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Tonight's Civil War Trivia Question Value: 10 points.
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Yes or No. Did Lee and Grant ever meet after the war ended?
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[Bob Owen]

No

 

[chellers]

no

 

[Karlos63]

Yes.

 

[csb1971]

No

 

[Littlestown]

No

 

[hoosier]

I'm not aware of any subsequent meetings, so my answer is no.

 

[Albert Sailhorst]

After the war ended, they did not meet again, however, they DID meet after the surrender (http://cwcrossroads.wordpress.com/2011/04/10/the-second-grant-lee-meeting/ )
Since your questions asks " after the war ended", I will answer No.
Thanks!

 

[adisciu9]

No. Their last meeting was on April 10th, the day after Lee surrendered his Army but they did not meet again.

 

[DickWilliams]

No

 

[C.S.M 1861]

Yes they met:

"What most people don't know is that Appomattox wasn't the last time Grant and Lee saw each other.

On May 1, 1869, President Ulysses S. Grant welcomed the president of Washington College, Robert E. Lee, to the White House. Lee had considered inviting President-elect Grant to visit Washington College before Grant was inaugurated, but Lee didn't want to make a request that his busy former adversary felt obligated to accept. After Grant was inaugurated in March 1869, he learned of Lee's interest in visiting with him, and the President invited Lee to the White House. Unfortunately, there are no definitive answers to what was said between President Grant and General Lee. They two men only spent about 15 minutes together, and one observer suggested that there was a bit of sadness when the two men saw each other. Perhaps it was because of what they put each other through five years earlier, but perhaps it was the fact that the two former generals were older and in much different places."
http://deadpresidents.tumblr.com/post/20787674562/grant-and-lee

Edit - You're not kidding that most people don't know it. On any given question, I can usually figure that a sizable majority of our players will get it right. In this case, of the 26 players who took a shot at this question, only 9 got the correct answer.

Hoosier

 

[Eagle eye]

No

 

[Copperhead-mi]

Yes. According to The Papers of Ulysses S. Grant: July 1, 1868-October 31, 1869, Volume 19,
Robert E. Lee met with President Grant at the White House on May 1, 1869.

 

[GELongstreet]

No.

 

[FarawayFriend]

Yes.

"President Grant invited him to the White House in 1869, and he went."
From: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_E._Lee

Here is an account of that short conversation they had May 1st, 1869 in the White House - as described in Douglas Southall Freeman's biography of Robert E. Lee:
"The following conversation occurred between the President and General Lee, which lasted about five minutes:
"General Lee: Mr. President, I called today, in accordance with your kind invitation, with my friends here, Mr. and Mrs. Taggart [sic], of Baltimore, to thank you for the honor you have done me.
"President: I did wish, General, to have a somewhat lengthy conversation with you in regard to matters relating to your section of the country, if such will be agreeable to you.
"General Lee: Mr. President, I would much prefer that you should not take my opinions and views as representing those of the people of Virginia and the South, and I do not think I could give any useful information on that subject. If you will excuse me, Mr. President, I will repeat my thanks for your invitation, and bid you goodday."
All this may conceivably have been said, in substance, but it certainly is not all that was said. Lee would not have been so abrupt.
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The interview was short, and all that Grant could remember afterwards was that they spoke of building railroads, and he said playfully to Lee, 'You and I, General, have had more to do with destroying railroads than building them.' But Lee refused to smile, or to recognize the raillery. He went on gravely with the conversation, and no other reference was made to the past. Lee soon arose, and the soldiers parted. . . ."

From: http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Gazetteer/People/Robert_E_Lee/FREREL/4/Appendices/6*.html

That was the last time the two men had seen each other.

From: http://deadpresidents.tumblr.com/post/20787674562/grant-and-lee
"The two men who had been such a huge part of each other's lives would never see each other again. Perhaps the most amazing thing is that Grant and Lee could come together at all after chasing each other throughout the country and killing thousands of Americans while trying to destroy each other. It's a tribute to the two men that they were living in a country still needing time to heal, and they stepped forward — leading the way just like they did while waging war — to model for Americans how to wage peace".

 

[Seduzal]

No

 

[blwhite]

Yes - White House in 1869

 

[Stony]

Yes. On May 1, 1869, President Ulysses S. Grant welcomed the president of Washington College, Robert E. Lee, to the White House.

 

[ErnieMac]

Yes.

 

[E_just_E]

No