Wilmer Mclean: from Bull Run to Appomattox – a Story of War, Surrender, and Loss
Who Was Wilmer McLean? Wilmer McLean (1814–1882) was a Virginia merchant whose life became linked to both the beginning and the end of the American Civil War. His Yorkshire farm near Manassas was caught up in the fighting surrounding the First Battle of Bull Run in 1861. Nearly four years later, General Robert E. Lee … Read more