What happened at the surrender ceremony at Appomattox Courthouse on April 9, 1865? Jefferson Davis surrendered to Abraham Lincoln.

William T. Sherman surrendered to Stonewall Jackson.

J. E.B. Stuart surrendered to George B. McClellan

Robert E. Lee surrendered to Ulysses S. Grant.

The native americans, spanish, french and americans all name places in our state. the word “arkansas” came from the quapaw indians, by way of early french explorers. at the time of the early french exploration, a tribe of indians, the quapaws, lived west of the mississippi and north of the arkansas river.