Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1877-07-12
HOW THE WAR WAS ENDED.
Graphic Pen Picture Of the Scene Of the Sur.
render of Lee. ......
+ From a Decorative Day Address By Genera
George II. Sharp, United States Army.]

remember-and it was recalled to me to-
night in conversation when the name OF Gen.
Grant came up in the course of conversation
the wonderful scene that transpired in that
little place in Virginia on the 9Th of April,
1866. 1t was late in the afternoon when it
became known that General Lee had sent for
Gen. Grant to surrender to him. 1t was be-
tween and 8 o'clock when we met in the
little room in the house where the surrender
of Lees army took place. l know that there
is a belief that the surrender took place under
an apple tree, where Grant and Lee met and
exchanged few words. The surrender took
place in the left hand room of that old-fash-
toned house. The house had large piazza
which ran along the full length of it. Itwas
one of those ordinary Virginia houses with
passage.way running through the centre OF 1t.
In that little room, where the meeting took
place, sat two young men-one great grand
son of Chief Justice Marshall, of the Su-
preme Court.-reducing to..writing the terms of
the surrender on behalf of General Robert E.
Lee; the other man with dusky counte-
nance-a great nephew of that celebrated
chief, Red Jacket-acting under Gen. Grant.
They two were reducing to writing the terms
of the surrender Of the Army of Northern
Virginia to the Army of the Potomac. Gath
cred around the room we're several officers, of
whom | was one.
At some distance apart sat two men. The
larger and older of the two was the most stri-
king in appearance. His hair was white as
the driven snow. There was not speck upon
his coat not a spot upon those gauntlets that
he wore, which were as bright and fair as
ady's glove. That was Robert E. Lee. The
other was Ulysses S. Grant, whose appearance
contrasted strangely with that of Lee; his
boots we're nearly covered with mud one but
ton of his coat-that is, the button-hole was
not where it should have been-it had clearly
gone astray; and he wore no sword, while
Lee was fully and fautlessly equipped. The
conversation was not rapid by any means.
Everybody felt the overpowering influence of
the scene Every one present felt they were
witnessing the proceedings between the two
transactions of this nineteenth century. The
words that passed between Grant and Lee
were few. General Grant-endeavoring to
apologize for not being fully equipped and
noticing the faultless appearance of Lee
while the secretaries were busy, said: "Gen.
Lee, have no sword I have been riding all
night" And Lee, with that coldness of man.
ner and all the pride-almost haughtiness-
which, after all, became him wonderfully we'll,
never made any reply, but in cold, formal
manner, bowed. And Gen. Grant, in the en-.
deavor to take away the awkwardness of the
scene, said II don't always wear sword, be-
cause sword is very inconvenient thing"
Lee only bowed again. Another trying to
relieve the awkwarduess of the occasion, in.
quired: General Lee, what became of the
white horse you rode in Mexico? He might
not be dead yet ; he was not so Old" Gen.
Lee bowed coldly, and replied 81 left him
at the white house, on the Pamunkey river,
and / have not seen him since" There was
one moment when there was whispered con-
versation between Grant aud Lee, which no.
body in the room heard.
The surrender took the form of correspon.
dence; the letters were all signed in due form
by the chief actors, in the presence Of each
other. Finally, when the terms of surrender
had all been arranged, and the surrender
made Lee arose, cold and proud, and bowed
to every person in the room on our sde l
remember each one of US thought he had been
specially bowed to. And then he went out
and passed down the little square in front of
the house, and bestrode that gray horse that
carried him all over Virginia; and when he
had gone away. we learned what that whls:
pered conversation had been about. General
Grant called his officers about him, md said :
"Y You 20 to the Twenty fourth, and y,u to the
Ffth,' and so on, naming the corps, "and
ask every man who has three rations to Urn
over two of them. Go to the commIssarles
and 60 to the quartermasters, &C.; General
Lees army is on the point of starvation !!
Twenty five thousand rations were carried to
the Army of Northern Virginia.
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