The peculiar story of Wilmer McLean
Posted on November 10, 2010 by Hilary Parkinson
Today’s post comes from National Archives Office of Strategy and Communications staff writer Rob Crotty.
Today Part Two of “Discovering the Civil War” opens at the National Archives in Washington, DC. The exhibit is divided into a few sections, the last of which is entitled “Endings and Beginnings,” a reference to the end of the Civil War and the start of Reconstruction. As to the beginning and the end of the Civil War itself, there is only one man who book-ended it so literally. His name was Wilmer McLean.
https://prologue.blogs.archives.gov/2010/11/10/the-peculiar-story-of-wilmer-mclean/
