it seemed like the fighting might go on for a long time. Declaring he hoped "never to see another soldier," McLean took his family south and west to where he thought the war would never reach - to the dusty burg of Appomattox Court House, where on April 9, 1865 Gen. Robert E. Lee surrendered to Gen. Ulysses S. Grant in McLean's living-room, ending the Civil War. As Wilmer later said, "The war began in my front yard and ended in my front parlor."