Today marks the 150th anniversary of Robert E. Lee's surrender to Ulysses S. Grant, a move that basically ended the Civil War.
While the nearest battle ever to Boston was in south-central Pennsylvania, the region, a hotbed of abolitionism before the war and of patriotic vigor once the conflict started, could not escape history as this 16-point map shows.
Nor does the region want to forget that history: Several points on this map direct you to monuments, markers and at least one entire building commemorating the conflict and its victims.
It also includes the Beacon Hill alleyway that was a hiding place along the Underground Railroad; the Harbor Island that served as a prison for top-ranking Confederates; and the hotel where John Wilkes Booth stayed a week before he murdered President Lincoln.
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