In Florida, owners of commercial establishments (where alcohol is sold) may be fined up to $1,000 if they participate in or permit any contest of dwarf-tossing. The law makes sense, but the fact that the state has to spell it out might make you scratch your head.
On April 9, 1865 General Robert E. Lee surrendered to Union General Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox, Virginia. This signaled the start of the end of the American Civil War. Prior to Surrender. In early 1865, the Union Army began marching through the state of Virginia, pushing back the Confederate forces.
In April 1865 Gen. Robert E. Lee surrenders to Gen. Ulysses S. Grant, bringing an end to the Civil War after four years of battle. Poor Wilmer McLean could not escape the Civil War. The conflictâs first major battle damaged one of his homes, and in an incredible historical coincidence, the house to which he had moved his family for safety was ransacked after hosting Confederate General Robert E. Leeâs surrender.