McLean's House, Appomattox Court-House, Virginia where the capitulation was signed between Generals Grant and Lee / negative by T.H. O'Sullivan, positive by A. Gardner.

Photograph showing a group of people seated on the steps of the brick house in which the terms of surrender were signed on the ninth of April 1865 in the village of Appomattox Court House.
Illus. in: Gardner's photographic sketch book of the war / Alexander Gardner. Washington, D.C. : Philp & Solomons, [c1866], v. 2, no. 99.
Copyright by A. Gardner.


Alexander Gardner (October 17, 1821 - December 10, 1882) was a Scottish photographer who is best known for his photographs of the American Civil War. He emigrated to the United States in 1856 and worked as a photographer in Mathew Brady's studio. Gardner was sent to document the American Civil War and produced some of the most iconic images of the conflict, including photographs of the battlefields at Antietam and Gettysburg. After the war, Gardner photographed President Lincoln and the American West, including images of Native Americans, settlers, and the construction of the transcontinental railroad.