Sioux City register. [volume] (Sioux City, Iowa) 1858-1871, 1865-04-15
Official Correspondence.

Wsr Department, Washington, April
8, 1se5.-To Major General Dix, N. Y. :
The Department has received the official
report Of the surrender of LEE AND HIS
ARMY to Iieut. General Grant on the
terms proposed by General Grant.
Details will be given as speedily as
possible.
Signed EDWIN NJ. STANTON,
Secretary Of War.
Clifton House, Va, April h..-To Stan
ton The following correspondence has
taken place between Lee and myself.
There has been no relaxation iu pursuit
during its pende"cy.
Signed. GRANT.
April ITO Lee The result Of the
last week most convince you of the hope.
lessness # further resistance on the part
Of tue Army Of Northern Virginia in this
struggle, feel that is so, aud regard it as
my duty to shift from myself the respon.
siblity of any further ctIusion of blood, by
asking Of you the surrender Of that por-
ton Of G. s. A., known as the Army Of
Northern Virginia.
Signed GRANT.
April TO Grant: have received
your note of this date. Though not en-.
tirely of the opinion you express OF the
hoposessness Of further resistance on part
Of the Army Of Northern Virginia. !
respect your desire to avoid useless efFu
sion OF blood Therefore before consider
ing your rroposi,i N ask what terms you
vii! offer on condition Of i;s surrender.
Signed LEE.
April S,-Your note Of lea. evening, in
reply to mine, Of same date, asking on
what conditions | will accept the surren-
render Of the Army Of Northern Virginia,
is received, and in reply | would say that
peace being my FIRST desire There is but
one condition that INSIST upon, that the
men surrendered should be disqualified for
taking up arms aIans, the government Of
the I. S, until properly exchanged. !
will meet you or designate officers to NEE,
any officers you may name for the same
purpose at any point agreeable to You, for
the purpose Of arranging definitely terms
upon which surrender OF Army OF North
ern Virginia, will be received.
Signcd GRANT.
April s TO Grant received a, late
hour your note Of to day. did not in
tend to propose the surrender Of the Army
Of Northern Virginia, but to ask terms Of
your propositions. TO be frank do no.
think the emergency has arisen to call for
this surrender, bu! as the restoration Of
peace should be the sole ohjec, of oil,
desire to know whether your proposals
would tend to that end. cannot there.
fore NICE. you with view to surrender the
Army of Northern Virginia, but as far as
your proposition may effect c s. A., forces
under my command and tend to the res.
toration Of peace should he pleased to
meet you at lOA. NJ, to morrow on the old
stage road to Richmond between picket
lines Of two armies.
April 9ih.-To Lee Your note Of yes.
terday was received, as have no author
ity to treat on subject Of peace, tho meet
ing proposed for 10 Am, to-day could lead
to no good will state however, General,
that ! am equally anxious for peace with
yourself, and the whole North entertain
the same feeling. Terms upon which
peace eau be had are we'll understood by
the South laying down their arms They
thus will hasten that most desirable event
and save thousands Of human lives and
hundred Of millions of property, not yet
destroyed. Sincerely hoping that our diff
fculties may be settled without the loss Of
another life, | subscribe myself.
Signed GRANT.
April o-To Grant: I received your
note Of this morning while on picket line
where | had came to meet you and ascer-
tain definitely what terms were embodied
in your propositions of yesterday. with
re ference to surrender Of this army now
request an interview in accordance with
the offer Of yours Of yesterday for thu,
purpose.
Signed LEE.
April 9th.-To Lee: Your note Of this
date is but this moment UlD A. NJ, re.
c.ived. In consequences Of my having
passed from the Richmond and Lynchburg
road am now. at this writing, about
four miles west Of Walters Church, will
push forward to the front for the purpose
Of meeting you, where you wish an inter.
view to take place.
Sigred GRANT.
Appomatox c. H.. April 9,h.-To Lee
In accordance with substance Of my letter
to you Of the 9th inst, propose to receive
the surrender Of the Army Of Northern
Virginia on the following terms:
Rolls Of all officers aud men to be made
in duplicate, one copy to be given to an
officer designated by me, other to be re.
tanned by such officer as you may desig.
nate, Officers to give their individual
parole not to take IN arms against the
Government. Of the U. S., until properly
exchanged.
Each company or regimental comman-
der shall give like parole for men Of their
commando, arms. artillery and public pro.
perty t, be parked and stacked and turned