7 key skills of a project manager. Before discussing what the key skills for a project manager might be we really need to define what we mean by project management. A definition of project management would be the planning, organizing and then management of the resources required to complete a specific task.
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 150 years ago.
Beginning Peace and Reunion. On April 9, 1865, the surrender of the Army of Northern Virginia in the McLean House in the village of Appomattox Court House, Virginia signaled the end of the nation's largest war. Two important questions about its future were answered.