The terms of thesurrender signed at Appomattox on April 9th 1865 were:
- The delivery of the Army of Northern Virginia's armaments materials and flags, with exception of the officers' individual weapons and horses, the horses belonging to the cavalry troopers and those of the artillery men, which were considered private property because they had to be compulsory furnished by those soldiers.
- After having sworn, pledging their owns word, they would have never more fought against the USA, Confederates' officers and soldiers were free to return back to their homes and remaining there undisturbed.
- The supplying of 25.000 ration of food to the Army of Northern Virginia, whose
soldiers were starving.
- The agreement provided the surrender of only The Army of Northern Virginia.
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It seems as it was Oliver Mitzlaf !
April 9th, 1865 Appomattox, Virginia Negotiations began between General Robert E Lee and General Ulysses S Grant in the McLean House near Appomattox Court House, and the terms of surrender were agreed upon. The papers were signed, at which time Lee left for his headquarters in the court house.
The two main figures at the Appomattox Court House to discuss the terms of the surrender of the Army of Northern Virginia were Confederate General Robert E. Lee and Union General US Grant. Grant was respectful of the Confederate general. As a display of goodwill, Grant ordered for 25,000 rations for Lee's starving army.
The surrender , along with the generous peace terms , marked the end of the American Civil War and the beginning of peace .
Yes it is true. I found this out from my history book called THE AMERICAN JOURNEY: MODERN TIMES.IMPROVEMENT.No, the terms were lenient: see Charles Marshall's "An Aide de Camp of Lee.." page 270. Colonel Charles Marshall was Lee's Adjutant General and was present at the surrendering at Appomattox Court House.
It was a gesture to heal the country's wounds, to show the southerners they had nothing fear from their former enemies.
Generally speaking the surrender of Robert E. Lee to US General Grant is referred to as the surrender at the Appomattox Court House. Lee's surrender was the key which in all practical terms ended the US Civil War. Later other Southern armies would surrender.
At Appomattox Court House, where they and there entourage were accommodated in the house of William McLean. William McLean was the same man who owned another house on the bank of the Bull Run, where the Confederate Army's General Staff had had its seat during the Battle of First Manassas.
The final battle of the American Civil War was at Palmito Ranch, Texas, on May 19, 1865; it was a month after the surrender of General Lee at Appomattox Courthouse, Virginia.
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