Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1894-04-09
yHEgE LEE SURRENDERED
|ae ANNIVERSARY OF THE DAY TO BE MARKED BY THE DEDICATION
 OF TABLETS.
rhefe rhey Are Located and How They .ead.-How the Work Was Ae-
 complished.-The Exer- cises Next May.

ny If the surrender Of Lee at Al= .a.aftox Court house will be ob- .rresa on the famous field today, as 4t as on May 30. The services to- sv Will be marked by the formal ,xeflino of the tablets erected bX ,e Wan Department. and possibly
 aaaresses. On May 30, however. X neDnorial services will be marked
 tbe attendance of three men, l,ose careers are intimately as .eiafed with that of Gen. Grant. hese are Gen. Horace Porter, Gen. aaeaal and Gen. Daniel Butterfleld. Mai Davis, the head of the War cord board, has been hard at work a has at last succeeded in having
 the points of interest at Appo- ntIox marked in permanent man. .r The marking was done by cans of east iron tablets fastened
 iron posts five feet long The fers of the inscriptions are two afl fnnarter inches high, and stand fl ill good relief. The work of as rtaining the exact spots was not essy one, and without the aid of i. Peers, who has lived near the surf.h0use all his life, it might not yn been accomplished with the rtainty and eXaetness which now ake the work especially valuable gont hallway from the present ,pomattox railroad station, up the I I.ynchburg turnpike toward the of the surrender, is the first bIe4 announcing: "On this spot ere Established the headquarters of entenant-General Ulysses $. Grant,
 sA., on the afternoon of April lse5.
 The next in order along the road the most interesting, and reads US: This tablet marks the site Che house owned and occupied by Inner Mclean, in which Gen. L. $, ant. [. $, A., and Gen. Robert E. se, e. $. A., met and agreed upon z ierms of surrender of the Army
 Northern Virginia on the after Een of Sunday, April 9, 1865. The use was taken down and removed Washington, D. C., in 1893. '
 4 few rods further up the road the sitor comes upon the site of the old lurt house, the story of which is Id in the third tablet, thus: .Here pod Appomattox Court-house, tilt 1912, burned 1892 :"
 The ruins of the old building are il to be seen. On the morning Rowing the meeting between the anerals in the Winner Mclean res ence they came from their respec ye Headquarters and rode on horse lek down the side of the road, Iich was extremely muddy, for the 1rpose of further interview They et about hallway, at q spot a tie north of the Gourt-house, on est side of the road. Here is erected tablet with this inscriptions: "On is spot Lieutenant-Ge General Ulysses
 Grant, |. $. A and Gen. Robert Lee, C. $. A, met on the morning April 10, 1865 s
 Then the lines of both sides are arked. The line of Union outposts n the morning of Sunday, April Q, hieh crossed the road just beyond Inecting place, and that of the unfederate 0ntposts are noted about yards further on. The surrender as consumated by the Confederate oops marching south from their teampment and passing in front of lme formed by the First Division of 1e Fifth Corps of the Union Army. sHfhe road had been badly cut up Y the wheels of the artillery, the FOODS were drawn up on the east sie of the road in the field. The pniederates filed through the space efMeen the line and the road and tneked arms there. At point just afront of MT. Peers house. and most across the road from the aeeting-place of the two Generals. is 1ablet with the following inscrip lon; Near this point was estab Shed the left flank of the first divis. m of the Fifth Corps, Army of tht ptomac, on the morning of April 6o, tp receive the surrender of the in Hntry of the Army of Northern Vir inia ]"
 A similar tablet marking the loca Ion of the right flank of the diyis pn is planted about 200 00yards furthe, prth The spot from which the las not of the campaign was fired i, parked by tablet d point about lO Fards east from the road. The tab et reads: " From this spot was fire, ne last shotfrom the artillery of tn Army of Norther Virginia, on tn norning of April 9, 1865.
 Immediately after the surrende ne famous apple tree was dug up b, oidlers who saw it's value as a relic hey went down several feet in orle |o secure the roots. The site of thi rec IS therefore all that can h narked today. Itstood a few yard