Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1895-04-14

TABLETS ON THE BATTLEFIELD
WHICH MARK THE HISTORIC
spoTs-wHo FIRED THE LAST
suoT2
Former cid VIZ comrades and enemies
win gather In May at Appomall9N
Court House, to talk over the project
OF making The scene OF f.eea surrender
national military park like chieka'
manga ana Gettysburg. Delegates from
Grand Army posta ana from Union ana
Confederate Veterans corps and other
ORGANIZATIONS viii attend and viii visit
the battlefield under guidance OF r. -.
Poure, president OF the AppomottoN
Park association. Committees VIII be
appointed at this meeting to Under
take congregational action.
The project Of mahing The battlefield
park originated with II. E. Lee camp
No. l, Confederate veterans Of Rloh-
mond, Va William Howard Mills Of
tho Union Veteran legion, secured a
ready Endorsement of the plan FOR that
legion In washington. and James Tan
ncr national commander OF the legion.
issued an enthusiastic order to the
same effect.
From tno TO time efforts have been
made to preserve the historical points
on tho held by rough iron tablets
which arc scattered hero ana thorr
The battle-ground 10 u picturesque bit II
rolling uDuuI picnufully covered with
trHcs. The visitor who leaves the little
Appomnttox station finds half way 10
/ the ncld. mp the old LyBchburg Turn
| pike this tablets
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| on thia spot was established the
! hoadquUrtor8 OF ticutonuut-riuucra 3
| Ulysses s.. Grant. on the afternoon 3
OF Aprl 9, 1860,
| ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Along tho road short distance fur
! thor uu is another inscription, TINS 10
probably the most interesting OF all To
the student Dt history, UB ~ marks the
/ site ur the house owned and occupied
/ by Wilmer Mclean. unI IN which Gen-
[ etal Grant and General Ice met aud
agreed upon the terms of surrender OF
the Army or ''uliwrm virginia on IA"
/ afternoon vi sunday April %, 1866. The
house WINS taken down and removed ~
Washington In 1898.
A little further up the road tho WISH
tor cUmra upuu the ruins uf the old
courthouse thu story of which ia told
loo tho third tablet thuH'
! .,,,,.,.,.-...'..-s., t.s...'.... ''''.''
Here stood Appomnltox Court
House, built laig. burned 1892,
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS .s.'''..'''s.''.''' zee
ON the morning following the meeting
| off Grant and hoe It the Mclean furm'
house, they rode ou horseback together
along the road, which was extremely
muddy, On thl road Dec erected this
tablet
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ON this spot Northumberland
ULYSSES q. Gruut, q. 8. Na aud Cen
oral ROhurt b.. Lou, G.. s.. A.. met ON
the morning OF Aprl 30, lsj1,
,.......,.....,,...-.... OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES.
Tho spot from which the last shot %
| the campaign was nrgl b. marked by
ublet NJ Il point about u hundred yard
east from the road. Tho tablet reads
..,,,...,,'.,..'''''',.. '''.'..''r...'''
From this spot was Hrrd the last
p shot from the artillery of the Army
% Of Northern Virginia ON tho morning
, OF April .. 1868.
.-,,...,....ss.ss'',s'. 's.s.'s,ss''s''
o Thcrc has boon moro or less dlHput
au tp who HIod the last shot Iuco
/ Suttrr. of Iron Im Pa. claims tu hny
o inc bcst proof That hr enjoyed that di.
. unrtiuu lie says hp belonged tu
, . northern artillery company, and, uo
. hearing tho order 60 urHHc urtuE, cor
uuued 10 discharge hW piece Iona uftg
u the other cannon echoes had died uwul
The surrender wu8 contaminated b
tho Confederate troops marching scout
from their ououmpmpnt aud pusalug
a front uf % line formed by thr FIRST d
vision of the ntth CORPS of the uuln
army. AH the road mad been badly ct
81 up by Tho Nhcrla of tho artillery. IN
d troops wcrc drawn up on the east odd
of tho road in the Held The Comic,
- crntoB lIul through tho space bctwpr
e { thy line and ruud and attacked arm